Hexagonal Multicarrier Faster-Than-Nyquist Signaling

Multicarrier faster-than-Nyquist (MFTN) signaling is a spectral efficient modulation scheme for future communication systems. In MFTN signaling, the intersymbol interference (ISI) and intercarrier interference (ICI) are introduced intentionally by the time interval packing between adjacent symbols and frequency spacing packing between adjacent subcarriers. It is known that for multicarrier transmission over ISI and ICI channel, conventional rectangular lattice is not the optimal lattice structure. In this paper, the optimal hexagonal lattice-based MFTN signaling scheme is proposed. By appropriate staggering for conventional rectangular lattice, it is shown that the minimum Euclidean distance (or 2-DMazo limit) performance can be improved than conventional rectangular lattice-based MFTN signaling scheme. Moreover, a simple symbol-by-symbol receiver coupled with successive soft interference cancellation has been employed to recover the MFTN signals. Numerical results demonstrate that the hexagonal MFTN owns better bit error rate performance than conventional rectangular MFTN signaling scheme.

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