Peak Power Reduction of OFDM Signals with Sign Adjustment

It has recently been shown that significant reduction in the peak to mean envelope power (PMEPR) can be obtained by altering the sign of each subcarrier in a multicarrier system with n subcarriers. However, finding the best sign not only requires a search over 2n possible signs but also may lead to a substantial rate loss for small size constellations. In this paper, we first propose a greedy algorithm to choose the signs based on p-norm minimization and prove that the resulting PMEPR is guaranteed to be less than c log n where c is a constant independent of n for any n. This approach has lower complexity in each iteration compared to the derandomization approach of while achieving similar PMEPR reduction. We further improve the performance of the proposed algorithm by enlarging the search space using pruning. Simulation results show that PMEPR of a multicarrier signal with 128 subcarriers can be reduced to within 1.6 dB of the PMEPR of a single carrier system. In the second part of the paper, we address the rate loss by proposing a block coding scheme in which only one sign vector is chosen for K different modulating vectors. The sign vector can be computed using the greedy algorithm in n iterations. We show that the multi-symbol encoding approach can reduce the rate loss by a factor of K while achieving the PMEPR of c logKn, i.e., only logarithmic growth in K. Simulation results show that the rate loss can be made smaller than %10 at the cost of only 1 db increase in the resulting PMEPR for a system with 128 subcarriers

Near-Instantaneously Adaptive HSDPA-Style OFDM Versus MC-CDMA Transceivers for WIFI, WIMAX, and Next-Generation Cellular Systems

Burts-by-burst (BbB) adaptive high-speed downlink packet access (HSDPA) style multicarrier systems are reviewed, identifying their most critical design aspects. These systems exhibit numerous attractive features, rendering them eminently eligible for employment in next-generation wireless systems. It is argued that BbB-adaptive or symbol-by-symbol adaptive orthogonal frequency division multiplex (OFDM) modems counteract the near instantaneous channel quality variations and hence attain an increased throughput or robustness in comparison to their fixed-mode counterparts. Although they act quite differently, various diversity techniques, such as Rake receivers and space-time block coding (STBC) are also capable of mitigating the channel quality variations in their effort to reduce the bit error ratio (BER), provided that the individual antenna elements experience independent fading. By contrast, in the presence of correlated fading imposed by shadowing or time-variant multiuser interference, the benefits of space-time coding erode and it is unrealistic to expect that a fixed-mode space-time coded system remains capable of maintaining a near-constant BER

An intelligent genetic algorithm for PAPR reduction in a multi-carrier CDMA wireless system

Abstract— A novel intelligent genetic algorithm (GA), called Minimum Distance guided GA (MDGA) is proposed for peak-average-power ratio (PAPR) reduction based on partial transmit sequence (PTS) scheme in a synchronous Multi-Carrier Code Division Multiple Access (MC-CDMA) system. In contrast to traditional GA, our MDGA starts with a balanced ratio of exploration and exploitation which is maintained throughout the process. It introduces a novel replacement strategy which increases significantly the convergence rate and reduce dramatically computational complexity as compared to the conventional GA. The simulation results demonstrate that, if compared to the PAPR reduction schemes using exhaustive search and traditional GA, our scheme achieves 99.52% and 50+% reduction in computational complexity respectively

A Low-Complexity SLM PAPR Reduction Scheme for OFDMA

In orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems, selected mapping (SLM) techniques are widely used to minimize the peak to average power ratio (PAPR). The candidate signals are generated in the time domain by linearly mixing the original time-domain transmitted signal with numerous cyclic shift equivalents to reduce the amount of Inverse Fast Fourier Transform (IFFT) operations in typical SLM systems. The weighting factors and number of cyclic shifts, on the other hand, should be carefully chosen to guarantee that the elements of the appropriate frequency domain phase rotation vectors are of equal magnitude. A low-complexity expression is chosen from among these options to create the proposed low-complexity scheme, which only requires one IFFT. In comparison to the existing SLM technique, the new SLM scheme achieves equivalent PAPR reduction performance with significantly less computing complexity. MATLAB tool is used for simulating the proposed work

A Low-Complexity SLM PAPR Reduction Scheme for OFDMA

In orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems, selected mapping (SLM) techniques are widely used to minimize the peak to average power ratio (PAPR). The candidate signals are generated in the time domain by linearly mixing the original time-domain transmitted signal with numerous cyclic shift equivalents to reduce the amount of Inverse Fast Fourier Transform (IFFT) operations in typical SLM systems. The weighting factors and number of cyclic shifts, on the other hand, should be carefully chosen to guarantee that the elements of the appropriate frequency domain phase rotation vectors are of equal magnitude. A low-complexity expression is chosen from among these options to create the proposed low-complexity scheme, which only requires one IFFT. In comparison to the existing SLM technique, the new SLM scheme achieves equivalent PAPR reduction performance with significantly less computing complexity. MATLAB tool is used for simulating the proposed work

A SURVEY OF PAPR REDUCTION IN OFDM SIGNALS

  In Radio waves, the digital data can be transmitted using Burst number of data using OFDM technique. So only an OFDM Technique is called attractive modulation techniques. In this OFDM signal transmission having so many disadvantages, one of the main disadvantages is a Peak average power which is due to combination of sinusoidal leads to high peak-to power ratio (PAPR).Due to High PAPR, which leads to poor (i.e) degrades the signal performance of power amplifier in transmission, this PAPR can be reduce using some of the following technique like, there are Clipping, Coding, Partial transmit sequence (PTS), Sequential Mapping(SM), Tone reservation (TR), Tone injection (TI), Interleaving, Nonlinear companding transform, & Hadamard transform etc.Various technique are available to reduce the Peak power and discuss detail about the merits and demerits .Â

Analysis of Improved µ-Law Companding Technique for OFDM Systems

YesHigh Peak-to-Average-Power Ratio (PAPR) of transmitted signals is a common problem in broadband telecommunication systems using an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) modulation scheme, as it increases transmitter power consumption. In consumer applications where it impacts mobile terminal battery life and infrastructure running costs, this is a major factor in customer satisfaction. Companding techniques have been recently used to alleviate this high PAPR. In this paper, a companding scheme with an offset, amidst two nonlinear companding levels, is proposed to achieve better PAPR reduction while maintaining an acceptable bit error rate (BER) level, resulting in electronic products of higher power efficiency. Study cases have included the effect of companding on the OFDM signal with and without an offset. A novel closed-form approximation for the BER of the proposed companding scheme is also presented, and its accuracy is compared against simulation results. A method for choosing best companding parameters is presented based on contour plots. Practical emulation of a real time OFDM-based system has been implemented and evaluated using a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA)