PAPR reduction scheme: wavelet packet‐based PTS with embedded side information data scheme

Partial transmit sequence (PTS) is an effective scheme to reduce high peak‐to‐average power ratio (PAPR) for multicarrier modulation (MCM) signal transmission systems. This approach produces side information (SI) data as a result of the MCM signal optimisation process. The generated SI data are required to be transmitted with the original data over the channel for successful data recovery at the receiver. An effective method for SI data transmission has not yet been identified and research is still ongoing. Hence, the authors introduce a technique that embeds SI data into the original data frame. In this study, a wavelet packet (WP)‐based PTS (WP‐PTS) scheme is selected as the MCM transmission method. The proposed scheme is called WP‐PTS with embedded SI data. In addition, a suitable scheme for reconstructing the original data is developed. Simulation result shows that the PAPR performance of the proposed scheme improves by up to 2.5 dB at a complementary cumulative distribution function level of 10 −4 compared with the original WP‐orthogonal frequency‐division multiplexing system without the PAPR reduction scheme when the number of selected disjoint subblocks is 16.