A Comprehensive Performance Evaluation of Universal Filtered Multi-Carrier Technique

The Internet of Things (IoT) and machine-to-machine (M2M) communication will play an important role in future communications, but there is currently no ultra-reliable low-latency wireless communication theory that guides its design. For highly mobile vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) wireless communication scenarios, asynchronous transmission should also be accepted. Therefore, it is particularly urgent to study ultra-reliable low-latency wireless transmission technology that satisfies asynchronous transmission. Universal Filter Multi-Carrier (UFMC) is a new type of filtering wireless transmission mechanism that meets this character. Although some of its properties have been explored in recent years, there are few articles that systematically evaluate its performance. In this paper, firstly, the performance of the UFMC system is fully evaluated in terms of spectral efficiency (SE), bit error rate (BER), peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR), carrier frequency offset (CFO), as well as various multipath fading channels, effects of time delay (TD), etc. Meanwhile, a mathematical analysis model is established for the BER of UFMC system, and some exact closed-loop expressions of bit error probabilities for UFMC are derived. Moreover, the equivalent form of the transmitter in the frequency domain is derived. Finally, the Monte Carlo simulation results related to UFMC are presented. The results reveal that UFMC suffers from the same problems as other multi-carrier system, including higher PAPR, affected by CFO, but it has its own inherent advantages such as insensitivity to time delay or energy-efficient, and the main negative factor of UFMC is inter-carrier interference (ICI) not inter-symbol interference (ISI), which may play an important role in future M2M and V2V communication.