Abstract—Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) in its position as the popular technique for future communication has several drawbacks. High peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) is one of the concerns. We propose the use of run-length encoding (RLE) to reduce the PAPR and also to maintain the system’s performance. The results show that the PAPR can be reduced significantly of about 3 dB and the performance is the same with the original system.

Index Terms—OFDM, PAPR, RLE.

The authors are with the Department of Electrical Engineering University of Indonesia (e-mail: filbert@ee.ui.ac.id, guna@eng.ui.ac.id).

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Cite: Filbert. H. Juwono, Ajib. S. Arifin, and Dadang Gunawan, "Performance of Using RLE for PAPR Reduction in OFDM System," International Journal of Computer and Electrical Engineering vol. 4, no. 4, pp. 519-522, 2012.