Coordinate interleaved OFDM with power distribution index modulation

Abstract

Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing with index modulation (OFDM-IM), which transmits information bits via M-ary constellation symbols and indices of the active subcarriers, is a promising OFDM-based multicarrier transmission scheme. Recently, several new schemes have been proposed by utilizing the flexibility of the OFDM-IM to meet the diverse needs of 5G networks. Coordinate interleaved OFDM-IM (CI-OFDM-IM) that conveys the real and imaginary part of the data symbols over different subcarriers and OFDM with power distribution IM (OFDM-PIM) that transmits the data symbols over high and low power subcarriers, are two OFDM-IM based schemes with additional diversity gain and improved bit error rate (BER) performance. In this letter, we propose a novel transmission scheme named as coordinate interleaved OFDM with power distribution IM (CI-OFDM-PIM), which applies coordinate interleaving and power distribution in subcarriers to achieve a higher diversity gain. The average bit error probability (ABEP) for the CI-OFDM-PIM is derived and the superior error performance of the proposed scheme over benchmarks are shown via computer simulations.