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Peak-to-average power ratio reduction in a multicarrier signal

US8804861B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateMay 4, 2010
Grant dateAug 12, 2014
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Expiry dateJul 24, 2030

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  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04L27/2618
  • WIPO fieldDigital communication
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A method and apparatus for multicarrier transmission of a signal representing a source signal. The source signal includes symbols including a set of subcarriers, transmitted simultaneously and having pilot subcarriers intended for at least one processing operation for assisting and/or improving decoding in at least one receiver, and data subcarriers, the location in time-frequency space and a reference value of the pilot subcarriers being known to the at least one receiver. The method of transmission includes: a phase of modifying, for a given symbol, the reference value of at least one subset of the pilot subcarriers, by correction data configured to correct phase and/or amplitude for each of the pilot subcarriers of the subset, so as to minimize peak-to-average power ratio, the correction data taking at least three distinct values, a transition between the values of two successive pilot subcarriers of the subset on a frequency axis being constant.

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