Symbol Error Rate Calculation for Generalized Frequency Division Multiplexing in 5G Wireless Communication Systems

Current cellular systems of the fourth generation (4G) are not able to meet the emerging demands such as higher data rates, very low-latency transmissions and sensors with ultra-low-power consumption for future mobile communication systems. To address these requirements, Generalized frequency division multiplexing (GFDM), a novel new multi-carrier modulation technique that can be seen as a generalization of traditional Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) is proposed .The purpose of this paper is to study the performance of symbol error rate (SER) expressions of GFDM in some frequency selective channels. A GFDM transceiver simulation test bed with two type of receiver-zero forcing receiver and matched filter receiver show how the SER is reduced with increasing SNR for GFDM and compare to the SER of OFDM .The finding of this paper is that the performance of SER of GFDM with respect to SER is better than that of OFDM. With such performance GFDM can be a reliable technique for next generation of wireless communication.