Reconfigurable Architecture of UFMC Transmitter for 5G and Its FPGA Prototype

[EN] A universal-filtered multicarrier (UFMC) system that is a generalization of filtered orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) and filter-bank-based multicarrier is being considered as a potential candidate for fifth-generation due to its robustness against intercarrier interference as...

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Autores: Kumar, Vikas, Mukherjee, Mithun, Lloret, Jaime|||0000-0002-0862-0533
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2020
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV)
Repositorio:RiuNet. Repositorio Institucional de la Universitat Politécnica de Valéncia
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:riunet.upv.es:10251/187689
Acceso en línea:https://riunet.upv.es/handle/10251/187689
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Error analysis
Pulse-shaping filters
Reconfigurable architectures
Universal-filtered multicarrier (UFMC)
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Sumario:[EN] A universal-filtered multicarrier (UFMC) system that is a generalization of filtered orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) and filter-bank-based multicarrier is being considered as a potential candidate for fifth-generation due to its robustness against intercarrier interference as in cyclic-prefix-based OFDM systems. However, real-time hardware realization of multicarrier systems is limited by a large number of arithmetic units for inverse fast Fourier transform and pulse-shaping filters. In this paper, we aim to propose a low-complexity and reconfigurable architecture for a baseband UFMC transmitter. To the best of our knowledge, the proposed architecture is the first reconfigurable architecture that has the flexibility to choose the number of subcarriers in a subband without any change in hardware resources. In addition, the proposed architecture selects the filter from a group of filters with a single selection line. Moreover, we use a commercially available field-programmable gate array device for real-time testing and analyzing the baseband UFMC signal. From the extensive experiments, we study the occupied bandwidth, main-lobe power, and sidelobe power of the baseband signal with different filters in real-time scenarios. Finally, we measure the quantization error in baseband signal generation for the proposed UFMC transmitter architecture and find comparable with the error bound.