PAPR reduction in single carrier FDMA uplink system using parametric linear pulses

Parametric linear pulses are implemented for pulse shaping in order to reduce peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) in single carrier frequency division multiple access (SC-FDMA) schemes. The parametric linear pulses reduce the PAPR, while maintain the same excess bandwidth and the zero intersymbol condition; therefore, satisfying the Nyquist-I criterion. In this paper, we analytically derive the time and frequency domain parametric linear pulse (for n=1) based on the analysis from [10] and then verify the result using Scanlan´s [9] observations. Simulation results show that the parametric linear pulse (for n=1) has a lower PAPR compared to the PAPR of the RC filter, which is widely used in wireless communications.