A novel receiver design for training sequence inserted OFDM transmission

Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) has been attracting much attention due to the robustness against the frequency selective fading. Instead of well-known cyclic prefix (CP) insertion, a known training sequence (TS) insertion can also be used for OFDM block transmission. In this paper, we propose a new receiver design, which can obtain the frequency diversity gain through the use of frequency-domain equalization (FDE), for TS-OFDM. The conditional bit error rate (BER) analysis of the proposed FDE is presented. The average BER performance of the TS-OFDM signal transmission in a frequency-selective Rayleigh fading channel is evaluated by Monte-Carlo numerical computation method using the derived conditional BER and is confirmed by computer simulation. Numerical results show the proposed TS-OFDM receiver improves BER and throughput performances of TS-OFDM compared to the conventional TSOFDM receiver. It was also shown that the TS-OFDM with the proposed receiver provides better BER and throughput performances than the CP-OFDM due to the frequency diversity gain.