A new hybrid multicarrier transmission technique with iterative frequency domain detection

This paper proposes a new Time Interleaved BWB-OFDM (TIBWB-OFDM) technique that performs interleaving on the time-samples of each BWB-OFDM block, creating a kind of diversity effect at the frequency domain, granting a much better resilience against deep inband fades, while keeping all the mentioned advantages of BWB-OFDM at the cost of no added complexity. Also, by regarding TIBWB-OFDM as a hybrid technique combining single-carrier and multicarrier characteristics, this paper also proposes the use of non-linear frequency domain equalizers based on the Iterative Block Frequency Domain Equalization (IB-DFE) concept for TIBWB-OFDM detection. It is shown that noteworthy improvements can be achieved in bit error rate (BER) performance compared to conventional OFDM schemes when employing typical zero-forcing (ZF) and minimum mean-square error (MMSE) linear equalizers.