A combination of DST precoder and ICF based-methods for PAPR suppression in OFDM signal

Abstract

One well-known demerit of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) is its high peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) which limits the efficiency of high-power amplifier (HPA) and also destroys its bit error rate (BER) performance. Hence, a method based on grouping of discrete sine transform (DST) precoder and iterative clipping and filtering (ICF) is proposed to reduce PAPR in this article. The DST precoder reduces PAPR to certain level by changing phase of the signal. Moreover, the ICF technique is also implemented in DST based-OFDM signal for additional minimization of PAPR. Therefore, the proposed method (DST-ICF) preserves BER performance also from other existing methods. At complementary cumulative distribution function (CCDF) = 10−3, the simulation results indicate the proposed technique that minimizes PAPR with iteration values (I = 1, I = 2, and I = 3) to 6.37 dB, 5.29 dB, and 4.81 dB respectively. Moreover, at same BER, the E b /N 0 of proposed technique with iteration value (I = 3) is achieved by 9.75 dB for quadrature phase shift keying (QPSK).