PAPR Reduction of OQAM-OFDM Signals Using Segmental PTS Scheme With Low Complexity

Abstract

In this paper, a novel segmental partial transmit sequence (S-PTS) scheme is proposed for the peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) reduction in offset quadrature amplitude modulation based orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OQAM-OFDM) systems. The key idea of the S-PTS scheme is to divide the overlapped OQAM-OFDM signals into a number of segments, and then some disjoint subblocks are divided and multiplied with different phase rotation factors in each segment. Compared with the conventional PTS scheme directly employed in OQAM-OFDM sytems, the S-PTS scheme could offer better PAPR reduction with lower computational complexity.