Single Carrier Orthogonal Multiple Access Technique
for Broadband Wireless Communications
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DISSERTATION
Submitted in Partial Fulfillment
Of the Requirements for the
Degree of
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (Electrical Engineering)
at the
POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY
by
Hyung G. Myung
January 2007
Approved:
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Copy No. _____________ ________________________
Department Head
Date
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Copyright by
Hyung G. Myung
2007
Approved by the Guidance Committee:
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Major: Electrical Engineering
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David J. Goodman, Ph.D
Professor of
Electrical and Computer Engineering
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Peter Voltz, Ph.D
Associate Professor of
Electrical and Computer Engineering
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Elza Erkip, Ph.D
Associate Professor of
Electrical and Computer Engineering
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Donald Grieco
Senior Manager of
InterDigital Communications Corporation
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Curriculum Vitae
Hyung G. Myung received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in electronics engineering from Seoul
National University, South Korea in 1994 and in 1996, respectively, and the M.S. degree in
applied mathematics from Santa Clara University, California in 2002. He received his Ph.D.
degree from the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of Polytechnic University,
Brooklyn, NY in January of 2007. From 1996 to 1999, he served in the Republic of Korea Air
Force as a lieutenant officer, and from 1997 to 1999, he was with Department of Electronics
Engineering at Republic of Korea Air Force Academy as an academic instructor. From 2001 to
2003, he was with ArrayComm, San Jose, CA as a software engineer. During the summer of
2005, he was an assistant research staff at Communication & Networking Lab of Samsung
Advanced Institute of Technology. Also from February to August of 2006, he was an intern at
Air Interface Group of InterDigital Communications Corporation, Melville, NY. Since January
of 2007, he is with Qualcomm/Flarion Technologies, Bedminster, NJ as a senior engineer. His
research interests include DSP for communications and wireless communications.
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To
Christ my savior,
Hyun Joo, and Ho
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Acknowledgements
During the past three years working towards my PhD degree, I was very fortunate enough to
come across many great individuals and I am very grateful for it. I would like to give the utmost
gratitude to my thesis advisor, professor David J. Goodman. Not only was he generous enough
to guide my thesis research during his busy schedules, but he was also my role model as a great
engineer and teacher. Through numerous discussions and one-on-one meetings, I learned so
much from him and I greatly appreciate all the advice and wisdom, big and small.
I would like to thank the members of the guidance committee, professor Peter Voltz,
professor Elza Erkip, and Donald Grieco, for their time and valuable feedback on my research. I
am honored to have them on the committee. I also wish to express my special appreciation to
Dr. Junsung Lim and Kyungjin Oh with whom I carried out joint research on SC-FDMA
resource scheduling. I thank them for the many hours spent together doing research and
encouraging each other. I am also grateful to my parents for their support and encouragement to
pursue the PhD study.
Lastly, I would like to thank my wife and soul mate Hyun Joo who stood behind me rain or
shine. Her loving and caring words were sources of encouragement to me and I am deeply
grateful for them.
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An Abstract
Single Carrier Orthogonal Multiple Access Technique
for Broadband Wireless Communications
by
Hyung G. Myung
Advisor: David J. Goodman
Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements
For the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy
January 2007
Broadband wireless mobile communications suffer from multipath frequency-selective fading.
Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) and orthogonal frequency division
multiple access (OFDMA), which are multicarrier communication techniques, have become
widely accepted primarily because of its robustness against frequency selective fading channels.
Despite the many advantages, OFDM and OFDMA suffer a number of drawbacks; high peak-
to-average power ratio (PAPR), a need for an adaptive or coded scheme to overcome spectral
nulls in the channel, and high sensitivity to frequency offset.