A low complexity transmitter structure for OFDM-FDMA uplink systems

The orthogonal frequency division multiplex (OFDM) transmission technique can efficiently deal with the effects of multipath propagation in the broadband radio channel. It also has a high system inherent flexibility for designing a multiple access scheme by combining the conventional TDMA, FDMA and CDMA approaches with the OFDM modulation scheme. The FDMA multiple access scheme is especially interesting for an uplink of a communication system since it can completely avoid any multiple access interference (MAI). Moreover, the peak-to-average ratio (PAR) of the uplink OFDM transmit signal can be greatly reduced if this OFDM-FDMA multiple access scheme is additionally combined with a data spreading technique based on a discrete Fourier transform (DFT) spreading matrix using only the user specific subcarriers. Since the DFT spreading operation and the IDFT operation used as a part of the OFDM modulation scheme cancel out each other the complexity of the transmitter structure for an OFDM-FDMA uplink can be greatly reduced.

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