The impact of long term memory effects in wireless QPSK modulated signals

IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium Digest

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 961-964

  Santos, Rui Estanqueiro ^a   Carvalho, Nuno Borges ^a   Gard, Kevin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO   (Portugal)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Long term memory; Nonlinear systems; Power amplifiers

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS; POWER AMPLIFIERS; SIGNAL DISTORTION; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

CHANNEL DISTORTION; LONG TERM MEMORY; MODULATED SIGNALS;

QUADRATURE PHASE SHIFT KEYING;

EID: 34748841486     PISSN: 0149645X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MWSYM.2007.380178     Document Type: Conference Paper

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