Matrix Characterization for GFDM: Low Complexity MMSE Receivers and Optimal Filters

In this paper, a new matrix-based characterization of generalized-frequency-division-multiplexing (GFDM) transmitter matrices is proposed, as opposed to traditional vector-based characterization with prototype filters. The characterization facilitates deriving properties of GFDM (transmitter) matric...

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Published in:IEEE transactions on signal processing 2017-09, Vol.65 (18), p.4940-4955
Main Authors: Chen, Po-Chih, Su, Borching, Huang, Yenming
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
characteristic matrix
Complexity theory
Generalized frequency division multiplexing (GFDM)
MMSE receiver
Multipath channels
OFDM
orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM)
out-of-band (OOB) radiation
prototype filters
Prototypes
Receivers
Transceivers
Transmitters
unitary matrix
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Summary:In this paper, a new matrix-based characterization of generalized-frequency-division-multiplexing (GFDM) transmitter matrices is proposed, as opposed to traditional vector-based characterization with prototype filters. The characterization facilitates deriving properties of GFDM (transmitter) matrices, including conditions for GFDM matrices being nonsingular and unitary, respectively. Using the new characterization, the necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of a form of low-complexity implementation for a minimum mean square error (MMSE) receiver are derived. Such an implementation exists under multipath channels if the GFDM transmitter matrix is selected to be unitary. For cases where this implementation does not exist, a low-complexity suboptimal MMSE receiver is proposed, with its performance approximating that of an MMSE receiver. The new characterization also enables derivations of optimal prototype filters in terms of minimizing receiver mean square error (MSE). They are found to correspond to the use of unitary GFDM matrices under many scenarios. The use of such optimal filters in GFDM systems does not cause the problem of noise enhancement, thereby demonstrating the same MSE performance as orthogonal frequency division multiplexing. Moreover, we find that GFDM matrices with a size of power of two are verified to exist in the class of unitary GFDM matrices. Finally, while the out-of-band (OOB) radiation performance of systems using a unitary GFDM matrix is not optimal in general, it is shown that the OOB radiation can be satisfactorily low if parameters in the new characterization are carefully chosen.
ISSN:1053-587X
1941-0476
DOI:10.1109/TSP.2017.2718971