Peak to Average Power Ratio Reduction for Filter Bank Multicarrier Modulation using Iterative Clipping and Filtering

Filter Bank Multi Carrier (FBMC) is considered as promising candidate solution to the air interference problem in the fifth-generation communication (5G). Since the performance of multicarrier transmission is affected by peak to average power ratio (PAPR) therefore, research on PAPR reduction methods is essential. The paper presents the effect of the simplest method for reduction the PAPR for FBMC modulation by using the iterative clipping and filtering (ICF) method. A significant improvement in PAPR reduction can be obtained with a modest complexity and low degradation in Bit Error Ratio (BER).

I. Introduction

The Filter Bank Multicarrier Modulation (FBMC) is a candidate modulation to replace Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) scheme in next generation wireless systems [1]. Its performance was compared to OFDM [2, 3] and is superior in several parameters such as spectral efficiency, higher throughput and it has much lower Out-Of-Band (OOB) emissions than OFDM.