An OFDM interpretation of zero padded block transmissions

Optimality of single-carrier zero-padded block transmissions

We consider the class of linear precoded (LP) orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems. We first show that single-carrier zero-padded transmissions, termed ZP-only, can be viewed as a special case of LP-OFDM. By resorting to the pair-wise error probability analysis, we establish the optimality of ZP-only among the LP-OFDM class in terms of its performance in random frequency-se...

Turbo Demodulation of Zero-Padded OFDM Transmissions

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...

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...

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...