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SC-FDMA Baseband Simulator Overview

This document summarizes a simple simulator for Single Carrier Frequency Division Multiple Access (SC-FDMA) systems. The simulator is intended to help understand how SC-FDMA works in a basic form, though it lacks realistic features like channel coding. It provides directories for link level and peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) simulations. The document also outlines the main simulation assumptions, such as a 5 MHz bandwidth, QPSK/16-QAM modulation, perfect channel estimation, and a simple non-fading channel model.

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SC-FDMA Baseband Simulator Overview

This document summarizes a simple simulator for Single Carrier Frequency Division Multiple Access (SC-FDMA) systems. The simulator is intended to help understand how SC-FDMA works in a basic form, though it lacks realistic features like channel coding. It provides directories for link level and peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) simulations. The document also outlines the main simulation assumptions, such as a 5 MHz bandwidth, QPSK/16-QAM modulation, perfect channel estimation, and a simple non-fading channel model.

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Simple Single Carrier FDMA (SC-FDMA) Simulator


by Hyung G. Myung

Introduction
This is a very simple baseband simulator for SC-FDMA system. This simulator is
part of the upcoming book Single Carrier FDMA: A New Air Interface for Long
Term Evolution (Wiley, Nov. 2008) which I co-authored with professor David J.
Goodman at Polytechnic University.
The purpose of this simulator is to give some concrete idea of how SC-FDMA
system works. It does lack many realistic and sophisticated features such as
channel coding, time-varying fading channel model, soft decision decoding, etc.
Regardless, I am hoping that it will help you understand SC-FDMA which is a
fairly new development in 3GPP LTE.
For information on SC-FDMA, go to SC-FDMA resource website at
[Link] If you have any question, comment,
or feedback, please visit the SC-FDMA discussion forum at
[Link] and leave your comment.

Directories
/papr/ : PAPR simulators. Run paprSCFDMA.m for SC-FDMA and
paprOFDMA.m for OFDMA.
/scfde/ : Link level simulator for single carrier with frequency domain
equalization (SC/FDE) system. The simulator outputs symbol error rate
(SER) for SC/FDE and OFDM. Run runSimSCFDE.m.
/scfdma/ : Link level simulator for SC-FDMA system. The simulator outputs
SER for localized mapping and distributed mapping. Run
runSimSCFDMA.m.

Simulation Assumptions
- System bandwidth: 5 MHz.
- Sampling rate: 5 Mega-samples per second.
- Data modulation format: QPSK (link level, PAPR) and 16-QAM (PAPR).
- Pulse shaping: None for link level and RC/RRC for PAPR.
- Cyclic prefix: 20 samples (4 s).
- Transmitter IFFT size: 512.
- Subcarrier (tone) spacing: 9.765625 kHz (= 5 MHz / 512).
- SC-FDMA input block size: 16 symbols.
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- SC-FDMA input FFT size: 16.
- Channel estimation: Perfect.
- Equalization: Zero forcing or minimum mean square error (MMSE).
- Channel coding: None.
- Detection: Hard decision.
- Number of iterations: > 10
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.
- The channel model is a simple tap-delay line model with no fading nor Doppler
shift.
- The channel delay was quantized to the nearest multiples of 200 ns ( =
1/(510
6
)).

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