Using Innovative Differential Evolution Algorithm for OFDM Reducing PAPR

In this paper, tone injection (TI) based on differential evolution algorithm (DE) is proposed to reduce the peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) signals. TI is a distortionless PAPR reduction technique, but its high search complexity for finding optimal TI scheme requires an exhaustive search over all combinations of possible permutations of the expanded constellation, which is a potential problem for practical applications. In this work we present a novel convex optimization approach to numerically determine the near-optimal tone injection (TI) solution based on a differential evolution algorithm (DETI). DETI is compared to different TI schemes for PAPR reduction and search complexity performances. The simulation results show that the proposed DETI method provides good PAPR reduction and bit error-rate (BER) performances. Finally, the DETI algorithm not only reduces the PAPR significantly, but also decreases the computational complexity. The simulation results show that it achieves more or less the same PAPR reduction as that of exhaustive search.