Nonorthogonal pulseshapes for multicarrier communications in doubly dispersive channels

  • Authors:

  • W. Kozek;A. F. Molisch

  • Affiliations:

  • Dept. of Math., Wien Univ.;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

A new approach to multicarrier digital communication over time-varying, frequency selective fading channels is presented. We propose a transmission signal set whose basic structure is similar to standard orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDM)-setups, i.e., a system of functions generated by time and frequency-shifted versions of a pulse-like prototype function known as a Weyl-Heisenberg (WH) system. Unlike previous OFDM studies, however, which are restricted to the case of orthonormal pulses, we consider nonorthogonal pulses that are adapted to realistically available a priori knowledge of the channel. Perfect transmultiplexing in the case of an ideal channel is incorporated as a mathematical side-constraint. We derive the expected intersymbol/interchannel interference of such a nonorthogonal FDM (NOFDM) system under the assumption of a wide-sense stationary uncorrelated scattering (WSSUS) channel. Based on this result, we compare OFDM and NOFDM schemes with regard to robustness against delay/Doppler spread