SC-FDMA is a new technique that has drawn attention from the communications industry as an attractive alternative to Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA). SC-FDMA offers a prominent advantage over OFDMA as its signal has lower PAPR (peak to average power ratio), which benefits the mobile terminal in terms of transmit power efficiency and manufacturing costs.

This book provides a technical overview of Single Carrier FDMA (SC-FDMA). SC-FDMA is currently a working assumption for the uplink radio air interface in the 3GPP Long Term Evolution  (long term evolution). The book places SC-FDMA in the wider context of wireless communications technology and will provide readers with an in-depth overview and tutorial on SC-FDMA technologies over ten chapters. Features link level simulation of an SC-FDMA System using Matlab.