On the effects of memoryless nonlinearities on M-QAM and DQPSK OFDM signals

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 54, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 3301-3315

  Chorti, Arsenia ^b   Brookes, Mike ^a,c  

^a IEEE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adjacent channel; Bit error rate (BER); Combinatorics; Digital audio broadcasting (DAB); Digital video broadcasting (DVB); Discrete multitone (DMT); Intermodulation; Multicarrier system; Nonlinearity; Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM)

Indexed keywords

ADJACENT CHANNEL; BIT ERROR RATE (BER); COMBINATORICS; DIGITAL AUDIO BROADCASTING (DAB); DIGITAL VIDEO BROADCASTING (DVB); DISCRETE MULTITONE (DMT); MULTICARRIER SYSTEM; NONLINEARITY;

CIRCUIT THEORY; INTERMODULATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TELECOMMUNICATION LINKS; TRANSCEIVERS;

ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

EID: 33747222394     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2006.879129     Document Type: Article

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