Crest Factor

Crest Factor Reduction of an OFDM/WiMAX Network
Crest Factor Reduction of an OFDM/WiMAX Network 07 June 2012 Sheila Mugala, Julius Butime, and Dorothy Okello

African countries lag behind the rest of the world in their use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). To reduce the digital divide quickly and cost-effectively, wireless networks are considered. WiMAX (Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access) is a wireless broadband access technology that uses Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) which is a multicarrier modulation scheme. OFDM presents a problem of a high crest factor or Peak to Average Power Ratio (PAPR)....

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