Combined window-filter waveform design for ultra-low latency communications

Abstract

This paper investigates spectral shaping of multi-carrier-modulation (MCM) waveforms based on combination of Nyquist windowing and subband filtering. The combined windowing/filtering allows simultaneous control on both subcarrier and subband spectra. When compared to existing Nyquist windowing or subband filtering techniques under a fixed excess frame length constraint, the proposed scheme offers reduced sensitivity to carrier frequency and symbol timing offsets. Establishing an analytical tool based on the error spectrum stack consisting of the error signals evaluated at different signal delay positions, we explore the window-filter trade-off and provide the minimum interference power solution for given ranges of carrier frequency and symbol timing offsets. Our design targets low-latency applications having no provisions for high-precision synchronization and having potential need for spectrum aggregation.