A Novel Tone Reservation Scheme with Fast Convergence for PAPR Reduction in OFDM Systems

OFDM is facing great opportunities and challenges in current broadband communication era. These opportunities and challenges derive from the native advantages and disadvantages of OFDM technology respectively. Too high PAPR is one of the main problems that prevent OFDM from being used more generally in broadband systems. Many approaches such as clipping and filtering, coding, SLM, PTS, and tone reservation have been studied to reduce the peak magnitude of OFDM symbols. In these approaches, tone reservation is considered as one of the most promising methods because of no additional distortion, no side information, and low implementation cost. In this paper, a novel tone reservation scheme is presented. Its essential idea is that a subcarrier selected from all reserved subcarriers for PAPR reduction should have a phase close to one of phi, pi/2+phi, pi+phi and -pi/2+phi, at the peak location in time domain, where phi is the phase of the peak sample. This results in no complex multiplication and division in the novel scheme. In addition, the floating positions of such selected subcarriers in frequency domain are helpful to the convergence of the algorithm. The simulation results show that the scheme can provide good performance and fast convergence.