BER Analysis of OFDM Systems with Varying Frequency Offset Factor over AWGN and Rayleigh Channels

Abstract

The progressively escalating demand for tremendously high rate data transmission over wireless mediums needsresourcefulconcord of electromagnetic resources considering restrictions like power incorporation, spectrum proficiency, robustness in disparity to multipath propagation and implementation complication. Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) is a favorable approach for upcoming generation wireless communication systems. However its susceptibility to the frequency offset triggered by frequency difference between local oscillator of transmitter and receiver or due to Doppler shift results to Inter Carrier Interference. This delinquent of ICI results inworsening performance of the wireless systems as bit error rate increaseswith increase in value of frequency offset. In this paper simulation results aredemonstratedfor analyzing the effect of varying frequency offset factor on system’s error rate performance.