Impact of Clipping and Filtering on Peak to Average Power Ratio of OFDM System

Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) is an emerging field of research in the field of 4G broadband wireless communications due to its robustness against multipath fading and relatively simple implementation. Peak to Average Power Ratio (PAPR) is the limiting factor for an OFDM system as it consists of large number of independent subcarriers as a result of which the amplitude of such a signal can have high peak values which degrades the system performance. Such a signal when amplified by a Power Amplifier without processing results spectral regrowth and intermodulation among subcarrier. Hence this non linearity destroys the orthogonally of the OFDM signal and introduces out-of-band radiation and in band distortions causing significant performance degradation. The clipping and filtering method is analysed which is an efficient and simple method to reduce the PAPR. We have shown the effects of clipping and filtering on the performance of OFDM, including the power spectral density, the crest factor, and the bit-error rate.