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Wavelet Packet based Multi-Carrier Modulation (WPMCM) offers an alternative to the well-established OFDM as an efficient multicarrier modulation technique. It has the advantage of being a generic transmission scheme whose actual characteristics can be widely customized to fulfill several requirements and constraints of advanced communication systems. In the last decades wavelets have been favorably applied in signal and image processing fields but only recently have they attracted the attention of the telecommunication community. A lot of research questions remain to be addressed before the novel WPMCM can be used in practice. One of the major concerns is the performance of WPMCM transceivers under time synchronization errors. This is important because WPMCM symbols overlap in the time domain. In this paper, we analyze the interference in WPMCM transmission caused by the time synchronization errors. The expressions for Inter Carrier Interference (ICI) and Inter Symbol Interference (ISI) in WPMCM transmission are derived and then through simulation studies, the ability of wavelet-based systems to cope with time synchronization errors is evaluated.
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Lakshmanan, M.K., Karamehmedović, D. & Nikookar, H. An Investigation on the Sensitivity of Wavelet Packet Modulation to Time Synchronization Error. Wireless Pers Commun 58, 483–502 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-010-0132-3
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