SER analysis of PTS based techniques for PAPR reduction in OFDM systems

Abstract

A major drawback of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) is high peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR). An OFDM signal with high PAPR requires power amplifier@?s (PAs) with large linear operating ranges but such PAs are difficult to design and costly to manufacture. Therefore, to reduce PAPR various methods have been proposed. One of the existing technique to reduce PAPR is partial transmit sequences (PTS). The major drawback of this technique is that it requires transmission of side information (SI) with each OFDM symbol, which results in low bandwidth efficiency. It is hard to recover the side information from the OFDM signal received at the receiver. The two methods, which do not require SI to decode the OFDM symbol at the receiver, are multi-point square mapping combined with PTS (M-PTS) and concentric circle mapping based PTS (CCM-PTS). In this paper, the SER performance of PTS based methods namely CCM-PTS and M-PTS over AWGN channel is mathematically analyzed. The SER performance of CCM-PTS over AWGN is analyzed using two decoding techniques, namely minimum distance decoding and circular boundary decoding, whereas M-PTS is analyzed using minimum distance decoding. The simulation results for SER performance of CCM-PTS and M-PTS, over fading channel, have been presented using computer simulations and the SER performance of CCM-PTS by both the decoding techniques is compared with M-PTS. Also, a comparison of PAPR reduction capability and computational complexity of CCM-PTS and M-PTS has been presented. CCM-PTS method almost has the same PAPR reduction capability as M-PTS, but its SER performance is better than M-PTS and uses a simpler method to decode the data symbols.