Reduced Complexity Equalization Schemes for Zero Padded OFDM Systems

Reduced complexity equalizers for zero-padded OFDM transmissions

The widespread application of OFDM for local area mobile wireless broadband systems is strongly motivated by the simple equalization it a ords. OFDM's bottleneck of channel-dependent performance was only recently addressed by replacing the cyclic pre x (CP) with trailing zeros (TZ). Such zero-padded OFDM transmissions enable FIR channel-irrespective symbol recovery which results in signi cant B...

A new reduced-complexity detection scheme for zero-padded OFDM transmissions

Recently, zero-padding orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (ZP-OFDM) has been proposed as an alternative solution to the traditional cyclic prefix (CP)-OFDM, to ensure symbol recovery regardless of channels nulls. Various ZP-OFDM receivers have been proposed in the literature, trading off performance with complexity. In this paper, we propose a novel low-complexity (LC) receiver for ZP-O...

Turbo Demodulation of Zero-Padded OFDM Transmissions

An OFDM interpretation of zero padded block transmissions

Orthogonal frequency division multiplex (OFDM) systems are particularly straightforward to understand in the frequency domain. The purpose of this paper is to draw attention to the fact that zero padded block transmissions also have a straightforward frequency domain interpretation. The advantages of this interpretation are illustrated by three additional results which further the understanding...

Efficient Detection of Zero-padded Ofdm Signals with Large Blocks

In this paper, we present a frequency-domain receiver for ZP-OFDM schemes (Zero-Padded Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) where the duration of the channel impulse response is a significant fraction of the duration of the OFDM block. The proposed receiver has a relatively low complexity, allowing an FFT-based (Fast Fourier Transform) implementation. The proposed receiver is suitable to...