Complex-Valued Symbol Transmissions in Filter Bank Multicarrier Systems using Filter Deconvolution

Abstract: Transmission of complex-valued symbols using filter bank multicarrier systems has been an issue due to the self-interference between the transmitted symbols both in the time and frequency domain (so-called intrinsic interference). In this paper, we propose a novel low-complexity interference-free filter bank multicarrier system with QAM modulation (FBMC/QAM) using filter deconvolution. The proposed method is based on inversion of the prototype filters which completely removes the intrinsic interference at the receiver and allows the use of complex-valued signaling. The interference terms in FBMC/QAM with and without the proposed system are analyzed and compared in terms of mean square error (MSE). It is shown with theoretical and simulation results that the proposed method cancels the intrinsic interference and improves the output signal to interference plus noise ratio (SINR) at the expense of slight enhancement of residual interferences caused by multipath channel. The complexity of the proposed system is also analyzed along with performance evaluation in an asynchronous multiservice scenario. It is shown that the proposed FBMC/QAM system with filter deconvolution outperforms the conventional OFDM system.