A Simplified Equalization Method for Dual PN-Sequence Padding TDS-OFDM Systems

Time domain synchronous orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (TDS-OFDM) modulation scheme can improve the spectrum efficiency over the traditional Cyclic Prefix (CP) OFDM technology at the cost of computational efforts due to the iterative padding subtraction (IPS) at the receiver to mitigate the inter symbol interference caused by the multipath propagation. In this paper, a simplified equalization scheme is presented for the dual PN-sequence padding (DPNP) TDS-OFDM systems. Although the length of the padded PN sequence needed is double compared to what needed by the IPS, leading to slight decrease of the spectrum efficiency, this method can save about 90% computational effort in practice compared with that of the IPS algorithm. It also outperforms IPS method under the time-varying fading channel in terms of symbol error rate and maximum Doppler frequency, verified by the computer simulation.