Unified structure and parallel algorithms for FBMC transmitter and receiver

In recent years, filter bank multicarrier (FBMC) has recaptured widespread interests for its possible applications in cognitive radio and dynamic spectrum access. A distinctive feature for cognitive radio is its adaptivity to environment. When environment changes, a cognitive radio will change its parameters to optimize the transmission and receiving. Thus it is desirable to design a unified structure and algorithm for FBMC that needs little change for different parameters. In this paper, we propose a unified structure and parallel algorithms to implement the FBMC. The FBMC system and parallel algorithms are constructed based on the normalized prototype filter. The coefficients of the normalized prototype filter can be pre-computed and stored. The proposed parallel algorithms have the same structure for various choices of time duration, subcarrier spacing and bandwidth. Combined with known parallel algorithms for the fast Fourier transform (FFT), the proposed algorithms fully parallelize the computations for the transmitter and receiver, which can run much faster than conventional serial algorithms as modern processors usually have massive parallel capability.