Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) is becoming the chosen
modulation technique for wireless communications. OFDM can provide large data
rates with sufficient robustness to radio channel impairments. Many research centers
in the world have specialized teams working in the optimization of OFDM for
countless applications. Here, at the Georgia Institute of Technology, one of such
teams is in Dr. M. A. Ingram’s Smart Antenna Research Laboratory (SARL), a part
of the Georgia Center for Advanced Telecommunications Technology (GCATT).
The purpose of this report is to provide Matlab code to simulate the basic processing
involved in the generation and reception of an OFDM signal in a physical
channel and to provide a description of each of the steps involved. For this purpose,
we shall use, as an example, one of the proposed OFDM signals of the Digital
Video Broadcasting (DVB) standard for the European terrestrial digital television
(DTV) service.
