Patent ID: 8027398

Claim:
A method for solving high peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) problem of a multicarrier modulation (MCM) system with N sub-carriers, comprising the steps of: supplementing baseband signal blocks X j =(X j,0 , X j,1 , . . . , X j,N−1 ), j=1, 2, . . . , B generated from the MCM system with (L−1)N zeros and processing X j =(X j,0 , X j,1 , . . . , X j,N−1 , 0, . . . , 0) with LN-point IFFT to obtain L-time oversampled time-domain signal blocks x j =(x j,0 , x j,1 , . . . , x j, LN−1 ), respectively; performing a circular shift operation on x j to obtain Q signal blocks {tilde over (x)} j (i j ) , i j =1, . . . , Q; for ( x 1 , {tilde over (x)} 2 (i 2 ) , . . . , {tilde over (x)} B (i B ) ), i 2 =1, . . . , Q, . . . , i B =1, . . . , Q, performing P B×B unitary transform using matrixes Up, p=1, . . . , P to obtain, for each (i 2 , . . . , i B , p) combination, a combination containing B time-domain signal blocks ({tilde over (y)} 1 (i 2 , . . . , i B , p) , {tilde over (y)} 2 (i 2 , . . . , i B , p) , . . . ,{tilde over (y)} B (i 2 , . . . , i B , p) )=( x 1 , {tilde over (x)} 2 (i 2 ) , . . . , {tilde over (x)} B (i B ) ) cU p where c is an arbitrary constant (c≠0); and for all PQ B−1 combinations, comparing said combinations ({tilde over (y)} 1 (i 2 , . . . , i B , p) , {tilde over (y)} 2 (i 2 , . . . , i B , p) , . . . , {tilde over (y)} B (i 2 , . . . , i B , p) ), i 2 =1, . . . , Q, . . . , i B =1, . . . , Q, p=1, . . . , P to select a best combination ({tilde over (y)} 1 (i 2 , . . . , i B , p) , {tilde over (y)} 2 (i 2 , . . . , i B , p) , . . . , {tilde over (y)} B (i 2 , . . . , i B , p) ) for transmission.