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subcarrier

[¦səb′kar·ē·ər]
(communications)
A carrier that is applied as a modulating wave to modulate another carrier.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

subcarrier

A secondary telecommunications channel that resides within the main channel (a carrier within a carrier). A type of multiplexing, the subcarrier is a modulated carrier signal at a lower frequency that is combined with the main carrier signal running at a higher frequency.

Many Uses
Color TV signals were added in a subcarrier to black and white signals in order to maintain backward compatibility with monochrome TV sets. Stereo was added to FM radio in a subcarrier for compatibility. Subcarriers are also often used to provide the audio channel in a video broadcast. See carrier.
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The main idea is to search the unused subcarrier and then reallocate this to the HUEs.
The power control and sub carrier group assignment strategy in the MCCDMA system improves the BER performance by eliminating transmission on poor subcarrier. Since majority of bit errors occur on severely degraded subcarriers.
When all of the subcarriers in an OFDM system have the same phases, it's possible to reach the maximum power which results in mean | s(t) [|.sup.2] = 1, this makes the PAPR = N which means the maximum power equals N times the mean power.
where [S.sub.p][k] is the transmitted preamble symbols on the kth subcarrier. Because of the TDC-SLM in the time domain, the channel frequency response needs to be modified during the data period.
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Then, it can do a Fast Fourier Transform for every symbol to recover the 52 QAM values of all subcarriers. The training symbols and pilot subcarriers are used to correct for the channel response as well as remaining phase drift.
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Figure 5 shows the CCDF of the PAPR of the five kinds of null subcarrier design with full iteration (l = M).
, [x.sub.r,M-1]} are the QPSK symbols transmitted on the mth subcarrier in the rth block and {[c.sub.0], ...
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