ABSTRACT

In this chapter, we first give an overview of the OFDM system principles. In Section 2.3, we present the single-carrier frequency domain equalization (SC-FDE) system. This is followed by an overview of the MC-CDMA system in Section 2.4. The peak-toaverage power ratio (PAPR) problem is discussed in Section 2.5, and finally in Section 2.6, we study the effects of the PA nonlinearity on the OFDM system performance and outline the PAPR reduction techniques.