Peak-to-average power ratio reduction in OFDM systems using an adaptive differential evolution algorithm

Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) has emerged as very popular wireless transmission technique in which digital data bits are transmitted at a high speed in a radio environment. But the high peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) is the major setback for OFDM systems demanding expensive linear amplifiers with wide dynamic range. In this article, we introduce a low-complexity partial transmit sequence (PTS) technique for diminishing the PAPR of OFDM systems. The computational complexity of the exhaustive search technique for PTS increases exponentially with the number of sub-blocks present in an OFDM system. So we propose a modified Differential Evolution (DE) algorithm with novel mutation, crossover as well as parameter adaptation strategies (MDE_pBX) for a sub-optimal PTS for PAPR reduction of OFDM systems. MDE_pBX is utilized to search for the optimum phase weighting factors and extensive simulation studies have been conducted to show that MDE_pBX can achieve lower PAPR as compared to other significant DE and PSO variants like JADE, SaDE and CLPSO.