On PAPR Reduction Techniques in Mobile WiMAX

The mobile Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (Mobile WiMAX) air interface adopts orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) as multiple access technique for its uplink (UL) and downlink (DL) to improve the multipath performance. All OFDMA based networks including mobile WiMAX experience the problem of high peak-toaverage power ratio (PAPR). The literature is replete with a large number of PAPR reduction techniques. Among them, schemes like constellation shaping, phase optimization, nonlinear companding transforms, tone reservation (TR) and tone injection (TI), clipping and filtering, partial transmit sequence (PTS), precoding based techniques, selective mapping (SLM), precoding based selective mapping (PSLM) and phase modulation transform are popular. The precoding based techniques, however, show great promise as they are simple linear techniques to implement without the need of any complex optimizations. This chapter reviews these PAPR reduction techniques and presents a Zadoff-Chu matrix transform (ZCMT) based precoding technique for PAPR reduction in mobile WiMAX systems. The mobile WiMAX systems employing random-interleaved OFDMA uplink system has been used for determining the improvement in PAPR performance of the technique. It has been further used in selective mapping (SLM) based ZCMT precoded random-interleaved OFDMA uplink system. PAPR of these systems are analyzed with the root-raised-cosine (RRC) pulse shaping to keep out-of-band radiation low and to meet the transmission spectrum mask requirement. Simulation results show that the proposed systems have low PAPR than the Walsh-Hadamard transform (WHT) precoded random-interleaved OFDMA uplink systems and the conventional random-interleaved OFDMA uplink systems. The symbol-error-rate (SER) performance of these uplink systems is also better than the conventional random-interleaved OFDMA uplink systems and at par with WHT based random-interleaved OFDMA uplink systems. The good improvement in PAPR offered by the presented systems significantly reduces the cost and the complexity of the transmitter.