An SDR-based prototype of spectrally precoded OFDM

Spectrally precoded OFDM is a recent approach that aims for the suppression of the OOB, as well as the in-band gap, emissions in OFDM systems. Theoretically, the technique shows High suppression of the OOB and the in-band gap emissions. Although, practically hardware impairments may limit the precoder's performance. Yet, this demonstration shows that despite the hardware impairments, implemented spectrally precoded OFDM generates emissions tens of decibels less than that of plain OFDM. Therefore, the demonstration proves that communications links are less vulnerable to interference coming from spectrally precoded OFDM signals than to interference coming from plain OFDM signals.