In-Band and Out-Of-Band Distortions Optimization for ATSC 3.0 Transmission: A Novel TR PAPR Reduction Algorithm

This paper presents a novel Tone Reservation (TR) Peak to Average Power Ratio (PAPR) algorithm for the American digital video broadcasting (ATSC 3.0) standard. As any multicarrier communication systems, ATSC 3.0 transmitters suffer from high peaks of the transmitted signal. The high signal fluctuations constitute a major disadvantage of these systems. Indeed, they constraint the high power amplifiers to operate in their linear region which leads to poor spectral efficiency. To reduce the amplitude of the signal peaks, a TR gradient based algorithm has been proposed as an option within the ATSC 3.0 standard. Although TR-based algorithms have been intensively investigated these last years, very few today's transmitters implement these algorithms as they do not offer a high performance/complexity trade-off. This paper presents a novel TR-based algorithm, named as Grouped Carrier Peak Windowing (GCPW), which offers higher performance than the standard TR gradient-based algorithm while being implementable and compatible with the ATSC 3.0 standard. We also show through simulations that the proposed algorithm highly outperforms the gradient-based standard algorithm in terms of both in-band and out-of-band distortions. Results show that the novel algorithm offers very promising performance in terms of both modulation error rate and shoulder attenuation.