Patent ID: 8175179

Claim:
A processor-implemented method for reducing peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) of a transmitter's multi-carrier modulated signal, the method comprising: (a) at least one processor generating an initial multi-carrier modulated signal having (i) one or more data-modulated tones corresponding to one or more data symbols and (ii) one or more initial PAPR-reduction tones corresponding to one or more initial PAPR-reduction symbols; and (b) at least one processor applying, to the initial multi-carrier modulated signal, a gradient-descent algorithm to generate a final multi-carrier modulated signal having (i) the one or more data-modulated tones corresponding to the one or more data symbols and (ii) one or more final PAPR-reduction tones corresponding to one or more final PAPR-reduction symbols, wherein the PAPR of the final multi-carrier modulated signal is lower than the PAPR of the initial multi-carrier modulated signal.