Peak to average power reduction using precoding with clipping and filtering

Abstract

3rd Generation Partnership Project Long Term Evolution (3GPP LTE) has adopted orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) as downlink and single carrier frequency division multiple access (SC-FDMA) as uplink for multiple access scheme. SC-FDMA is adopted in uplink due to its low peak to average power ratio (PAPR). To reduce PAPR in OFDMA, several techniques are used in literature. SC-FDMA is adopted in 3GPP as it shows better PAPR characteristics than OFDMA. Many researches are still going on to find the impact of different parameters on PAPR in SC-FDMA. In this paper, a PAPR reduction technique is proposed where the precoding is done in the first step and at the second step, clipping is performed using SC-FDMA environment. Result shows that the PAPR is reduced at the increase in number of clips.