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Comparison of OFDM and Single-Carrier for Large-Scale Antenna Systems

Information Theory 2016-06-29 v1 math.IT

Abstract

Large-scale antenna (LSA) or massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) has gained a lot of attention due to its potential to significantly improve system throughput. As a natural evolution from traditional MIMO-orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM), LSA has been combined with OFDM to deal with frequency selectivity of wireless channels in most existing works. As an alternative approach, single-carrier (SC) has also been proposed for LSA systems due to its low implementation complexity. In this article, a comprehensive comparison between LSA-OFDM and LSA-SC is presented, which is of interest to the waveform design for the next generation wireless systems.

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@article{arxiv.1606.08751,
  title  = {Comparison of OFDM and Single-Carrier for Large-Scale Antenna Systems},
  author = {Yinsheng Liu and Geoffrey Ye Li and Wei Han},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1606.08751},
  year   = {2016}
}