PAPR Reduction of OFDM Signal by Use of DSI Method with Time-Frequency Domain Swapping Algorithm

Abstract

SUMMARY The main disadvantage of orthogonal frequency divisionmultiplexing (OFDM) is the high time domain PAPR. The larger PAPRsignal would fatallydegrade BER performance in non-linear channels. Thispaper proposes an improved DSI method, which can achieve better PAPRand BER performances in the non-linear channel with less computationcomplexity than the conventional DSI method. The feature of proposedmethod is to employ the time-frequency domain swapping algorithm inthe determination of frequency data for dummy sub-carriers. This paperpresents various computer simulation results to verify the effectiveness ofproposed DSI method. key words: OFDM, PAPR, dummy sub-carriers, non-linear amplifier 1. Introduction The OFDM technique has been received a lot of attentionespecially in the field of wireless communications becauseof its efficient usage of frequency bandwidth and robustnessto multi-path fading. One of the limitations of using OFDMtechnique is the larger peak to averaged power ratio (PAPR)of its time domain signal [1]. The larger PAPR signal wouldcause the severe degradation of bit error rate (BER) perfor-mance due to the inter-modulation noise occurring in thenon-linear amplifier.To overcome the PAPR problem in OFDM systems,various PAPR reduction methods for OFDM signal havebeen proposed including the selected mapping method(SLM) [2], partial transmit sequence method (PTS) [3] anddummy sequence insertion method (DSI) [4]. All of thesemethods improve the PAPR performance by controlling thephase of data or dummy sub-carriers. The SLM and PTSmethods control the phase of data sub-carriers and the DSImethod controls the phase of dummy sub-carriers. First twomethods are required to inform the phase information con-trolled for the data sub-carriers to the receiver as the sideinformation. Since the side information is required to trans-mit separately from the data information through the data orcontrol channels with the higher signal quality for the cor-rect demodulation of data information at the receiver, the