Title: Adaptive loading with Principal Component Filter Banks in MIMO MultiCarrier Modulation System

Authors: V.S. Sheeba, Elizabeth Elias

Addresses: Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Government Engineering College, Thrissur, 680009 Kerala, India. ' National Institute of Technology, 673601 Calicut, India

Abstract: We discuss adaptive loading scheme in wireless MultiCarrier Modulation Systems (MCMS), using Variable-Rate Variable-Power (VRVP), coded, M-ary quadrature amplitude modulation. The Principal Component Filter Bank (PCFB), which is adapted to the channel characteristics, is used for converting the wideband channel into narrow-band sub-channels. PCFB-based adaptive scheme gives better performance in terms of spectral efficiency and bit error rate, compared with the conventional scheme in MCMS. The main advantage of using PCFB in adaptive loading is that constellation size need not be varied frequently on each subcarrier depending on the channel Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR). We extend this idea to Multi-Input Multi-Output (MIMO) systems.

Keywords: OFDM; orthogonal frequency division multiplexing; PCFB; principal component filter banks; adaptive loading; multiple input multiple output; MIMO systems; transceivers; multicarrier modulation systems; spectral efficiency; bit error rate.

DOI: 10.1504/IJSISE.2009.029333

International Journal of Signal and Imaging Systems Engineering, 2009 Vol.2 No.1/2, pp.81 - 87

Received: 23 Aug 2008
Accepted: 10 Mar 2009
Published online: 19 Nov 2009 *

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