Pilot Tone Design with Low Peak-to-Average Power Ratio in OFDM

Shinji HOSOKAWA  Kok ann Donny TEO  Shuichi OHNO  Takao HINAMOTO 

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences  Vol.E88-A  No.8  pp.2117-2123
Publication Date: 2005/08/01
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Print ISSN: 0916-8508
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Papers Selected from the 19th Symposium on Signal Processing)
Category: Communication Theory and Signals
Keyword: 
peak-to-average power ratio,  OFDM,  pilot tone, 

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Summary: 
In Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM), the composite time signal exhibits a high peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR). Due to non-linearities of the transmit power amplifiers, this high PAPR generates in-band distortion, out of band noise (OBN) or spectral spreading, which degrades the bit-error rate (BER) performance. In this paper, we propose a simple way to combat this problem without sacrificing channel estimation and frequency-offset tracking accuracy, by designing a sub-optimal configuration of the pilot tones. The effectiveness of the newly designed pilot tones in reducing PAPR is validated by Monte-Carlo simulations. The corresponding improvement in BER is also verified by simulations under IEEE 802.11a standard settings, by using the channel with perfect CSI and the designed pilot-aided estimated channel for coherent detection.