A Feasibility Study of the 16QAM-OFDM Transmission Scheme for Multimedia Mobile Access Communication Systems

Hiroshi HARADA  Yukiyoshi KAMIO  

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IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications   Vol.E84-B   No.8   pp.2207-2218
Publication Date: 2001/08/01
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Print ISSN: 0916-8516
Type of Manuscript: PAPER
Category: Terrestrial Radio Communications
Keyword: 
OFDM,  16QAM,  MMAC,  punctured code,  turbo code,  

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Summary: 
We have investigated the feasibility of the 16QAM-OFDM transmission scheme by calculating its transmission performance by means of some evaluation models. These models have been proposed by standardization projects such as ETSI-BRAN or ARIB-MMAC project. We evaluated the effects of the following four factors on transmission performance: (1) modulation scheme of each OFDM sub-carrier-channel; (2) FEC scheme, especially coding rate and coding scheme; (3) multipath fading environments; and (4) phase noise and nonlinear amplifier. By these evaluations, we have compiled a fundamental data in order to realize multimedia mobile access communication system based on 16QAM-OFDM transmission scheme.