Reduced out-of-band radiation-based filter optimization for UFMC systems in 5G

Universal-filtered multi-carrier (UFMC) technique is considered as a potential candidate for future communication systems due to its robustness against inter-carrier interference (ICI), suitability for non-contiguous fragmented available spectrum resources and low latency scenario in 5G network. In this paper, we present a novel pulse shaping approach in UFMC to reduce the spectral leakage into nearby subbands used for same or other users with low complexity and high throughput. In the new scheme, we apply Bohman filter-based pulse shaping with combination of antipodal symbol-pairs to the edge-subcarriers of the subbands, and consequently reduce the out-of-band radiation. This scheme outperforms the current state-of-the art and offers better signal-to-interference ratio (SIR) to improve the robustness against carrier frequency offset (CFO) for energy saving in loosely synchronized scenario. We further validate the proposed scheme on field programmable gate array (FPGA) hardware prototype.