A SIMULATION STUDY OF WIMAX BASED COMMUNICATION SYSTEM USING DELIBERATELY CLIPPED OFDM SIGNAL

Mazid Ishtique Ahmed, Chowdhury Muktadir Rahman, Sabiha Sattar

Abstract: WiMAX is a highly sophisticated technology in the broadband wireless access communication system. Scalable Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) is a key technology behind mobile WiMAX and it is also expected to play a key role in 3GPP Long Term Evolution (LTE) standards. Designers and OEMs have to concentrate on flexibility, scalability and stability of the overall Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) system along with its proper data processing and channeling process to achieve high performance and competitiveness. In this paper, the performance of a strictly band limited OFDM signal is examined using deliberate clipping method, one of the simplest signal distortion based way to reduce high Peak to Average Power Ratio (PAPR) and its effect on the resultant Bit Error Rate (BER) against Signal to Noise Ratio (SNR) performance. A simulation program using MATLAB software was developed to investigate performance of OFDM signal by optimization of different parameters such values of FFT size, Cyclic Prefix co-efficient (CPC) and The Voltage Clipping Ratio (VCR). The simulation results show that with the increment of VCR at optimized parameter values of FFT size and CP, the performance of BER vs SNR improves compared to the results found without clipping.

Keywords: WiMAX, PAPR, OFDM, CPC, Voltage Clipping Ratio, Deliberately Clipped

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15623/ijret.2014.0303129