A Closed Form Selected Mapping Algorithm for PAPR Reduction in OFDM Multicarrier Transmission

Sara Carcangiu, Alessandra Fanni and Augusto Montisci
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Sara Carcangiu: Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Cagliari, Piazza D’Armi, 09123 Cagliari, Italy
Alessandra Fanni: Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Cagliari, Piazza D’Armi, 09123 Cagliari, Italy
Augusto Montisci: Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Cagliari, Piazza D’Armi, 09123 Cagliari, Italy

Energies, 2022, vol. 15, issue 5, 1-23

Abstract: Nowadays, the demand for communication multi-carriers’ channels, where the sub-channels are made mutually independent by using orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM), is widespread both for wireless and wired communication systems. Even if OFDM is a spectrally efficient modulation scheme, due to the allowed number of subcarriers, high data rate, and good coverage, the transmitted signal can present high peak values in the time domain, due to inverse fast Fourier transform operations. This gives rise to high peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) with respect to single carrier systems. These peaks can saturate the transmitting amplifiers, modifying the shape of the OFDM symbol and affecting its information content, and they give rise to electromagnetic compatibility issues for the surrounding electric devices. In this paper, a closed form PAPR reduction algorithm is proposed, which belongs to selected mapping (SLM) methods. These methods consist in shifting the phases of the components to minimize the amplitude of the peaks. The determination of the optimal set of phase shifts is a very complex problem; therefore, the SLM approaches proposed in literature all resort to iterative algorithms. Moreover, as this calculation must be performed online, both the computational cost and the effect on the bit rate (BR) cannot be established a priori. The proposed analytic algorithm finds the optimal phase shifts of an approximated formulation of the PAPR. Simulation results outperform unprocessed conventional OFDM transmission by several dBs. Moreover, the complementary cumulative distribution function (CCDF) shows that, in most of the packets, the proposed algorithm reduces the PAPR if compared with randomly selected phase shifts. For example, with a number of shifted phases U = 8 , the CCFD curves corresponding to the analytical and random methods intersect at a probability value equal to 10 −2 , which means that in 99% of cases the former method reduces the PAPR more than the latter one. This is also confirmed by the value of the gain, which, at the same number of shifted phases and at the probability value equal to 10 −1 , changes from 2.09 dB for the analytical to 1.68 dB for the random SLM.

Keywords: power lines communication; peak-to-average-power ratio; selected mapping; analytical solution (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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