OFDM
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OFDM (uncountable)
(electronics, telecommunications) Initialism of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing.
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ADSL OFDM is used in ADSL connections that follow the ANSI T1.413 and G.dmt (ITU G.992.1) standards, where it is called discrete multitone modulation (DMT).
Although the principles and some of the benefits have been known since the 1960s, OFDM is popular for wideband communications today by way of low-cost digital signal processing components that can efficiently calculate the FFT.
Below are the different widely used digital television broadcasting standards (DTB): * Digital Video Broadcasting ( DVB ) uses coded orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing ( OFDM ) modulation and supports hierarchical transmission.
Because multipath propagation behaves differently in each kind of wire, G.hn uses different OFDM parameters (OFDM symbol duration, Guard Interval duration) for each media.
DAB was the first standard based on orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) modulation technique, which since then has become one of the most popular transmission schemes for modern wideband digital communication systems.
Although the spectral efficiency of OFDM is attractive for both terrestrial and space communications, the high PAPR requirements have so far limited OFDM applications to terrestrial systems.