Physical Layer Considerations for Cognitive Radio: Synchronization Point of View

Author

Kollár, Zsolt ; Horváth, Péter

Author_Institution

Budapest Univ. of Technol. & Econ., Budapest, Hungary

fYear

2011

fDate

15-18 May 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

In this paper, we briefly describe four modulation schemes (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM), DFT-spread OFDM, Constant Envelope OFDM (CEOFDM)and Filter Bank Multicarrier (FBMC)) for Cognitive Radios (CR) in white space. In the first part, we give a short overview of the main signal processing blocks and signal properties. Then, we compare them by means of sensitivity to various synchronization errors such as timing error, frequency mismatch, phase noise and IQ-imbalance. These errors can be caused by either non-ideal analog components, movement of the transceiver or imperfect synchronization. Each synchronization error is examined separately; the performance is verified by means of bit error rates. Each modulation has a different sensitivity for a given type of synchronization error, which has to be taken into account when choosing the most suitable modulation scheme for a given application.

Keywords

OFDM modulation; cognitive radio; discrete Fourier transforms; error statistics; radio transceivers; BER; DFT-spread OFDM; IQ-imbalance; bit error rates; cognitive radio; constant envelope OFDM; filter bank multicarrier; frequency mismatch; imperfect synchronization; main signal processing blocks; non-ideal analog components; orthogonal frequency division multiplexing; phase noise; physical layer considerations; synchronization errors; timing error; transceiver; white space; Baseband; Bit error rate; Modulation; OFDM; Receivers; Synchronization;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC Spring), 2011 IEEE 73rd

Conference_Location

Yokohama

ISSN

1550-2252

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-8332-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VETECS.2011.5956428

Filename

5956428