Control information transmission without resource consumption for PAPR reduction of OFDM signal

A peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) reduction method for orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) signals is proposed that requires no additional resources to transmit side information. The approach used to reduce PAPR is based on selected mapping (SLM). SLM produces several candidates of OFDM symbols, the subcarrier phases of which are rotated, and the OFDM symbol that yields the minimum PAPR is selected and transmitted to the receiver. To cancel the rotation used to generate the original signal at the receiver, transmission of side information using a time slot is usually required. This decreases the efficiency with which data can be transmitted. The proposal is to modify SLM so as to implant the side information into the OFDM data symbol. This results in no efficiency loss. Additionally, the error rate in estimating the side information is extremely low when enough subcarriers are used to carry the side information. The performance of the method is confirmed by numerical simulation. The PAPR improvement equals that of the original SLM. The implanted side information was transmitted with high reliability.