Effects of imperfections on the performance of OFDM systems

Authors:
Juan I. Montojo;Laurence B. Milstein
Affiliations:
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA and Qualcomm Inc., San Diego, CA;Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA
Venue:
IEEE Transactions on Communications
Year:
2009

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Abstract

Most OFDM analyses assume idealized conditions when it comes to the waveform at the receiver in terms of time and frequency synchronization. In addition, often a cyclic prefix (CP) longer than the channel delay spread is assumed, and thus the impact of the possible inter-symbol interference (ISI) from adjacent OFDM symbols is not a consideration. This work provides a consolidated framework for study and analysis of OFDM systems with imperfections. The imperfections include time and frequency synchronization errors, and channel delay spread beyond the CP duration. Transmit as well as receive filtering operations are explicitly modeled, and different receiver detection criteria are considered. The use of an OFDM waveform for UWB applications is known to be a promising choice to simplify the receiver design and to maximize the bandwidth scalability, as well as the adaptation to various spectrum allocations. We present bit error rate (BER) sensitivity analysis to key system parameters for OFDM-based UWB applications. From these sensitivity analyses, we see graceful performance degradation with decreasing CP length and increasing residual frequency error. The performance degradation can be much more critical for timing synchronization errors.