초록
국내 지상파 디지털멀티미디어방송(DMB)의 전송규격으로 OFDM 기반의 Eureka 147 DAB 시스템이 채택되었다 OFDM은 단일반송파 변조에 비해 많은 장점을 가지고 있으나, 높은 PAPR(Peak-to-Average Power Ratio)로 인해 A/D 및 D/A 변환기의 복잡도의 증가 및 고출력 증폭기의 효율 감소의 원인이 된다. 이와 같은 OFDM의 높은 PAPR을 감소시키기 위해 clipping, peak windowing, companding, SLM(Selected Mapping), PTS(Partial Transmit Sequences) 등과 같은 다양한 기법들이 제안되었다. 본 논문에서는 SLM과 PTS의 효율적인 구현방법을 제안하고, 이를 적용한 DMB 시스템의 PAPR 감소 성능에 대한 평가를 수행하였다 모의실험 결과, 제안된 MSLM(Modified SLM)은 SLM과 동일한 성능을 유지하면서 $P^{(U)}$벡터수의 감소로 인해 계산량 및 하드웨어 복잡도가 경감되는 이점이 있는 것으로 나타났으며, MPTS(Modified PTS) 또한 동일한 조건 하에서 PTS보다 우수한 PAPR 감소 성능을 보였다.
Eureka 147 DAB system based on the orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) was adopted as the transmission scheme for terrestrial digital multimedia broadcasting (DMB) system in Korea. The OFDM has several advantages comparing to the single carrier modulation. However, its high Peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) increases the complexity of the D/A and A/D converters and reduces the efficiency of the high power amplifier To reduce the high PAPR of OFDM, various techniques such as clipping, peak windowing, companding, selected mapping (SLM), Partial transmit sequences (PTS), etc. have been proposed. In this paper, we propose modified configurations of SLM and PTS for effective implementation and evaluate the performance on the PAPR reduction of DMB system. The simulation results show that the modified SLM (MSLM) has merits in reducing the amount of computation and hardware complexity due to the reduction of the number of vector $P^{(U)}$, while satisfying the same performance and maintaining the same required bits (RB) for side information. With the same amount of computation and the same RB, the modified PTS (MPTS) is also shown to be better than PTS in the performance of PAPR reduction.
