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Peak o A e age Po
e Ra io fo OFDM
Posted By Krishna Sankar On February 24, 2008 @ 7:51 am In Transmitter | 245 Comments
Let us try to understand peak to average power ratio (PAPR) and its typical value in an OFDM system specified per IEEE 802.11a specifications [1] .
Wha i PAPR?
The peak to average power ratio for a signal , where corresponds to the conjugate operator. Expressing in deciBels, . is defined as
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Consider a sinusoidal signal having the period The peak value of the signal is .
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From the previous post (here), we have learned that an OFDM signal is the sum of multiple where each sinusoidal gets modulated by . Mathematically, the transmit signal is,
Given so, the peak to average power ratio for an OFDM system with subcarriers are given the same modulation is, .
It is reasonably intuitive that the above value corresponds to the maximum value of PAPR (when all the subcarriers are equally modulated, all the subcarriers align in phase and the peak value hits the maximum).
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Per the IEEE 802.11a specifications [1] , we have used subcarriers. Given so, the maximum expected PAPR is 52 (around 17dB!!). However, thanks to the scrambler, all the subcarriers in an OFDM symbol being equally modulated is unlikely. Using a small script, the cumulative distribution of PAPR from each OFDM symbol, modulated by a random BPSK signal is obtained. Click here to download [2] .
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As can be observed, the observed PAPR seems to be distributed from around +3.5dB to a maximum value of 10dB.
Refe ence
[802.11A] Wireless LAN Medium Access Control (MAC) and Physical (PHY) Layer specifications High speed physical layer in 5GHz band [1] Hope this helps. Krishna
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