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The long term evolution (LTE) standard is introduced and developed by the 3rd generation partnership project (3GPP) based on orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM). OFDM systems, in spite of having many advantages such high performance in bandwidth usage, are very sensitive to inter carrier interference (ICI) as a drawback. In order to prevent ICI, the frequency offset, mainly caused by the miss-match between oscillators' frequency and also between the sampling frequency of the transmitter and the receiver, should be estimated and compensated. Frequency synchronization is a part of the tasks of a synchronizer. In this thesis, main tasks of a synchronizer are illustrated and... 

In this thesis, a novel OFDMA-based cognitive cooperative relaying scheme is proposed in which cognitive users not only try not to interfere with primary users but also assist them by relaying their information. Both primary users (PU) and cognitive users (CR) communicate to a common base station (BS). Bit error probability (BEP) of primary users and outage probability of primary users are investigated to evaluate performance of the primary users. In all parts of this thesis, we assume that data of users is not jointly encoded across subcarriers. So, the outage probability and BEP are investigated for each subcarrier independently. In the last part of the thesis, it is assumed that data is... 

OFDMA modulation method is a multiple access technique that is resistant to fading effect in cellular communication systems. In OFDMA, multiple access is performed both in time and frequency, so more users can be served with less delay than other protocols. In this thesis, based on queuing theory, we seek to present a traffic model for OFDMA system traffic analysis in single-cell mode and in the next section in multi-cell mode. Then, by examining and comparing the analytical results and the simulation results, we show that our proposed model for traffic analysis of the OFDMA system is a suitable and effective model. Also, since users in the multimedia environment need different types of... 

Time offset (TO) at an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) system destroys orthogonality of subcarriers and causes interchannel interference (ICI) and inter symbol interference (ISI). This problem is more challenging in multi-user multi-input multi-output (MU-MIMO) OFDM systems such as coordinated multi-point (CoMP) uplink transmission where joint processing is performed at base stations (BSs) and different delays form users to BSs cannot be compensated by timing strategies. In this thesis, we use delay-amplify and forward relays and post processing at receivers to decrease signal to interference plus noise ratio (SINR) degradation due to large TOs at insufficient cyclic prefix... 

In this thesis, we investigate the problem of OFDM channel estimation exploiting channel sparsity. Due to the sparse nature of the scattering objects, most of wireless multipath channel have a sparse impulse response. Therefore it is possible to use the methods in the field of sparse signal processing for the purpose of estimating such channels for better accuracy, and efficient spectrum usage.
First of all the problem of OFDM channel estimation using scattered pilots is stated. Then the so-called IMAT methods together with the other sparse signal processing methods are used for the purpose of estimating channel nonzero taps. Furthermore, since efficient use of spectrum in... 

Next generation wireless networks support high data rates and QoS parameters of various users. OFMDA is a popular transmission technique to support high rate transmission, however in multi-access environments, it relies on careful resource allocation to guarantee the desired QoS parameters. While resource allocation in centralized scenarios such as cellular networks is relatively straightforward, the problem becomes quite complex in distributed scheduling of multiple access environments. One key resource is power assigned to each sub-channel which determines the overall transmission capacity.In this dissertation, firstly we introduce some cross layer QoS provisioning or power efficient QoS... 

Consistent growth in volume and dynamic behavior of traffic mandates new requirements for fast and adaptive resource allocation in modern optical networks.Elastic optical networks have been proposed to provide a competitive and scalable solution by creating tunable high-capacity optical communication networks in which network elements are configured according to the actual need to minimize resource usage for the specified service requirements. Resource allocation with quality of service constraints is one of the most challenging problems in elastic optical networks which is conventionally formulated as a complex mixed-integer nonlinear optimization program.In this research work, we focus on... 

Due to the extremely fast growth in high speed data rate demand in the recent years, it is necessary to make use of the optical technologies in telecommunication access networks. Passive optical networks (PONs) has got much attention compared to other optical access architectures due to some advantages such as low installation and maintenance expenses, and providing more reliable network transmission.
In this thesis, we will study two multiple access techniques, namely optical code division multiple access (OCDMA) and optical orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OOFDMA). Since the system performance of these techniques are mainly limited by multiple access interference, we... 

Massive MIMO is a key enabling technology in the fifth generation (5G) wireless communication systems. In this technology, the base station is equipped with a large number of antennas (e.g. 100-200) and communicates with a relatively smaller number of user terminals. The large number of antennas at the base station, on one hand, has enabled unprecedented improvements in data rate and energy-efficiency, while on the other hand has posed challenges on the practical deployment of this technology.One of these challenges, is the high computational complexity of the baseband processing algorithms, such as precoding, due to the large number of antennas. In this research, we propose a novel ZF... 

Channel equalization is a crucial part of the OFDM communications protocols, which in turn requires channel estimation. Pilot-based methods are one the most popular channel estimation approaches in OFDM systems. The pilot signals are generally classified as orthogonal and nonorthogonal pilots. Orthogonal pilots can better estimate the channels and are widely used in communications systems. The number of orthogonal pilots is proportional to the number of transmitters. Therefore, utilizing orthogonal pilots are not amenable for the increasing number of users in communications systems and the emerging of new technologies such as Massive-MIMO employing a large number of antennas. Consequently,... 

Optical Communication is a promising technology in access networks because of bandwidth hungry application like videos. So fiber Optic is an important candidate as a media in networks. There are different methods of modulation for transferring data through a channel. Among all, Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing is a method which used in most wired and wireless systems. Recent researches show that OFDM is also a good approach for optical communication.
In this thesis we concentrate on hardware implementation of digital part of an Optical OFDM transceiver. In the first step we ignore the effect of optical channel and design and simulate the transmitter and receiver. After that we... 

In this thesis, some algorithms for PAPR reduction of OFDM systems are investigated and some of these methods are extended to MIMO-OFDM systems. Two types of multiple antenna OFDM systems are considered; OFDM systems with spatial multiplexing for increasing the data rate and OFDM systems with spatial diversity for improvement of the symbol error rate. For the systems of the first type we have proposed two PAPR reduction algorithms. In the first method, the signals of transmitter antennas are clipped and filtered independently. Then, at the receiver side an iterative algorithm is proposed to compensate for the clipping noise. In the second method, we have extended TR method to spatial... 

Ever-increaing demand for wireless communication systems impels an efficient system planning before the system deployment. The very first step of the planning is radio-wave channel modeling. Generally, all propagation models can be categorized in three types of models: Emprical models, semi-emprical models and deterministic models. The statistical and semi-emprical models can give a quite prompt signal level prediction over the vast propagation area using few computations. In the recent wireless services which wider bandwidth is required, only the signal level prediction cannot give a proper perspective of design and planning. The parameters such as the power-delay profile, rms delay spread;... 

Increasing dynamics of mobile users intensifies the Doppler effect and degrades the performance of the communication system. Considering Fourier kernel-based modulation, in this research, we focus on dealing with the Doppler effect and compensating non-ideal communication channel response suffered from the Doppler-delay spread. In the first step, we study Zak transform and present a new transform for 2-D representation of time signals. This mapping is a well-known transformation that can be considered as a generalized discrete-time Fourier transform in the field of signal processing and can be used to represent a signal in the delay-Doppler domain. After providing a new 2-D transform, we... 

In the modern world today, the increasing need for transfering data in high speeds and long distances has encouraged the investors of this area to use more efficient technologies of this field. With regard to the need for extensive and scalable communication networks, reusing the bandwidth in closer distances seems to be inevitable. Hence, finding an optimal way of using resources like bandwidth and power is necessary. In OFDMA-based networks there is no intra-cell interference due to using orthogonal subbands and the most important limiting factor in designing these networks is inter-cell interference. Therefore in this thesis we are gonig to analyase the partial frequency reuse method... 

In this thesis, we study the effect of cognition and cooperation on two important MAC layer performance metrics, i.e. maximum stable throughput and delay. To this end, we consider a broadband secondary user which interferes with N narrowband primary users. In our study we focus on four transmission protocols as well as two transmission policies, i.e. parallel and non-parallel transmissions. In the cooperative protocols, the broadband transmitter relays the packets of the primary users which have not correctly decoded at the primary receiver. In non-parallel transmission case, the packets of the broadband user are transmitted in the total available bandwidth and in parallel transmission case,... 

In this thesis, the impact of both time offsets (TOs) and carrier frequency offsets (CFOs) on the average output signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) of OFDM systems is investigated with a novel and simple approach. First, TOs are partitioned into five cases based on how they occur. Then the mathematical models for different cases are derived. Considering CFOs and benefiting from the obtained models, closed-form expression for the SINR in each case is derived. It is proved that, SINR is independent of the observed subcarrier for the given TO and CFO. Besides, it is shown that the performance of the affected system deteriorates rapidly as the number of subcarriers increases. It is... 

Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) is a digital transmission method developed to meet the increasing demand for higher data rates in communications which can be used in both wired and wireless environments. This thesis describes the issue of the Peak to Average Power Ratio (PAPR) in OFDM system, based on compressed sensing at the receiver of a peak-reducing sparse clipper applied to an OFDM signal at the transmitter. By choosing proper clipping threshold, clipping signal will be sparse so locations, magnitudes, and phases of the clipping signal can be recovered by compressed sensing method. We demonstrate that in the absence of optimization algorithms at the transmitter,... 

Increasing need to high rates of transmission through radio channels is a challenging problem in wireless communications. Simple implementation and high spectral efficiency of OFDM system turned it into a suitable choice to meet this need. Accurate estimation of the communication channel has a significant impact on performance of Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) systems. Conventional methods of channel estimation are not able to exploit the inherent sparsity of the channel that is due to sparse distribution of scaterrers. On the other hand, Compressed Sensing (CS) is getting attention in variety of aspects such as communications, recently.CS-based channel estimation exploits... 

In this thesis, we model and analyze coherent optical OFDM systems which are highly concerned as future fiber optic communication. To this end, we first introduce various applications of that in optical communication systems and investigate its probes and cones. In the rest of the thesis, we characterize the mathematical structure of the nonlinear phase noise and discuss the previous methods of compensation of that and propose some new ways of nonlinear phase noise compensation and equalization. And as we discuss each method we also investigate its computational complexity and BER performance. We propose three new phase noise compensation method, considering optical phase conjugation, we...