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We propose an adaptive pulse-shaped orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) scheme where the overhead and active sub-channels are adapted to jointly maximize capacity and fulfill the notching mask for coexistence with other devices operating in the same spectrum. The overhead includes the guard interval to partly compensate the channel dispersion, and the roll-off factor used by the shaping window. We show that significant gains are obtained compared to the case of using a fixed guard interval and roll-off factor. To simplify the implementation complexity we also propose to limit the amount of adaptation by deploying a finite set of overhead parameters. Numerical results are reported for typical wideband power line communication indoor channels.
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Part of this work has been presented at the 2008 IFIP Wireless Days Conference. The work of S. D’Alessandro and A.M. Tonello has been partially supported by the European Community’s Seventh Framework Programme FP7/2007-2013 under grant agreement n° 213311, project OMEGA—Home Gigabit Networks. The work of L. Lampe has been supported by the National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC).
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D’Alessandro, S., Tonello, A.M. & Lampe, L. Adaptive pulse-shaped OFDM with application to in-home power line communications. Telecommun Syst 51, 3–13 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11235-010-9410-3
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