Abstract
Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) is the best choice to achieve high datarate transmission in wireless environment. OFDM system shows many favorable property such as highspectral efficiency, robustness to channel fading and immunity to impulse interference. The maindisadvantage of OFDM is the high time-domain peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) that limitstransmitter power efficiency. Otherwise, OFDM signal may be distorted by the nonlinear behavior ofthe high power amplifier (HPA) at the transmitter. The transmitter can reduce PAPR by distorting thedata carriers or by adding power to the free carriers. This paper analyzes the capability of DummySequence Insertion (DSI) algorithm to reduce PAPR in wireless local-area network (WLAN)/OFDMsystem. The incorporation of DSI on this system is performed by measuring the PAPR at the output ofthe IFFT (Inverse Fast Fourier Transform) after adding a 6-bit sequence at the dummy sub-channelsinputs and make a decision to transmit the data if the PAPR for this data sequence under a specifiedthreshold. Unlike most of the data distortion algorithms used for PAPR reduction methods, the lowcomplexity DSI method did not need any kind of side information. Simulation results are presentedfor a network model designed by WLAN 802.11a standard using MATLAB as a mathematicalsimulation software tool. The network model has been simulated in Additive White Gaussian Noise(AWGN) channel environment to investigate the behavior of PAPR and Bit-Error Rate (BER)performance. The simulation results show that the data distortion technique based on DSI reducesPAPR down to 4 dB compared to conventional OFDM system, and down to 2 dB compared withclipping technique for the same BER performance.