A new wideband adaptive digital predistortion technique employing feedback linearization

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 385-392

  Kim, Jangheon ^a,b   Woo, Young Yun ^c   Moon, Junghwan ^b   Kim, Bumman ^a,b  

^a IEEE

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

^c SAMSUNG Electronics   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Memory effects; Power amplifier (PA); Predistortion (PD); Wideband code division multiple access (WCDMA)

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; CODE DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; FEEDBACK LINEARIZATION; POLYNOMIALS; SIGNAL ANALYSIS;

ADAPTIVE DIGITAL PREDISTORTION; WIDEBAND DIGITAL FEEDBACK PREDISTORTION (WDFBPD);

DISTORTION (WAVES);

EID: 38849110050     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2007.914362     Document Type: Article

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