Abstract
One of the disadvantages of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems is the high peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) of OFDM signals. Golay complementary sets have been proposed to tackle this problem. In this paper, we develop several theorems which can be used to construct Golay complementary sets and multiple-shift complementary sets from Reed-Muller codes. We show that the results of Davis and Jedwab on Golay complementary sequences and those of Paterson and Schmidt on Golay complementary sets can be considered as special cases of our results. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2006.