Clipping Noise Compensation for Overlapped Time Domain Multiplexing toward Low Peak-to-Average Power Ratio

• Published in: Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) Vol. 24; no. 5; p. 1607
• Main Authors: Huang, Chongda, Zhang, Qianzhen, Li, Xiaoyuan, Xiao, Yue
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Switzerland MDPI AG 01.03.2024; MDPI
• Subjects: Algorithms; clipping distortion mitigation; Codes; Communications equipment; Efficiency; Overlapped Time Domain Multiplexing (OvTDM); peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR); Signal processing; superposition coded modulation (SCM); Transmitters; clipping distortion mitigation; superposition coded modulation (SCM); peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR); Overlapped Time Domain Multiplexing (OvTDM)
• ISSN: 1424-8220; 1424-8220
• DOI: 10.3390/s24051607

Overlapped Time Domain Multiplexing (OvTDM) is a high-rate transmission technology that employs the idea of superposition coded modulation (SCM) scheme for signal generation, aiming to achieve maximum channel capacity sharing. Meanwhile, it is also widely considered as a promising technique toward physical layer security. As a main drawback of such system, a high peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) issue in this system, arising from multi-layer superposition, can be addressed through intentional clipping. However, the detection at the receiver side is vulnerable to nonlinear distortion caused by clipping, which can degrade the performance. To mitigate this distortion, this paper proposed an iterative scheme for estimating and partially canceling clipping distortion at the receiver. We managed to mitigate the impact of clipping noise as much as possible and minimize the cost of optimizing PAPR, thereby improving the transmission performance of OvTDM in the context of amplitude clipping.