Concentric triangular mapping with iterative substitution method for PAPR reduction in OCDM system without SI

Abstract OCDM, a new MCM scheme, has been proposed in the literature. Like widely used OFDM, OCDM also has a drawback of high PAPR. PAPR reduction schemes like SLM and PTS require information about phase factors i.e. SI used at the transmitting end for PAPR reduction for recovery of original data signal at the receiver. Transmission and recovery of SI is always a concern. In this paper a new CTM-IS method has been proposed for PAPR reduction of OCDM signal without SI. Main objective of the proposed scheme is to improve the error performance of SI free SLM and PTS based schemes without any degradation in PAPR reduction. PAPR performance and SER performance, over AWGN as well as multipath Rayleigh fading channels, of OCDM signal with proposed CTM-IS scheme is evaluated. Analytical expression for SER of the proposed CTM-IS scheme over AWGN channel is also derived. The computational complexity of the proposed CTM-IS scheme is also presented. Performance of the proposed CTM-IS scheme is compared with the existing MSM combined with SLM (MSM-SLM), CCM combined with SLM (CCM-SLM) and OM combined with SLM (OM-SLM) schemes. The proposed CTM-IS scheme has demonstrated to offer a theoretical power gain of about 3.01 dB, 2.55 dB, and 14.23 dB over MSM-SLM, CCM-SLM and OM-SLM schemes, respectively. Proposed CTM-IS scheme provides better SER performance with respect to MSM-SLM, CCM-SLM and OM-SLM without any loss in the PAPR performance. Moreover, computational complexity of CTM-IS scheme is less than that of MSM-SLM and CCM-SLM schemes.