A novel CVM precoding scheme for PAPR reduction in OFDM transmissions

High peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) is still one of the major problems in orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM). In this article, a new precoding method is proposed and analyzed based on complex Vandermonde matrix (CVM). The reduction in PAPR of the OFDM signal is obtained using the decorrelation property of CVM which removes any redundancy from the input sequence and can be a very effective for PAPR reduction. Also, the phase-rotation property of CVM takes an advantage of the fact that the PAPR is very sensitive to phase-shifts of the signal. It is shown that the proposed precoding outperforms most of the powerful precoding techniques and can achieve a PAPR gain up to 6.5 and 7.4 dB for IEEE 802.11a and DVB-T OFDM systems respectively. Moreover, CVM precoding does not change power spectral levels or error performances when compared with the normal OFDM systems, also it does not increase the computational complexity when compared with the existing precoding methods. It is shown that the performance of the proposed precoding is independent of modulation schemes and the number of subcarriers. The proposed CVM precoding also takes advantage of the frequency variations of the communication channel and can provide considerable performance gain in fading-multipath channels.