Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) has been adopted as a standard for many modern wireless applications requiring high data rate due to bandwidth efficiency, resistance to frequency selective fading and simple digital realization using IFFT/FFT operations. However, physical implementation of the OFDM system suffers from several difficulties. One of the major limitations of OFDM i...

To accommodate high performance and high bit rates for multimedia applications in present and future wireless communication systems, it is essential that modulation techniques applied in this scenario are able to support high data rates upto and above 200 Mbps. To meet the increased demand of higher bit rates, the wireless systems are incorporating the multi-carrier modulation techniques ,such ...

Abstract— Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) has been attracting much attention as the next generation wireless transmission technique. In a cellular network, the same carrier frequency is reused at different base stations and therefore, cochannel interference (CCI) limits the transmission performance. By suppressing the CCI, the uplink transmission performance can be improved an...

In recent years, as a result of advancing VLSI technology, OFDM has received a great deal of attention and been adopted in many new generation wideband data communication systems such as IEEE 802.11a, HiPerLAN/2,digital audio/video broadcasting (DAB/DVB-T) and asymmetric digital subscriber line (ADSL), very high speed digital subscriber line (VDSL) in wireless and wired communications, respecti...

-Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) processing is one of the key procedures in popular Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) communication systems. Structured pipeline architectures, low power consumption, high speed and reduced chip area are the main concerns in this VLSI implementation. In this paper, the efficient implementation of FFT/IFFT processor for OFDM applications is presented....

In this paper the design of 128/64 point Fast Fourier transform processor (FFT Processor) is proposed to support future generation Multiple Input Multiple Output Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (MIMO OFDM) based IEEE 802.11n wireless local area network base band processor. The pipelined mixed radix delay feedback (MRMDF) FFT architecture is proposed to provide a higher throughput rat...

As Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) becomes more prevalent in new leading-edge data rate systems processing spectral bandwidths beyond 1 GHz, the required operating speed of the baseband signal processing, specifically the Analogto-Digital Converter (ADC) and Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) processor, presents significant circuit design challenges and consumes considerable power. ...

A key research area in wireless transmission is underwater communications. It has a vital role in applications such as underwater sensor networks (UWSNs) and disaster detection. The underwater channel is very unique as compared to other alternatives of transmission channels. It is characterized by path loss, multipath fading, Doppler spread and ambient noise. Thus, the bit error rate (BER) is i...

A low power 64-point FFT/IFFT architecture is developed for the application in OFDM based wireless broadband communication system. The proposed architecture satisfies the specifications of IEEE 802.11a and ETSI Bran. The architecture requires 25% multiplication and 86% addition/subtraction operation compared to the conventional Cooley-Tukey approach. This leads to power and area saving as well....

In this paper, we present a new fast Fourier transform (FFT) algorithm to reduce the table size of twiddle factors required in pipelined FFT processing. The table size is large enough to occupy significant area and power consumption in long-point FFT processing. The proposed algorithm can reduce the table size to half, compared to the radix-22 algorithm, while retaining the simple structure. To...