Transmission Performance Evaluation for Designing an OFDM Transmitter That Offers Iterative Peak Reduction

Akiko KUBO
Shigeru TOMISATO
Masaharu HATA
Hitoshi YOSHINO

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences   Vol.E89-A    No.7    pp.1968-1971
Publication Date: 2006/07/01
Online ISSN: 1745-1337
DOI: 10.1093/ietfec/e89-a.7.1968
Print ISSN: 0916-8508
Type of Manuscript: Special Section LETTER (Special Section on Multi-dimensional Mobile Information Networks)
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Keyword: 
OFDM transmission,  PAPR,  iterative signal processing,  

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Summary: 
One of the key technologies to realize future broadband mobile communications is orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) transmission. However, the peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) in OFDM transmission is so much larger than that in single carrier transmission that its adoption in mobile communication systems is uncertain. This paper evaluates the transmission performance possible with iterative peak reduction to design more efficient OFDM transmitters. The PAPR reduction effect and bit error rate (BER) performance are clarified by computer simulations. We calculate the set PAPR value that achieves a target PAPR in the iterative peak reduction method. The required Eb/N0 performance is evaluated under the calculated PAPR condition. The results are effective in designing the back-off value of a transmission power amplifier given fixed transmission quality and computational complexity.


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