An orthogonal wavelet division multiple-access processor architecture for LTE-advanced wireless/ radio-over-fiber systems over heterogeneous networks

Chinmaya Mahapatra, Victor C.M. Leung, Thanos Stouraitis

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Abstract

The increase in internet traffic, number of users, and availability of mobile devices poses a challenge to wireless technologies. In long-term evolution (LTE) advanced system, heterogeneous networks (HetNet) using centralized coordinated multipoint (CoMP) transmitting radio over optical fibers (LTE A-ROF) have provided a feasible way of satisfying user demands. In this paper, an orthogonal wavelet division multiple-access (OWDMA) processor architecture is proposed, which is shown to be better suited to LTE advanced systems as compared to orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) as in LTE systems 3GPP rel.8 (3GPP, http://www.3gpp.org/DynaReport/36300.htm). ROF systems are a viable alternative to satisfy large data demands hence, the performance in ROF systems is also evaluated. To validate the architecture, the circuit is designed and synthesized on a Xilinx vertex-6 field-programmable gate array (FPGA). The synthesis results show that the circuit performs with a clock period as short as 7.036 ns (i.e., a maximum clock frequency of 142.13 MHz) for transform size of 512. A pipelined version of the architecture reduces the power consumption by approximately 89%. We compare our architecture with similar available architectures for resource utilization and timing and provide performance comparison with OFDMA systems for various quality metrics of communication systems. The OWDMA architecture is found to perform better than OFDMA for bit error rate (BER) performance versus signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) in wireless channel as well as ROF media. It also gives higher throughput and mitigates the bad effect of peak-to-average-power ratio (PAPR).

Original languageBritish English
Article number77
JournalEurasip Journal on Advances in Signal Processing
Volume2014
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - May 2014

Keywords

  • Bit error rate (BER)
  • Coordinated multipoint (CoMP)
  • Heterogeneous networks (HetNet)
  • LTE advanced radio over fiber (LTE A-ROF)
  • Orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA)
  • Orthogonal wavelength division multiple-access (OWDMA) processor
  • Peak-to-average-power ratio (PAPR)
  • Signal-to-noise ratio (SNR)
  • Xilinx vertex 6 FPGA

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