Peak Power Control in Multicarrier Communications

In many situations it is beneficial to deal with a discrete-time sampled version of multicarrier signals. This reduction allows passing from the continuous setting to an easier-to-handle discrete one. However, we have to estimate the inaccuracies stemming from the approach. In this chapter, I analyze the ratio between the maximum of the absolute value of a continuous MC signal and the maximum over a set of the signal s samples. We start with considering the ratio when the signal is sampled at the Nyquist frequency, i.e. the number of sampling points equals the number of tones. In this case I show that the maximum of the ratio over all MC signals grows with the number of subcarriers (Theorem 4.2). However, if one computes a weighted sum of the maximum of the signal s samples and the maximum of the signal derivative s samples the ratio already is, at most, a constant (Theorem 4.5). I further show that actually the ratio depends on the maximum of the signal; the larger the maximum is the smaller is the ratio (Theorem 4.6). An even better strategy is to use oversampling. Then the ratio becomes constant tending to 1 when the oversampling rate grows (Theorems 4.8, 4.9, 4.10, and 4.11). Furthermore, I tackle the case when we have to use the maximum estimation, projections on specially chosen measuring axes instead of the absolute values of the signal (Theorem 4.14). Finally, I address the problem of relation between the PAPR and the PMEPR and show that the PMEPR...