The Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) digital transmission technique has several advantages in broadcast and mobile communications applications. The main objective of this book is to give a good insight into these efforts, and provide the reader with a comprehensive overview of the scientific progress which was achieved in the last decade. Besides topics of the physical layer, such as coding, modulation and non-linearities, a special emphasis is put on system aspects and concepts, in particular regarding cellular networks and using multiple antenna techniques. The work extensively addresses challenges of link adaptation, adaptive resource allocation and interference mitigation in such systems. Moreover, the domain of cross-layer design, i.e. the combination of physical layer aspects and issues of higher layers, are considered in detail. These results will facilitate and stimulate further innovation and development in the design of modern communication systems, based on the powerful OFDM transmission technique.
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Editor Hermann Rohling Institut für Nachrichtentechnik Technische Universität Hamburg-Harburg Eißendorfer Str. 40 21073 Hamburg Germany e-mail:
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ISSN 1860-4862 ISBN 978-3-642-17495-7
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DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-17496-4 Springer Heidelberg Dordrecht London New York Ó Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2011 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilm or in any other way, and storage in data banks. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the German Copyright Law of September 9, 1965, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer. Violations are liable to prosecution under the German Copyright Law. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. Cover design: eStudio Calamar, Belin/Figueres Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
The contents of this book is based on the work of the Priority Program TakeOFDM (SPP1163), funded by the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG).
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Preface Dear readers, dear friends, The Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiplexing (OFDM) digital transmission technique has several advantages in broadcast and mobile communications applications. Therefore, the German Research Foundation (DFG) funded a so-called priority program “Techniques, Algorithms, and Concepts for Future OFDM Systems” (TakeOFDM), which started in 2004. The main objective of this research program is to study the specific research topics in a collaborative work between experts and young scientists from different universities. In broadcast applications like Digital Audio Broadcast (DAB), Digital Video broadcast (DVB-T), Digital Radio Mondiale (DRM), and single-cell WLAN systems, the OFDM transmission technique is already mature and operational for several years. However, in wireless and wireline communications there is still need for further research and optimization. The OFDM transmission technique ha