PAPR reduction in OFDM system using differential evolution-based partial transmit sequences scheme

Abstract

This paper proposes a partial transmit sequence (PTS) scheme with applying a stochastic optimization technique for peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) reduction in the orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) system. PTS technique combining can improve the PAPR statistics of an OFDM signals, but the considerable computational complexity for the required search through a high-dimensional vector space is a potential problem for implementation in the practical systems. Differential evolution (DE) is an efficient and powerful population-based stochastic search technique for solving optimization problems over continuous space, which has been widely applied in many scientific and engineering fields. Thus, to reduce the complexity for searching phase weight vector and to improve the PAPR statistics, we introduce the DE, an effective algorithm that solves various combinatorial optimization problems, to search the optimal phase weight factors. The simulation results show that the proposed DE-based PTS obtains the excellent PAPR performance with a low computational complexity.