Analysis and comparison of several simple impulsive noise mitigation schemes for OFDM receivers

In this paper, we analyze and compare the performance of OFDM receivers with blanking, clipping and combined blanking-clipping nonlinear preprocessors in the presence of impulsive noise. Closed-form analytical expressions for the signal-to-noise ratio at the output of three types of nonlinearity are derived. Simulation results are provided that show good agreement with theory.