A Robust Companding Scheme against Nonlinear Distortion of High Power Amplifiers in OFDM Systems

We propose a CCP (companding combined with predistorter) scheme that maintains BER (bit error rate) performance, while effectively reducing PAPR (peak-to-average power ratio) of OFDM (orthogonal frequency division multiplexing) signals. The proposed CCP scheme combines the conventional companding scheme proposed by the authors with the predistorter, in order to prevent degradation of BER performance caused by signal distortion from nonlinear property of the HPA (high power amplifier) and the compression property of the companding scheme. Hence, the proposed scheme effectively reduces the PAPR and simultaneously maintains the BER performance independent of nonlinear property of the HPAs. Simulation results show that the proposed scheme provides the lower total degradation for all the modulations, when compared with the conventional companding scheme proposed by Wang and the clipping scheme.