The invention discloses a method for reducing a peak-to-average
power ratio of
multiple input multiple output (
MIMO) -
orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM)
signal for space-frequency coding. On a
transmitter end, data is coded, interlaced, modulated and alamounti space-frequency coded to obtain a group of frequency-domain sequence, the group of frequency-domain sequence is grouped, so multiple groups of candidate time-domain signals are obtained by selecting appropriate parameters, and a group of time-domain signals with the minimum peak-to-average
power ratio (PAPR) is selected to be transmitted. On the end of a
receiver, after the operation of a received
signal such as fast fourier transformation (FFT),
estimation of a channel, space-frequency coding and the like, a frequency-domain
signal which is superimposed by the channel
noise is obtained, and the hard decision is performed on the frequency-domain signal to obtain a
nose-free frequency-domain signal. The signal is restored according to all possible combination ways to obtain candidate data, and only the data which is restored by adopting a correct restoring way conforms to the original modulation
constellation.The method can effectively reduce the peak-to-average
power ratio of the
MIMO-OFDM signal, is free from transmitting the
side information, improves the
frequency band utilization rate of the
system, and can be applied to different communication systems based on the space-frequency coding-based
MIMO-OFDM technology.