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Chapter 3 Structure of the Simulator:
This chapter is dedicated to the Matlab implementation of a BICM based OFDMA transceiver system in the equivalent baseband. We assume that the time and frequency resources are organized as in the LTE standard, but without considering all the details and only the downlink transmission scheme is considered. Each implemented block will be explained and discussed. A particular focus here is the performance of the interference aware receiver in an inter-cell interference environment with one dominant interferer. Additional optimization techniques are also proposed and discussed in this chapter such as boosted pilot symbols in the interferer and REs puncturing in the signal of interest. In fact, LTE standard allows a certain degree of freedom in the signal generation, which makes these two optimization techniques easy to incorporate in real systems.

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