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Performance Analysis of DWT Based OFDM-IM System in α − κ −µ Fading Environment Cover

Performance Analysis of DWT Based OFDM-IM System in α − κ −µ Fading Environment

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|May 2026

Figures & Tables

Figure 1:

Building blocks of IFFT based OFDM-IM system. IFFT, inverse fast Fourier transform; OFDM, orthogonal frequency division multiplexing; OFDM-IM, OFDM with index modulation.

Figure 2:

Building blocks of DWT based OFDM-IM system. DWT, discrete wavelet transform; OFDM, orthogonal frequency division multiplexing; OFDM-IM, OFDM with index modulation.

Figure 3:

CCDF curves for FFT & DWT based OFDM-IM system. CCDF, complementary cumulative distribution function; DWT, discrete wavelet transform; IFFT, inverse fast Fourier transform; OFDM, orthogonal frequency division multiplexing; OFDM-IM, OFDM with index modulation.

Figure 4:

BER curves for α = 2,κ = 0,µ =1 and α = 2,κ = 0,µ =0.5. BER, bit error rate.

Values of α, κ and µ for various fading distribution

Sl. No.Distributionακµ
1Rayleigh201
2Rician211
3Nakagami-m20<1
4Gaussain200.5
5Weibull3.501

Simulation parameters for OFDM-IM system

Sl. No.DistributionFFT based systemDWT based system
1Number of symbols10,00010,000
2FFT/DWT size64-
3ModulationM-QAMM-QAM
4Subcarriers512512
5Cyclic prefix duration0.8 µs-
6Sampling frequency20 MHz
7Total symbol duration4 µs
8Subcarrier index−26 to −1; +1 to +26
9Subcarrier spacing312.5 KHz
10Mapping scheme8-QAM
Language: English
Submitted on: May 19, 2025
Published on: May 26, 2026
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year

© 2026 Alok Joshi, Rachna Singh, Gunjan Gupta, published by Macquarie University, Australia
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

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