Multicarrier modulation with blind detection capability using cosine modulated filter banks

The cosine modulated filter bank (CMFB) is introduced as a multicarrier modulation (MCM) technique for wideband data transmission over wireless channels. Under the name discrete wavelet multitone modulation, CMFB has been considered for data transmission over digital subscriber lines. We propose a new receiver structure that is different from those proposed previously. The new structure simplifies the task of channel equalization, by reducing the number of equalizer parameters significantly. We also propose a novel blind equalization algorithm that fits very nicely in the proposed structure. Moreover, we discuss the bandwidth efficiency of the proposed CMFB-MCM system and show that it is superior to the conventional (single carrier) quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) and orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM). The CMFB is found to be a signal processing block that stacks a number of vestigial sideband modulated signals in a number of overlapping subchannels in the most efficient way. The proposed CMFB-MCM is also compared to OFDM with respect to bit-error rate performance. Under the conditions that the channel impulse response duration remains less than the length of cyclic prefix, OFDM is found marginally superior to CMFB-MCM. However, OFDM degrades very fast when the channel impulse response duration exceeds the length of the cyclic prefix. CMFB-MCM, on the other hand, is found less sensitive to variations in channel impulse response duration.

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