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Error rate performance of Hybrid QAM-FSK in OFDM systems exhibiting low PAPR

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Multicarrier transmission systems like orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) support high data rate and generally require no equalization at the receiver, making them simple and efficient. This paper studies the design and performance analysis of a hybrid modulation system derived from multifrequency and MQAM signals, employed in OFDM. This modulation scheme has better bit error rate (BER) performance and exhibits low PAPR. The proposed hybrid modulator reduces PAPR while keeping the OFDM transceiver design simple, as it does not require any side information or a little side information (only one bit) to be sent and is efficient for arbitrary number of subcarriers. The results of the implementations are compared with those of conventional OFDM system.

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  1. Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences, P.O. Nilore, Islamabad, Pakistan

    Asma Latif

  2. NUST School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Islamabad, Pakistan

    Nasir D. Gohar

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Latif, A., Gohar, N.D. Error rate performance of Hybrid QAM-FSK in OFDM systems exhibiting low PAPR. Sci. China Ser. F-Inf. Sci. 52, 1875–1880 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11432-009-0165-y

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