On the Exploitation of the Redundant Energy in UW-OFDM: LMMSE Versus Sphere Detection

Mario Huemer, Christian Hofbauer, Alexander Onic, Johannes B. Huber

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Abstract

Unique word orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (UW-OFDM) inherently introduces a complex number Reed Solomon (RS) code. Originally, the code generator matrix of systematic coded UW-OFDM had been designed rather intuitively by minimizing the mean redundant energy. In this work we justify this approach by applying a cost function that incorporates the overall transceiver chain including a linear minimum mean square error (LMMSE) data estimator. In addition to the LMMSE estimator we investigate a nonlinear sphere detection (SD) receiver for both systematic and nonsystematic coded UW-OFDM. We study and interpret the estimators' performance and their diverse ability to exploit the redundant energy.
Original languageGerman (Austria)
Article number6184288
Pages (from-to)340-343
Number of pages4
JournalIEEE Signal Processing Letters
Volume19
Issue number6
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jun 2012
Externally publishedYes

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