Single Carrier FDMA (SC-FDMA)
: A New Uplink Air Interface Technique for 4G Wireless Access Technology
This webpage has been made to provide information and resources on Single Carrier FDMA (SC-FDMA) which is a newly developed wireless communications technology for 4th generation cellular systems. It is currently adopted as the uplink modulation and multiple access scheme in 3GPP Long Term Evolution (LTE), or Evolved UTRA.
- Call for Papers: IEEE GLOBECOM 2010 Workshop on Broadband Single Carrier and Frequency Domain Communications
- SC-FDMA Workshop (Mar. 13, 2009 / Polytechnic Institute of NYU, Brooklyn, USA): Presentation slides available for download from the workshop website.
- Technical overivew of 3GPP LTE (Last updated on May 18, 2008)
- A tutorial on SC-FDMA (Last updated on May 18, 2008)
- The book Single Carrier FDMA: A New Air Interface for Long Term Evolution is now available! If you have bought and read the book, I would like to kindly ask you to write a review on Amazon which will be valuable to other people looking into the subject. By making a review, it will also be a chance for us to hear your feedback on the book. You can make the review here.
References on 3GPP LTE Evolved UTRA
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"UTRA-UTRAN Long Term Evolution (LTE) and 3GPP System Architecture Evolution (SAE)" by 3GPP
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H. Ekström, A. Furuskär, J. Karlsson, M. Meyer, S. Parkvall, J. Torsner, and M. Wahlqvist, "Technical Solutions for the 3G Long-Term Evolution," IEEE Commun. Mag., vol. 44, no. 3, March 2006, pp. 38–45
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E. Dahlman, H. Ekström, A. Furuskär, J. Karlsson, M. Meyer, S. Parkvall, J. Torsner, and M. Wahlqvist, "The Long Term Evolution of 3G," Ericsson Review, no. 2, 2005
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3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP); Requirements for Evolved UTRA (E-UTRA) and Evolved UTRAN (E-UTRAN), http://www.3gpp.org/ftp/Specs/html-info/25913.htm
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3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP); Technical Specification Group Radio Access Network; LTE Physical Layer - General Description (Release 8), http://www.3gpp.org/ftp/Specs/html-info/36201.htm
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3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP); Technical Specification Group Radio Access Network; Physical Layer Aspects for Evolved UTRA, http://www.3gpp.org/ftp/Specs/html-info/25814.htm
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E. Dahlman, H. Ekström, A. Furuskär, Y. Jading, J. Karlsson, M. Lundevall, and S. Parkvall, "The 3G Long-Term Evolution - Radio Interface Concepts and Performance Evaluation," IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC) 2006 Spring, Melbourne, Australia, May 2006
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"3G Long-Term Evolution" by Dr. Erik Dahlman at Ericsson Research (2005)
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"Long-Term 3G Evolution - Radio Access" by Dr. Stefan Parkvall at Ericsson Research (Nov. 2005)
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"3GPP Evolution: LTE and SAE" by Francois Courau at Alcatel (Chariman of 3GPP TSG RAN, Apr. 2006)
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"3GPP LTE & 3GPP2 LTE Standardization" by Dr. Lee, HyeonWoo at Samsung Electronics (June 2006)
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"3GPP Long-Term Evolution / System Architecture Evolution: Overview" by Ulrich Barth at Alcatel (Sep. 2006)
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"LTE: 3G Long Term Evolution" by Dr. Erik Dahlman at Ericsson Research (Mar. 2007)
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"Overview of the 3GPP Long Term Evolution Physical Layer," White paper by Freescale Semiconductor (Jul. 2007)
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"Future Technologies for Fixed Mobilbe Convergence, SAE and LTE in Cellular Mobile Communications" by Anritsu (Nov. 2007)
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"UMTS Evolution from 3GPP Release 7 to Release 8: HSPA and SAE/LTE" by 3G Americas (Dec. 2007)
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"Real-Time Experiments with a Scalable MIMO-OFDM Air-Interface - Outdoor Measurements in Typical Urban Environments" by Nokia Siemens Networks (Dec. 2007)
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"3GPP Long-Term Evolution" by Qualcomm (Jan. 2008)
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"Towards global mobile broadband: Standardising the future of mobile communications with LTE" by UMTS Forum (Feb. 2008)
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"LTE Overview" by NEC (May 2008)
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"3GPP LTE: System overview, product development, and test challenges" by Agilent (May 2008)
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"3GPP LTE protocol primer" by Agilent (Jun. 2008)
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Latest news and updates on 3GPP LTE at LTEwatch.com.
References on OFDM
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R. van Nee and R. Prasad, OFDM for Wireless Multimedia Communications, Artech House, 2000
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W. Y. Zou and Y. Wu, "COFDM: An Overview," IEEE Trans. on Broadcasting, vol. 41, no. 1, Mar. 1995, pp. 1-8
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L. J. Cimini, Jr., "Analysis and Simulation of a Digital Mobile Channel Using Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing," IEEE Trans. on Commun., vol. COM-33, no. 7, Jul. 1985, pp. 665-675
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S. B. Weinstein and P. M. Ebert, "Data Transmission by Frequency Division Multiplexing using the Discrete Fourier Transform," IEEE Trans. Commun. Technol., vol. COM-19, Oct. 1971, pp. 628-634
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C. Y. Wong, R. S. Cheng, K. B. Letaief, and R. D. Murch, "Multiuser OFDM with Adaptive Subcarrier, Bit, and Power Allocation," IEEE J. Select. Areas Commun., vol. 17, Oct. 1999, pp. 1747–1757
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I. Koffman and V. Roman, "Broadband Wireless Access Solutions based on OFDM Access in IEEE 802.16," IEEE
Commun. Mag., vol. 40, no. 4, Apr. 2002, pp. 96–103
References on Frequency Domain Equalization (FDE)
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D. Falconer, S. L. Ariyavisitakul, A. Benyamin-Seeyar, and B. Eidson, "Frequency Domain Equalization for Single-Carrier Broadband Wireless Systems,"” IEEE Commun. Mag., vol. 40, no. 4, April 2002, pp. 58–66
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H. Sari, G. Karam, and I. Jeanclaude, "Transmission Techniques for Digital Terrestrial TV Broadcasting," IEEE Commun. Mag., vol. 33, no. 2, Feb. 1995, pp. 100–109
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F. Adachi, D. Garg, S. Takaoka, and K. Takeda, "Broadband CDMA Techniques," IEEE Wireless Comm., vol. 12, no. 2, Apr. 2005, pp. 8-18
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N. Benvenuto and S. Tomasin, “Iterative Design and Detection of a DFE in the Frequency Domain,” IEEE Trans. Commun., vol. 53, no. 11, Nov. 2005, pp. 1867-1875
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F. Pancaldi and G. M. Vitetta, “Block Channel Equalization in the Frequency Domain,” IEEE Trans. Commun., vol. 53, no. 3, Mar. 2005, pp. 463-471
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M. Tüchler and J. Hagenauer, “Linear Time and Frequency Domain Turbo Equalization,” Proc. IEEE 53rd Veh. Technol. Conf. (VTC), vol. 2, May 2001, pp. 1449-1453
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M. V. Clark, “Adaptive Frequency-Domain Equalization and Diversity Combining for Broadband Wireless Communications,” IEEE J. Sel. Areas Commun., vol. 16, no. 8, Oct. 1998, pp. 1385-1395
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G. K. Kaleh, “Channel Equalization for Block Transmission Systems,” IEEE J. Select. Areas Commun., vol. 13, no. 1, Jan. 1995, pp. 110-121
References on Interleaved FDMA (IFDMA)
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U. Sorger, I. De Broeck, and M. Schnell, "Interleaved FDMA - A New Spread-Spectrum Multiple-Access Scheme," Proc. IEEE ICC ’98, Atlanta, GA, June 1998, pp. 1013–1017
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M. Schnell and I. De Broeck, "Application of IFDMA to Mobile Radio Transmission," Proc. IEEE 1998 International Conference on Universal Personal Communications (ICUPC '98), Florence, Italy, Oct. 1998, pp. 1267-1272
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R. Dinis, D. Falconer, C. T. Lam, and M. Sabbaghian, "A Multiple Access Scheme for the Uplink of Broadband Wireless Systems," Proc. IEEE GLOBECOM ’04, vol. 6, Dallas, TX, Dec. 2004, pp. 3808-3812
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T. Frank, A. Klein, and E. Costa, "IFDMA: A Scheme Combining the Advantages of OFDMA and CDMA," IEEE Wireless Commun., vol. 14, no. 3, June 2007, pp. 9-17
References on SC-FDMA
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H. G. Myung and D. J. Goodman, Single Carrier FDMA: A New Air Interface for Long Term Evolution, John Wiley & Sons, Nov. 2008
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Hyung G. Myung, Junsung Lim, and David J. Goodman, "Single Carrier FDMA for Uplink Wireless Transmission," IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine, vol. 1, no. 3, Sep. 2006, pp. 30-38
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H. G. Myung, J. Lim, and D. J. Goodman, "Peak-to-Average Power Ratio of Single Carrier FDMA Signals with Pulse Shaping," The 17th Annual IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC ’06), Helsinki, Finland, Sep. 2006
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J. Lim, H. G. Myung, K. Oh, and D. J. Goodman, "Channel-Dependent Scheduling of Uplink Single Carrier FDMA Systems," IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC) 2006 Fall, Montreal, Canada, Sep. 2006
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Comprehensive list of SC-FDMA papers
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Simple Matlab link level and PAPR simulators for SC-FDMA system are available for download at http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/loadFile.do?objectId=20454&objectType=file.