Journal on Communications ›› 2015, Vol. 36 ›› Issue (3): 232-239.doi: 10.11959/j.issn.1000-436x.2015079

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Nonlinear companding transform for PAPR reduction in lattice-OFDM system

Si-ming PENG1,Yue-hong SHEN1,Zhi-gang YUAN1,Yu-wei MIAO2,Wei JIAN1   

  1. 1 College of Communications Engineering, PLA University of Science and Technology, Nanjing 210007, China
    2 Communication Network Technique Management Centre of Jinan Ministry Region, Jinan 250002, China
  • Online:2015-03-25 Published:2017-06-21
  • Supported by:
    The National Natural Science Foundation of China;The National Natural Science Foundation of China;The Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province;The Pre-research Foundation of PLA University of Science and Technology

Abstract:

Since the inherent higher peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) in lattice OFDM (LOFDM) is higher than that of conventional OFDM systems, a novel continuous and differentiable nonlinear companding scheme is investigated and analyzed when employing the conventional companding transforms. By making full use of the characteristic of the Gaus-sian-distributed original signals and employing a truncation to the distribution function of the original signals, the com-panded signals can be restricted in a specific region which consistents with the distribution of original signals. Therefore, the companded signals can not only achieve an improved PAPR and bit error ratio (BER) performance but also maintain the statistical characteristics of the original signals. Theoretical analysis and simulation results demonstrate that the pro-posed scheme substantially outperforms the conventional nonlinear companding schemes.

Key words: lattice OFDM, peak-to-average power ratio, nonlinear companding transform, probability distribution func-tion

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