Prise en compte du facteur de crête dans le dimensionnement des systèmes de télécommunications

OFDM is a well known modulation scheme used in many digital communication systems due to its strong immunity to multi-path fading and impulse noise while providing high bit rates at the same time. Complex time-domain samples of OFDM signals are approximately Gaussian distributed due to the statistical independence of carriers and centrallimit theorem. This means that there could be some very high peaks present in the signal characterized by the Peak to Average Power Ratio (PAPR). This document covers my researchers regarding PAPR issue whose aim is to mitigate it so as to increase power amplifier efficiencies. It covers too applications to software and cognitive ratio.Toute forme de signal mettant en oeuvre une sommation de porteuses (orthogonales ou non) génère de fait des fluctuations temporelles, qui selon l'occurrence et l'amplitude, peuvent occasionner des distortions sévères au passage d'éléments non linéaires. Ces fluctuations sont le plus souvent désignées sous l'acronyme Peak to Average Power Ratio (PAPR). Ce PAPR peut être très élevé et il est alors nécessaire de le diminuer en proposant des méthodes appropriées. Ce document d'HDR synthétise l'ensemble de mes activités de recherche entre 1997 et 2010. Il aborde de façon très large la problématique de réduction du PAPR dans des problématiques variées (OFDM, radio logicielle, radio intelligente) et des contextes différents (projets collaboratifs et bilatéraux). J'ai été amené dans ce cadre à encadrer des étudiants en thèse ainsi que des post-doctorants

PAPR reduction scheme with SOCP for MIMO-OFDM systems

Combination of multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) with orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) has become a promising candidate for high performance wireless communications. However one major disadvantage of MIMO-OFDM systems lies in a prohibitively large peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) of the transmitted signal on each antenna. In this paper we extend from SISO to MIMO systems a method based on allocating dedicated subcarriers for PAPR mitigation. These subcarriers are located on unused subcarriers of OFDM spectrum under the assumption they all fall under the power mask. This is originally implemented with a SOCP optimization algorithm applied before space time coding scheme. This jointly mitigates PAPR on each MIMO branch scheme. This approach does not degrade the bit-error-rate (BER) and the data bit rate and no side information (SI) transmission is required. Simulation results are presented in the IEEE 802.16 WiMAX standard contexts: an Alamouti space time code with two transmitted antennas and 256 OFDM subcarriers are considered where 56 of which are unused and allocated for PAPR reduction. PAPR gains up to 7dB are obtained depending on mean power increase limitation. Moreover, with a spectrum mask constraint, this method is standard compliant