Digital multicarrier-transmission of audio signals over mobile radio channels

This paper presents a systematic overview over different concepts of multicarrier-trans-mission under the specific aspect of mobile radio transmission. It will be shown that under realistic multipath channel conditions the postulation of ideal bandwidth efficiency has to be given up. As a consequence sub-optimum multicarrier concepts are regarded and mutually compared under the aspects of intersymbol interference and adjacent channel interference. A specific impuls shaping concept based on time and frequency concentrated impulses (Gaussian shaping) turns out as an appropriate solution since hereby the adjacent channel interference can be largely suppressed at the expense of a small increase in intersymbol inference. The performance of the different multicarrier concepts is illustrated by various simulation results under mobile radio channel conditions.