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Multi-Carrier and Spread Spectrum Systems: From OFDM and MC ...

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<strong>Multi</strong>-<strong>Carrier</strong> TDMA 119DFTSubcarrierMap.IDFTGuardinterval(a) Distributed DFT-spread <strong>OFDM</strong>DFTSubcarrierMap.IDFTGuardintervalb) Localized DFT-spread <strong>OFDM</strong>subcarrier set to 0Figure 3-8Distributed versus localized DFT-spread <strong>OFDM</strong>terminal stations. One time slot/burst consists of one or several <strong>OFDM</strong> symbols. Theallocation of time slots to the terminal stations is controlled by the base station mediumaccess controller (MAC). <strong>Multi</strong>ple access interference can be avoided when ISI betweenadjacent <strong>OFDM</strong> symbols can be prevented by using a sufficiently long guard interval orwith a timing advance control mechanism.Adaptive coding <strong>and</strong> modulation is usually applied in conjunction with <strong>MC</strong>-TDMAsystems, where the coding <strong>and</strong> modulation can be easily adapted per transmitted burst.The main advantages of <strong>MC</strong>-TDMA are in guaranteeing a high peak data rate, in itsmultiplexing gain (bursty transmission), in the absence of multiple access interference, <strong>and</strong>in simple receiver structures that can be designed, for instance, by applying differentialmodulation in the frequency direction. In the case of coherent demodulation a quiterobust <strong>OFDM</strong> burst synchronization is needed, especially for the uplink. A frequencysynchronous system where the terminal station transmitter is frequency-locked to thereceived signal in the downlink or is spending a high amount of overhead transmitted perburst could remedy this problem.Besides the complex synchronization mechanism required for an <strong>OFDM</strong> system, theother disadvantage of <strong>MC</strong>-TDMA is that diversity can only be exploited by using addi-

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