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OFDM Communication System Using the Additive Control Tone for PAPR Reduction

PAPR 저감을 위하여 부가 Control 톤을 이용하는 OFDM 통신 시스템

  • Kim Jin-Kwan (Dept. of Electronic Engineering and Research Institute of Computer, Information & Communication, Chungbuk National University) ;
  • Lee Ill-Jin (Dept. of Electronic Engineering and Research Institute of Computer, Information & Communication, Chungbuk National University) ;
  • Ryu Heung-Gyoon (Dept. of Electronic Engineering and Research Institute of Computer, Information & Communication, Chungbuk National University)
  • Published : 2005.12.01
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Abstract

OFDM(Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) communications system is very attractive for the high data rate wireless transmission. However, it may be distorted in the nonlinear HPA(High Power Amplifier) since OFDM signal has hish PAPR(Peak-to-Average Power Ratio). In this paper, a new method using control tone is studied for reducing the PAPR and we call it PCT(PAPR Control Tone) method. This proposed PCT method is to assign control tones for PAPR reduction at the predefined sub-carriers. After IFFT(Inverse Fast Fourier Transform) and PAPR calculation, the OFDM data signal of the lowest PAPR is selected to transmit. Unlike the conventional method, it can cut down the computational complexity because it does not require the transmission and demodulation process of side information about the phase rotation. Furthermore, if this method is made up in parallel configuration, it can solve the time delay problem so that it can be processed in real time processing. This proposed method is compared with the conventional selected mapping(SLM) technique. We find out the PAPR reduction performance and BER when the number of control tone is 6 and nonlinear HPA is considered.

OFDM(Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) 통신 시스템은 고속 무선 데이터 전송에 적합한 방식으로 널리 알려져 있지만, 높은 PAPR(Peak-to-Average Power Ratio)로 인하여 HPA(High Power Amplifier)에서 큰 비선형 왜곡을 겪는 문제점을 갖는다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 높은 PAPR을 저감하는 방법으로 control 톤을 삽입하는 방법을 제안하며, 이를 PCT(PAPR Control Tone) 기법이라 하기로 한다. 제안된 PCT 기법은 몇개의 부반송파에 PAPR 저감용 control 톤을 부가하고 IFFT(Inverse Fast Fourier Transform) 변환하여 가장 낮은 PAPR이 되도록 control 톤의 위상을 조절하는 방식이다. control톤은 송신단에서 PAPR 저감만을 위해 사용될 뿐 수신단에서는 간단히 제거 된다. 그러므로, 기존의 SLM(Selected Mapping) 및 PTS(Partial Transmit Sequence)에서 나타나는 부가 정보 전송과 그로 인한 BER 증가와 같은 단점이 없다. 또한 병렬 처리하면 실시간 데이터 처리가 가능하다. 제안한 기법을 selected mapping(SLM) 기법과 성능 비교를 하여 보았다. 그 결과 control tone을 6개 넣어 줬을 때 SLM 기법과 같은 성능을 갖는다. 그리고 HPA를 포함한 경우 BER 통신 성능도 구하였다.

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