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1.2 Overview of <strong>OFDM</strong><br />

his idea of the parallel transmissions over multiple channels [11]. He developed a<br />

pr<strong>in</strong>ciple for transmitt<strong>in</strong>g messages simultaneously through orthogonal channels that<br />

is free of <strong>in</strong>ter-channel <strong>in</strong>terference (ICI) and the ISI. In <strong>OFDM</strong> systems, the available<br />

bandwidth is divided <strong>in</strong>to K sub-channels (sub-carriers) and data is transmitted <strong>in</strong><br />

parallel on these sub-carriers. Different modulation schemes can be used for different<br />

sub-carriers. To combat ISI caused by channel time spread, a cyclic prefix (CP) that<br />

duplicated last portion of an <strong>OFDM</strong> block is <strong>in</strong>serted <strong>in</strong> the front of <strong>OFDM</strong> block<br />

[12]. As long as the length of CP is greater than the impulse response of the channel,<br />

perfect orthogonality among sub-channels is achieved and the effect of ISI caused by<br />

the arrival of different <strong>OFDM</strong> symbols with different delays is completely elim<strong>in</strong>ated.<br />

A block structure of CP based <strong>OFDM</strong> symbol is shown <strong>in</strong> Fig. 1.2.<br />

To transmit data via <strong>OFDM</strong> symbol, a serial to parallel conversion of bit stream<br />

is performed <strong>in</strong> the <strong>OFDM</strong> transmitter. The transmitter transforms this parallel bit<br />

stream <strong>in</strong>to the time doma<strong>in</strong> us<strong>in</strong>g an Inverse Discrete Fourier Transform (IDFT). In<br />

practical systems, the Inverse Fast Fourier Transform (IFFT) algorithm is used due<br />

Figure 1.3: <strong>OFDM</strong> transceiver: block diagram<br />

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