A Modified Approach Based On SLM for OFDM PAPR Reduction Using Time Domain Sub-Block Conversion Matrix

OFDM is a digital transmission method developed to meet the increasing demand for higher data rates in communications which can be used in both wired and wireless environments. This paper describes the issue of the PAPR in OFDM which is a major drawback, and presents new and variations to existing algorithms to reduce it. The effect on system performance in terms of the BER and Power Spectral Density is simulated for an OFDM transceiver with a saturated High Power Amplifier. A modified SLM approach based on time-domain sub-block conversion matrices to reduce the computational complexity due to multiple IFFTs. This scheme is modified from the conversion matrix scheme. By dividing the frequency-domain signals into multiple sub-blocks, the number of the valid conversion matrices can be increased, and thus more candidate signals are available for PAPR reduction. By applying proposed scheme, the number of candidate signals can be increased from 12 in the original conversion matrix scheme to 28 and 128 for the two sub block and four-sub block cases, respectively. The scheme will provide improved PAPR reduction performance. In the same paper problem occurs due to the side information is also try to reduced. false side information detection degrades the bit error rate (BER) performance signi?cantly. In this paper, we propose a novel SLM scheme without any side information by devising phase rotation and simple scrambler detection in the receiver. DOI: 10.17762/ijritcc2321-8169.16043

Low-Complexity Schemes for Class-III and CORR SLM in OFDM Systems

학위논문 (박사)-- 서울대학교 대학원 : 전기·컴퓨터공학부, 2015. 8. 노종선.In this dissertation, orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) system is studied. Since OFDM signal sequence undergoes high peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR), several schemes are proposed to mitigate the PAPR problem. PAPR reduction schemes such as selected mapping (SLM) and partial transmit sequence (PTS) are introduced. Due to the high computational complexity of the SLM scheme, low-complexity SLM schemes have been proposed by many researchers. Class-III SLM scheme [55] requires only one inverse fast Fourier transform (IFFT) operation, whereas the conventional scheme needs U IFFT operations. By randomly selecting the cyclic shift and rotation values, this scheme can generate up to N3 alternative OFDM signal sequences. The PAPR reduction performance of Class-III SLM scheme is little degraded compared to the conventional SLM scheme. Recently, instead of PAPR reduction, the different performance criteria for SLM scheme are proposed such as inter modulation distortion [38] and correlation (CORR) [56]. The objective of these schemes are enhancing the bit error rate (BER) performance instead of PAPR reduction performance. In the first part of this dissertation, a deterministic selection method of phase sequences is proposed for Class-III SLM scheme [55]. First, the optimal condition of cyclic shift values in the Class-III SLM scheme is proposed. Then, the cyclic shift values satisfying the optimal condition is also derived. Compared to the random selection method, the proposed selection method guarantees the optimal PAPR reduction performance. Second, two generation methods for good alternative OFDM signal sequences are proposed, one by using rotation values which do not have linear relation and the other with no rotation values. The advantages of the proposed selection schemes are: (a) The second proposed selection scheme does not need the rotation values. (b) Both of the proposed selection schemes require less side information than random selection scheme. (c) The first proposed selection scheme guarantees the optimal PAPR reduction performance in terms of variance of correlation. In the second part of this dissertation, the proper oversampling rate for the CORR SLMscheme is proposed. It is known that four times oversampling is enough to estimate the PAPR of the continuous OFDM signal. By calculating the correlation coefficient between the continuous and two times oversampled OFDMsignal sequences, it is found that two times oversampling is enough to achieve the same BER performance as four times oversampling case in the CORR SLM scheme. In the simulation results, the same BER performance can be achieved by the proposed two times oversampling rate as four times oversampling case.Abstract i Contents iii List of Tables vii List of Figures ix 1. Introduction 1 1.1. Background . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 1.2. Overview of Dissertation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 2. OFDM System Model 7 2.1. OFDM System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 2.2. Modulation and Demodulation of OFDM Signal . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 2.2.1. Orthogonality Principle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 2.2.2. OFDM Signal Modulation and Demodulation . . . . . . . . . . 10 2.3. Fast Fourier Transform . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 2.4. Guard Interval . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 2.5. Peak-to-Average Power Ratio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 2.5.1. Definition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 2.5.2. The distribution of PAPR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 2.5.3. PAPR of Oversampled Signal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 3. PAPR Reduction Schemes 17 3.1. Clipping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 3.2. Tone Reservation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 3.3. Partial Transmit Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 3.4. Selected Mapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 3.5. Low-Complexity SLM Schemes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 3.5.1. SLM Scheme with Divided IFFT Stages . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 3.5.2. Modified SLM Scheme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 3.5.3. SLM Scheme with Conversion Matrices . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 3.6. Considerations for PAPR Reduction Schemes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 4. BER Reduction Schemes 30 4.1. PTS Scheme with PICR Metric . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 4.2. IMD Reduction Scheme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 4.3. PTS Scheme with MSE Metric . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 4.4. DSR Reduction Scheme with Distortion Prediction . . . . . . . . . . . 34 5. Low-Complexity Class-III SLM Scheme 37 5.1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 5.2. Overview of Class-III SLM Scheme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 5.3. Selection of Optimal Alternative OFDM Signal Sequences for Class-III SLM Scheme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 5.3.1. Correlation Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 5.3.2. Selection of Optimal Cyclic Shift Values . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 5.3.3. Maximum Number of Optimal Alternative OFDM Signal Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 5.3.4. Selection of Additional Alternative OFDM Signal Sequences . . 49 5.4. Side Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 5.5. Simulation Results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 5.6. Discussions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 5.7. Conclusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 6. Low-Complexity CORR SLM Scheme 61 6.1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 6.2. Overview of SLM Scheme Using CORR Metric . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 6.2.1. Overview of CORR Metric . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 6.2.2. BER Performance of SLM Scheme under HPA . . . . . . . . . 65 6.3. Oversampling Effect on SLM Scheme Using CORR Metric . . . . . . . 67 6.3.1. Expression of Oversampled Signal and CORR Metric . . . . . . 67 6.3.2. Correlation Coefficients between Coefficient Sequences Derived from CORR Metric Computation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 6.4. Computational Complexity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 6.5. Simulation Results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 6.6. Discussions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 6.6.1. Effect of 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 6.6.2. Future Work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 6.6.2.1. Comparative CORR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 6.6.2.2. Low Sampled CORR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 6.7. Conclusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 7. Conclusions 86 Bibliography 88 초록 96Docto

PAPR and ICI reduction techniques for OFDM based satellite communication systems

Multi-carrier systems such as orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) are significantly affected by peak-to-average-power ratio (PAPR). Unfortunately, the high PAPR inherent to OFDM signals envelopes will occasionally drive high power amplifiers (HPAs) to operate in the nonlinear region of their characteristic curve. The nonlinearity of the HPA exhibits amplitude and phase distortions, which cause loss of orthogonality among the subcarriers (SCs), and hence, inter-carrier interference (ICI) is introduced in the transmitted signal. The ICI power is proportional to the amplitude of the signal at the amplifier input and it may cause a considerable bit error rate (BER) degradation. A plethora of research has been devoted to reduce the performance degradation due to the PAPR problem inherent to OFDM systems. Some of the reported techniques such as amplitude clipping have low-complexity; on the other hand, they suffer from various problems such as in-band distortion and out-of-band expansion. Signal companding methods have low-complexity, good distortion and spectral properties; however, they have limited PAPR reduction capabilities. Advanced techniques such as coding, partial transmit sequences (PTS) and selected mapping (SLM) have also been considered for PAPR reduction. Such techniques are efficient and distortionless, nevertheless, their computational complexity is high and requires the transmission of several side information (SI) bits. In this thesis, a new low-complexity scheme is proposed based on the PTS that employs two inverse fast Fourier transforms (IFFTs) and two circulant transform matrices, in order to reduce complexity and improve the system performance. Furthermore, the low-complexity scheme is simplified by omitting one of the circulant transform matrices in order to reduce both the computational complexity and the number of SI bits at the cost of a small reduction in PAPR and BER performance. It is well known that, accurate PAPR estimation requires oversampling of the transmitted signal, which in turn results in increased complexity. More importantly, minimising the PAPR does not necessarily minimise the distortion produced by the nonlinearity of the HPA. Therefore, minimising PAPR does not necessarily imply that the BER will be minimised too. Efficient and less complex schemes for BER reduction of OFDM systems in the presence of nonlinear HPA and/or carrier frequency offset (CFO) are proposed. These proposed techniques are based on predicting the distortion introduced by the nonlinearity of HPA and/or CFO. Subsequently, techniques such as the PTS and SLM are invoked to minimise the distortion and BER. Three distortion metrics are adopted in this thesis: inter-modulation distortion (IMD), peak interference-to-carrier ratio (PICR) and distortion-to-signal power ratio (DSR). Monte Carlo simulations will confirm that the DSR and PICR are more reliable than the PAPR and IMD for selecting the coefficients of the PTS and SLM to minimise the BER. Furthermore, complexity analyses demonstrate that the proposed schemes offer significant complexity reduction when compared to standard PAPR-based methods. A closed form solution for accurate BER for the OFDM signals perturbed by both the HPA nonlinearity and CFO was derived. Good agreement between the simulation results and the theoretical analysis can be obtained for different HPA parameters and CFOs. Finally, efficient approaches to reduce the impact of nonlinear power amplifiers with respect to the BER of OFDM systems are proposed. These are approaches based on: the well-established PAPR schemes, a power amplifier model and a simple single point cross correlator. The optimum phase sequence within the proposed approaches is selected by maximising the correlation between the input and output of the power amplifier model. Simulation results have confirmed that the BER using the proposed approaches is almost identical to the DSR, while the complexity is reduced significantly for particular system configurations.EThOS - Electronic Theses Online ServiceGBUnited Kingdo

Performance evaluation of T-transform based OFDM in underwater acoustic channels

PhD ThesisRecently there has been an increasing trend towards the implementation of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) based multicarrier communication systems in underwater acoustic communications. By dividing the available bandwidth into multiple sub-bands, OFDM systems enable reliable transmission over long range dispersive channels. However OFDM is prone to impairments such as severe frequency selective fading channels, motioned induced Doppler shift and high peak-to-average-power ratio (PAPR). In order to fully exploit the potential of OFDM in UWA channels, those issues have received a great deal of attention in recent research. With the aim of improving OFDM's performance in UWA channels, a T-transformed based OFDM system is introduced using a low computational complexity T-transform that combines the Walsh-Hadamard transform (WHT) and the discrete Fourier transform (DFT) into a single fast orthonormal unitary transform. Through real-world experiment, performance comparison between the proposed T-OFDM system and conventional OFDM system revealed that T-OFDM performs better than OFDM with high code rate in frequency selective fading channels. Furthermore, investigation of different equalizer techniques have shown that the limitation of ZF equalizers affect the T-OFDM more (one bad equalizer coefficient affects all symbols) and so developed a modified ZF equalizer with outlier detection which provides major performance gain without excessive computation load. Lastly, investigation of PAPR reduction methods delineated that T-OFDM has inherently lower PAPR and it is also far more tolerant of distortions introduced by the simple clipping method. As a result, lower PAPR can be achieved with minimal overhead and so outperforming OFDM for a given power limit at the transmitter

OFDM 시스템을 위한 새로운 저 복잡도 SLM 방식 및 클리핑 잡음 제거 기법 연구

학위논문 (박사)-- 서울대학교 대학원 : 전기·컴퓨터공학부, 2015. 2. 노종선.In this dissertation, several research results for the peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) reduction schemes for orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems are discussed. First, the basic principle and implementation of the OFDM systems are introduced, where high PAPR of OFDM signal is one of main drawbacks of OFDM systems. Thus, many PAPR reduction schemes to solve this problem have been studied such as clipping, selected mapping (SLM), partial transmit sequence (PTS), and tone reservation. In the first part of this dissertation, a low-complexity SLM scheme is proposed, where the proposed SLM scheme generates alternative OFDM signal sequences by cyclically shifting the connections in each subblock at an intermediate stage of inverse fast Fourier transform (IFFT). Compared with the conventional SLM scheme, the proposed SLM scheme achieves similar PAPR reduction performance with much lower computational complexity and no bit error rate (BER) degradation. The performance of the proposed SLM scheme is analyzed mathematically and verified through numerical analysis. Also, it is shown that the proposed SLM scheme has the lowest computational complexity among the existing low-complexity SLM schemes exploiting the signals at an intermediate stage of IFFT. In the second part of this dissertation, an efficient selection (ES) method of the OFDM signal sequence with the minimum PAPR among many alternative OFDM signal sequences is proposed, which can be used for various SLM schemes. The proposed ES method efficiently generates each component of alternative OFDM signal by utilizing the structure of IFFT and calculates its power, and such generation procedure is interrupted if the calculated power is larger than the given threshold. By using the proposed ES method, the average computational complexity of considered SLM schemes is substantially reduced without degradation of PAPR reduction performance, which is confirmed by analytical and numerical results. In the third part of this dissertation, a clipping noise cancellation scheme using compressed sensing (CS) technique is proposed for OFDM systems. The proposed scheme does not need reserved tones or pilot tones, which is different from the previous works using CS technique. Instead, observations of the clipping noise in data tones are exploited, which leads to no loss of data rate. Also, in contrast with the previous works, the proposed scheme selectively exploits the reliable observations of the clipping noise instead of using whole observations, which results in minimizing the bad influence of channel noise. From the selected reliable observations, the clipping noise in time domain is reconstructed and cancelled by using CS technique. Simulation results show that the proposed scheme performs well compared to other conventional clipping noise cancellation schemes and shows the best performance in the severely clipped cases.1. Introduction 1 1.1. Background 1 1.2. Overview of Dissertation 4 2. OFDM Systems 6 2.1. OFDM System Model 7 2.2. Peak-to-Average Power Ratio 8 2.2.1. Definition of PAPR 9 2.2.2. Distribution of PAPR 9 3. PAPR Reduction Schemes 11 3.1. Clipping 11 3.1.1. Clipping at Transmitter 11 3.1.2. A Statistical Model of Clipped Signals 13 3.1.3. Conventional Receiver without Clipping Noise Cancellation Scheme 15 3.2. Selected Mapping 16 3.3. Low-Complexity SLM Schemes 18 3.3.1. Lims SLM Scheme [25] 18 3.3.2. Wangs SLM Scheme [22] 19 3.3.3. Baxleys SLM Scheme [27] 19 3.4. Tone Reservation 20 4. A New Low-Complexity SLM Scheme for OFDM Systems 22 4.1. A New SLM Scheme with Low-Complexity 23 4.1.1. A New SLM Scheme 23 4.1.2. Relation Between the Proposed SLM Scheme and the Conventional SLM Scheme 26 4.1.3. Good Shift Values for the Proposed SLM Scheme 28 4.1.4. Methods to Generate Good Shift Values 31 4.1.5. Computational Complexity 33 4.2. Simulation Results 36 4.3. Conclusions 37 5. An Efficient Selection Method of a Transmitted OFDM Signal Sequence for Various SLM Schemes 42 5.1. ES Method and Its Application to the Conventional SLM Scheme 43 5.1.1. Sequential Generation of OFDM Signal Components in the Conventional SLM Scheme 43 5.1.2. Application of the ES Method to the Conventional SLM Scheme 45 5.1.3. Complexity Analysis for Nyquist Sampling Case 47 5.1.3.1. Characteristics of a Nyquist-Sampled OFDM Signal Sequence 48 5.1.3.2. Derivation of KN(b) 49 5.1.3.3. Distribution of pBu(bu) 51 5.1.4. Complexity Analysis for Oversampling Case 52 5.1.4.1. Characteristics of a Four-Times Oversampled OFDM Signal Sequence 52 5.1.4.2. Derivation of K4N(b) 53 5.1.4.3. Distribution of pBu(bu) 54 5.1.5. Comparison between Analytical and Simulation Results 55 5.2. Application of the ES Method to Various Low-Complexity SLM Schemes 57 5.2.1. Lims SLM Scheme Aided by the ES Method 57 5.2.2. Wangs SLM Scheme Aided by the ES Method 58 5.2.3. Baxelys SLM Scheme Aided by the ES Method 58 5.3. Simulation Results 59 5.3.1. Simulation Results for the Conventional SLM Scheme Aided by the ES Method 59 5.3.2. Simulation Results for Low-Complexity SLM Schemes Aided by the ES Method 60 5.4. Conclusions 62 6. Clipping Noise Cancellation for OFDM Systems Using Reliable Observations Based on Compressed Sensing 68 6.1. Preliminaries 71 6.1.1. Notation 71 6.1.2. Compressed Sensing 71 6.2. Clipping Noise Cancellation for OFDM Systems Based on CS 73 6.2.1. Sparsity of c 73 6.2.1.1. Sparsity of c for Clipping at the Nyquist Sampling Rate 73 6.2.1.2. Sparsity of c for Clipping and Filtering at an Oversampling Rate 74 6.2.2. Reconstruction of the Clipping Noise c by CS 75 6.2.3. Construction of the Compressed Observation Vector Y 77 6.2.3.1. Which Observations Should Be Selected 78 6.2.3.2. Estimation of θ(k) Based on H1(k)Y (k) 78 6.2.3.3. Selection Criterion of Observations 81 6.2.4. Computational Complexity 81 6.3. Simulation Results 82 6.3.1. AWGN Channel 82 6.3.2. Rayleigh Fading Channel 83 6.4. Conclusion 86 7. Conclusions 93 Bibliography 96 초록 104Docto

OFDM base T-transform for wireless communication networks

The prominent features associated with orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) have been exploited in the area of high-speed communication networks. However, OFDM is prone to impairments such as frequency selective fading channel, high peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) and heavy-tailed distributed impulsive noise, all of which can have negative impacts on its performance. These issues have received a great deal of attention in recent research. To compensate for these transmission impairments, a T-OFDM based system is introduced using a low computational complexity T-transform that combines the Walsh-Hadamard transform (WHT) and the discrete Fourier transform (DFT) into a single fast orthonormal unitary transform. The key contribution in this thesis is on the use of the T-transform along with three novel receiver designs. Additionally, new theoretical bit error rate (BER) formulae for the T-OFDM system are derived over communications channels using zero forcing (ZF) and minimum mean square error (MMSE) detectors, that are validated via simulation and shown to have close performance with the obtained performance results. It has been found that the T-OFDM outperformed the conventional OFDM based systems in the investigated channel models by achieving a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) gain range of between 9dB and 16dB measured at 10−4 BER. In addition, the sparsity and block diagonal structure of the T-transform, along with its lower summation processes are exploited in this study to reduce the superposition of the subcarriers, leading to reduce the peak of the transmitted signals by a range of 0.75 to 1.2 dB with preserved average power. Furthermore, these attractive features of T-transform are employed with the conventional selective mapping (SLM) and partial transmitted sequences (PTS) schemes to propose three low cost novel techniques; T-SLM, T-PTS-I, and T-PTS-II. Compared to the conventional schemes, the T-SLM and T-PTS-I schemes have achieved a considerable reduction in both computational complexity and in PAPR, further increasing multipath resilience, even in the presence of high power amplifier (HPA). Whereas using the T-PTS-II scheme, the complexity ratio has been significantly reduced by approximately 80%, as well as reducing the SI bits further by two, with negligible PAPR degradation. Moreover, the effect of the independent sections of T-transform on the performance of T-OFDM system over the impulsive channel is addressed in this work, by deriving a new theoretical BER formula over such a transmission media. Furthermore, two novel II schemes WHT-MI-OFDM and WHT-MI-OFDM incorporating nonlinear blanking, both of which utilise the WHT and a matrix interleaver (MI) with the OFDM system, are proposed to suppress the deleterious effects of a severe impulsive noise burst on the T-OFDM system performance. Comparing with the traditional MI-OFDM system, the proposed schemes are much more robust to disturbances arising from the impulsive channel.EThOS - Electronic Theses Online ServiceMinistry of Higher Education and Scientific ResearchIraqGBUnited Kingdo

PAPR Reduction in GFDM Systems Using an SLM Technique

Department of Electrical EngineeringIn the fifth generation (5G) cellular network system, user capacity should be improved com- pare with the current 4G network system. To this end, higher resource efficiency is an essential. Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) and orthogonal frequency division mul- tiple access (OFDMA), which has high spectral efficiency resorting to orthogoanlity between subcarriers, is the most commonly used modulation technique in the current 4G network sys- tem. To maintain orthogonality, several types of frame structures are used for synchronized signal transmission and reception in Long Term Evolution (LTE). However, these fixed frame structures result in a fundamental limit for reducing latency. Thus an asynchronous commu- nication scheme has been emerged as one of the solutions to reduce latency. On the contrary, without synchronization, OFDM signals generate interference to each other. Recently, general- ized frequency division multiplexing (GFDM) has been proposed for the asynchronous multiple access. Many studies have evaluated that GFDM has higher sum-rate than OFDM for the asyn- chronous systems owing to the higher spectral efficiency and lower out-of-band emission (OOB). Despite the many advantages, GFDM also has disadvantages such as a high peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR). If the numbers of GFDM and OFDM subcarriers are equal, GFDM will get higher PAPR than OFDM due to multiple subsymbols. To reduce the PAPR, various PAPR reduction techniques have been studied on OFDM such as clipping, selective mapping (SLM), partial transmit sequence (PTS), Tone reservation (TR), and single-carrier frequency division multiple access (SC-FDMA) for LTE uplink. In GFDM, precoded GFDM and generalized fre- quency division multiple access (GFDMA) have been proposed as PAPR reduction techniques. Among PAPR reduction techniques, SLM is one of applicable techniques to the GFDM without signal distortions. In this paper, GFDM SLM is proposed as a PAPR reduction technique. In addtion, the performance analysis is compared in terms of the PAPR, OOB, and spectral efficiency among SC-FDMA, OFDMA, GFDMA, precoded GFDM, and GFDM SLM.ope

Peak to average power ratio reduction and error control in MIMO-OFDM HARQ System

Currently, multiple-input multiple-output orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (MIMOOFDM) systems underlie crucial wireless communication systems such as commercial 4G and 5G networks, tactical communication, and interoperable Public Safety communications. However, one drawback arising from OFDM modulation is its resulting high peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR). This problem increases with an increase in the number of transmit antennas. In this work, a new hybrid PAPR reduction technique is proposed for space-time block coding (STBC) MIMO-OFDM systems that combine the coding capabilities to PAPR reduction methods, while leveraging the new degree of freedom provided by the presence of multiple transmit chairs (MIMO). In the first part, we presented an extensive literature review of PAPR reduction techniques for OFDM and MIMO-OFDM systems. The work developed a PAPR reduction technique taxonomy, and analyzed the motivations for reducing the PAPR in current communication systems, emphasizing two important motivations such as power savings and coverage gain. In the tax onomy presented here, we include a new category, namely, hybrid techniques. Additionally, we drew a conclusion regarding the importance of hybrid PAPR reduction techniques. In the second part, we studied the effect of forward error correction (FEC) codes on the PAPR for the coded OFDM (COFDM) system. We simulated and compared the CCDF of the PAPR and its relationship with the autocorrelation of the COFDM signal before the inverse fast Fourier transform (IFFT) block. This allows to conclude on the main characteristics of the codes that generate high peaks in the COFDM signal, and therefore, the optimal parameters in order to reduce PAPR. We emphasize our study in FEC codes as linear block codes, and convolutional codes. Finally, we proposed a new hybrid PAPR reduction technique for an STBC MIMO-OFDM system, in which the convolutional code is optimized to avoid PAPR degradation, which also combines successive suboptimal cross-antenna rotation and inversion (SS-CARI) and iterative modified companding and filtering schemes. The new method permits to obtain a significant net gain for the system, i.e., considerable PAPR reduction, bit error rate (BER) gain as compared to the basic MIMO-OFDM system, low complexity, and reduced spectral splatter. The new hybrid technique was extensively evaluated by simulation, and the complementary cumulative distribution function (CCDF), the BER, and the power spectral density (PSD) were compared to the original STBC MIMO-OFDM signal