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services. Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) is the core of this technology. OFDM
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Interference (ISI). DVB-T has some limitations too namely large dynamic range of the signals and
sensitivity to frequency error. In order to overcome these limitations DVB-T receivers should be optimally
designed. In this paper we address the issues related to optimal DVB-T receiver design. There of several
signal processing units in a DVB-T receiver. A low-pass filter is one of them. In this paper, we consider
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Broadcasting-Terrestrial (DVB-T). Originally DVB-T system was designed based on OFDM. In this work
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PERFORMANCES OF ORTHOGONAL WAVELET DIVISION MULTIPLEX (OWDM) SYSTEM UNDER AWG...IJCNCJournal
Orthogonal Wavelet Division Multiplexing (OWDM) has been considered as an alternative of Orthogonal
Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) in the recent years. OWDM has lower computational complexity
and higher flexibility compared to its OFDM counterpart. The core component of OWDM is wavelet.
Wavelet has been a much investigated and applied topic in digital image processing for a long time.
Recently, it has drawn considerable attention of the researchers working in communication field. In this
work we investigate the performances of OWDM under different channel conditions. We consider three
channel conditions namely Additive White Gaussian Noise (AWGN), Rayleigh, Ricean, and frequency
selective. We consider a number of wavelets namely Haar, Daubechies, Biorthogonal, Reverse
Biorthogonal, Coiflets, and Symlets in OWDM design. For system model we choose Digital Video
Broadcasting-Terrestrial (DVB-T). Originally DVB-T system was designed based on OFDM. In this work
we use OWDM instead. The simulation results show OWDM outperforms OFDM in terms of bit error rate
(BER), noise resiliency, and peak-to-average ration. The results also show that the Haar wavelet based
OWDM outperforms other wavelets based OWDM system under all three considered three channel
conditions.
GSM is the globel system of organation . It consists of
M.S,BSC MSC ,OMC,FIXED Phone.Mobile station is carried by
the subscriber.and base station subsystem control the radio
link with mobile station . The main part of system is
mobile switching center perform switching of calls between
the mobile and fixed or mobile network use. and operational
and maintainence center oversees the proper operation and
set up of the network. The MS and BSC communicate across
the um link or air interface and BSC&MSC communicate across
A interface.
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There are closely spaces to each other without causing interference, removing guard bands.
Its possible because subcarriers are orthogonal.
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Like FDM, OFDM uses multiple subcarriers BUT:
There are closely spaces to each other without causing interference, removing guard bands.
Its possible because subcarriers are orthogonal.
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human activity recognition, to understand the features representative of each action.
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Digital broadcast systems have increasingly been deployed for various services such as
Digital Video Broadcasting (i.e. DVB-S, DVB-T, etc.) and Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB). Classical
digital broadcast systems were designed with fixed modulation techniques, which had to guarantee
reliable communication even with very hostile channel environment. Video Broadcasting is playing a
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EFFECTS OF FILTERS ON THE PERFORMANCE OF DVB-T RECEIVER
1. International Journal of Wireless & Mobile Networks (IJWMN) Vol. 5, No. 3, June 2013
DOI : 10.5121/ijwmn.2013.5308 103
EFFECTS OF FILTERS ON THE PERFORMANCE OF
DVB-T RECEIVER
AKM Arifuzzaman1
, Rumana Islam1
, Mohammed Tarique2
, and
Mussab Saleh Hassan2
1
Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
American International University-Bangladesh, Banani, Dhaka, Bangladesh
E-mail:arifuzzaman,rumana@aiub.edu
2
Department of Electrical Engineering
Ajman University of Science and Technology, Fujairah, UAE
E-mail:m.tarique,m.mohammad@ajman.ac.ae
ABSTRACT
Digital Video Broadcasting-Terrestrial (DVB-T) is an international standard for digital television
services. Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) is the core of this technology. OFDM
based system like DVB-T can handle multipath fading and hence it can minimize Inter Symbol
Interference (ISI). DVB-T has some limitations too namely large dynamic range of the signals and
sensitivity to frequency error. In order to overcome these limitations DVB-T receivers should be optimally
designed. In this paper we address the issues related to optimal DVB-T receiver design. There of several
signal processing units in a DVB-T receiver. A low-pass filter is one of them. In this paper, we consider
some classic filters namely Butterworth, Chebyshev, and elliptic in the DVB-T receiver. The effects of
different filters on the performances of DVB-T receiver have been investigated and compared in this
paper under AWGN channel condition.
KEYWORDS
DVB, DVB-T, multi-carrier, orthogonal, FFT, IFFT, BER, ISI, AWGN, Butterworth, Elliptic, Chebyschev,
PSD
1. INTRODUCTION
Television (TV) is considered as the most cost-effective source of entertainment, education, and
information [1-2]. The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has estimated
1,416,338,245 TV sets in the households around the World [3]. Originally TV was introduced
as an electromechanical system [2,4]. An all-electronic system was developed in Europe in the
twentieth century. During this time period the Federal Communication Commission (FCC)
adopted the recommendations made by the National Television System Committee (NTSC)
system in USA [3]. Later on a number of color television systems were introduced. The
Sequential Couleur A Memoire (SECAM) and Phase Alternating Line (PAL) were introduced
in Europe. NTSC color television was introduced in USA. The digital television network
merged with the advancements of digital technology. Broadcasters and manufacturer realized
the importance of switching from analog to digital television. Digital television became popular
because of its improved spectrum efficiency. The television broadcasters could accommodate
more channels in a limited spectrum. Several digital TV standards were rapidly developed in the
next few years. In Europe broadcasters and electronic companies formed consortium and they
introduced Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB). It is a set of internationally recognized standards
for digital television services. It is maintained by DVB project [5]. This project is an industry-
led consortium of more than 200 manufacturers, broadcasters, network operators, software
developers, and regulatory bodies. European Broadcasting Union, European Committee for
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Electrotechnical Standardization, and Joint Technical Committee of European
Telecommunication Standards Institute publish and update this standard. This standard has been
proposed to support digital television services to the consumers by means of rooftop antennas.
There are three key DVB standards that define the physical and data link layer of the
distribution system. These are (i) DVB-S for satellite network, (ii) DVB-C for cable networks,
and (iii) DVB-T for terrestrial networks [6-8]. There are also some related standards. Some of
these are DVB-H and DVB-IPTV. The DVB-H has been standardized to support mobile
television services in handheld devices. On the other hand, DVB-IPTV has been standardized to
support television service by using Internet Protocol (IP) [9]. Among all these standards DVB-T
system has become the most popular one and is the topic of this investigation. DVB-T system
has been formally defined and introduced in [10]. The system is designed to operate within the
existing Very High Frequency Band (50-230 MHz) and Ultra High Frequency Band (470-870
MHz). Two modes of operation have been defined for DVB-T standard namely “2K mode” and
“8K mode”. The “2K mode” has been defined for DVB-T transmission and the “8K mode” has
been defined for DVB-H transmission [11]. For single transmission and limited distance
operation the “2K mode” is considered suitable. On the other hand, the “8K mode” is preferable
for long distance operation. The DVB-T standard allows different levels of Quadrature
Amplitude Modulation (QAM) and it uses different inner code rates. The system also allows
two levels of hierarchical channel coding and modulation. The basic functional block diagram
of DVB standard is shown in Figure 1. The processes applied to the input data stream are (i)
transport multiplex adaptation, (ii) outer coding, (iii) outer interleaving, (iv) inner coding, (v)
inner interleaving, (vi) mapping and modulation, and (vii) OFDM transmission.
Figure 1. Block ddiagram of DVB system.
Most of the signal processing steps shown in Figure 1 is carried out in a digital signal processor.
The performance of DVB system highly depends on the modulation. Since this investigation
addresses the physical layer issues the basic components we investigate here are the OFDM,
Digital-to-Analog Converter (D/A) and the front end. Brief descriptions of these components
are provided here for the completeness of this paper.
2. OFDM MODULATION
The Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) is a multi-carrier modulation
(MCM) scheme [12-13]. The main principle of MCM is to divide the high rate input bit stream
into several low rate parallel bit streams and then these bit streams are used to modulate several
sub-carriers. The sub-carriers are separated by a guard band to ensure that they do not overlap
with each other during the course of transmission. In the receiver side band-pass filters are used
to separate the spectrum of individual sub-carriers. OFDM is a special form of spectrally
efficient MCM technique, which employs densely spaced orthogonal sub-carriers and
overlapping spectrums. Hence, it is considered as a spectrum efficient modulation scheme.
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Unlike other systems OFDM does not require band-pass filters because of the orthogonality
nature of the subcarriers. Hence the available bandwidth is used very efficiently without causing
the Inter Carrier Interference (ICI). The required bandwidth can be further reduced by removing
the guard band and allowing the subcarriers to overlap. Despite the overlapping spectrum it is
still possible to recover the sub-carriers provided that the orthogonality condition among the
subcarriers is maintained. OFDM provides a composite high data rate with long symbol
duration. Depending on the channel coherence bandwidth OFDM reduces or completely
eliminates the effect of Inter Symbol Interference (ISI). The Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT)
and Inverse Discrete Fourier Transform (IDFT) can be used to implement the orthogonal
signals. OFDM has numerous advantages over other digital modulation schemes. The main
advantage of OFDM is that it can minimize the Inter Symbol Interference (ISI), which is
originated from the multipath signal propagation [14] as mentioned earlier. Hence, it can
support a very high data rate. There are some other advantages too. OFDM can cope with the
multipath fading with less computational complexity compared to other modulation schemes. It
is more resistant to frequency selective flat fading. It uses computationally efficient Fast Fourier
Transform (FFT) and Inverse Fast Fourier Transform (IFFT) algorithms. OFDM is also
considered suitable for coherent demodulation. Additionally, OFDM can ensure the required
Quality of Service (QoS) to the end users depending on the bandwidth. It is also considered
suitable for diversity techniques (i.e., time diversity and frequency diversity). The orthogonality
of subcarriers of an OFDM system can be jeopardized when the same is sent through the
multipath channel, which also introduces Inter Carrier Interference (ICI). Cyclic Prefix (CP) is
added with the OFDM symbol to combat both ISI and ICI. The CP contains a copy of the last
part of the OFDM symbol appended to the front of transmitted OFDM symbol. The length of
the CP must be longer than the maximum delay spread of the multipath environment to reduce
the ISI. OFDM has some disadvantages too. Some of these are: (i) it requires a strong
synchronization between the transmitter and the receiver, (ii) it is very much sensitive to phase
noise and frequency offset, (iii) it is not power efficient because of the always active Fast
Fourier Transform (FFT) algorithm and Forward Error Correction (FEC), (iv) it cannot take the
advantages of the diversity gain if few sub-carriers are allotted to each user, and (v) it requires a
high peak to average ration RF power amplifiers to avoid amplitude noise. There have been
numerous works carried out to overcome these disadvantages. We have included some of them
here that are related to this work.
3. RELATED WORKS
The bandwidth efficiency of OFDM systems is originated from the overlapping orthogonal sub-
carriers. Traditionally it is assumed that the waveforms of OFDM transmission have band
limited and the spectrums overlap only with its adjacent sub-carrier. But, in real life scenario the
OFDM transmission is not band limited. Hence, the spectrums not only interfere with the
adjacent carrier, but they also interfere with the further-away sub-carriers [15]. To limit this type
of interference the spectrum of OFDM transmission must be kept in a sufficiently low stop-
band. Many research works and innovations have been done to minimize the interference. One
of the early solutions has been presented in [16]. The authors suggested some analysis which led
to use truncated Prolate Spheroidal Wave Function (PSWF) [17]. Non-linear programming
technique has been used to design FIR filters for transmitter and receiver in [18]. Pulse shaping
and filtering have been suggested to limit the bandwidth of OFDM symbol. Raised Cosine
Function (RCF) has been used in [19-22] to reduce the inter symbol interference (ISI) in OFDM
system. The authors have shown in these works that BER can be reduced by using RCF filters.
It is shown in [23] that reconstruction filters, anti-aliasing filters and other filters cause smearing
in an OFDM system. The author presented some numerical works in the same work and they
suggested that Chebyshev II filter approximations should be the best choice. This type of filter
causes the least smearing. A series of investigations also shows that filtering is important to
reduce Peak-to-Average Ration (PAR) of OFDM system. The authors suggested in [24] that the
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clipping is the simplest method to reduce PAR reduction. But, it causes both in-band distortion
and out of band distortion. Hence, a filter should be used after the clipping to reduce the
distortions. A more efficient method for clipping and filtering has been proposed in [25,26]. In
these works the authors demonstrated that the clipping and filtering algorithm are better than
clipping along to reduce PAPR in OFDM system. An easy to implement method of clipping and
filtering has been discussed in [27]. The effects of performing channel estimation of an OFDM
system by using non-ideal interpolating and decimating filters have been investigated under
both AWGN and Rayleigh fading channel in [28]. Two schemes for ICI reduction have been
proposed in [29]. In self-cancellation scheme redundant data is transmitted onto adjacent
subcarriers to reduce ICI. In the second scheme an Extended Kalman Filter (EKF) corrects the
frequency offset at the receiver. In a related work [30] an unscented Kalman filter based
solution has also been provided. In contrast to other related works the authors considered high
mobility OFDM system in this work. The effects of imperfect anti-aliasing filtering have been
investigated in this paper [31]. The authors have used a linear phase FIR filter of order N=50 in
this investigation. In [32] it has been claimed that pulse shaping filter is not good enough for
ICI cancellation in OFDM system. A hybrid scheme consisting of pulse shaping and Maximum
Likelihood Estimation (MLE) should be combined to cancel ICI. In [33] a non-linear adaptive
filter has been proposed. The authors claimed that non-linear filter scheme is superior to the
conventional linear filter.
In all the above mentioned works the investigators focused on a particular filter to improve the
performance of OFDM system. Only a few works provided a comparative performance analysis
of different types of filter. In these work we considered some classic filters namely Butterworth
filter, Elliptic filters, and Chebyshev filters. We varied some filter parameters like cut-off
frequency and filter order to investigate the performance of DVB-T receiver. It is worthwhile to
mention another difference here. In all the above mentioned works basic OFDM system has
been used. In this paper we consider DVB-T system, which uses OFDM as a modulation
scheme.
4. DVB-T FRAME STRUCTURE
The DVB-T transmitted signals are organized into frame structure. Each frame consists of 68
OFDM symbols [9]. Since OFDM is the core of DVB-T system, we will use DVB-T symbol
and OFDM symbol interchangeably in the remaining portion of this paper. Each OFDM symbol
consists of a set of K=1705 carriers in the “2K mode” and K=6817 carriers for “8K mode”. Let
us denote the frame duration by TF and the symbol duration by TS. The symbol duration has two
components namely a useful part and a guard interval. Let us denote the useful component by
TU and the guard component by TG. The guard interval carries cyclic prefix (CP) inserted before
the useful component (as mentioned earlier). Four guard intervals have been chosen in DVB-T
standard namely 1/4, 1/8, 1/16 and 1/32. The symbols of OFDM are numbered from 0 to 67. In
DVB-T standard all symbols contain data and reference information. The OFDM symbol can be
considered as a combination of many separately modulated carriers. Hence each symbol can be
considered to be divided into cells. The transmitted data of an OFDM frame contains: (i)
scattered pilot cells, (ii) continual pilot carriers, and (iii) Transmission Parameter Signaling
(TPS) carriers. The pilots are used for frame synchronization, frequency synchronization, time
synchronization, channel estimation, and transmission mode identification. The TPS carriers are
used for the purpose of signaling parameters (i.e., channel coding and modulation) related to the
transmission scheme, The carriers are indexed from Kmin to Kmax, where Kmin=0 and Kmax=1704
for “2K mode” and Kmax=6816 in “8K mode”. The spacing between Kmin and Kmax is defined by
(K-1)/TU, where the spacing between adjacent carriers is 1/TU and K is the number of the
carriers. The numerical value for the OFDM parameters for the “2K mode” and “8K mode” are
listed in Table 1.
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Table 1. OFDM Parameters for “2K” and “8K” mode
Parameter 8K mode 2K mode
Number of carriers K 6817 1705
Value of carrier number
Kmin
0 0
Value of carrier number
Kmax
6816 1704
Duration TU
896 µs 224 µs
Carrier spacing 1/TU
1116 Hz 4464 Hz
Spacing between Kmin and
Kmax (K-1)/TU
761 MHz 761 MHz
The transmitted OFDM symbol can be mathematically expressed by
( )
×= ∑∑ ∑ =
∞
= =
max
min
,,,,
0
67
0
2
Re)(
K
Kk
klmklm
m l
tf
tcets c
ψπ
(1)
where
=
××−×−− SSG
U
TmTlTt
T
k
j
klm et
68(2
,,
'
)(
π
ψ ×+×+≤≤××+ )168()68( mltTml S
0)(,, =tklmψ else
where k = the carrier number, l = the OFDM symbol number, m = the frame number, K = the
number of transmitted carrier, fc = the central frequency, k = the carrier index related to the
canter frequency, and cm,l,k = complex symbol for carrier k of the data symbol number l in frame
m . The cm,l,k values are normalized according to the constellation points of the modulation
alphabet used. The other parameters of DBV system are listed in Table 2.
Table 2. Additional Parameters
Mode 8K mode 2K mode
Guard interval TG/TU 1/4 1/8 1/16 1/32 1/4 1/8 1/16 1/32
Duration of symbol part TU 8192xT
=896 µs
2048xT
=224 µs
Duration of Guard Interval TG 2048xT
=224 µs
1024xT
=112 µs
512xT
=56 µs
256xT
=28 µs
512xT
=56 µs
256xT
=28 µs
128xT
=14 µs
64xT
=7µs
Symbol Duration TS 10240
xT
1120 µs
9216xT
1008 µs
8704xT
952 µs
8448xT
924 µs
2560xT
280 µs
2304xT
252 µs
2176xT
238µs
2112xT
231µs
5. DVB TRANSMITTER AND RECEIVER MODEL
The transmitter and the receiver models proposed in [34] have been used in this investigation.
The basic signal processing steps done in the transmitter and the receiver of DVB-T system are
shown in Figure 2. Since the number of carriers in DVB-T system is 1705, we considered 1705
4-QAM symbols as the input data to the transmitter. We used a bandwidth of 8.0 MHz. The
carrier frequency we chose is 90 MHz. We divided the 8.0 MHz into 1705 sub-carriers. Since
the OFDM symbol duration is specified considering a 2048-point Inverse Fast Fourier
Transform (IFFT), we chose 4096-point IFFT. Hence, 2391 zeros were padded with the
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information symbol. The output carriers of IFFT were then converted into continuous time
signal in the next signal processing step as shown in Figure 2. This step of the signal processing
is accomplished by using a pulse shaping filter and a low pass filter [35] denoted by Digital to
Analog (D/A) filter in the block diagram shown in Figure 2(a). The pulse shaping filter converts
the discrete time carrier output signals into continuous signal. In the next step a D/A filter with a
sharp bandwidth is used. We choose a Butterworth filter for this purpose. Finally, the carrier
modulation is performed at the last stage.
Designing an OFDM based DVB receiver has been an open research issue since its conception.
Like this work most of the researches conducted and innovations have been done in the DVB
receiver design. The DVB receiver model used in this investigation is shown in Figure 2(b).
(a) Transmitter model
(b) Receiver model
Figure 2. OFDM transmitter and receiver model
The DVB receiver operation performs the inverse operation of the transmitter. First, the
coherent demodulation is done. The demodulated OFDM signal is then passed through the low-
pass filter to recover the continuous version of the OFDM signal. The delays produced by the
reconstruction and demodulation filters are compensated. The resultant signal is then sampled to
convert continuous OFDM symbol into its discrete version. The resulted signal is then passed
through a 4096-FFT to do the inverse function of its counterpart (i.e., IFFT) done in the
transmitter. Finally, the resultant data is estimated by using a 4-QAM estimator. The power
spectral density (PSD) of DVB symbol is shown in Figure 3. A numerous investigations show
that a significant level of OFDM spectrum falls outside the nominal bandwidth as shown in
Figure 3. Hence an appropriate filter should be carefully selected in the transmitter and the
receiver to minimize this out of band spectrum. In this investigation three classic filters namely
Butterworth filter, Chebyshev filter, and elliptic filters have been considered and the DVB
receiver performances have been investigated.
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0 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 160 180
−120
−110
−100
−90
−80
−70
−60
−50
−40
−30
Frequency (MHz)
Power/frequency(dB/Hz)
Power Spectral Density(PSD)
Figure 3. The Power Spectral Density (PSD) of transmitted symbols of DVB.
6. CLASSIC FILTERS
The Butterworth filter has drawn considerable attentions in communication system design. This
type of filter exhibits a nearly flat pass band with no ripple in it. The roll off of Butterworth
filter is very smooth and monotonic. For a low pass Butterworth filter the roll off rate is
20dB/decade for each added pole in the transfer function. In order to generate the spectrum of
different filters we used MATLAB built-in function [36-39]. In MATLAB all digital
frequencies are given in units of π. Hence, the ranges of the cut-off frequencies are defined by
0≤wc≤π. In the rest of this paper we denote the cut-off frequency as wc=1/2,1/3,1/4, and 1/5,
where wc=1/2 is the highest cut-off frequency and wc=1/5 is the lowest cut-off frequency. We
selected this frequency arbitrarily for this investigation. The spectrums of Butterworth filters of
different orders are shown in Figure 4. In general a higher order filter has higher attenuation rate
and vice versa as depicted in the figure. Another important characteristic of Butterworth filter is
the cut-off frequency. The spectrums of Butterworth filter with different cut-off frequencies and
the same order N=3 are shown in Figure 5. The filters with higher cut-off frequencies have
higher attenuation rates as shown in the same figure. The second category filter that is
considered in this investigation is the Chebyshev filter. The Chebyshev filter response has a
faster roll-off. But, it has ripple in the frequency response. There is a trade-off between ripple
and roll-off characteristic of this type of filter. As the ripple increases, the roll-off becomes
higher. Like Butterworth filter the spectrums of Chebyshev filter also vary with respect to the
order and cut-off frequency. The Chebyshev filters can be classified as Type-I and Type-II.
Type-I Chebyshev filter has ripple in the pass band. On the other hand Type-II Chebyshev filter
has ripple in the stop band. Since, Type-II filter is rarely used, we consider only Type-I filter in
this investigation. Figure 6 shows the spectrums of Chebyshev filter of different order with a
pass band ripple of 20 dB and cut-off frequencies of 180 MHz. Figure 7 shows the spectrums of
Chebyshev filters with different cut-off frequencies. Compared to Butterworth filter the
Chebyshev filter can achieve a sharper transition between the pass band and the stop band with
a lower order filter. The sharp transition between the pass band and the stop band of a
Chebyshev filter produces smaller absolute errors and faster execution speeds than a
Butterworth filter.
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0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1 1.2 1.4 1.6 1.8 2
x 10
8
−400
−350
−300
−250
−200
−150
−100
−50
0
50
Frequency(Hz)
Magnitude(dB)
N=3
N=4
N=5
N=6
Figure 4. Spectrums Butterworth filters of different orders
0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1 1.2 1.4 1.6 1.8 2
x 10
8
−250
−200
−150
−100
−50
0
50
Frequency(Hz)
Magnitude(dB)
wc=1/2
wc=1/3
wc=1/4
wc=1/5
Figure 5. Spectrums of Butterworth filters of different cut-off frequencies
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0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1 1.2 1.4 1.6 1.8 2
x 10
8
−400
−350
−300
−250
−200
−150
−100
−50
0
Magnitude
Frequency(Hz)
N=3
N=4
N=5
N=6
Figure 6. Spectrums of Chebyshev filters of different order
0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1 1.2 1.4 1.6 1.8 2
x 10
8
−300
−250
−200
−150
−100
−50
0
Magnitude
Frequency(Hz)
wc=1/2
wc=1/3
wc=1/4
wc=1/5
Figure 7. Spectrums of Chebyshev filters of different cut-off frequencies
The last category filter that has been considered in this investigation is the elliptic filter. The
cut-off slope of an elliptic filter is steeper than that of a Butterworth and Chebyshev. But, this
type of filter has ripple in the stop band. The phase response is very nonlinear. The spectrums of
elliptic filters of different orders and cut-off frequencies are shown in Figure 8 and Figure 9
respectively. Compared with the same order Butterworth and Chebyshev filters, the elliptic
filters provide the sharpest transition between the pass band and the stop band.
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0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1 1.2 1.4 1.6 1.8 2
x 10
8
−120
−100
−80
−60
−40
−20
0
Magnitude
Frequency(Hz)
N=3
N=4
N=5
N=6
Figure 8. Spectrums of Elliptic filters of different order
0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1 1.2 1.4 1.6 1.8 2
x 10
8
−90
−80
−70
−60
−50
−40
−30
−20
−10
0
10
Magnitude
Frequency(Hz)
wc=1/2
wc=1/3
wc=1/4
wc=1/5
Figure 9. Spectrums of Elliptic filters of different cut-off frequencies
7. DVB RECEIVER PERFORMANCES USING CLASSIC FILTERS
Since the effects of digital filters are the main focus in this investigation, the cyclic prefix was
set to 0 in all simulations. The other parameters were set to the values as mentioned in Table 1
and Table 2. The channel model was chosen Additive White Gaussian Noise (AWGN).
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0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
10
−6
10
−5
10
−4
10
−3
10
−2
10
−1
10
0
SymbolErrorRate
SNR/bit in dB
Butterworth Filter of Different cut−off frequencies
wc=1/3
wc=1/4
wc=1/5
wc=1/6
Figure 10. The SER error performances of OFDM system using Butterworth filter (cut-off
frequency varied)
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
10
−6
10
−5
10
−4
10
−3
10
−2
10
−1
SymbolErrorRate
SNR/bit in dB
Butterworth Filter of Different order
N=3
N=4
N=5
N=6
Figure 11. The SER performances of OFDM system using Butterworth filter (order varied)
In the first investigation we consider Butterworth filter in the receiver. The filter order was 3,
but the cut-off frequency was varied. The simulation results are compared in Figure 10. The
simulation results show that the lower cut-off frequency shows better performance (i.e. less
symbol error rate) than the higher cut-off frequencies. For example, the results show that for a
given SNR of 4 dB, the symbol error rate (SER) are 0.091, 0.005, 0.001, and 0.0009 for cut-off
frequency of 1/3, 1/ 4,1/5 and 1/6 respectively. To investigate the performance of OFDM
system under varying filter orders we chose a Butterworth filters with cut-off frequency of
wc=1/5 and we varied the filter order. The simulation results are shown in Figure 11. The
simulation results presented therein show that the lower order Butterworth filters are preferable
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in DVB-T receiver. For a given SNR filter with lower order provides less SER. But, the DVB
receiver performance is more dependent on the cut-off frequency other than filter order as
illustrated in Figure 10 and Figure 11.
0 2 4 6 8 10 12
10
−6
10
−5
10
−4
10
−3
10
−2
10
−1
SymbolErrorRate
SNR/bit in dB
wc=1/2
wc=1/3
wc=1/4
wc=1/5
Figure 12. The SER performances of OFDM system using Chebyshev filter (cut-off
frequency varied)
0 2 4 6 8 10 12
10
−6
10
−5
10
−4
10
−3
10
−2
10
−1
10
0
SymbolErrorRate
SNR/bit in dB
N=3
N=4
N=5
N=6
Figure 13. The BER performances of OFDM system using Chebyshev Filter (order was
varied)
In the second investigation the receiver filter was then changed to Chebyshev filter by keeping
all other parameters same. The filter order was set to 3 and the cut-off frequency was varied.
The pass band ripple was set to 10 dB. The simulation results are shown in Figure 12. In
contrast to Butterworth filter the simulation results show that Chebyshev filters with higher cut-
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off frequencies are desirable for DVB-T receiver. For a given SNR Chebyshev filter caused less
SER compared to Butterworth filter. For an example, the results show that when SNR was set to
4 dB, the symbol error rate (SER) are 0.04, 0.02, 0.002, and 0.0002 for cut-off frequencies 1/3,
1/ 4,1/5 and 1/6 respectively. Compared to those of Butterworth filter it is evident that SER is
less in Chebyshev filter. For an example, In the next investigation the filter cut-off frequency
was kept constant at 1/2, but the filter order was varied. The simulation results are shown in
Figure 13. The results show that a low filter order performs better than a higher order filter. The
performance variation is similar to that of Butterworth filter.
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
10
−6
10
−5
10
−4
10
−3
10
−2
10
−1
10
0
SymbolErrorRate
SNR/bit in dB
wc=1/2
wc=1/3
wc=1/4
wc=1/5
Figure 14. The BER performances of OFDM system elliptic filter (cut-off frequency varied)
0 2 4 6 8 10 12
10
−5
10
−4
10
−3
10
−2
10
−1
10
0
SymbolErrorRate
SNR/bit in dB
N=3
N=4
N=5
N=6
Figure 15. The BER performances of OFDM system using Chebyshev ( order varied).
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In the last investigation the Chebyshev filter is replaced by an elliptic filter by keeping other
parameters same. We selected an elliptic filter with order 3. The pass band ripple was
maintained at 0.5 dB and the stop band ripple was set to 10 dB. The cut-off frequency was
varied to different values. The simulation results are shown in Figure 14. It is depicted in the
figure that the elliptic filter performs almost in the same way as the Butterworth filters does.
For example, at the SNR of 4 dB, the symbol error rates are 0.02, 0.002, 0.0004 and 0.0003 for
cut-off frequencies of 1/2, 1 /3, 1/4, and 1/5 respectively. The figure also depicts that the
elliptic filters with lower cut-off frequencies perform better than those of higher cut-off
frequencies. Then the filter order was varied and the cut-off frequency was fixed to ½. The
simulation results are shown in Figure 15. It is shown that a higher order filter is desirable for
OFDM receiver. But, the variation of the performances with the filter order is not significant in
all cases.
8. CONCLUSIONS
In this paper the performance of OFDM based DVB-T receiver has been investigated. OFDM
modulation scheme has drawn wide attentions by the researchers in academia and industry.
Designing a good OFDM receiver design is still an open issue. It is shown in this paper that
OFDM receiver performance depends heavily on the filter types. Different filters have been
taken into account. It is shown that the filter types and some important filter parameters like
filter order and cut-off frequency affect the OFDM receiver performance. It is widely accepted
that the Butterworth filter is the most popular choice for OFDM receiver. But, Chebyshev
filters and elliptic filters are also good candidate. It is also shown that OFDM receiver is more
sensitive to Chebyshev and elliptic filters other than Butterworth filters.
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