Design and Implementation of Filter Bank Multicarrier Transceiver for 5G Waveforms
摘要
Recent studies show that multicarrier (MC) approaches, such as Filter Bank Multicarrier (FBMC), are more efficient for modern communication systems compared to Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM), which is popular in Fourth Generation (4G) and Long term Evolution (LTE). FBMC addresses OFDM’s limitations, such as poor spectral efficiency and the need for cyclic prefixes, by using filtering techniques and achieving better Adjacent Channel Leakage Ratio (ACLR). This paper focuses on designing, developing, and implementing an FBMC transceiver on FPGA hardware using Very high speed Integrated circuit Hardware Description Language (VHDL) and Artix-7 Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), with validation through Chipscope-Pro. Results indicate that FBMC outperforms OFDM in performance, hardware complexity, and power consumption.