Impact of Inter-Frame Interference on Eigendecomposition-Precoded Non-Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiplexing

This letter first investigates the effects of inter-frame interference (IFI) on the recent eigendecomposition-precoded (EVD) non-orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (NOFDM) transmission scheme, where subcarrier spacing is set smaller than that of orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM). More specifically, the system model of EVD-NOFDM is generalized to support multi-frame transmission, and we propose an optimal power allocation for the multi-frame EVD-NOFDM architecture. The NOFDM scheme's information rate bound is derived and evaluated by our theoretical analysis by assuming the presence of IFI, whereas most previous NOFDM studies ignored IFI effects. Our performance results demonstrate that the proposed multi-frame NOFDM scheme eliminates the detrimental IFI effects while attaining its specific benefits of bandwidth efficiency.