Ofdm

Int. J. Electron. Commun. (AEÜ) 63 (2009) 569 – 575 www.elsevier.de/aeue

A bandwidth-efficient method for cancellation of ICI in OFDM systems
Arvind Kumar∗ , Rajoo Pandey
Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, National Institute of Technology (Deemed University), Kurukshetra 136119, India Received 18 September 2007; accepted 14 April 2008

Abstract Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) is a very important modulation technique in wideband wireless communication and multimedia communication systems. While, it can effectively deal with multipath delay spread produced by frequency fading channels, its main drawback is the effect of frequency offset (FO) produced by the receiver local oscillator or by motion-induced Doppler. The FO breaks the orthogonality among the subcarriers and hence causes intercarrier interference (ICI). In this paper, ICI caused by frequency drift is eliminated by equalizing the complex weighting coefficients of interference. In most of the commonly used ICI cancellation schemes, bandwidth efficiency suffers because of the requirement of redundancy in the transmission. In the proposed scheme, repetition of data symbols or transmission of training sequence is not required. Thus, the bandwidth efficiency of normal OFDM system is maintained. The improved performance of the present scheme is confirmed through extensive simulations. 2008 Elsevier GmbH. All rights reserved.
Keywords: OFDM; Intercarrier interference; Self-ICI cancellation; Interference coefficients equalization

1. Introduction
Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) is becoming the chosen multi-carrier modulation technique for wireless and multimedia communication systems. Multimedia wireless services require high-bit-rate transmission over mobile radio channels [1,2]. OFDM can provide large data rates with sufficient robustness to radio channel impairments. OFDM is a method that allows to transmit high data rates over extremely hostile

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