Constant envelope OFDM in multipath Rayleigh fading channels

  • Authors:
  • Steve C. Thompson;John G. Proakis;James R. Zeidler;Michael Geile

  • Affiliations:
  • University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA;University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA;University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA;Nova Engineering, Cincinnati, OH

  • Venue:
  • MILCOM'06 Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE conference on Military communications
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

In this paper we consider the problem of equalizing constant envelope orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (CE-OFDM) signals that have been corrupted by frequency-selective multipath fading channels. A cyclic prefix guard interval is used to avoid interblock interference (IBI), and to make possible frequency-domain equalization (FDE) using the discrete Fourier transform. It is shown that CE-OFDM exploits the multipath diversity of the channel due to frequency spreading of the data symbols. CE-OFDM compares favorably with conventional OFDM when the impact of nonlinear power amplification and power backoff is taken into account.