Partial Shift Mapping Decoding Algorithm to PAPR Reduction in OFDM Systems

Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) is a kind of modulation technique which allows the transmission of high data rates over wideband radio channels subject to frequency selective fading by dividing it to several narrow band and flat fading channels. OFDM has high spectral efficiency and Robustness to multipath fading. In contrast high peak to average power ratio (PAPR) of the transmitted signals is a major drawback of multicarrier systems like OFDM. High PAPR causes the nonlinear distortion in the received data and reduces the efficiency of the high power amplifier in transmitter. To solve the problem many techniques such as SLM and PTS algorithms are proposed. Recently a new simple method with low complexity respected to the SLM and PTS as Partial Shift Mapping (PSM) is proposed by Xing et al. He showed that the PSM method can reduce the PAPR parameter respected the other mentioned methods, effectively. In this paper we will design the corresponding decoder to the PSM technique and will evaluate its robustness respected to the high power amplifier distortion and the AWGN channel. Simulation results will show that the PSM method has a better Power spectrum density and is less sensitive to the type of modulation and number of subcarriers.