Enhanced communication system

Abstract

An improved non-OFDM communication system and method replaces an FFT at the receiver with an alternative processing configuration. The use of dense subcarriers and assigning A, B pairs based upon a pre-assigned QAM bit-mapped constellation will be maintained as with traditional OFDM. However, the receiver sample-rate is independent of subcarrier frequency-separation, and the system does not maintain separate real and imaginary signals at the transmitter and receiver. The system also processes receiver samples incrementally without awaiting the end of the modulation cycle, and uses incrementally-processed data to characterize disruptions introduced by the channel so as to better adapt to these disruptions. The system has the potential to increase signal throughput by a factor of two by re-using one of the freed-up information paths previously used by the real and imaginary signals.