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Performance Degradation of OFDM Systems Due to Doppler Spreading
Overview The focus of this paper is on the performance of Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) signals in mobile radio applications, such as 802.11a and Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB) systems, e.g., DVB-CS2. The paper considers the evaluation of the error probability of an OFDM system transmitting over channels characterized by frequency selectivity and Rayleigh fading. The time variations of the channel during one OFDM symbol interval destroy the orthogonality of the different subcarriers and generate power leakage among the subcarriers, known as Inter-Carrier Interference (ICI). For conventional modulation methods such as Phase-Shift Keying (PSK) and Quadrature-Amplitude Modulation (QAM), the bivariate probability density function (pdf) of the ICI is shown to be a weighted Gaussian mixture.
| Publisher | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | File Format | |
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| Date Published | June 2006 | ||
| Format | White Papers | ||
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