Contents lists a — ble at ScienceDirect “iad re SEVIER Optik journal homepage: www-elsevier.de/ijleo Suppression of impulsive noise in OFDM system using imperfect channel state information Qe Abhishek Bansal, Amit Kumar Kohli* Department of etonic and Communication Enginetrng Thapar Univers, Pai 147004, Pj nia ARTICLE INFO ABSTRACT Brice hry ecevee 10 Api 2015 ‘Accepted 9 Noverber 2015, ‘This paper presents the orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) system working under [Nakagami-m multipath fading channe!s, which utilizes the impulsive noise excision technique. Is per formance is also evaluated under the imperfect channel state information (SI) constraint. Although the impact of noise reduces due tothe noise bucket elfect appearing in OFDM systems with longer symbol duration, yet the impulsive noise energy spreads over OFDM subcarriers, which appears asa hazard in the demodulation and detection when the energy of impulsive noise exceeds certain threshold level ‘Under realistic conditions the channel estimators cannot provide perfeetfideal channel state informa tion In this paper. we use the impulsive noise compensation method as a technique forthe suppression impulsive noize inthe frequency-domain after OFDM demodulation and channel equalization, Under the aforementioned scenario, the simulation results are demonstrated forthe performance evaluation of Uunderiying OFDM communication system, under the Nakagami-m multipath fading channel, which also Impulsive noise Chanel tte information Noise bucket eect focuses on the adverse effects af imperfect CSI atthe receiver, terms of bit er ate {2015 Elsevier GmbH All rights reserved, 1. Introduction In the field of communication, orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) is extensively used or the high dataratecom- munication applications 1), It is an effective multicarrier digital data transmission technique. The advantage of OFDM system over the single carrier systems its robustness to multipath distortions Mostly OFDM communication system applications are affected by the man-made noise, typically in the urban environment, Here, the man-made noises are represented by impulsive models [2] These noises could occur due to several reasons such as power Iines, microwaves, heavy current switches, elevators, and circuit failure, When digital terrestrial video broadcasting (DVB-T) uses 664-QAM (quadrature amplitude modulation) in the OFDM system 3}, the performance of OFDM system could seriously be affected by the impulsive interference. In OFDM communication systems, the nature, origin and prediction of noise sources are essential to develop effective techniques co alleviate bit esror rate (BER) [4,5] ‘The OFDM system, being the multicarrier modulation systems, is, ‘more resistant tothe effects of impulsive noise because this system, hhas an efficient implementation of fast Fourier transform (FT) as + Corresponding autor Ermailadrers diohhryaho0 coin {AK Kodi nepiotoe)10. 1016 1e0.2015.11.041 (003044026)0 2015 Elsevier Geb AL ight reserved compared to the single carrier system. However, its performance degrades whenever the impulsive noise energy exceeds a certain threshold level [6]. A simple procedure is usually used to remove the deleterious effects ofimpulsive noise, which is known as blank ing non-linearity method, This method is efficient and simple to implement. It is incorporated in the time-domain before OFDM ‘demodulation [7]. Theve is another method proposed by Zhidkov [8], which is interpreted as impulsive noise compensation method. This method is implemented inthe frequency-domain after OFDM. ‘demodulation and channel equalization. In this paper, we mainly focus on impulsive noise compensation method. ‘The aim of our study is to analyze the performance ofthe impul- sive noise compensation method with channel state information (C51) imperfections for the suppression of impulsive noise. First ‘we evaluate the performance of the impulsive noise compensa tion method under the Nakagami-m multipath fading channels. The signal received at receiver is represented as, ye= ant; + my ‘where a; isthe input from the OFDM system, isthe fading chan nel response, nis the noise component. In the Nakagami-m fading channel, we use the square root of the squares of n zero-mean identically ¢istribuced Gaussian random variables (RVs) with fad- ing parameter m=n/2, when m is an integer. This method is also known as “brute force method” [9,10]. The improvement in BER