Concatenated peak-to-average power ratio reduction scheme with threshold limited selection for coded orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing

The authors propose a concatenated scheme to reduce the peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) in coded orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) systems. First, they employ a label-bits-inserted encoder of a random-like code to achieve selected mapping (SLM). Then they set a threshold at the selector to limit the number of candidate sequences. Both analytical and numerical results show that the complexity of the SLM implemented by the label-bit-inserted encoder can be significantly reduced by threshold limited selection. With the same complexity, the performance of PAPR reduction is improved. The proposed concatenated PAPR reduction scheme enjoys many advantages including low-complexity, small overhead, no side information transmission and no performance loss or additional complexity at the receiver.