OFDM

Presented by: Eng. Makarios Eshak Brnab

Date: 1st November, 2017

 What Is Orthogonal Frequency Division
Multiplexing (OFDM)?
Multi-carrier Amplitude modulation
scheme
Each Carriers amplitude is modulated
Well-suited for Wireless

Amplitude
Communication

Frequency

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 Orthogonal

Mathematical Physical

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Mathematical Orthogonallity
Discrete Signals
a.b=0

Continuous Signals
() () =

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 How OFDM works?

Parallel Data Streams

Data Encoding is based on Amplitude Modulation 4-QAM modulation

Multiple Carriers are combined through the Fourier Series

Computed by Inverse Fast Fourier transform
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Our Simple Transmitter Block Diagram

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Advantages of OFDM

1. High data rate

2. High BW efficacy
3. Low H/W complexity

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Thank you