5G F-OFDM Waveform Based Software-Defined Radio Technology

Authors

  • Dia Mohamad Ali College of Electronics Engineering, Ninevah University, Ninevah, Iraq
  • Zhraa Zuheir Yahya Department of Communication Engineering, Ninevah University, Ninevah, Iraq

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.46604/peti.2022.8887

Keywords:

filtered-orthogonal frequency division multiplexing, spectrum efficiency, software-defined radio, sub-band, fifth generation

Abstract

Filtered-orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (F-OFDM) is a quasi-orthogonal waveform candidate for the applications of the fifth generation (5G) communication system. In this study, an F-OFDM waveform with unequal sub-band sizes is proposed to improve the spectrum efficiency (SE) of the 5G system. The proposed waveform is modeled with the Blackman window-sinc filter and is developed based on the software-defined radio (SDR) technology for practical implementation. The result shows that the F-OFDM performance of the simulation and hardware implementation is approximately the same. The SE using the proposed F-OFDM waveform is 6% and 5.8% higher than the SE using the conventional OFDM waveform under the simulation in the LabVIEW NXG simulator and under the practical use in the universal software radio peripheral (USRP) platform, respectively.

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2021-12-29

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D. M. Ali and Z. Z. Yahya, “ 5G F-OFDM Waveform Based Software-Defined Radio Technology”, Proc. eng. technol. innov., vol. 20, pp. 68–80, Dec. 2021.

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