A method of ICI cancellation for OFDM with delay diversity

In orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) system, the time variation of a wireless channel destroys orthogonality among the sub-carriers, and this induces inter-carriers interference (ICI) and degrades system performance severely in mobile environment. In this paper, a new method of ICI cancellation based on delay diversity (DD) was proposed, which provides a way to mitigate the negative effect from the time variation of the wireless paths, thus improve the system performance greatly. The new method was called time-domain self-interference cancellation (TDSIC) algorithm, which is different from other existing methods, such as frequency-domain method. In a cyclically extended OFDM system, the fading characteristics of extended OFDM symbols with different cyclic delay are different with each other, so in our TDSIC method, a new diversity collection scheme at the receiver end is proposed, which can be used to improve the system performance by suppressing ICI through selecting appropriate parameters. Moreover, the cyclically extended OFDM symbol at the transmitter side and diversity collection with different delay added OFDM symbols at the receiver side are used in the TDSIC method with the tradeoff of time-expense, so the well-known fixed delay for symbol at the transmitter side may be detected by the receiver side through estimating several parameters of wireless channels. In summary, the key of the TDSIC method is to improve the system performance with the cost of time. Based on performance analysis, simulation has proved that TDSIC may effectively improve the performance of the time-variant wireless channel.