BEHAVIOR OF OFDM SYSTEM USING MATLAB SIMULATION

Orthogonal  Frequency    Division  Multiplexing ( OFDM  )  is  mainly  designed  to  Combat  the   effect  of  multipath  reception,  by dividing the wideband frequency selective fading   channel  into  many narrow  flat  sub-channels.OFDM offers flexibility in  adaptationto time varying  channel condition  by  adopting  the parameters   at  each subcarriers  accurately.To avoid ISI due to multi-path,successive OFDM path, successive OFDM symbols are separated by guard    band.  This   makes   the  OFDM   system  resistant to multi-path effects. The idea of  using  parallel  data transmission by FDM was published in mid 60s.However, recentlythe  attention toward  OFDM has  grown  rapidlyin the field  of wireless and  wired communication systems.  This is reflected by the adoption  of  this technique in applications such  as  digital  audio/video  broadcast    (DAB / DVB),   wireless   LAN (802.11a  and  HiperLAN2),  broadband  wireless (802.16) and xDSL.In this paper design of OFDM system transmitter and receiver is introduced and  simulation is done using using  MATLAB.