A phase adjustment based partial transmit sequence scheme for PAPR reduction

The peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) of an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing signal is normally very large and is crucial for the analog amplifier in the transmitter. It is therefore necessary to reduce the PAPR before the signal is transmitted. In this paper, a PAPR reduction scheme is presented based on the partial transmit sequence (PTS) method. By allowing each subblock of data to be rotated by an arbitrary angle, a simple yet efficient phase search algorithm is proposed. With a prespecified number of iterations, the proposed method gives the best phase vector for a combination of data blocks to achieve the smallest PAPR value. Our simulation results show that the proposed scheme provides significant computational savings while yielding a performance similar to that of the conventional PTS method.