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Adaptive Modulation and Multiple Access for the OFDM Transmission Technique

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For the transmission of flexible andhigh data rates in future mobile communicationsystems, the multicarrier transmission technique(Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing, OFDM) canbe regarded as a possible alternative tosingle-carrier transmission that is used in today'ssystems. One of the advantages of OFDM is theflexibility concerning modulation and multiple accesstechniques. Since in OFDM the total bandwidth isdivided into a large number of subcarriers, it can beflexibly shared among all the users. In addition, themodulation scheme can be individually chosen for eachsubcarrier, thus granting the possibility of anadaptation to the radio channel characteristics. Inthis paper, the combination of two different multipleaccess schemes, OFDM-FDMA and OFDM-TDMA, and anappropriate adaptive modulation technique isconsidered for the downlink of a communication system.Different degrees of adaptivity are analysed andcompared to show the benefit of an ``intelligent''multiple access and modulation strategy. For thegiven parameters and assumptions, OFDM-TDMA withadaptive modulation yields an improvement of 6 dB insignal-to-noise ratio (SNR) at a bit error rate (BER)of 10-2. When OFDM-FDMA with adaptive subcarrierallocation is applied, the SNR gain amounts to 12.5 dB(BER of 10-2).

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  1. Institute of Telecommunications, Technical University Braunschweig, Schleinitzstr. 22, 38092, Braunschweig, Germany E-mail

    Rainer Grünheid

  2. Institute of Telecommunications, Technical University Braunschweig, Schleinitzstr. 22, 38092, Braunschweig, Germany

    Hermann Rohling

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Grünheid, R., Rohling, H. Adaptive Modulation and Multiple Access for the OFDM Transmission Technique. Wireless Personal Communications 13, 5–13 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1008834910241

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