PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF PAPR REDUCTION TECHNIQUES IN MULTICARRIER MODULATION SYSTEM

Nidhi Chauhan, B.V.R.Reddy

Abstract: Orthogonal FrequencyDivisionMultiplexing (OFDM) is one of the many multicarrier modulation techniques which provide high spectral efficiency, less vulnerability to echoes,low implementation complexity and resilience to non – linear distortion. It is used in communication systems due to its various advantages. However, while this system is implemented problem of high peak – to – average power ratio(PAPR) is encountered. The reason behind this drawback is the existence of manyindependent subcarriers, due towhichthesignal amplitudecanhavehighpeakvalues as compared to average of whole system. The high PAPR in multicarrier transmission systems causes power degradation and spectrum spreading.Interleaving, Tone Reservation, Peak Reduction Carrier,Block Coding, Active Constellation Extension, Envelope ScalingareamongmanyPAPRreductionschemesthathavebeenproposedas a remedy to thisproblem. In this paper, performances of Amplitude Clipping and Filtering, Selected Level Mapping (SLM), and PartialTransmitSequence (PTS) techniques of PAPR reduction in OFDM systems by parameter variations are analyzed, based on Complementary Cumulative Distribution Function. An attempt has been made to simulate clipping and filtering technique with iterations and the simulation shows that PAPR problem is reduced as number of iterations increases. The attempts have also been made to simulate SLM technique and PTS technique by varying number of phase sequences, number of sub-blocks in SLM, PTS respectively and simulation results shows that by increasing the number of phase sequences, sub-blocks, PAPR can be reduced significantly.The mathematical equations are incorporated here to compute the maximum expected PAPR from an OFDM signal which shows when there is phase alignment of all sub carriers and sub carriers are equally modulated, then signal peak value hits the maximum. Besides these computer simulations, a comparative study of these three techniques is done.

Keywords: Multi-Carrier Modulation(MCM), Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM),Peak-To-Average Power Ratio(PAPR),ComplementaryCumulativeDistributionFunction(CCDF), Repeated Clipping and Filtering (RCF), PartialTransmitSequence(PTS), Selected Level Mapping (SLM), Clipping Ratio (CR).

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15623/ijret.2013.0206014