The promotion of WAVE contention performance by variable cyclic prefix mechanism
Proceedings of the 2009 International Conference on Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing: Connecting the World Wirelessly
Time domain equalizer design using bit error rate minimization for UWB systems
EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking
Design of Sparse Filters for Channel Shortening
Journal of Signal Processing Systems
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Cyclic prefixed communications, such as multicarrier communications, first became widely used in the context of digital subscriber lines (DSL). In DSL, bit loading is allowed at the transmitter, and the performance metric is the bit rate that can be provided without exceeding a given bit error rate (BER). Wireless cyclic prefixed systems are now becoming increasingly popular, and in such systems the appropriate performance metric is the BER for a given bit loading at the transmitter. Cyclic prefixed systems perform well in the presence of multipath, provided that the channel delay spread is shorter than the guard interval between transmitted blocks. If this condition is not met, a channel shortening equalizer can be used to shorten the channel to the desired length. Previous work on channel shortening has largely been in the context of DSL, thus it has focused on maximizing the bit rate. In this paper, we propose a channel shortener that attempts to directly minimize the BER for a multiple-input multiple-output channel model. We simulate the performance of the resulting channel shortener and compare it to existing designs and the matched filter bound