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A low complexity OFDM system with minimum intersymbol interference

Research Authors
Usama S Mohammed, Ahmed Tohamy
Research Member
Research Department
Research Year
2012
Research Journal
2012 5th Joint IFIP Wireless and Mobile Networking Conference (WMNC)
Research Publisher
IEEE
Research Vol
NULL
Research Rank
3
Research_Pages
22-29
Research Website
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Research Abstract

Different guard interval techniques for the Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) transmission are suggested to reduce the interference between successive symbols (i.e. Inter-Symbol Interference, ISI) and interference between different carriers within the same symbol (i.e. Inter-Carrier Interference, ICI). In this paper, the impact of replacing the Cyclic Prefix (CP) by zeros insertion (ZI) before the Inverse Fast Fourier Transform (IFFT) process on OFDM is studied. Associated with each OFDM symbol, the zeros will be added in the transmitter before the IFFT process. For symmetry of the OFDM symbol, the zeros will be inserted with the same length among the OFDM frames. The ZI acts as a buffer region where delayed information from the previous symbols can get stored. The receiver has to exclude samples from the ZI which got corrupted by the previous symbol when choosing the samples for an OFDM …