@inproceedings{PfletschingerErhardt2019,
  author    = {Stephan Pfletschinger and Ludwig Erhardt},
  title     = {On the Relation Between PAPR and System Performance in Multicarrier Modulation},
  series = {SCC 2019 : 12th International ITG Conference on Systems, Communications and Coding},
  publisher = {VDE Verlag},
  address   = {Berlin Offenbach},
  isbn      = {978-3-8007-4862-4},
  doi       = {10.30420/454862015},
  pages     = {83 -- 88},
  year      = {2019},
  abstract  = {The high peak power in comparison to the average transmit power is one of the major long-standing problems in multicarrier modulation and is known as the PAPR (peak to average power ratio) problem. Many PAPR reduction methods have been devised and their comparison is usually based on the complementary cumulative distribution function (CCDF) of the PAPR. While this comparison is straightforward and easy to compute, its relationship with system performance metrics like the (uncoded) BER or the word error rate (WER) for coded systems is considerably more involved. We evaluate the impact of the PAPR on performance metrics like uncoded BER, EVM (error vector magnitude), mutual information and the WER for soft decoding. In this context, we find that system performance is not necessarily degraded by an increasing PAPR. We show that a high number of subcarriers, despite the corresponding high PAPR, is actually not a problem for the system performance and provide a simple explanation for this seemingly counter-intuitive fact.},
  language  = {en}
}