Peak to Average Power Ratio Reduction for OFDM with IM System

This paper is interested in studying the Peak to Average Power Ratio (PAPR) reduction in Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing with Index Modulation (OFDM-IM) system transmitter. PAPR is a common issue in multicarrier transmission techniques which is the result of adding independent multicarrier signals of different peak values on the same phases. The reduction schemes have been diversly examined for classical OFDM and the majority of them can be directly extended to OFDM-IM while some require slight changes to suit the OFDM-IM characteristics. Selective Mapping (SLM), Partial Transmit Sequence (PTS), Tone Reservation (TR), and Peak Insertion (PI) are some examples on the reduction schemes that will be investigated throughout this paper. As for PI, to the best knowledge of the authors is for the first time implemented in OFDM-IM. The system parameters effects, number of total subcarriers(N), number of subblocks (n), the active subcarriers (k), and the activation ratio (r) are studied to gain the lowest PAPR amount possible that reached (1.2 dB) at specified system parameters.