Tone injection with hexagonal constellation for peak-to-average power ratio reduction in OFDM

Abstract

One of the main drawbacks of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) is the high peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) of the OFDM signal. Tone injection (TI) technique is a promising candidate for the reduction of the PAPR of an OFDM signal. But this technique requires the increase of the transmit signal power because of the injected signal. In this paper, we propose the use of hexagonal constellation as a method to achieve PAPR reduction without increasing signal power in the TI technique