Highly linear power amplifiers are required for transferring large amount of data for future communication. Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) provides high data rate transmission capability with robustness to radio channel impairments. It has been widely accepted for future communication for different services. But, it suffers from high value of peakto-average power ratio (PAPR). High value of PAPR drives high power amplifiers in saturation and causes it to operate in the nonlinear region. In this paper, comparative study of four different PAPR reduction techniques: clipping and filtering (CF), selective mapping method (SLM), partial transmit sequence (PTS) and DFT-spread technique have been done. All rights reserved.
Corresponding Author:Shatrughna Prasad Yadav, Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department, Indus University, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. Email: spyadav68@gmail.com
INTRODUCTIONThe future generation communication requires high data rate. But dealing with the high data rate in an unpredictable wireless channel is a difficult task. In order to exchange larger amount of information highly linear power amplifiers are required. With the application of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) power amplifier nonlinearities becomes more vulnerable owing to their high peak to average power ratio (PAPR) caused due to large fluctuations in their signal envelope. OFDM is desirable because of several advantages associated with it, such as, tolerance to inter-symbol interference, good spectral efficiency, best performance of frequency selective fading in multipath environment, robustness to channel impairments etc. OFDM is efficiently used to combat the unpredictability of wireless channel and provide high data rate communications [1]. When compared with traditional communication systems, it has several advantages over it. It turns the frequency-selective fading channel into a flat fading channel and hence uses simple receiver. It is spectrally efficient and is ideal for multimedia communication systems. On the other hand, it is sensitive to timing and frequency synchronization errors and has high value of PAPR [2].OFDM systems has many applications and are widely used in high-bit-rate digital subscriber lines (HDSL), digital audio broadcasting (DAB), digital video broadcasting (DVB) along with high-definition television (HDTV), terrestrial broadcasting, etc. It is considered as a better candidate for the future generation communication systems [3]. In the OFDM transmitter the digitally mapped 4-QAM signal is