PAPR reduction in OFDM systems using peak insertion

A technique for Peak-to-Average Power Ratio (PAPR) reduction of Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) signals by Peak Insertion (PI) is proposed in this paper. PI depends on the duality property of the DFT and PAPR duality of an impulse. A relatively high peak is inserted to the OFDM symbol in the frequency domain such that the PAPR of the transmitted time domain signal is reduced. PAPR reduction up to about 11 dB at PAPR CCDF of 10−4 is achievable by PI, but at the expense of increased signal power, which can be reduced by scaling to the desired level without affecting its PAPR. Computer simulation tests show that a tradeoff can easily be made between BER and the PAPR of the transmitted signal to achieve a desired system performance. The PI technique does not require any sort of side information transmission, searching, optimization, and iterative or parallel application of IDFT. PI is faster, simpler, and capable of achieving greater PAPR reduction as compared with other similar techniques which result in transmitted power increase, and therefore, it seems to be suitable to be used for OFDM signal PAPR reduction.