Perfect equalization for DMT systems without guard interval

We propose a new, low-complexity frequency-domain equalizer for discrete multitone (DMT) systems, which, in the absence of a guard interval, utilizes existing redundancy in the frequency domain to completely eliminate intersymbol and interchannel interferences. A perfect reconstruction condition is derived for the noise-free case leading to a sparse equalizer matrix structure. It is furthermore shown that under realistic scenarios minimum mean square error adaptation of the equalizer coefficients allows for nearly perfect reconstruction already for a much smaller amount of redundancy than indicated by the perfect reconstruction condition. The new equalization scheme has at least the same potential compared with traditional DMT while offering new degrees of freedom for designing short-latency DMT systems.