Impact of carrier frequency offsets on block-IFDMA systems

  • Authors:

  • E. P. Simon;V. Dégardin;M. Liénard

  • Affiliations:

  • Institute of Electronics, Microelectronics and Nanotechnology Laboratory, University of Lille, Villeneuve d_Ascq, France;Institute of Electronics, Microelectronics and Nanotechnology, Laboratory, University of Lille, Villeneuve d_Ascq, France;Institute of Electronics, Microelectronics and Nanotechnology, Laboratory, University of Lille, Villeneuve d_Ascq, France

  • Venue:
  • EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking - Special issue on synchronization in wireless communications
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Recently, a new multiple access (MA) scheme called block-interleaved frequency division multiple access (B-IFDMA) is under consideration as an MA scheme candidate for 4G wireless applications. In this paper, the two variants of B-IFDMA are considered, the joint- DFT B-IFDMA and the added-signal B-IFDMA, and compared in terms of sensitivity to carrier frequency offsets (CFOs) for both uplink and downlink. CFO gives rise to multiuser interference and self-user interference. We derive analytical expressions for the power of these interferences, and we quantify their detrimental effect through the evaluation of the signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) degradation. We point out that both variants of B-IFDMA are not similarly affected by CFO. Hence, joint-DFT B-IFDMA provides a better robustness to multiuser interference than added-signal B-IFDMA, and so is better suited for the uplink. Then we show by means of numerical results that added-signal B-IFDMA is less sensitive to CFO in the downlink.