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ABSTRACT
 
This thesis investigates the effectiveness of Orthogonal Frequency DivisionMultiplexing (OFDM) as a modulation technique for wireless radioapplications. The main aim was to assess the suitability of OFDM as amodulation technique for a fixed wireless phone system for rural areas of Australia. However, its suitability for more general wireless applications isalso assessed. Most third generation mobile phone systems are proposing touse Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) as their modulationtechnique.. It was found that OFDM performs extremely well comparedwith CDMA, providing a very high tolerance to multipath delay spread, peak power clipping, and channel noise. In addition to this it provides a highspectral efficiency. Orthogonal FDM's (OFDM) spread spectrum techniquedistributes the data over a large number of carriers that are spaced apart atprecise frequencies. This spacing provides the "orthogonality" in thistechnique, which prevents the demodulators from seeing frequencies otherthan their own. The benefits of OFDM are high spectral efficiency,resiliency to RF interference, and lower multi-path distortion. This is usefulbecause in a typical terrestrial broadcasting scenario there are multipath-channels (i.e. the transmitted signal arrives at the receiver using variouspaths of different length). Since multiple versions of the signal interfere witheach other (inter symbol interference (ISI)) it becomes very hard to extractthe original information. Orthogonal FDM deals with this multipath problemby splitting carriers into smaller sub carriers, and then broadcasting thosesimultaneously. This reduces multipath distortion and reduces RFinterference (a mathematical formula is used to ensure the sub carriers'specific frequencies are "orthogonal," or non-interfering, to each other),allowing for greater throughput. The only main weak point that was foundwith using OFDM, was that it is very sensitive to frequency, and phaseerrors between the transmitter and receiver. The main sources of these errorsare frequency stability problems; phase noise of the transmitter; and anyfrequency offset errors between the transmitter and receiver. This problemcan be mostly overcome by synchronizing the clocks between the transmitterand receiver, by designing the system appropriately
 
INDEX
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CHAPTER 1INTRODUCTION 2CHAPTER 22.1 WHAT IS OFDM 42.2 QUALITATIVE DESCRIPTION OF OFDM 42.3 IMPORTANCE OF ORTHOGANILITY 102.4 MATHEMATICAL DESCRIPTION OF OFDM 112.5 IMPLEMENTATION OF OFDM 132.6 BLOCK DIAGRAM 21
 
CHAPTER 3: ADVANTAGES & DISADVANTAGES 22CHAPTER 4: FUTURE DEVELOPMENTCHAPTER 5: CONCLUSIONREFERENCE
 
 
Seminar Reort - 2004
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CHAPTER 1INTRODUCTION
 
Dept. of Electronics & CommunicationCollege of Engg. Kidangoor 
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