Constant envelope signal space diversity

Abstract

We propose a nonlinear signal space diversity (SSD) precoding technique that produces transmit signals that have constant envelope (CE) in discrete time, resulting in low peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) waveforms after pulse-shape filtering. We propose two methods for construction of CE signal set. While the proposed CE-SSD scheme is inferior to the conventional SSD designs in terms of coding gain performance, it performs better in terms of overall power efficiency because of the reduced back-off requirement of the power amplifier (PA).