A new reduced-complexity detection scheme for zero-padded OFDM transmissions

Reduced complexity equalizers for zero-padded OFDM transmissions

The widespread application of OFDM for local area mobile wireless broadband systems is strongly motivated by the simple equalization it a ords. OFDM's bottleneck of channel-dependent performance was only recently addressed by replacing the cyclic pre x (CP) with trailing zeros (TZ). Such zero-padded OFDM transmissions enable FIR channel-irrespective symbol recovery which results in signi cant B...

An OFDM interpretation of zero padded block transmissions

Orthogonal frequency division multiplex (OFDM) systems are particularly straightforward to understand in the frequency domain. The purpose of this paper is to draw attention to the fact that zero padded block transmissions also have a straightforward frequency domain interpretation. The advantages of this interpretation are illustrated by three additional results which further the understanding...

Optimality of single-carrier zero-padded block transmissions

We consider the class of linear precoded (LP) orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems. We first show that single-carrier zero-padded transmissions, termed ZP-only, can be viewed as a special case of LP-OFDM. By resorting to the pair-wise error probability analysis, we establish the optimality of ZP-only among the LP-OFDM class in terms of its performance in random frequency-se...

Turbo Demodulation of Zero-Padded OFDM Transmissions

Frequency Domain DFE: System Design and Comparison with OFDM

A novel frequency domain equalizer for single carrier modulation is presented. It performs as a decision feedback equalizer (DFE) with the feedforward operating in the frequency domain, and a feedback filtering in time domain. The new scheme makes use of a data block transmission format which can be seen as a generalization of the zero padded transmission. Performance comparisons between FD-DFE...