Cyclic prefixed single carrier (CP-SC) transmission over frequency selective channels is considered. In conventional CP-SC systems, the cyclic prefix is discarded at the receiver side. This suboptimal strategy allows simple frequency domain equalization. In this paper, a new CP-SC receiver exploiting the whole received signal (including the cyclic prefix) for data estimation is proposed. With reasonable additional complexity, the proposed architecture outperforms the conventional CP-SC receiver, in terms of bit error rate. Simulations results show that the proposed scheme also improves the goodput, i.e. error-free rate, of the communication link.
Devillers, B., Louveaux, J., & Vandendorpe, L. (2006). Exploiting cyclic prefix for performance improvement in single carrier systems. Proc. IEEE 7th Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC 2006). Published. IEEE 7th Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC 2006), Cannes, France. https://doi.org/10.1109/SPAWC.2006.346409