Adaptive Clipping for PAPR Reduction in OFDM

Abstract

A new Technique "Adaptive Clipping" is introduced to reduce the Peak to Average Power Ratio (PAPR) of OFDM system efficiently for wireless applications. In this technique, the threshold for clipping the signal is decided according to the peak size and number of peaks in the OFDM burst signal. A comparison is done between selective clipping and adaptive clipping and the results are shown in terms of Bit error rate (BER) and PAPR. Adaptive clipping offers nearly half a dB reduction in PAPR compared to selective clipping. With proposed adaptive clipping, PAPR of 3 dB is obtained with BER of 10 -4 . For a particular set of signals where there are large number of peak variations, adaptive clipping is more efficient in terms of BER compared to selective clipping. The simulation of adaptive clipping is done with the MATLAB software and the BER is plotted. An IEEE 806.11 standard is used for OFDM signal Transmission.