Analysis of intertone and interblock interference in OFDM when the length of the cyclic prefix is shorter than the length of the impulse response of the channel

Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) is a modulation technique that resists the effects of a multipath channel when provided an ample cyclic prefix. No intersymbol interference is caused in channels whose impulse responses are shorter than the cyclic prefix length. However interference arises when this is not the case. This paper describes the degradation of the system under this scenario. In particular, simulations describing a suburban hilly environment are done for several cyclic prefix lengths.