2019 22nd International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (ICCIT), 18-20 December 2019

Analysis of FBMC-OQAM over OFDM in Wireless

Communication
Anamika Saha S. M. Shamsul Alam
Electronics and Communication Electronics and Communication
Engineering Discipline Engineering Discipline
Khulna University Khulna University
Khulna, Bangladesh Khulna, Bangladesh
anamikaece04@gmail alam_ece@yahoo.com

Abstract— OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division
Multiplexing) system has prevailed as one of the most eminent
multicarrier technique in 4G wireless communication. The
purpose of this paper is to overthrow the drawbacks of OFDM
and investigate new candidate waveform Filter Bank
Multicarrier (FBMC) which is more compatible for 5G wireless
communication through their performance results. Because of
achieving sharper PSD, better BER performance curve and
lower PAPR need to discard Cyclic Prefix (CP) with the help of
Filter Banks. To alleviate ISI (Inter-Symbol-Interference) and
ICI (Inter-Carrier-Interference), this paper focuses the working
procedure about OQAM processing, spreading frequency and
extended IFFT/FFT and it reveals how the filter banks are
responsible to improve the system performance of FBMC.
Consequently, simulation based results of FBMC have exhibited
that the desired solution evidently outperforms OFDM schemes
in terms of Spectral Efficiency, FBMC Out Of Band (OOB)
emissions declines from -31dB to -58dB. Next, in terms of Bit
Error Rate (BER), 16 QAM FBMC performance decays 27dB
to approximately 20dB and 4 QAM FBMC have exhibited
nearly 5dB lower than 4 QAM OFDM. Whereas, for Peak to
Average Power Ratio (PAPR), OFDM CCDF performance
curve drops from FBMC (16dB to 12dB).
Keywords—FBMC (Filter Bank Multicarrier), OFDM
(Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing), BER (Bit Error
Rate), PAPR (Peak to Average Power Ratio).
I. INTRODUCTION
OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) has
been dominated as most successful multi-carrier modulation
scheme of commercial high speed communication systems
over the last few years. Meanwhile, LTE- ADVANCED uses
OFDM that’s expectation is to acquire 1Gbps to low and 100
Mbps for high mobile application which is known as UMTS.
In addition, Wimax family of IEEE 802.16m a Mobile
Internet, employs OFDM that’s hope is to provide from
1Gbps to low and 100 Mbps for high mobile enrollment. Also
4G standards Wi-Fi a form of Mobile Internet, use OFDM to
serve 300Mbps-600Mbps and so on [1]. By introducing the
concept of guard time and cyclic prefix, inter-symbol
interference (ISI) and inter-carrier interference can be
removed completely. Other facilities of OFDM are high
transmission bitrates, flexibility, easy equalization, spectral
efficiency, lower multipath distortion, resiliency of RF
interfaces [2]. To enhance higher data rates of existing
wireless networks the implementation of Wireless World
Wide Web which is supportable for 5G cellular system. The
core requirements of 5G are- capacity (data rate): 20Gbps,
frequency: 30-300 GHz, Bandwidth: 1000x BW/unit area.
Furthermore, mobile internet and IOT (internet of things) are
the two most important market drivers for 5G. All the use
cases of 5G are grouped into three categories such as- eMBB
(Enhanced Mobile Broadband – requires higher data date and
better coverage), mMTC (Massive Machine Type
communications -requires support for massive number of
devices in a small area) and URLLC (Ultra Reliable and Low
Latency Communications - requires high reliability with no
discernible delay). Consequently, the facilities of 5G are low
complexity, good spectral containment, robustness against
carrier frequency object (CFO), support multiple input
multiple output (MIMO), good localization in time, flexible
numerology [3]. Another important aspects- 5G uses
millimeter waves, smart cells, massive MIMO and full duplex
for making a better connectivity. 5G has the faster data
transmission rate than 4G [4].
The major obstacles of OFDM which are contradict for 5G-
each single subcarrier is shaped using a rectangular window
in time domain leading to sinc shaped subcarriers in
frequency domain, where introducing inter-carrier
interference (ICI), sensitivity to frequency and time offset,
need Cyclic prefix for removing ISI effect. Another issues are
- large PAPR reduces the efficiency of high power amplifier
and degrades the performance of the system, large out of band
emissions (OOBE) cause massive sidelobes [3]. FBMC
(Filter Bank Multi-Carrier) is another promising modulation
technique that resolves the drawbacks of OFDM by applying
high quality filters. In FBMC system, the modulation value is
spread over several carriers and filtered by a prototype filter.
Furthermore, the FBMC system delivers more robustness to
the time and frequency compare to the OFDM and does not
use any cyclic extension. Basically, FBMC multicarrier
technique uses a set of synthesis and analysis filter banks in
transmitter and receiver respectively [5]. Additionally,
FBMC systems are more resistant for narrowband noise
effects. And FBMC also has power to serve low out-of-Band
(OOB), for this reason FBMC applied in the uplink of
multiuser networks. Side lobes of FBMC are much weaker
and thus the inter-carrier interference issue is less critical than
OFDM [6]. Instead of QAM, using OQAM carriers are either
odd stacked or even stacked, no center frequency to sustain
their orthogonality. PAPR (Peak to Average Power Ratio) is
an important issue for both multicarrier system which is
responsible for any system degradation.
FBMC related some research discussions such as- B.
Farhang et. al. addressed the shortcomings of OFDM and
show that FBMC could be a more effective solution. The goal
of this paper is to bring upcoming trend to the attention of the
Signal Processing and Communication communities [16]. C.
Kim et. al. introduced a new waveform called FBMC-QAM
that provides superior spectrum confinement and higher
spectral efficiency compared to CP-OFDM [17]. H. Nam et.
al. showed the FBMC-QAM satisfies orthogonality
conditions. The signal-to-interference power ratio and bit
error rate (BER) for the proposed FBMC-QAM system are
evaluated in [18].
The remainder of this paper is embodied as in section II-the
basic structures of OFDM and section III- represents the

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material methods of FBMC. The performance of both OFDM
and FBMC technique is discussed in section IV based on the
simulation results. Conclusion is narrated in section V.
II. BASIC STRUCTURE OF OFDM
Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM)
transmission scheme is based on the multicarrier system that
means multichannel are used in this system. Fast Fourier
Transform (FFT) and Inverse Fast Fourier Transform (IFFT)
processes are significant parts for implementing the
orthogonal signals.
Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM)
transmission scheme is based on the multicarrier system. In
Fig. 1, transmitter maps the signal bits into the transmitted
symbols as Xl [k] N-1 k=0 QAM (Quadrature Amplitude
Modulation) symbols. The frequency domain symbol X[k]
modulates the N (where k=0, 1, 2…N-1) subcarriers with a
frequency of f = k⁄T . The original symbol X[k] has a
duration of Ts but its length extended to Tsym =NTs for
After IFFT, transmitter add Cyclic Prefix Tcp samples to
the N samples from the output of the IFFT. The cyclic prefix,
which is transmitted during the guard interval, construction of
a copy of the end of the OFDM signal is attached in the front
of itself [19]. Let’s, Tcp is the length of CP [8] and the total
symbol duration becomes Tsym =Tsub +Tcp . If the length of the
CP is set equal or longer than maximum delay of the multipath
channel, the ISI effect of an OFDM symbol on the next
symbol is found within the guard interval. So, the guard
interval is set to longer than maximum delay allows for
maintaining the orthogonality among the subcarriers.
Then the OFDM signal is traveling through the channel.
Let’s the channel is time invariant. The system use AWGN
channel rather than any other fading channels such as
Rayleigh distributed channel and Racian channel. Where the
AWGN (Additive White Gaussian noise) z(t) , transmitted
signal
xl (t)= ∑N-1
k=0 Xl [k]e
j2πfk t-lTsym

parallel N symbols. In serial to parallel conversion, each of N

symbols is carried out by the multiple subcarriers. Thus the Passing the signal through the channel, and the received
OFDM signal represents signal y ( ) becomes yl (t) =xl (t)+z(t) .

j2πfk t-lTsym , 0<t<Tsym In receiver, the de-modulate base band receiving signal
Ψl,k (t)= e (1) from IFFT which is
0 otherwise
Equation (1) indicates Ψl, k (t) is the l-th OFDM signals yl (t)= ∑N-1
k=0 Xl [k]e
j2πfk t-lTsym
lTsym <t≤lTsym + nTs
with k-th subcarriers. The continuous time domain passband
and baseband OFDM signals can be expressed as, Then the transmitted symbol Xl [k] can be recovered by
including channel and noise,
1
xl (t)=R ∑∞l=0 { ∑N-1
k=0 Xl [k]Ψl,k (t) } and 1 ∞ -j2πf t-lT
Tsym
Yl k = y (t)e k sym dt + z(t)
Tsym -∞ l
xl (t)= ∑∞l=0 ∑N-1
k=0 Xl [k]e
j2πfk t-lTsym
(2)
1 ∞ -j2πfk t-lTsym
= ∑N-1
i=0 Xl [i]e
j2πfi t-lTsym
e dt+ z(t)
Equation (2) sampled at t = lTsym + nTs with Ts = Tsym ⁄N Tsym -∞

and fk = k⁄Tsym , the corresponding discrete time OFDM

1, For fi =fk .
symbol as by using IFFT =Xl [k]+z(t) For (4)
0, For fi ≠fk .
∞ N-1
1 Equation (4) satisfied the orthogonality condition among
xl n = Xl k ej2πk⁄Tsym lTsym + n Tsym ⁄N -lTsym
the subcarriers. The received OFDM signal in the discrete
l=0 k=0 N-1
time format where yl k be the sample values of the
k=0
j2πkn⁄N
xl n = ∑N-1
k=0 Xl [k]e For n=0, 1, 2, ……….N-1 (3) received OFDM symbol yl (t),
N-1
Equation (3) denotes the point IDFT of the QAM data
symbols Xl k N-1k=0 and can be computed efficiently by using
Yl k = yl [n]e-j2πkn⁄N + z(t)
IFFT algorithm. n=0
f0 = 1⁄Tsym 1 j2πni⁄N
X[0] = ∑N-1
n=0 ∑N-1
i=0 Xl [i]e e-j2πkn⁄N + z(t)
N

f1 = 2⁄Tsym =Xl [k]+ z(t) (5)

N-1
Bit Q X[k]
S/P
X[1]
OFDM symbol Equation (5) is the N-point DFT of yl k . The
A k=0
Stream
......

recovered the signal as Y[k] after demodulated by FFT and

.....

Tsym =Tsub +Tcp

M
parallel to serially converted, is the input of QAM de-mapper.
fN-1 = N⁄Tsym
At the end, after de-mapping the original transmitted bit
X[N-1] streams can be recovered.

Fig. 1. OFDM modulation [14]

When the received symbol is mixed up with the other
received symbols, then occurs ISI. To remove this, need to
insert the guard interval between two consecutive signals.
III. TRANSMULTIPLEXER (TMUX) STRUCTURE OF FBMC
The core of the FBMC (Filter Bank Multicarrier) system
is the TMUX configuration. The synthesis filter bank (SFB)
consists of all parallel transmit filters and on the other hand,
the analysis filter bank (AFB) which is combined by received

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matching filters [9]. For optimal localization in both time prototype filter and they divide with available bandwidth
(reduces ISI) and frequency (reduces ICI) the PHYDYAS equally. All sub-channel filters are generated from a linear-
prototype filter is used [11, 20]. For this reason, in Fig. 2 phase prototype filter p[m] by using exponential modulation
OQAM pre-processing is placed before synthesis filter bank. [9]. In this paper, PHYDYAS project use the even stacked
The important fact is SFB responsible for frequency spreading prototype filters. The OQAM pre-processing output signals
and extended IFFT which will be discussed in section III. The generate Xk (z) , where z =0, 1, 2…M-1 are upsampled by
combination of PHYDYAS filtering and OQAM modulation M⁄2 and after that filtered with Gk (z) where (k=0, 1, 2…M-
processes delivers not only orthogonality (without using CPs) 1). All signals are summed among themselves and transmit
but also good spectral efficiency and channel capacity [12]. the Y(z) signal. The k-th Synthesis filter is expressed by
A. OQAM pre-processing 2πk Lp -1
TMUX system transmits OQAM symbols instead of gk m =p[m]exp j m- (7)
M 2
QAM which used in OFDM. OQAM has two different
methods – first is the complex to real or OQAM Pre- Where, m=0, 1, 2…….Lp -1. The equation (7) depicts zero
processing which is related to the Synthesis filter bank and phase sub-channel filters are generated from a linear-phase
second is the real to complex or OQAM post-processing is prototype filter. Discrete time domain of baseband FBMC-
related to Analysis filter bank. As well as in Fig. 3, the input OQAM is [12],
Ck (l) is complex valued, input signal divides into two real
symbols, one of them is real portion and the other is the M n+m 2πm Lp -1
s(k)= ∑∞n=-∞ p[k-n ] ∑M-1
m=0 an (m)j exp j k- (8)
imaginary portion. Complex to real conversion operation is 2 M 2
considered to deploy up-sampling. The pair of symbols dk (n)
2πm Lp -1
and dk (n+1) respectively, represents in-phase and quadrature Where exp -j is a phase component of the Eq. (8).
M 2
parts of the input symbol of Ck (l). Where dk (n) is the real
valued data symbols at subcarrier k, transmitted at a rate of The transmission channel Y(z) is assumed to be ideal. An
2⁄T, when signaling period is T= 1⁄∆f and ∆f = subcarrier extra delay z-D with D depending on the length of the
spacing. The possible choice of θk (n)=j (k+n) prototype filter (Lp =KM-1-D). AFB constructed by using M
θk (n) Sequence can be chosen arbitrarily, the alternative down samplers and also M match filters that means frequency
sequence is de-spreading and extended FFT process. Fk (z) Analysis
1, j, 1,j…….for k even filters filter the signal Y(z) and these signals are then
θk (n)= downsampling by factor M⁄2 to reconstruct the transmitted
j, 1,j, 1…….for k odd
signals Xk (z). θ (n) k
Thus, the complex-to-real operation performs the following
mapping [22]. As shown in figure 3 the complex valued Ck(l) dk (n) Xk (n)
symbol Re[Ck(l)] ↑2
Re(Ck [l]), k even
dk [n]=
Im(Ck [l]), k odd
Im[Ck(l)] ↑2 Z-1
Im(Ck [l]) ,k even
And dk [n+1] = Complex to Real transformation (For k even)
Re(Ck [l]), k odd
Fig. 3: OQAM Pre-processing [15]
Equation (6) presents the output of OQAM pre-processing
which is the multiplication of phase component, θk (n) with The k-th Analysis filter is simply a time reversed and
real dk (n) to maintain orthogonality. The output becomes, complex-conjugated symbol as compare as the Synthesis
filter bank
Xk (n)=dk (n) θk (n) (6)
2πk Lp -1
Fk m =gk * Lp -1-m =p Lp -1-m exp j m- (9)
B. Synthesis and Analysis Filter Banks M 2

In Fig. 2, M sub-channel filter banks are used. To
achieve good spectral efficiency, all sub-channel is used
which are frequency shifted version of the prototype filter.
That’s why complex modulated filter banks are an ideal
choice. All sub-channels have the same bandwidth as the
Equation (9), an interpretation to the Synthesis equation, is
that the impulse responses are delayed by ( Lp -1)⁄2 samples
resulting in causal subchannel filters.

X0 (z) ↑ M⁄ 2 G0 (z) X0 (z)

OQAM pre-processing

OQAM post-processing

F0 (z) ↓ M⁄ 2
Y(z)
X1 (z) X1 (z)
↑ M⁄ 2 G1 (z) F1 (z) ↓ M⁄ 2
z-D
……
……
………

……

……

……

XM-1 (z) XM-1 (z)

↑ M⁄ 2 GM-1 (z) FM-1 (z) ↓ M⁄ 2
Synthesis filter bank Analysis filter bank

Fig. 2. TMUX configuration [15]

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C. OQAM post-processing di (mM) with 0 ≤ i≤ M-1 as input signal of IFFT, Then, the
To generate the signal in complex form need OQAM IFFT output is expressed by
post-processing for receiver. After filtering in Analysis filter i(n-mM)
bank the signals are need to generate in complex form. j2π
x(n)= ∑M-1
i=0 di (mM)e
M (14)

Xk (n) dk(n) Ck(l) Equation (14) represents the transmitted samples x(n) in
Real
part ↓2 Z -1 serial form whose sampling frequency is unity. For M sub-
carriers where the carrier frequency is spaced by 1 M and T
θk (n)
is the duration of multicarrier symbol period exists the state
where successive multicarrier symbols do not overlap in the
Z-1 ↓2 Im
time domain.
Real to complex Transformation (For k even) A particular data element di (mM) with overlapping
factor K=4 multiplied by frequency coefficients and after that
Fig. 4. OQAM Post-processing [15] the signals are fed to the 2K-1 inputs of IFFT. Thus, the IFFT
size KM is used to generate all the carriers. As a result, data
The first operation of fig. 4 is the multiplication by θk (n)
element is spread over several IFFT inputs, this is called
with Xk (n) and the operation taking the real part. The second
‘weighted frequency spreading’. For each set of input data
operation is real to complex conversion in which two 1
consecutive real signal multiplying with j and produce Ck l converted to the KM samples and symbol rate is , K
M
consecutive IFFT outputs overlap in the time domain. The
dk n +jdk n+1 ; k even IFFT parallel outputs are then converted to serial output x(n).
Ck l = (10)
dk n+1 +jdk n ; k odd Fig. 5 shows with indices i and i+2 are separated and do not
overlap. So, by using real inputs of the IFFT for i and i+2, the
The above Eq. (10) shows the post-processing operation imaginary inputs for i+1, the orthogonality is maintained.
in which two real values have formed a single complex value.
It basically uses the decimation to deescalate the sampling At the receiver side a serial to parallel converter is
rate at the receiver. established as the input of the FFT. Then the output from FFT
for mM ≤ n ≤ (m+1) M, the data samples recovered by
This paper concentrates on the Frequency sampling
method to design the PHYDYAS prototype filter. The i(n-mM)
x(n)= ∑nM+M-1
n=nm di (mM)e-j2π M (15)
frequency coefficients through the interpolation formula for
sampled signals Equation (15) represents x(n) is output of the FFT whose
k input is di (mM) . For the compatible functioning of the
sin (π(f- )MK)
H(f)= ∑K-1
k=-K+1 H k
MK
k (11) system, the receiver (IFFT) must be aligned absolutely
MK sin (π f-
MK
) similar in time with the transmitter (FFT). The performance
of the receiver is based on the frequency de-spreading and
Equation (11) determine the coefficients Hk of the extended FFT of size KM. In these circumstances,
prototype filter and the coefficients are
di (mM) di+2 (mM)
√2

..........................
H0 =1, H±1 =0.97196, H±2 = , H±3 =0.235147
..........................
..........................

From Frequency sampling method, symmetrical impulse H1 H1 H1 H1

response for even N H2 H2 H2 H2
N-1
H3 H3 H3 H3
1 N -1 2πk(n- 2 )
h(n)= H(0)+2 ∑k=12 H(k) cos (12)
N N ik (i+1)k (i+2)k
IFFT
Equation (12) helps to determine the impulse response of
the prototype filter. The impulse response of the prototype
filter is given by inverse Fourier transform of the pulse P/S + overlap/sum
frequency response that is
x(n)
k 2πkL
h(L)=1+2 ∑K-1
k=1 (-1) Hk cos( ) (13)
MK Fig. 5: Weighted frequency spreading and extended IFFT [13]

Where L is the prototype filter length (KM-1). Equation (13)
is obtained by the frequency shifts k/M, in the FFT case [13].
That means the prototype filter coefficients is multiplying
/
by .
D. Extending IFFT or FFT to implement the Filter Banks
The Inverse Fast Fourier Transform (IFFT) acts as a
multicarrier modulator and Fast Fourier Transform (FFT)
performs like a multicarrier demodulator. The data samples
the overlap sub-channels are the input of FFT block. Then the
data elements are reconstructed with the help of the weighted
frequency de-spreading operation.
IV. SIMULATION RESULTS
To appraise the capacity approaching for both OFDM and
FBMC system, BER performance index is used. It is
presented across the SNR (Signal to Noise Ratio) over an
AWGN channel. The purpose of this section is to investigate

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FBMC and OFDM performance and after that compared
them. Using MATLAB software, to evaluate the following
performance such as Power Spectral Density (PSD), Bit Error
Rate (BER) and Peak to Average Power Ratio (PAPR).
The power spectral density (PSD) refers to the spectral
energy distribution that would be found per unit time. Since
the total energy of such a signal over all time would generally
be infinite. The power spectral density is defined as the
frequency response of a random or periodic signal. The power
spectral density is calculated in units of power per radians per
sample. The length N of the FFT and the values of the input
determine the length of power spectral density and the range
of the corresponding normalized frequencies. In Fig. 6,
OFDM power spectral density (PSD) curve has higher side
lobes that started from -19dB where the normalized frequency
between -.2 to -.3 Hz and for FBMC (PSD) starting point -
58dB. FBMC offers ways to overcome the well-known
shortcomings of OFDM, reducing spectral efficiency and
strict synchronization requirements. The characteristics of
FBMC gives a leading utilization of the allocated spectrum,
lets a developed PSD. As a result, FBMC scheme is more
advantageous than conventional OFDM. Because of
employing synthesis and analysis filter banks instead of cyclic
prefix as discussed in section III.B. To simulate PSD for both
OFDM and FBMC using parameters are discussed in table I.
For OFDM the orthogonality is not ensured for all subcarriers
but in FBMC each carrier is individually filtered and
orthogonality is achieved by applying Offset-Quadrature
Amplitude Modulation (OQAM) as discussed in section III.
Moreover, FBMC instead of using circular convolution, use
linear convolution in order to reduce out-of-band (OOB)
emission for the sake of robustness against synchronization
errors and to protect its spectral density properties [23].
The Bit Error Rate define as the number of bit error that
means dissimilarity between transmit and receive bits divided
by the total number of transmitted bits during a studied time
interval. The BER is considered as an approximate estimate of
the bit error probability. If the medium between transmitter
and receiver is ideal and the signal to noise ratio is high then
the bit error rate will be very small and having no noticeable
effect on the system. Bit error rate (BER) is a parameter which
gives an excellent indication of the performance of a data link
such as radio or fiber optic system.
Lower order modulation schemes can carry lower data
rates but more robust than higher order. Lower order
modulation schemes occur expense of data throughput. So, it
is mandatory to balance all the factors to achieve a satisfactory
bit error rate. In particular, higher order modulation schemes
capable for carrying higher data rates are not as robust as
presence of noise. In fig. 7, FBMC BER curve demonstrates
its better performance while OFDM suffered degradation for
its both cases 4 QAM and 16 QAM. The performance through
BER curve for FBMC and OFDM and their comparison
results are discussed in table II.

Fig. 7: BER curve for 16 QAM and 4 QAM OFDM and FBMC

TABLE II. COMPARISON OF OFDM AND FBMC SYSTEM USING 4

QAM AND 16 QAM

16 QAM 16 QAM 4 QAM 4 QAM

SNR(dB)
OFDM FBMC OFDM FBMC
2 0.0481 0.0390 0.1632 0.0909
10 0.0169 0.0098 0.0614 0.0069
16 0.0119 0.0055 0.0359 0.0018

The PAPR of any time domain sequence is defined as the ratio

of the maximum instantaneous power and its average power,
that is
Fig. 6: PSD comparison between OFDM and FBMC | |
X = PAPR = | |
(16)
TABLE I. PARAMETERS USED IN SPECTRAL ANALYSIS
In Eq. (16), E{..} denotes the expected value and PAPR
Parameters
Values of Values of increases when the subcarriers of a system increases.
OFDM FBMC
Total Data 1024 1024 In the literature, the familiar way to execute the PAPR is
Number of symbols 100 100 to determine the probability that this PAPR exceeds a certain
Modulation Schemes 16-QAM 16-QAM threshold known as the Complementary Cumulative
Overlapping Symbols × K=4 Distribution Function (CCDF) [7, 10]. Because of using CP in
PSD -31dB -58dB OFDM generates better amplitude that deescalates the PAPR
Cyclic prefix 16 × and improves power amplifier performance. From Fig. 8 it can
be observed that OFDM will have better PAPR value as

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compared as FBMC. From comparison result it can be seen
that FBMC will not have good PAPR value because of using
filtering process and absence of CP in symbols.
Fig. 8: PAPR signals for FBMC and OFDM
Fig. 9 illustrates the PAPR performance in terms of CCDF
for OFDM and FBMC multicarrier system without any PAPR
reduction technique. This figure shows that the value of PAPR
at 0.1 CCDF, OFDM outperforms 3dB less compare to
FBMC. So, FBMC exhibits inferior performance than OFDM
regarding PAPR.
Fig. 9: CCDF curve for FBMC and OFDM
V. CONCLUSION
To compensate the disadvantages of OFDM for 5G,
FBMC system has emerged as a promising alternative
multicarrier system. This paper mainly emphasize on the
problems of OFDM and introducing FBMC system to solve
them which will be beneficial for our future wireless networks
which demands high data rates, high speed, high band width
and so on. This paper presented not only theoretical analysis
but also simulation review of the FBMC communication
system. It should be noted by constructing FBMC based on
well-designed PHYDYAS prototype filter, OQAM
processing and filter banks. The performance of both OFDM
and FBMC techniques are simulated and discussed. It has
been concluded that for most cases as spectral efficiency and
BER performance, FBMC performs better than OFDM
whereas OFDM shows significant improvement on PAPR
performance.
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