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Improved Nyquist-I Pulses to Enhance the Performance of OFDM-Based Systems

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Pulse shaping is used in orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) based systems to reduce inter-carrier interference (ICI) power and peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR), which are considered the major weaknesses in OFDM-based systems. A novel family of Nyquist-I pulses called sinc exponential pulse (SEP) is proposed, and it is characterized by two new design parameters that provide extra degrees of freedom for a certain roll-off factor, α. SEP effectively decreases the relative magnitude of the two largest side lobes of the SEP frequency function, which minimizes the ICI power and reduces the PAPR in OFDM systems. Furthermore, the SEP possesses a broader main lobe, which provides sufficient improvement in bit-error-rate (BER). The behavior of the SEP is examined in the time and frequency domain by tuning its design parameters to obtain the sub-optimum SEP. Theoretical and simulation results show that the sub-optimum SEP performs better than other existing pulses in terms of ICI power, signal-to-interference ratio (SIR) power, BER, and PAPR in OFDM-based systems.

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Acknowledgements

This research was supported by the MSIP (Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning), Korea, under the ITRC (Information Technology Research Center) support program (IITP-2016-H8501-16-1007) supervised by the IITP (Institute for Information and Communications Technology Promotion). This research was supported by the MSIP (Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning, Korea, under the ITRC (Information Technology Research Center) support program (IITP-2016-R2718-16-0012) supervised by the IITP (National IT Industry Promotion Agency). This work was supported in part by Project FONDECYT No. 11160517, Fondo Nacional de Desarrollo Cientifico y Tecnolgico.

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    Shaharyar Kamal & Kyesan Lee

  2. Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile

    Cesar A. Azurdia-Meza

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Kamal, S., Azurdia-Meza, C.A. & Lee, K. Improved Nyquist-I Pulses to Enhance the Performance of OFDM-Based Systems. Wireless Pers Commun 95, 4095–4111 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-017-4044-3

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