Analysis of PAPR reduction of DFT-SCFDMA system using different sub-carrier mapping schemes

This paper is concerned with the reduction of peak to average power ratio (PAPR) of 3rd generation partnership project (3GPP) LTE standard using the single carrier-frequency division multiple access (SCFDMA) for mobile uplink transmission. The PAPR reduction is done based on the discrete Fourier transform (DFT) spreading technique which is well known as DFT - SCFDMA and in case of LTE which can reduce the PAPR of OFDM signal to a level of single carrier transmission. Note that the needed power of the signals for uplink transmission of LTE is varied depending on the different sub-carrier mapping and modulation techniques. This paper discusses different sub-carrier mapping techniques such as-localized FDMA (IFDMA), distributed FDMA (DFDMA) and interleaved FDMA (IFDMA). To show the effectiveness of DFT-SCFDMA in the reduction of PAPR with different sub-carrier mapping and modulation techniques the results are compared with the conventional OFDMA system. This paper also shows the comparative results of different sub-carrier mapping techniques in terms of symbol error rate (SER). The comparative results show that the DFT-SCFDMA greatly enhances the PAPR reduction for LTE uplink transmission over the conventional OFDMA.