Novel Low-Complexity SLM Schemes for PAPR Reduction in OFDM Systems

The selected mapping (SLM) is a major scheme for peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) reduction in orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems. It has been shown that the complexity of the traditional SLM scheme can be substantially reduced by adopting the conversion vectors to replace the inverse fast Fourier transform (IFFT) operations [4]. Each conversion vector is obtained by taking the IFFT of the phase rotation vector. Unfortunately, the corresponding phase rotation vectors of the conversion vectors in [4] do not have equal magnitude, leading to significant degradation in bit error rate (BER) performance. This drawback can be remedied by adopting the perfect sequences as the conversion vectors. This paper presents two novel classes of perfect sequences, which are shown to be compositions of certain base vectors and their cyclic-shift versions. Then, two novel low-complexity SLM schemes are proposed by utilizing the special structures of the perfect sequences. The BER performances of both the proposed schemes are exactly the same as the traditional SLM scheme. Index Terms Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM), peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR), selected mapping (SLM), perfect sequence.