Joint CFO and I/Q imbalance compensation for the SC-IFDMA system uplink

This paper deals with the synthesis of a new reception scheme for the uplink of a single-carrier interleaved frequency-division multiple-access (SC-IFDMA) wireless network. In such networks, the in-phase/quadrature-phase (I/Q) imbalance, introduced at each user transmitter and at the base station receiver, and the carrier frequency offsets (CFOs) between the transmitters and the receiver are sources of severe performance degradation. The proposed receiver, based on the minimum mean-output energy (MMOE) criterion, jointly mitigates CFO and I/Q imbalance effects by processing the received signal and its complex conjugate version. Monte Carlo computer simulations are carried out to assess the effectiveness of the MMOE solution.