Joint Optimal Resource Allocation and PAPR Reduction Algorithm for OFDMA Systems

One of the drawbacks of an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) system is the larger peak to averaged power ratio (PAPR). The PAPR reduction scheme is a complicated problem, especially when a resource allocation is considered jointly. In this paper, a joint algorithm for determining an optimal resource allocation with PAPR awareness is proposed. Firstly, an adaptive tone reservation assignment is performed by optimally choosing a group of subcarriers, whose channel gains are sufficiently high, to be the data subcarriers and the remaining subcarriers will be used as the reserved tones for reducing PAPR to the desired level. Secondly, an adaptive power adjustment for PAPR reduction technique is introduced for determining the allocated power of data subcarriers by using the water-filling approach with the joint PAPR and capacity constraints. By using the proposed joint algorithm, the PAPR threshold level is satisfied while the desired capacity could be achieved. From the results, the proposed algorithm achieves the better results comparing with a conventional partial transmit sequence (PTS) technique and the tone reservation (TR) technique in terms of PAPR, and probability of error performances, in which the side information is not required, in contrast with the other techniques.