An Enhanced QAM-FBMC Scheme With Interference Mitigation

Cyclic prefixed orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (CP-OFDM) has been used as a waveform for mobile communications, but CP-OFDM has weaknesses in an asynchronous heterogeneous network scenario. To overcome the disadvantage of CP-OFDM, a quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM)-filter-bank-based multi-carrier (FBMC) system is proposed to achieve superior spectrum confinement and better spectral efficiency. However, QAM-FBMC has inevitable performance degradation because of interferences from non-orthogonal filters. In this letter, we propose a decision feedback equalization (DFE)-based interference mitigation scheme for the QAM-FBMC system to cancel a residual interference. The interference from the filters of QAM-FBMC influences to other subcarriers and symbols, and it is modeled as an end-to-end system transfer function with para-Hermitian poly-nomial matrix form, equivalently. By spectral factorization of the system transfer function, the system response is transformed into causal, and the receiver detects the symbols successively. This letter describes the spectral factorization method and formulates the feed-forward and feedback filter of the DFE structure with the spectral factor of transfer function. Simulation results show the superiority of the proposed scheme to the conventional QAM-FBMC receiver scheme.