Wednesday, November 27, 2013

single carrier frequency division multiple access

Single carrier frequency division multiple access technique is a technique which deals with the assignment of multiple users to a shared communication resource. It can be linearly procoded OFDMA scheme i.e it has an additional  DFT processing preceding the conventional OFDMA processing. It has drawn great attention, as it is an attractive alternative to OFDMA especially in the uplink communications where lower peak to average power ratio (PAPR) greatly benefits the mobile terminal in efficiency and it also reduces the cost of power amplifier.
The process of transmission of SCFDMA is very similar to OFDMA.  In this for each user the sequence of bits that are transmitted are mapped in symbols like BPSK, QPSK or M-QOM.
This different users are assigned with different fourier coefficients. This assignment is carried out in mapping and demapping blocks. The receiver side includes one demapping block, one IDFT block and one detection block for each user signal to be received.
In this, multiple access among users is made possible by assigning different users, different sets of non overlapping sub carriers.
                     


The distinguishing feature of SCFDMA is that it leads to a single carrier transmit signal in contrast with multicarrier transmission scheme in OFDMA.

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