Degree
Doctor of Philosophy
Program
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Supervisor
Dr. Raveendra Rao
Abstract
Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT)- and Fast Fourier Transform (FFT)- based Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) systems with a variety of angle modulations are considered for data transmission. These modulations are used with the purpose of achieving Constant Envelope (CE) transmitted signals, for superior power efficiency with nonlinear High Power Amplifier (HPA), typically used at the transmitter in OFDM systems. Specifically, four angle modulations are considered: i) Phase Modulation (PM); ii) Frequency Modulation (FM); iii) Continuous Phase Modulation (CPM); and iv) Continuous Phase Chirp Modulation (CPCM). Descriptions of DCT- and FFT- based OFDM systems with M-ary Pulse Amplitude Modulation (MPAM) mapper, with these modulations, are given and expressions for transmitted signals are developed. The detection of these signals in Additive White Gaussian Noise (AWGN) and multipath fading channels is addressed. The receiver structure consists of arctangent demodulator followed by the optimum OFDM receiver for memoryless PM and FM modulations. However, for CPM and CPCM modulations that have inherent memory, arctangent demodulator followed by correction with oversampling technique is used prior to the optimum OFDM receiver. Closed-form expressions for Bit Error Rate (BER) have been derived and are function of: i) Signal-to-Noise Ratio, (Eb/N0); ii) Modulation parameters; iii) Number of amplitude levels of M-PAM mapper; and iv) parameters of multipath fading environment. It is shown that, in general, BER performance of CE-DCT-OFDM system is superior compared to that of conventional DCT-OFDM system, when the effect of HPA in the system is taken into account. Also, it is observed that CE-DCT-OFDM system outperforms CE-FFT-OFDM system by nearly 3 dB. The DCT- and FFT- OFDM systems with CPM and CPCM modulations are superior in BER performance compared to PM and FM modulations in these systems. The use of CPCM in OFDM systems can provide attractive trade off between bandwidth and BER performance. The performance of CE-DCT-OFDM and CE-FFT-OFDM systems over Rayleigh and Rician frequency non-selective slowly-varying fading channels are illustrated as a function of channel parameters and the penalty in SNR that must be paid as consequence of the fading is determined.
Recommended Citation
Alsisi, Rayan, "Constant Envelope DCT- and FFT- based Multicarrier Systems" (2018). Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository. 5473.
https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/etd/5473