Adaptive digital feedback predistortion technique for linearizing power amplifiers

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 932-940

  Woo, Young Yun ^b   Kim, Jangheon ^c   Yi, Jachyok ^d   Hong, Sungchul ^b   Kim, Ildu ^c   Moon, Junghwan ^c   Kim, Bumman ^a,c  

^a Samsung Electronics Company Ltd ^*

^b SAMSUNG Electronics   (South Korea)

^c Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)   (South Korea)

^d LG Electronics Inc   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Digital feedback predistortion (DFBPD); Digital predistortion (DPD); Feedback predistortion (FBPD); Linearization; Lookup table (LUT); Power amplifier (PA); Quantization; Recursive least square (RLS); Wideband code division multiple access (WCDMA)

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS; CODE DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEEDBACK CONTROL; LINEARIZATION; MATLAB; SIGNAL DISTORTION;

DIGITAL FEEDBACK PREDISTORTION (DFBPD); DIGITAL PREDISTORTION (DPD); FEEDBACK PREDISTORTION (FBPD); RECURSIVE LEAST SQUARE (RLS); WIDEBAND CODE DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS (WCDMA);

POWER AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 34248165969     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2007.895145     Document Type: Article

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