Iterative Interference Cancellation for Coded Filter Bank Multicarrier Systems

摘要

Filter bank multicarrier is one of the candidates for future communication systems. Simple equalization methods cannot be directly applied due to the high interference from adjacent channels. In this article, the authors derive a soft-input/soft-output (SISO) equalizer based on the minimum mean square error (MMSE) criterion for the bit-interleaved coded system using a filter bank multi-carrier scheme with offset quadrature amplitude modulation (FBMC/OQAM). The authors use this SISO-MMSE equalizer in a turbo-equalization scheme for each sub-carrier. The difficulty in this implementation comes from the required processing delay per turbo-iteration due to the non-causal nature of the interference in this system. Therefore, the number of turbo-iterations is limited in order to limit the processing delay. The authors evaluate the performance of the proposed turbo-equalizer over the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Vehicular B channel by mean of numerical simulations. The obtained results show the effectiveness of the proposed equalizer in term of signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) gain.