Single-Carrier Frequency-Domain Equalization With Index Modulation

Motivated by the recent index modulation (IM) concept in the spatial, frequency, and space-time domains, we propose a novel broadband single-carrier (SC)-based IM (SC-IM) scheme as well as its low-complexity frequency-domain equalization (FDE) algorithm. The proposed FDE-aided SC-IM scheme outperforms the conventional FDE-aided SC scheme, while achieving a comparable low level of detection complexity. In addition, in order to reduce the inter-channel correlation arising from the activated symbol indices, we propose a symbol mapping algorithm, which further improves the achievable error-rate performance of the SC-IM scheme. Our simulation results demonstrate the performance advantage of the proposed FDE-aided SC-IM scheme over the conventional FDE-aided SC scheme.