An Effective PAPR Reduction of SFBC-OFDM for Multinode Cooperative Transmission

Peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) regrowth after clipping is one disadvantage of space-frequency block coded orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (SFBC-OFDM). In this letter, we propose an effective PAPR reduction technique of SFBC-OFDM for multinode cooperative transmission. To reduce PAPR at the source (mobile equipment), the relay applies SFBC encoding, which enables the source to transmit clipped single-input single-output (SISO)-OFDM signals without any increase of PAPR. Simulation results show that the clipped signals of proposed scheme are effectively recovered, and the proposed scheme achieves the diversity of SFBC without the complexity of multiple antennas at the source.