Resource block Filtered-OFDM for future spectrally agile and power efficient systems

Spectrum scarcity will become a roadblock for the expansion of the overall wireless industry. In order to evade the roadblock, regulators and government agencies are seeking new spectra and encouraging the development of technologies that will support efficient spectrum sharing. A critical component to fully utilize the potential benefits of spectrum sharing is a spectrally agile baseband waveform with minimal out-of-band emissions. This paper proposes a new multicarrier modulation technique, called resource block Filtered-OFDM (RB-F-OFDM) and presents the transceiver design.