| Abstract | A higher network throughput, a minimized delay and reliable communications
are some of many goals that wireless communication standards, such as the fifthgeneration
(5G) standard and beyond, intend to guarantee for its customers. Hence,
many key innovations are currently being proposed and investigated by researchers in
the academic and industry circles to fulfill these goals. This dissertation investigates
some of the proposed techniques that aim at increasing the spectral efficiency, enhancing
the energy efficiency, and enabling low latency wireless communications systems.
The contributions lay in the evaluation of the performance of several proposed receiver
architectures as well as proposing novel digital signal processing (DSP) algorithms to
enhance the performance of radio transceivers. Particularly, the effects of several radio
frequency (RF) impairments on the functionality of a new class of wireless transceivers,
the full-duplex transceivers, are thoroughly investigated. These transceivers are then
designed to operate in a relaying scenario, where relay selection and beamforming
are applied in a relaying network to increase its spectral efficiency. The dissertation
then investigates the use of greedy algorithms in recovering orthogonal frequency
division multiplexing (OFDM) signals by using sparse equalizers, which carry out the
equalization in a more efficient manner when the low-complexity single tap OFDM
equalizer can no longer recover the received signal due to severe interferences. The
proposed sparse equalizers are shown to perform close to conventional optimal and
dense equalizers when the OFDM signals are impaired by interferences caused by the
insertion of an insufficient cyclic prefix and RF impairments. |
