OFDM Baseband Receiver Design for Wireless Communications

Preface

Orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) has become the favorite modulation technology for wireless communication systems. To address the needs of OFDM receiver design, we have developed this book based on course materials for a class in digital communication IC design. This book is ideal for advanced undergraduate and post-graduate students from either VLSI design or signal processing backgrounds. For engineers working on algorithms or hardware of wireless communications systems, this book provides a comprehensive understanding of the state-of-the-art OFDM design technology and will be a valuable reference.

The topics in this book include theories, algorithms, architectures and circuits of OFDM wireless communication systems. One special feature of this book lies in last three chapters, from which our readers can learn how to develop signal processing algorithms oriented from hardware implementation and how to design ICs for wireless OFDM systems. These techniques are lively illustrated through two design examples dealing with two OFDM systems that currently attract much attention–MC-CDMA for future cellular communications and MIMO–OFDM for next-generation WLAN with cognitive radio capability.

This book is organized into three parts. The first part of the book aims at reviewing background knowledge that includes fundamentals of modulation and communication, signal propagation and channel modeling. In this part, ideas behind formulas, rather than mathematical derivations, ...