Linear companding transform for the reduction of peak-to-average power ratio of OFDM signals

IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 155-160

  Aburakhia, Sulaiman A ^a   Badran, Ehab F ^b   Mohamed, Darwish A E ^b  

^a Mobile Systems International Consultancy MSI Consultancy   (Saudi Arabia)

^b Technology and Maritime Transport   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Companding transform (CT); Linear companding transform (LCT); Nonlinear power amplifier (PA); Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM); Peak to average power ratio (PAPR)

Indexed keywords

BIT ERROR RATE; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; FREQUENCY ALLOCATION; MULTICARRIER MODULATION; MULTIPLEXING; ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; POWER AMPLIFIERS; POWER CONTROL; POWER SPECTRAL DENSITY;

COMPANDING TRANSFORM (CT); LINEAR COMPANDING TRANSFORM (LCT); NONLINEAR POWER AMPLIFIER (PA); ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY-DIVISION MULTIPLEXING (OFDM); PEAK-TO-AVERAGE POWER RATIO (PAPR);

MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS;

EID: 61449119621     PISSN: 00189316     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBC.2009.2013987     Document Type: Article

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