An active-set approach for OFDM PAR reduction via tone reservation

Abstract

Common to all orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems is a large peak-to-average-power ratio (PAR), which can lead to low power efficiency and nonlinear distortion at the transmit power amplifier. Tone reservation uses other unused or reserved tones to design a peak-cancelling signal that lowers the PAR of a transmit OFDM block. In contrast to previous methods, the new active-set method proposed here converges very quickly toward a minimum-PAR solution at a lower computational cost. An efficient real-baseband algorithm is well suited for discrete multitone (DMT) modulation over twisted-pair copper wiring, where some subchannels may have an insufficient SNR to reliably send ..