Single Carrier FDMA: A New Air Interface for Long Term Evolution

1 Introduction

1.1 Generations

1.2 Standards

1.3 Cellular Standards Organizations 3GPP and 3GPP2

1.4 IEEE Standards

1.5 Advanced Mobile Wireless Systems Based on FDMA

1.6 Figures of Merit

1.7 Frequency Division Technology in Broadband Wireless

Systems

References

2 Channel Characteristics and Frequency Multiplexing

2.1 Introduction

2.2 Radio Channel Characteristics

2.3 Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing

2.4 Single Carrier Modulation with Frequency Domain Equalization

2.5 Summary

References

3 Single Carrier FDMA

3.1 Introduction

3.2 SC-FDMA Signal Processing

3.3 Subcarrier Mapping

3.4 Time Domain Representation of SC-FDMA Signals

3.5 SC-FDMA and Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access

3.6SC-FDMA and CDMA with Frequency Domain Equalization

3.7Single Carrier Code-Frequency Division Multiple Access (SC-CFDMA)

3.8 Summary

References

4 SC-FDMA in 3GPP Long Term Evolution

4.1 Introduction

4.2 Protocol Layers and Channels

4.3 Uplink Time and Frequency Structure

4.4 Basic Uplink Physical Channel Processing

4.5 Reference (Pilot) Signal Structure

4.6 Summary

References

Appendix - List of 3GPP LTE Standards

5 Channel Dependent Scheduling

5.1 Introduction

5.2 SC-FDMA Performance Measures

5.3 Scheduling Algorithms

5.4 Channel Models Used in Scheduling Studies

5.5 Channel-Dependent Scheduling Simulation Studies

5.6 Summary

References

6 MIMO SC-FDMA

6.1 Introduction

6.2 Spatial Diversity and Spatial Multiplexing in MIMO Systems

6.3 MIMO Channel

6.4 SC-FDMA Transmit Eigen-Beamforming with Unitary Precoding

6.5 SC-FDMA Spatial Diversity

6.6 Summary

References

7 Peak Power Characteristics of an SC-FDMA Signal

7.1 Introduction

7.2 Peak Power Characteristics of a Single Carrier Signal

7.3 PAPR of Single Antenna Transmission Signals

7.4 PAPR of Multiple Antenna Transmission Signals

7.5 Peak Power Reduction by Symbol Amplitude Clipping

7.6 Summary

References

8 Simulation of a SC-FDMA System Using Matlab®

8.1 Introduction

8.2 Link Level Simulation of SC/FDE

8.3 Link Level Simulation of SC-FDMA

8.4 Peak-to-Average Power Ratio Simulation of SC-FDMA

8.5 Summary

References

Appendix - Simulation Codes

Appendix A - Derivation of Time Domain Symbols of Localized FDMA and Distributed FDMA

A.1 Time Domain Symbols of LFDMA

A.2 Time Domain Symbols of DFDMA

Appendix B - Derivations of the Upper Bounds in Chapter 7

B.1 Derivation of Equations (9) and (10) in Chapter 7

B.2 Derivations of Equations (13) and (14) in Chapter 7

Appendix C - Deciphering the 3GPP LTE Specifications

Appendix D - Abbreviations

Index