The effects of phase noise on 26 Mb/s OFDMA broadband radio in the local loop systems

The effects of phase noise on broadband radio in the local loop (BRITL) systems employing orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) are assessed analytically and numerically. Phase noise causes a common phase error (CPE) and inter-carrier interferences (ICI). The former is easy to estimate and equalize, since it identically affects all subcarriers. It is shown that neither a significant degradation of the symbol error rate (SER) due to CPE nor a detrimental error floor due to ICI is introduced provided the constant range of the phase noise power spectral density (PSD) of the stabilized oscillator does not exceed 20 kHz. Above that limit, the SER performance is dominated by a prohibitive error floor caused by ICI.