Low PAPR FBMC-OQAM System Based on Data Mapping and DFT Spreading

Journal article, 2025

Filter bank multicarrier with offset quadrature amplitude modulation (FBMC-OQAM) is considered as a promising waveform for Internet of Things (IoT) due to its capability to mitigate interference among asynchronous users. However, as a multicarrier technique, the FBMC-OQAM signal also has a high peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR), which is detrimental to low-power transmission. To address this issue, this article proposes a novel discrete Fourier transform (DFT)-spread scheme to exhaustively reduce the PAPR of the FBMC-OQAM signal. In this scheme, the transmitting data symbols are first mapped with a conjugate symmetry rule and then coded by the DFT. Using this method, the preprocessing step in FBMC-OQAM that involves separating the real and imaginary parts of the quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) symbols can be avoided. Compared with existing DFT-spread FBMC-OQAM schemes, the proposed scheme demonstrates better PAPR performance while maintaining equivalent spectral efficiency. Additionally, the computational complexity of the proposed scheme experiences only a slight increase, thereby preserving a relatively low computational burden. Numerical simulation results validate the effectiveness of the proposed scheme. Furthermore, the effect of the prototype filter on the PAPR is investigated, and a tradeoff exists between the PAPR and out-of-band performance.