... the set of measured channels intro-duced in Section 2. As mentioned in Section 1, it is in- appropriate to assess the performance of the OFDMsystem in terms of the SNIR, since maximizing it ... difference in the value of the impulse response from the beginning to the end of the symbol. The range of validity of this approximationwill be assessed, a posteriori, in Section 4.Introducing (14) into ... number of carriers in the range of interest, thechannel can be assumed to have a slow-varying beha-vior, and its variation along the useful part of theOFDM symbol may be approximated as linear...