A method to reduce the probability of clipping in DMT-based transceivers

A new method allowing a reduction in the probability of clipping in discrete multitone (DMT)-based transceivers is described. The method does not use any kind of precoding and can easily be implemented within conventional DMT-transceivers. The main advantage of the proposed method is an improvement of system performance in terms of overall signal-to-noise ratios (SNR's): with the simplest implementation option of the proposed method, up to about 8 dB improvement in the SNR as compared with previously reported brute force clipping methods can be achieved.