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Technique for peak power to average power ratio reduction in multicarrier communication systems

US6853632B1 · kind B1 · utility

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Filing dateSep 22, 1999
Grant dateFeb 8, 2005
Priority date
Expiry dateSep 22, 2019

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04L27/2615
  • WIPO fieldDigital communication
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A gradient sensitivity based method is described for reducing Peak to Average Power Ratio in multicarrier communication systems. The method involves definition of a differentiable penalty function which has non-zero values whenever there is a peak violation. The gradient of the function with respect to the symbol magnitudes and phases is evaluated at the given symbol vector. Symbol perturbations are computed in the opposite direction of the gradient in such a way that the peaks are reduced and the amount of errors introduced in the symbols is not large enough to affect the decoding process. In order to reduce computation, a variant of the method is proposed where a peak reduction kernel is precomputed and stored. The kernel is rotated to the location of the peak and added with proper sign to reduce PAR.

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