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Implementation and Performance Evaluation of OFDM System in Diverse Transmission Channel Using Simulink

Arun Agarwal1,, Kabita Agarwal2

1Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Institute of Technical Education & Research, Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan University, Khandagiri Square, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India

2Department of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering, CV Raman College of Engineering, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India

American Journal of Electrical and Electronic Engineering. 2015, 3(5), 117-123. DOI: 10.12691/ajeee-3-5-2
Published online: August 25, 2017

Abstract

Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) has become a popular modulation method in high data rate wireless communications. It is a key modulation scheme that is especially suited for high-data-rate transmission in delay-dispersive environments because of its robustness to Inter-Symbol Interference (ISI) and multipath fading environment. It converts a high-rate data stream into a number of low-rate streams that are transmitted over parallel, narrowband channels which needs little or no equalization. OFDM also provides efficient spectrum utilization by use of single frequency networks (SFNs). Recently, OFDM has become the standard for physical layer implementation of various digital audio and video wireless communications such as DAB/DVB, wireless local access networks (WLANs) and wireless metropolitan area networks (WMANs). Moreover OFDM is a potential candidate for fourth-generation (4G) mobile wireless systems and beyond. In this paper, through Simulink implementation, we present a bit error rate (BER) performance analysis of OFDM system in diverse transmission channels. The results show that OFDM is well suited for high speed data transmission in mobile environment and channel coding combined with interleaving is mandatory for any wireless high speed transmission.

Keywords:

OFDM, ISI, multipath fading, SFN, WLAN, 4G, BER
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