Research Article

I/Q Imbalance Problem in SC-FDMA System with DCT and DFT Basis Functions

Table 1

Simulation parameters.

Parameter Description

System bandwidth5 MHz
modulationQPSK
Cyclic prefix20 symbols
512
128
I/Q imbalance scenariosTX I/Q, RX I/Q, and TX-RX I/Q
Subcarriers mapping methodDFT-IFDMA, DFT-LFDMA, DCT-IFDMA, and DCT-LFDMA
Channel estimation Perfect
Equalization MMSE