Adaptive modulation and coding for BIC-UFMC and BIC-OFDM systems taking CFO into account

The performance of multicarrier systems can be considerably degraded because of inter-carrier interference (ICI) caused by a carrier frequency offset (CFO) between the transmitter and the receiver. A recently developed multicarrier modulation technique, referred to as uniform filtered multicarrier (UFMC), improves the robustness against CFO, thereby relaxing the synchronization requirements, consequently providing energy efficient and low latency transmissions. However, the goodput (GP) of the system still rapidly drops with increasing CFO when using the classical adaptive modulation and coding (AMC) schemes based on the SNRs of the subcarriers, because they ignore the presence of the CFO-induced ICI. To tackle this problem, this contribution performs the AMC, also taking into account the ICI caused by the CFO, and thereby achieving a significant increase of the GP.