Power Function Companding Scheme for Peak-to-Average Power Ratio Reduction of SC-FDMA Signals

Abstract

The 3rd generation partnership project (3GPP) long term evolution (LTE) standard has adopted orthogonal frequency division multiplexing access (OFDMA) in downlink and single carrier-frequency division multiple access (SC-FDMA) scheme for the uplink transmissions, which utilizes single carrier modulation and frequency domain equalization. In this paper, we proposed a power-function companding scheme to reduce the peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) of SC-FDMA signals. The proposed companding scheme can transform the original SC-FDMA signals into power-function-distributed. Moreover, the scheme can compress the large signals, while maintaining the average power constant. Computer simulation results show that the proposed companding scheme can offer better PAPR reduction by properly choosing the control parameters.