Multi-carrier Equalization by Restoration of RedundancY (MERRY) for Adaptive Channel Shortening in Multi-carrier Systems

Abstract This paper proposes a new blind adaptive channel shortening approach for multi-carrier systems. The performance of the discrete Fourier transform-DMT (DFT-DMT) system is investigated with the proposed DST-DMT system over the standard carrier serving area (CSA) loop1. Enhanced bit rates demonstrated and less complexity also involved by the simulation of the DST-DMT system. Keywords DFT, DMT, DST. 1. I NTRODUCTION Multi carrier modulation, particularly Discrete Multi-tone (DMT) modulation, is one of the most prominent modulation methods for high-speed digital communications. For the channel in the DMT system separated into self- regulating sub-channels. The full amount of bits transmitted over the channel would be the total amount of the bits transmitted in each sub-channel. The binary input data are passed onto a set of parallel, independent sub-channels, each of which is assigned a fixed number of bits during startup or system initialization. Given the measured SNR of each sub-channel during startup, the number of bits for each sub-channel is then determined [1]. Each sub-channel is encoded into a quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) constellation of the appropriate size. For example, if four bits are assigned to tone