I just read 4G LTE/LTE-Advanced for Mobile Broadband, and found the content as below,
If the DFT size M equals the IDFT size N, the cascaded DFT/IDFT processing would obviously completely cancel each other out. However, if M is smaller than N and the remaining inputs to the IDFT are set to zero, the output of the IDFT will be a signal with “single-carrier” properties – that is, a signal with low power variations, and with a bandwidth that depends on M.
My question is that why DFT-SPREAD OFDM has lower variations in comparison with OFDM? The picture is DFT-SPREAD OFDM modulation scheme.
Thank you.