An STBC/SFBC-based signal transmission method and apparatus is provided for use in a multi-carrier system. A method for a transmitter to transmit a signal to a receiver in a diversity transmission mode according to the present invention includes transmitting a filter index indicating a filter allocated to the receiver and transmitting Space Time Block Code (STBC) symbols to the receiver at symbol positions selected based on the filter index.

An FBMC signal transmitting method and receiving method, a transmitter, and a receiver are provided. The transmitting method includes: generating offset quadrature amplitude modulation OQAM symbols included on at least two subbands; mapping an OQAM symbol on each subband onto a respective subcarrier to obtain a frequency-domain signal, where a first frequency interval exists between adjacent subcarriers in a same subband, a second frequency interval exists between adjacent subcarriers that belong to two adjacent subbands, the second frequency interval is a sum of the first frequency interval and a guard band interval, and the guard band interval is a fractional multiple of the first frequency interval; generating an FBMC signal out of the frequency-domain signal; and transmitting the FBMC signal to a receiver.

This invention discloses a multicarrier communication system that includes a transmitter equipment and a receiver equipment. According to a timing scheme, the transmitter equipment processes multiple original symbols for transmission on multiple subcarrier channels, and the receiver equipment processes and detects multiple received symbols from the multiple subcarrier channels. During a time frame of data transmission, the initial three of the original symbols for each of the subcarrier channels are three pilot symbols, forming a preamble. The three preambles of every consecutive three of the subcarrier channels form a preamble unit. All the pilot symbols of the preamble unit are expressed as a 33 matrix. When the center pilot symbol of the preamble unit is normalized to 1 or j (i.e., the imaginary unit), the matrix is $\left[\begin{array}{ccc}-j& -j& -j\\ j& 1& -j\\ -j& j& -j\end{array}\right]\mathrm{or}[\begin{array}{ccc}1& 1& 1\\ -1& j& 1\\ 1& -1& 1\end{array}$

A Filter Bank Multicarrier (FBMC) modulation-based signal transmitting method includes mapping, by a transmitter, an original Data Block (DB) with at least one symbol to a first Resource Block (RB), preprocessing the original DB, and mapping the preprocessed original DB to a second RB, modulating, by the transmitter, data of the first RB and the second RB by using a FBMC modulation, and, transmitting, by the transmitter, the data modulated. A transmitter, comprising a mapping module, a modulating module and a transmitting module, wherein the mapping module is to map an original DB with at least one symbol to a first resource block (RB), preprocess the original DB, and map the preprocessed original DB to a second RB, the modulating module is to modulate data of the first RB and the second RB, by using FBMC modulation, and, the transmitting module is to transmit the data modulated.

A method for operating a device includes determining adaptation criteria for a waveform to be transmitted by a transmitting device over a communications channel towards a receiving device, and adjusting a generalized multi-carrier multiplexing parameter (GMMP) of the waveform in accordance with the adaptation criteria. The method also includes transmitting an indicator of the adjusted GMMP to at least one of the transmitting device and the receiving device.

A device configured to perform a stage of circular convolutions in an Overlap-Save Filtered-Bank Multicarrier Communication (OS-FBMC) or Overlap-Save-Block FBMC (OSB-FBMC) receiver and the corresponding method, the stage of circular convolutions comprising P circular convolutions operated between subsets of input samples and frequency domain responses of a frequency shifted version of a prototype filter associated to an FBMC modulation having C.sub.g coefficients, with P an integer greater than one, the device comprising at least one Finite Impulse Response filter implemented in the form of a transposed direct filter having at least C.sub.g?1 taps numbered p=??+1 to p=? with $?=\frac{c_g-1}{2},$
wherein the multiplier coefficient of each tap p within the set of taps ??+1; 0 has an equal absolute value to the multiplier coefficient of tap (1?p). An FBMC equalization and demodulation unit or an FBMC receiver comprising the device.

A transmitter of an FBMC-MIMO system in which, for each FBMC-OQAM modulator associated with a transmission antenna, the symbols of a block to be transmitted are grouped in pairs, the input symbols in a pair being combined to output first and second combined symbols, the combined symbols being input to the FBMC-OQAM modulator. The invention also relates to a receiver including an FBMC-OQAM demodulator (410.sub.1, . . . ,410.sub.N.sub.R) and an ML detector (450.sub.k) from the observables obtained, for each reception antenna. The used ML detection allows for not being affected by intrinsic interference and obtaining a high degree of diversity without increasing the number of antennas.

The disclosure relates to a new Alamouti-based mapping scheme for use in a real field FBMC modulation system which can reduce FBMC-intrinsic interference and allows approaching optimal performance. The Alamouti-based mapping scheme proposed herein can be used for implementing space-time or space-frequency block codes (STBC/SFBC) codes. The proposed Alamouti-based mapping scheme suggests specific patterns to negate/invert signs of the modulation symbols of Alamouti pairs in the Alamouti mapping. By using these special patterns of sign negation, the FBMC-intrinsic interference can be reduced significantly so that it may become possible to use conventional Alamouti demapping/decoding procedures on the receiving side with an overall acceptable performance in real life systems.

Disclosed is a 5G or pre-5G communication system to be provided for supporting a data transmission rate higher than that of a 4G communication system such as LTE. Particularly, the present invention relates to a communication device and method in a filter-bank based single carrier frequency division multiple access (FB based SC-FDMA) system and, particularly, to a communication device and method for lowering a peak to average power ratio (PAPR) in an uplink.

This invention discloses a multicarrier communication system that includes a transmitter equipment and a receiver equipment. According to a timing scheme, the transmitter equipment processes multiple original symbols for transmission on multiple subcarrier channels, and the receiver equipment processes and detects multiple received symbols from the multiple subcarrier channels. During a time frame of data transmission, the initial three of the original symbols for each of the subcarrier channels are three pilot symbols, forming a preamble. The three preambles of every consecutive three of the subcarrier channels form a preamble unit. All the pilot symbols of the preamble unit are expressed as a 33 matrix. When the center pilot symbol of the preamble unit is normalized to 1 or j (i.e., the imaginary unit), the matrix is

[00001]$\left[\begin{array}{ccc}-j& -j& -j\\ j& 1& -j\\ -j& j& -j\end{array}\right].Math..Math.\mathrm{or}.Math.\left[\begin{array}{ccc}1& 1& 1\\ -1& j& 1\\ 1& -1& 1\end{array}\right].$

A channel estimation method for the multicarrier communication system is also disclosed.