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Partial Transmit Sequences for Peak-to-Average Power Ratio Reduction in Multiantenna OFDM

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The major drawback of orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) is its high peak-to-average power ratio (PAR), which gets even more substantial if a transmitter with multiple antennas is considered. To overcome this problem, in this paper, the partial transmit sequences (PTS) method—well known for PAR reduction in single antenna systems—is studied for multiantenna OFDM. A directed approach, recently introduced for the competing selected mapping (SLM) method, proves to be very powerful and able to utilize the potential of multiantenna systems. To apply directed PTS, various variants for providing a sufficiently large number of alternative signal superpositions (the candidate transmit signals) are discussed. Moreover, affording the same complexity, it is shown that directed PTS offers better performance than SLM. Via numerical simulations, it is pointed out that due to its moderate complexity but very good performance, directed or iterated PTS using combined weighting and temporal shifting is a very attractive candidate for PAR reduction in future multiantenna OFDM schemes.

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Siegl, C., Fischer, R.F.H. Partial Transmit Sequences for Peak-to-Average Power Ratio Reduction in Multiantenna OFDM. J Wireless Com Network 2008, 325829 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1155/2008/325829

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