A Low-Complexity Joint PAPR Reduction and Predistortion Based on Generalized Memory Polynomial Model

One of the widely adopted multicarrier modulation technique in wireless communication system is Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM), because of its enhanced robustness against channel dispersion. However, Inter Carrier Interference (ICI) caused by time varying wireless channel and Peak to Average Power Ratio (PAPR) due to the presence of a large number of subcarriers with varying amplitude are the critical issues faced in OFDM. One of the efficient ICI self-cancellation scheme is correlative precoder but it introduces increased PAPR. To overcome this shortcoming a new form of circulantly precoded OFDM system is implemented to enhance ICI reduce and also employed with Selective Mapping (SLM) which is effective in PAPR reduction and uncomplicated. BER performance of correlative and circulantly precoded OFDM system is evaluated for LMMSE and OLMMSE equalizers. Simulation results show that circulantly precoded OFDM with SLM can achieve jointly better ICI self cancellation and PAPR reduction than correlative precoding technique over time varying channel.

Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) signals have a generic problem of high peak to average power ratio (PAPR) which is defined as the ratio of the peak power to the average power of the OFDM signal. The drawback of the high PAPR is that the dynamic range of the power amplifiers (PA) & digital-to-analog (D/A) converters required during the transmission and reception of the signal is higher. As a result, the total cost of the transceiver increases, with reduced efficiency. This paper includes an idea of the PAPR constraint, along with the implementation and analysis of some specific algorithms for PAPR reduction of the OFDM signals. All the PAPR reduction algorithms are implemented and tested in the OFDM transceiver designed using Matlab. Analyzing some specific algorithms, we propose a novel algorithm by combining the subcarrier phase adjustment and linear combination of the time domain OFDM signals. Simulation results for a OFDM system employing Quadrature Amplitude Shift Keying (QASK) symbols and Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (QAM) can achieve a PAPR reduction of 5 dB.

In this paper, we propose a new PAPR reduction by using a partial transmit sequences (PTS) method with coded side information (SI) technique. These methods are used in an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) system. The OFDM employs orthogonal sub-carriers for data modulation. These sub-carriers unexpectedly present a large peak to average power ratio (PAPR) in some cases. In order to reduce PAPR, the sequence of input data is partitioned into disjoint sub-block of PTS. If number of sub-block increases, high efficiency of PAPR reduction can be obtained. However, a quite large calculation cost must be demanded and thus it is impossible to obtain the optimum PTS. In the proposed method, we introduce a coded side information technique assuming the pseudo-optimum condition into the PTS. The total calculation cost becomes drastically reduced and side information bits for recovering original data in demodulation. In simulation results, the proposed method demonstrated the improvement of PAPR and bit error rate (BER) performance.

Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) is a multicarrier modulation technique that has been widely applied in wireless broadband communications such as the fourth-generation (4G) and supports the development of the fifth-generation (5G) technology because it is efficient and effective. However, OFDM has a high Peak to Average Power Ratio (PAPR) value where the system must use a Power Amplifier (PA) with a high linear range so that the signal can work on PA. Whereas, PA is a nonlinear component that has limited linear region according to the component specifications. If an OFDM signal with high PAPR passes through the nonlinear region of PA, the signal will be distorted nonlinearly and ultimately worsen the OFDM performance. Although many researchers are interested in studying this issue, several scenarios are still not explored. This work investigates a way to mitigate nonlinear distortion by a combination of PAPR reduction and PA linearization with predistortion. Memory-Hammerstein has been suggested as a model for predistorter and PA. The input of the predistorter is the PAPR reduced signal with companding technique, which is a simple and effective PAPR reduction technique for OFDM. The system performance will be evaluated using signal spectrum, PAPR, and Bit Error Rate (BER). The simulation results obtained are that the performance drops dramatically to more than 10 <sup xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">−1</sup> for the BER value when a nonlinear disturbance is given and the performance improves after a predistorter is applied. The combination of hybrid companding and predistorter offers better performance, it can reduce PAPR and compensating for nonlinear distortions caused by the PA. Hence, this combined scheme can be considered and adopted in future wireless communications systems including 5G.

PAPR (peak-to-average power ratio) reduction of the transmitted signal is one of the main challenges and issues of concern in a OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) system, which is affect the efficiency of the Radio-Frequency Power Amplifier (RF PA). As one of attractive techniques, interleaving can be used in PAPR reduction for multicarrier signals without spectrum distortion but the common drawback of these methods is the transmission of Side Informations (SI) to the receiver, which degrades the data rate. In this paper, we propose a PAPR reduction method using interleaving technique xith a better performances in terms of PAPR reduction, a new coding of interleavers keys at the transmitter and a robust decoding procedure at the receiver, without data rate loss. Simulation results in the context of IEEE 802.16e (WiMAX) standard show an improvement of PAPR reduction without degradation of BER (Bit Error Rate) and frequency response.

Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) has a great peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR). This will reduce the performance of the power amplifier (PA). Therefore, PAPR deteriorates the overall energy efficiency of an OFDM system. Peak Insertion (PI) is one of the most commonly used methods to reduce PAPR, it gives the best reduction in PAPR. Therefore, it causes a strong degradation in Bit Error Rate (BER). To solve this problem, we propose a new algorithm called BCB-OFDM based on Bose Chaudhuri Hocquenghem Codes (BCHs) and PI. BCB is implemented in OFDM system with Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (QAM) and two coding rates 1/2 and 1/4 over an Additive White Gaussian Noise (AWGN) channel. Simulation results show that the BCB is very interesting and achieve a good value in terms of PAPR reduction with keeping good performance compared with PI and normal OFDM. In addition, BCB algorithm is simple, robust, and leaves no requirement side information with more flexibility to choose between PAPR reduction and BER performances.

High peak-to-average-power ratio (PAPR) is a particular disadvantage of orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) systems and can significantly degrade the power efficiency at the transmitter. The aim of this paper is to propose a post-inverse fast Fourier transform (IFFT) PAPR reduction method based on intelligent linear symbol combining with the objective to minimize the PAPR at the transmitter. Unlike the methods so far reported in the literature, the proposed method has a relatively low complexity and does not require external randomization sequences. This paper will also investigate the impact of the proposed method on the system's bit error rate (BER) performance and provide a closed-form analytical expression that takes into account the BER dependency on the side information bits and multiblock combination. It will be shown that the proposed technique can provide significant PAPR reductions at manageable levels of signal processing requirements while the BER degradation is relatively small.

Partial transmit sequence (PTS) scheme is one of the efficacious tool for lessening peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) in orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) system. However, computational cost for the optimum phase factors searches of PTS scheme entails huge computational requirements and limits its applicability to practical applications especially for high-speed data transmissions. This study proposes a PAPR reduction method with a low computational complexity based on a combination of cuckoo search optimization algorithm with PTS scheme in OFDM system. In terms of PAPR and computational cost reductions, the performance of the cuckoo-PTS scheme is comparatively investigated by performing a set of simulations with different PTS schemes.

One of the severe drawbacks of orthogonal fre-quency division multiplexing (OFDM) is high Peak-to-Average Power Ratio (PAPR) of transmitted OFDM signals. During modulation the sub-carriers are added together with same phase which increases the value of PAPR, leading to more interference and limits power efficiency of High Power Amplifier (HPA), it’s requires power amplifier’s (PAs) with large linear oper-ating ranges but such PAs are difficult to design and costly to manufacture. Therefore, to reduce PAPR various methods have been proposed. As a promising scheme, partial transmit sequences (PTS) provides an effective solution for PAPR reduction of OFDM signals. In this paper, we propose a PAPR reduction method for an OFDM system with variation of phases based on PTS schemes and Solid State Power Amplifiers (SSPA) of Saleh model in conjunction with digital predistortion (DPD), in order to improve the performance in terms of PAPR, the HPA linearity and for the sake of mitigating the in-band distortion and the spectrum regrowth. The simulation results show that the proposed algorithm can not only reduces the PAPR significantly, but also improves the out-of-band radiation and decreases the computational complexity.

In this paper, we propose a new peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) reduction technique, which is referred to as trellis-assisted constellation subset selection ( TACSS , or TAX for short), for orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) signals. We control the signal transition by judiciously selecting the appropriate constellation subset for PAPR reduction with the controlling bits that are subject to the trellis-based constraint imposed by a bank of memories. A novel constellation design suitable for the proposed system is also introduced. A major property offered by the proposed approach is that the controlling bits and the information bits are perfectly separable at the receiver, which leads to a simple implementation of its soft-in–soft-out (SISO) decoder for coded OFDM systems. Through the performance analysis of PAPR reduction capability, power amplifier (PA) efficiency, average mutual information (AMI), and bit error rate (BER), the achievable tradeoff relationship between the transmitter and receiver performances of the proposed system is addressed. Furthermore, performance comparisons of the proposed scheme with other major PAPR reduction schemes such as trellis shaping, discrete Fourier transform (DFT) precoding, and clipping and filtering demonstrate its practical advantage in a high-spectral-efficiency regime.

In this paper, we evaluate the effect of applying peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) reduction and digital pre-distortion (DPD) on two types of radio frequency power amplifiers when an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) signal is used. The power amplifiers under test are a standard class-AB amplifier and a Doherty amplifier. The PAPR reduction methods are based on a state-of-the art convex optimization formulation and on the standard clipping and filtering technique. The DPD method consists of modeling the behavior of the power amplifier using a parallel Hammerstein model, and then extracting the inverse parameters based on the indirect learning architecture. To achieve better DPD performance, extracting the DPD parameters based on multiple-step iterations is investigated. The cases where PAPR reduction and DPD are applied separately and combined are studied and investigated. Power amplifier figures of merit are evaluated. Good performance is shown when combining both pre-processing techniques up to a certain operating point where DPD performance deteriorates due to generation of strong peaks in the signal. In addition, a difference in the power amplifier behavior is reported and analyzed.

Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) system has high spectral efficiency and immunity to frequency selective fading channel. So, it has been widely used in modern wireless communication systems. However, the major drawback of OFDM system is the high peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) of the transmitted signal for large number of subcarriers. Selected mapping (SLM) is one of the most well-known technique to reduce the PAPR in OFDM system, since it can achieve a good PAPR reduction without signal distortion. Moreover, SLM technique can be used with wavelet-OFDM (WOFDM) system to enhance the PAPR performance, while maintaining most of the advantages of the conventional OFDM system. In this paper, an effective PAPR reduction technique using SLM-WOFDM based on particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm is proposed. PSO is applied to SLM-OFDM and SLM-WOFDM systems for searching the optimum phase rotation factors. The systems evaluation shows that the proposed PSO based SLM-WOFDM system provides better PAPR reduction compared to PSO based SLM-OFDM, SLM-WOFDM, and conventional SLM-OFDM systems.

Towards Optimal Mimo-Ofdm Waveforms : A Low-Papr Transmission Strategy With Artificial Neural Networks

Requirement of high data rate by the modern mobile communication system requires a linear power amplifier with extremely low power consumption and long battery life. Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) modulation technique promises to deliver high data rate with simple receiver structure. It is more spectral efficient and has been recommended to be used by many standards. But it has one major disadvantage of having high peak to average power ratio (PAPR). High PAPR drives the power amplifier in saturation region and causes it to operate in nonlinear region with reduced efficiency. There are several techniques to reduce PAPR of OFDM system. In this paper we have done FPGA implementation of selective mapping method (SLM) for PAPR reduction for 4 QAM baseband signal for 64, 128, 256, 512 and 1024 number of subcarriers. The result obtained have been compared with PAPR values obtained through mathematical analysis and Matlab simulations and also with original signal. For 1024 number of subcarriers at 10 <sup xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">-3</sup> of CCDF value the PAPR value obtained with hardware implementation is 9.8 dB which is 2.8 dB less form the original OFDM signal obtained without applying SLM technique but 0.9 dB higher than the Matlab simulated value. This technique is simple in implementation, utilizes less resources and is effective in PAPR reduction.

Tone Reservation (TR) is a method used to reduce the Peak to Average Power Ratio (PAPR) in Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) systems. In this paper, we assess the importance of considering an improved model of the power amplifier (PA) to accurately evaluate the performance of TR method based on Conjugate-Gradient algorithm. Simulation results were carried out in the context of WLAN IEEE 802.11a standard in presence of two memoryless models and nonlinear polynomial model with memory. These models are obtained by an experimental based method, including measurements and parameters identification with a 2.4 GHz class AB PA from RF Micro Devices. The evaluation results as well as the experimental comparison show that TR method considerably improves the transmission quality, in terms of Bit Error Rate (BER) and Error Vector Magnitude (EVM). These results highlight the importance of considering memory effects in PA modelling.