Method for determining reserved tones and transmitter for performing PAPR reduction using tone reservation

• US 9,929,890 B2
• Filed: 06/09/2016
• Issued: 03/27/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 06/09/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Park, Joo-sung, Oh, Young-ho
• Primary Examiner(s): Huang, David S
• Application Number:
  US15/177,481
• Publication Number:
  US 20160365997A1
• Time in Patent Office: 656 Days
• Field of Search: 375295
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/04 Circuits
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 27/2618 Reduction thereof using auxiliary subcarriers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 27/262 Reduction thereof by selection of pilot symbols
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 27/2628 Inverse Fourier transform modulators, e.g. inverse fast Fourier transform [IFFT] or inverse discrete Fourier transform [IDFT] modulators H04L27/2634 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0007 the frequencies being orthogonal, e.g. OFDM(A), DMT
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0048 Allocation of pilot signals, i.e. of signals known to the receiver

Abstract

A method of determining reserved tones for reduction of a peak to average power ratio (PAPR) includes: selecting carrier indices for the reserved tones and generating a kernel signal based on the selected carrier indices; calculating a comparison reference average value of the kernel signal, selecting one of the calculated comparison reference average value and a prestored comparison reference average value, and preliminarily determining carrier indices of the reserved tones based on the selection; re-arranging an order of the preliminarily determined carrier indices; calculating a comparison reference average value of a kernel signal generated, whenever each of the re-arranged carrier indices is changed to another carrier index, to generate a plurality of comparison reference average values, and finally determining carrier indices of the reserved tones which generates a kernel signal having the smallest comparison reference average value among the comparison reference average values as the indices of the reserved tones.

Claims

1. A transmitter, comprising at least one processor to implement:

a peak to average power ratio (PAPR) reducer configured to generate a signal for reducing the PAPR of an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbol,

wherein a fast fourier transform (FFT) size of the OFDM symbol is 16K, and

wherein the PAPR reducer generates the signal for reducing the PAPR of the OFDM symbol using a set of carriers having carrier indices listed below;

2. The transmitter as claimed in claim 1, wherein the OFDM symbol is one of a plurality of OFDM symbols included in a frame, and

wherein the frame includes a preamble symbol, subframe boundary symbols, and data symbols.

3. The transmitter as claimed in claim 2, wherein the carrier indices of the set of carriers comprise carrier indices, when a position in the preamble symbol into which a preamble pilot is inserted and a position in the subframe boundary symbols into which a subframe boundary pilot is inserted are defined based on a pilot insertion pattern, and an edge pilot is inserted into a first carrier and a last carrier in each of the subframe boundary symbols.

4. The transmitter as claimed in claim 3, wherein the pilot insertion pattern is determined based on Dx=6, 12, 16, 24, 32, and

wherein the Dx is a difference of carrier indices between adjacent carriers into which the pilot is to be inserted.

5. The transmitter as claimed in claim 2, wherein the carrier indices of the set of carriers comprise carrier indices, when a position in the data symbols into which a scattered pilot is inserted is defined based on a pilot insertion pattern, and an edge pilot is inserted into a first carrier and a last carrier in each of the data symbols.

6. The transmitter as claimed in claim 5, wherein the pilot insertion pattern is determined based Dx=3, 4, 6, 8, 12, 16, 24, 32, and

wherein the Dx is a difference of carrier indices between adjacent carriers into which the pilot is inserted.

7. The transmitter as claimed in claim 5, wherein the pilot insertion pattern is determined based Dy=2, 4, and

wherein the Dy is a difference of symbol indices between successive pilots on a specific carrier.

8. The transmitter as claimed in claim 1, wherein the OFDM symbol comprises a plurality of symbols comprising a preamble symbol, subframe boundary symbols, and data symbols,

wherein the carrier indices are determined based on a pattern of pilots inserted into the plurality of symbols.