@inproceedings{discovery10080752, journal = {IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference}, publisher = {IEEE}, year = {2019}, title = {Quadrupling the data rate for narrowband internet of things without modulation upgrade}, month = {June}, booktitle = {2019 IEEE 89th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2019-Spring)}, address = {Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia}, note = {This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher's terms and conditions.}, issn = {1550-2252}, author = {Liu, X and Darwazeh, I}, abstract = {This work proposes a novel signalling method for Narrowband Internet of Things (NB-IoT) mobile system where a quadrupled data rate can be achieved by combining two orthogonal techniques; the frequency orthogonal Fast-Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (Fast-OFDM) scheme coupled with the time orthogonal Hilbert transform (HT) pair. In this paper, the orthogonality features of one dimension in Fast-OFDM and of the HT pair are explored. The newly designed system structure is presented where the HT pulse pair is generated by square root raised cosine (SRRC) filter with a matched configuration at the receiver. System performance is investigated in terms of bit error rate (BER), effective data rate and spectral efficiency. Simulation results show that the HT-Fast-OFDM system provides 4 times the data rate relative to an OFDM system employing the same modulation scheme and occupying the same bandwidth. Furthermore, the proposed system has compelling advantages over 16-QAM OFDM for it achieves a better BER performance at the same spectral efficiency}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1109/VTCSpring.2019.8746685}, keywords = {Fast-OFDM, Hilbert transform pair, data rate, spectral efficiency, NB-IoT} }