Single-carrier FDMA
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Single-carrier FDMA (SC-FDMA) is a
SC-FDMA has drawn great attention as an attractive alternative to
The performance of SC-FDMA in relation to OFDMA has been the subject of various studies.[5][6][7] Although the performance gap is small, SC-FDMA's advantage of low PAPR makes it desirable for uplink wireless transmission in mobile communication systems, where transmitter power efficiency is of paramount importance.
Transmitter and receiver structure
The transmission processing of SC-FDMA is very similar to that of OFDMA. For each user, the sequence of bits transmitted is mapped to a complex constellation of symbols (
In SC-FDMA, multiple access among users is made possible by assigning different users different sets of non-overlapping Fourier coefficients (sub-carriers). This is achieved at the transmitter by inserting (prior to IDFT) silent Fourier coefficients (at positions assigned to other users), and removing them on the receiver side after the DFT.
The distinguishing feature of SC-FDMA is that it leads to a single-carrier transmit signal, in contrast to OFDMA which is a multi-carrier transmission scheme. Subcarrier mapping can be classified into two types: localized mapping and distributed mapping. In localized mapping, the DFT outputs are mapped to a subset of consecutive subcarriers, thereby confining them to only a fraction of the system bandwidth. In distributed mapping, the DFT outputs of the input data are assigned to subcarriers over the entire bandwidth non-continuously, resulting in zero amplitude for the remaining subcarriers. A special case of distributed SC-FDMA is called interleaved SC-FDMA (IFDMA), where the occupied subcarriers are equally spaced over the entire bandwidth.[8]
Owing to its inherent single carrier structure, a prominent advantage of SC-FDMA over
In OFDM, as well as SC-FDMA, equalization is achieved on the receiver side, after the DFT calculation, by multiplying each Fourier coefficient by a complex number. Thus,
A related concept is the combination of a single carrier transmission with the
- DFT: Discrete Fourier Transform
- IDFT: Inverse Discrete Fourier Transform
- CP: Cyclic Prefix
- PS: Pulse Shaping
- DAC: Digital-to-analog converter
- RF: Radio Frequencysignal
- ADC: Analog-to-digital converter
- LP-OFDMA: Linearly precoded OFDMA
Useful properties
- Low PAPR (crest factor)
- Low sensitivity to carrier frequency offset
- Less sensitive to non-linear distortion and hence, it allows the use of low-cost power amplifiers
- Greater robustness against spectral nulls
See also
- Carrier interferometry
- 3GPP Long Term Evolution
- OFDMA
- Time-division multiple access
References
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