BER PERFORMANCE OF OFDM SYSTEM WITH CYCLIC PREFIX & ZERO PADDING

Multicarrier schemes are supported to high data rate. Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) and Filtered Multi-Tone (FMT) are two techniques of multicarrier schemes. OFDM is an attractive air-interface for next-generation wireless network without complex equalizer. OFDM is an emerging multi-carrier modulation scheme. It has been adopted by several wireless standards such as IEEE 802.11a, IEEE 802.16 and HiperLAN2. OFDM is designed such a way that it sends data over hundreds of parallel carrier which increases data rate. OFDM scheme is suffer by inter-symbol interference (ISI) problem. ISI is distortion in a signal in which one symbol interferes with subsequent symbols, this will degrade performance of OFDM system. There are several methods for reducing the effects of ISI. A guard interval insertion (cyclic prefix and Zero Padding) method is effective method to reduce the effect of ISI. Zero padding (ZP) of multicarrier transmissions has recently been proposed as an appealing alternative to the traditional CP to ensure symbol recovery. In this paper, we are studied the effect of CP and ZP on Bit Error Rate (BER) of OFDM technique with AWGN channel and Rayleigh fading channel. Through simulations, it is shown that the both techniques are effective in mitigating the effects of ISI. For high value of the CP and ZP, performances of both methods are better for Rayleigh fading channel as compared to AWGN channel. Simulation is performed by using MATLAB R2010a.