2021/07/14 by Sueda Taner, Christoph Studer, Taner, Sueda +1
Engineering · #Advanced MIMO Systems Optimization #Advanced Wireless Communication Techniques #FOS: Computer and information sciences #FOS: Electrical engineering #Information Theory (cs.IT) #PAPR reduction in OFDM #Signal Processing (eess.SP) #electronic engineering #information engineering
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2107.06986
openalex publication_date 2021/07/14 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Wireless communication systems that rely on orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) suffer from a high peak-to-average (power) ratio (PAR), which necessitates power-inefficient radio-frequency (RF) chains to avoid an increase in error-vector magnitude (EVM) and out-of-band (OOB) emissions. The situation is further aggravated in massive multiuser (MU) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems that would require hundreds of linear RF chains. In this paper, we present a novel approach to joint precoding and PAR reduction that builds upon a novel ℓp - ℓq-norm formulation, which is able to find minimum PAR solutions while suppressing MU interference. We provide a theoretical underpinning of our approach and provide simulation results for a massive MU-MIMO-OFDM system that demonstrate significant reductions in PAR at low complexity, without causing an increase in EVM or OOB emissions.