Wireless OFDM and MIMO-OFDM Communications

The present wireless systems aim for two conflicting goals, viz., providing quality of service such as delay, fairness to users, and maximizing the throughput of the system. Several techniques have been developed for increasing bandwidth with high data rate. Among these techniques, Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) is a special form of multicarrier technique where all the subcarriers are orthogonal to each other. OFDM offers higher data rate and high immunity to the multipath fading channel without degrading the Bit Error Rate (BER) performance. It has gained popularity for broadband communication system because of its high spectral efficiency and capacity to combat multipath fading. At the same time, it has some limitations such as Inter-Symbol Interference (ISI), Inter-Carrier Interference (ICI) and high Peak-to-Average Power Ratio (PAPR). This book contain seven chapters and an attempt has been made in this research work to enhance the power amplifier efficiency and reduce the high PAPR of the OFDM and MIMO-OFDM systems through modified PTS approach combined with some PAPR reduction techniques.