Research on Tone Reservation in SC-FDM system

Single Carrier-Frequency Division Multiple Access (SC-FDM) and Tone Reservation (TR) are used independently to reduce Peak to Average Power Ratio (PAPR) in wireless communications. In this paper, we jointly consider TR and SC-FDM to achieve much lower PAPR. We first present the PAPR of SC-FDM system with different DFT/IDFT size, and then theoretically analyze the PAPR gain of TR in SC-FDM. By considering the impact of TR on transmission power, we propose a novel metric, the effective signal power, to measure the performance of TR in SC-FDM. Afterwards, the TR optimization problem is formulated and solved by TR gradient algorithm. Finally, the performance of TR with SC-FDM is evaluated.