Spectrally Precoded OFDM and OFDMA with Cyclic Prefix and Unconstrained Guard Ratios

Spectrally precoded orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing with cyclic prefix (SP-CP-OFDM) and SP-CP-OFDM multiple access (SP-CP-OFDMA) are investigated in this paper. A general constraint on spectral precoding is developed for both SP-CP-OFDM and SP-CP-OFDMA signal formats with unconstrained guard ratios and arbitrary input data statistics to ensure very small power spectral sidelobes decaying asymptotically as f^-2J-2, with J a predesigned integer-valued parameter. In the SP-CP-OFDM signaling format, new spectral precoders are devised to meet the constraint. It is shown that the proposed SP-CP-OFDM signals can provide much smaller spectral sidelobes than the previously designed SP-CP-OFDM signals with block partitioning and constrained guard ratios. In the SP-CP-OFDMA signaling format, a general procedure is proposed to facilitate the precoder design for SP-CP-OFDMA signals with arbitrary subcarrier allocation for each user and some spectral precoders are accordingly devised. It is shown that the proposed SP-CP-OFDMA signals can suppress sidelobe powers effectively and thus achieve higher spectral compactness than nonprecoded rectangularly-pulsed CP-OFDMA.