Analytical expressions for the power spectral density of CP-OFDM and ZP-OFDM signals

Toon Van Waterschoot, Vincent Le Nir, Jonathan Duplicy, Marc Moonen

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Abstract

In this letter, analytical expressions are derived for the power spectral density (PSD) of orthogonal frequency division multiplex (OFDM) signals employing a cyclic prefix (CP-OFDM) or zero padding (ZP-OFDM) time guard interval. Under the relatively weak assumptions that i) the data are independent and identically distributed on all OFDM subcarriers and ii) the OFDM pulse shape is sufficiently localized in time, simple closed-form PSD expressions can be obtained. These expressions are then compared to existing OFDM PSD expressions and validated by inspecting the power spectra of some standardized OFDM signals.

Original languageEnglish
Article number5382590
Pages (from-to)371-374
Number of pages4
JournalIEEE Signal Processing Letters
Volume17
Issue number4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2010

Keywords

  • Cyclic prefix (CP)
  • Orthogonal frequency division multiplex (OFDM)
  • Power spectral density (PSD)
  • Zero padding (ZP)

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