Deepen spectrum notch and reduce PAPR in OFDM systems via combining subcarriers precoding with tone reservation

In orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems, spectrum notch can be generated to mitigate interference to other narrow-band services by turning off corresponding subcarriers. However, the inter-carrier interference may limit considerably the produced notch depth. Another problem in OFDM is the high peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR). In this paper, a technique combining subcarriers precoding with tone reservation is proposed to deepen spectrum notch and simultaneously reduce peak-to-average power ratio. Simulation results show that this presented joint algorithm can produce satisfied results to solve these problems at the expense of a moderate loss in bit error rate (BER) performance.