5. Conclusion
In this paper, the PSD and uplink sum rate of SC-FDMA and GFDMA with windowing have been compared in the AWGN channel. Owing to low OOB emission in the GFDM PSD, the uplink sum rate of GFDMA becomes higher than that of SC-FDMA in the scenario where the number of guard band subcarriers is small—i.e., high user density with K > 4— or where the SNR is higher than 15 dB—i.e., ICI dominates noise. Apart from the sum rate, the peak-to-average-power ratio in GFDM, which is an also important performance measure in the uplink, can be reduced significantly as in SC-FDM by employing the DFT spreading technique [5].