In this thesis, a novel filter bank multi-carrier (FBMC) system adopting quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) with faster-than-Nyquist (FTN) signaling based on block-wise interleaved filter design is proposed, which is called a block-QAM-FBMC system,...
In this thesis, a novel filter bank multi-carrier (FBMC) system adopting quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) with faster-than-Nyquist (FTN) signaling based on block-wise interleaved filter design is proposed, which is called a block-QAM-FBMC system, as a multi-carrier modulation (MCM) scheme to achieve high spectral efficiency in the internet of things (IoT) environment.
To achieve high spectral efficiency, the proposed block-QAM-FBMC system adopts three approaches. First, the block-QAM-FBMC system enables block transmission and transmits signals without the transition time by fully overlapping FBMC symbols. Second, a new prototype filter is designed for the block-QAM-FBMC system to have well localized spectrum and low out-of-band radiation (OOBR). Third, the FTN signaling is adopted in frequency domain by compressing the subcarrier spacing to increase spectral efficiency. Meanwhile, the block-QAM-FBMC system causes an interference, referred as self-interference. The self-interference consists of two types. One is the inter-symbol interference (ISI) and the other is the inter-carrier interference (ICI). ISI is caused from the overlapped FBMC symbols and ICI is caused from adjacent subcarriers in the filter bank procedures and the FTN signaling.
To cope with the self-Interference, a new filter design is proposed and equalization procedures for self- interference are introduced. The proposed filter design method is composed of two-steps. At the first step, a filter design based on block-wise interleaving is proposed to remove ISI. The filter design generates the multiple filters from a prototype filter by using block-wise interleaving. At the second step, a prototype filter is designed by optimization to minimize ICI and guarantee low OOBR. The equalization procedures equalize ICI caused by the filter bank procedures and the FTN signaling. We derive the effective channel response of ICI. Then, the equalization techniques are used to equalize the effective channel response of ICI.
The simulation results for symbol error rate (SER) and power spectrum density (PSD) show that the block-QAM-FBMC system is robust to multipath fading channels and has low OOBR, respectively. Therefore, the block-QAM-FBMC system without transition time does not need CP and guard band unlike CP-OFDM. The spectral efficiency is analyzed by utilizing the lattice density and the average spectral efficiency is evaluated in the simulation results. The block-QAM-FBMC system can achieve the higher spectral efficiency than CP-OFDM and conventional QAM-FBMC systems. Therefore, the proposed block-QAM-FBMC system could be an attractive MCM technique in IoT systems for short packet transmission.