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Nonlinear Characteristics Evaluation of the FBMC and UFMC System for the 5G Mobile Communication

5세대 이동통신을 위한 FBMC와 UFMC 시스템의 비선형 특성 평가

  • An, Changyoung (Department of Electronics Engineering, Chungbuk National University) ;
  • Ryu, Heung-Gyoon (Department of Electronics Engineering, Chungbuk National University)
  • Received : 2016.04.07
  • Accepted : 2016.07.28
  • Published : 2016.09.07
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Abstract

Recently, novel candidate waveform techniques for spectral efficiency improvement was proposed in order to satisfy key performance indicators(KPIs) of 5th generation(5G) mobile communication. Multi-carrier based universal filtered multi-carrier(UFMC) and filter bank multi-carrier(FBMC) are very famous as 5G candidate waveform techniques. Also, weighted orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (W-OFDM) that has low-complexity is receiving the spotlight slowly. In this paper, firstly, we describe a basic OFDM system. And then, we also describe UFMC, FBMC, and W-OFDM system. Next, we evaluate and analyze spectrum and BER performance of these systems under the nonlinear high power amplifier(HPA) environment. As simulation results, spectrum characteristic and BER performance of UFMC, FBMC, and W-OFDM are similar to each other. Therefore, under the nonlinear HPA environment, W-OFDM system is more advantageous because W-OFDM system uses a simple time-domain windowing technique and has similar characteristics to the others.

5세대 이동통신 시스템에서 스펙트럼 효율을 향상시키기 위한 새로운 후보 변조기술들이 제안되고 있다. 후보 변조기술로 다중반송파 기반의 UFMC(Universal Filtered Multi-Carrier), FBMC(Filter Bank Multi-Carrier)가 큰 주목을 받고 있으며, 최근 저복잡도 처리가 가능한 W(Weighted)-OFDM(Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) 시스템 또한 주목받고 있다. 본 논문에서는 기본적인 OFDM 시스템과 함께 UFMC, FBMC, W-OFDM 시스템에 HPA(High Power Amplifier) 비선형 특성이 고려되었을 경우, 각 시스템의 스펙트럼 특성과 BER(Bit Error Rate) 특성을 종합적으로 평가하여 보다 유력한 시스템을 찾는다. 시뮬레이션 결과로, 동일한 비선형 HPA 환경에서는 UFMC, FBMC, W-OFDM 시스템이 모두 유사한 스펙트럼 특성과 BER 특성을 보이는 것을 확인할 수 있다. 이러한 이유로 비선형 HPA 환경에서는 시간영역에서 저복잡도의 Windowing 처리만을 요구하는 W-OFDM 시스템이 다른 시스템에 비하여 유리함을 확인할 수 있다.

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