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A Pilot Symbol Insertion Method for SC-FDMA Mobile Communication Systems

SC-FDMA 이동통신 시스템을 위한 파일럿 심벌 삽입 방법

  • Rim, Min-Joong (Department of Information and Communication Engineering, Dongguk University) ;
  • Ryu, Chul (Department of Information and Communication Engineering, Dongguk University)
  • 임민중 (동국대학교 정보통신공학과) ;
  • 류철 (동국대학교 정보통신공학과)
  • Published : 2007.06.25
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Abstract

OFDMA (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access) is widely used as multiple access techniques for next generation mobile communication systems. However, OFDMA has a disadvantage of high peak-to-average power ratio and SC-FDMA (Single-Carrier Frequency Division Multiple Access) was proposed for uplink systems to overcome the drawback. SC-FDMA also has several demerits including degraded performance with high-order modulations or with multiple antenna techniques, and less flexibility in resource allocation and pilot patterns. In order to achieve the best performance over a wide range of environments, each mobile station should select either of OFDMA and SC-FDMA according to the given condition and a pilot structure for SC-FDMA systems should be similar to that of OFDMA to maintain the same frame structure. While conventional SC-FDMA schemes require an entire SC-FDMA symbol or a separate short symbol for pilots, this paper proposes a method which supports the pilots included in SC-FDMA data parts and enables a SC-FDMA frame to hold the same structure as an OFDMA frame.

OFDMA(Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access)는 차세대 이동통신을 위한 새로운 다중접속 방식으로 널리 고려되고 있으나 PAPR(Peak-to-Average Power Ratio)이 높다는 단전을 가지고 있으며 상향링크 시스템을 위해서는 OFDMA의 단점을 보완한 방법인 SC-FDMA(Single Carrier Frequency Division Multiple Access)가 제안되었다. 그러나 SC-FDMA는 고차변조 방식에서 성능이 떨어지고 다중안테나 시스템에 불리하며 자원할당의 유연성이 부족하고 자유로운 파일럿 패턴을 가지기 어렵다는 단점을 가지고 있다. 항상 최적의 성능을 얻기 위해서는 각 단말의 환경에 따라서 SC-FDMA나 OFDMA를 적절히 선택하여 사용할 수 있는 방법이 필요하며 SC-FDMA의 파일럿 구조도 OFDMA와 유사한 형태를 가져서 동일한 형태의 프레임 구조를 가질 수 있어야 한다. 기존의 SC-FDMA 파일럿 삽입 방법이 전체 SC-FDMA 심벌을 이용하거나 별도의 작은 SC-FDMA 심벌을 이용하는데 반해서 이 논문에서는 SC-FDMA 데이터의 일부분에 파일럿을 삽입함으로써 SC-FDMA 프레임이 OFDMA 프레임과 동일한 구조를 가질 수 있도록 하는 방법을 제안한다.

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