TY - GEN A1 - Liu, X A1 - Darwazeh, I KW - Fast-OFDM KW - Hilbert transform pair KW - data rate KW - spectral efficiency KW - NB-IoT CY - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia PB - IEEE UR - https://doi.org/10.1109/VTCSpring.2019.8746685 SN - 1550-2252 N2 - 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 ID - discovery10080752 N1 - This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher?s terms and conditions. AV - public Y1 - 2019/06/27/ TI - Quadrupling the data rate for narrowband internet of things without modulation upgrade ER -