Comparison of compand-filter schemes for reducing PAPR in OFDM

Author

Chaudhary, Neha ; Cao, L.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Mississippi Univ., MS

Volume

4

fYear

2006

fDate

3-6 April 2006

Firstpage

2070

Lastpage

2075

Abstract

In this paper we compare the performance of companding schemes to reduce the peak-to-average-power ratio (PAPR) of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) signal. Literature discussing companding for PAPR reduction do not consider the impact of out of band filtering on PAPR and bit error rate (BER) performance of companded OFDM systems. In this paper, impact of filtering on companded OFDM signal is studied. BER performances of different companding schemes are compared for both AWGN and fading channel and error mechanisms are outlined. It is shown that filtering has a significant impact on the performance of the system and must be taken into account before a design choice is made. A simple method based on using unmatched compand and decompand transforms is proposed and is found to perform better than other companding schemes

Keywords

AWGN channels; OFDM modulation; error statistics; fading channels; filtering theory; AWGN channel; BER; OFDM; bit error rate; compand-filter schemes; decompand transforms; fading channel; orthogonal frequency division multiplexing; out of band filtering; peak-to-average-power ratio; AWGN; Additive white noise; Band pass filters; Bit error rate; Degradation; Filtering; Gaussian noise; Nonlinear distortion; OFDM; Peak to average power ratio;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, 2006. WCNC 2006. IEEE

Conference_Location

Las Vegas, NV

ISSN

1525-3511

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0269-7

Electronic_ISBN

1525-3511

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WCNC.2006.1696615

Filename

1696615