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Subcarrier fading in UWB OFDM symbols

  • Vit Sipal
    ,
  • David J. Edwards
    ,
  • Ben Allen
Research Output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding Conference contribution Peer-review

Abstract

This paper studies the correlation between subcarriers in ultrawideband OFDM symbols. It is shown that because the channel impulse response can be assumed identical for all subcarriers within the OFDM symbol, the correlation remains strong throughout the symbol. This can be used to determine the probability distribution function of subcarrier fading within the OFDM symbol. These statistics are used for more accurate Bit-Error-Rate (BER) estimation than the standard approach using the assumption of independent BER for each subcarrier.

Publication Information

Output type

Research Output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding Conference contribution Peer-review

Original language

English

Publication milestones

  • Published - 10/11/2012

Publication status

Published - 10/11/2012

Publisher

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., United States

ISBN (Print)

9781467304610

ISBN (Electronic)

9781467304627

External Publication IDs

  • handle.net: 10547/271519
  • Scopus: 84870527704

Host publication title

Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation

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