Effects of PAPR Reduction Based on Peak Limiter in IEEE802.16e Based OFDM System

Yu TAKASE
Osamu MUTA
Yoshihiko AKAIWA

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications   Vol.E94-B    No.5    pp.1467-1471
Publication Date: 2011/05/01
Online ISSN: 1745-1345
DOI: 10.1587/transcom.E94.B.1467
Print ISSN: 0916-8516
Type of Manuscript: LETTER
Category: Wireless Communication Technologies
Keyword: 
OFDM,  PAPR,  clipping & filtering (C&F),  peak windowing (PW),  

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Summary: 
A major drawback in OFDM systems is that the transmit-signal exhibits a high Peak-to-Average Power Ratio (PAPR) which causes nonlinear distortion at the output of power amplifier. To achieve high efficiency in OFDM systems, it is important to suppress PAPR of the transmit signal. In IEEE802.16e (mobile WiMAX) based systems, it is desirable to employ a simple PAPR reduction method such as clipping & filtering (C&F) or peak windowing (PW). The purpose of this paper is to evaluate PAPR reduction performance of C&F and PW and compare them in an IEEE802.16e based OFDM system. In addition, we also show a repeated PW method which reduces PAPR by repeatedly applying a smooth window function to the transmit signal. Computer simulation results show that the repeated PW can achieve almost the same PAPR reduction performance as that of the repeated C&F with significantly lower computational complexity.