Peak-to-average power reduction method

• US 8,369,431 B2
• Filed: 01/25/2008
• Issued: 02/05/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 01/25/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Nautel Limited
• Original Assignee: Nautel Limited
• Inventors: Walker, Brian, Schmid, Philipp
• Primary Examiner(s): Washburn, Daniel
• Assistant Examiner(s): HAILEGIORGIS, FITWI Y
• Application Number:
  US12/810,146
• Publication Number:
  US 20100272221A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,838 Days
• Field of Search: 375/260, 375/295, 375/296, 375/350, 343/860
• US Class Current: 375/260
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/0475 with means for limiting noise, interference or distortion H04B1/0483 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 2001/0416 having gain or transmission power control
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 27/2614 Peak power aspects
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 27/2623 Reduction thereof by clipping

Abstract

A method of reducing peak-to-average power in a hybrid signal is provided. The method determines peaks in power by defining a sample point by way of a digital vector and an analog vector. The digital and analog vectors are added together to generate a hybrid vector which is used to compare the sample point to the maximum desired peak threshold. An error vector is used to correct the sample point to a desired power level. Once the sample point has been corrected it can be added back to the analog signal and transmitted.

Claims

1. A method for peak-to-average power reduction in a hybrid signal comprising first and second separately modulated signals, the method comprising the steps of:

obtaining a sample point of the hybrid signal;

defining the sample point by way of a first vector corresponding to the first separately modulated signal and a second vector corresponding to the second separately modulated signal;

adding the first vector to the second vector to obtain a hybrid vector;

comparing the hybrid vector against a maximum desired peak threshold to identify peaks in power;

determining an error vector that reduces the identified peaks in power of the hybrid vector to within the maximum desired peak threshold;

adding the error vector to the second vector to reduce at least one peak in power of the identified peaks in power, and

correcting a constellation and a spectrum of the second modulated signal following peak determination and peak reduction to yield a corrected second modulated signal, wherein said correcting of the constellation and spectrum comprises the steps of;

demodulating the second separately modulated signal;

correcting all carriers in the demodulated signal;

clipping non-carriers to a mask; and

modulating the corrected second separately modulated signal.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the first separately modulated signal is an analog signal and the second separately modulated signal is a digital signal.

3. The method according to claim 2, wherein the analog signal comprises a radio modulated baseband carrier and the digital signal comprises orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM).

4. The method according to claim 1, further comprising a step of oversampling the hybrid vector prior to comparing the hybrid vector against the maximum desired peak threshold.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the error vector is added to the second vector in a direction extending from an origin of the second vector in a complex plane representation thereof.

6. The method according to claim 5, wherein the error vector is based on a correction vector comprising a correction function that applies a delta function to the second vector.

7. The method according to claim 6, wherein the correction function comprises applying a shifted sinc function to the second vector for peak reduction in-between discrete sample points.

8. The method according to claim 6, wherein the correction function comprises applying at least one complex frequency to the second vector for tone injection at varying frequencies.

9. The method according to claim 8, wherein the at least one complex frequency is orthogonal to symbol carriers.

10. The method according to claim 6, wherein the correction function comprises applying at least one windowed complex frequency to the second vector for pulse injection at varying frequencies.

11. The method according to claim 10, wherein the at least one windowed complex frequency limits time domain impact and increases spectral impact.

12. The method according to claim 1, wherein the second vector has a length, and the error vector is added to the second vector along the length of the second vector.

13. The method according to claim 1, wherein the error vector is calculated in parallel and opposed to the first vector.

14. The method according to claim 1, further comprising a step of correcting a constellation and a spectrum of the error vector.

15. The method according to claim 1, further comprising a step of adding the first separately modulated signal to the corrected second separately modulated signal.

16. The method according to claim 15, further comprising a step of adding a complex random variable to the demodulated signal prior to correcting the carriers in the demodulated signal.

17. The method according to claim 1, wherein the step of demodulating the second separately modulated signal further comprises:

removing pulse shaping of the second separately modulated signal; and

applying a Fast Fourier Transformation operation on the carriers in the demodulated signal.

18. The method according to claim 1, wherein the step of modulating the corrected second separately modulated signal further comprises:

applying an Inverse Fast Fourier Transformation to the corrected second separately modulated signal to yield a transformed signal; and

applying pulse shaping to the transformed signal.

19. A computer readable memory having recorded thereon statements and instructions for execution by a computer adapted to carry out the method according to claim 1.