Partial companding as a PAPR reduction technique of an OFDM system

In this paper, a new technique of BER minimization in a companding based PAPR reduction scheme is proposed. In this approach, the conventional companding scheme is only applied for those OFDM signals whose amplitude exceeds a predefined threshold level, which results in lower BER and lower computational time. Though for the proposed scheme, improvement of the PAPR is less than the conventional companding technique, however, BER performance is improved significantly.