• Journal of the Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• v.3 no.2
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• pp.58-63
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• 2002

One of the important problems of OFDM system is the large PAPR of the output signal, which can result the significant signal distortion in presence of nonlinear amplifiers. To reduce the PAPR, we use fundamentally the level clipping and propose the modified mapping/demapping method for effective reducing the PAPR of the OFDM signals with level clipping. We can significantly improve the BER performance characteristics for the OFDM system. We discussed, through extensive computer simulations, the effects of level clipping and modified mapping/demapping method on the performance of OFDM system including the trade off between bandwidth expansion and BER performance and between bandwidth efficiency and BER performance.