Open-loop digital predistorter for RF power amplifiers using dynamic deviation reduction-based volterra series

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 56, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1524-1534

  Zhu, Anding ^a,b   Draxler, Paul J ^a,c,d   Yan, Jonmei J ^a,c,d   Brazil, Thomas J ^a,b   Kimball, Donald F ^a,c   Asbeck, Peter M ^a,c  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d QUALCOMM INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavioral modeling; Linearization; Power amplifier (PA); Predistorter; Sampling; Volterra series

Indexed keywords

BROADBAND AMPLIFIERS; DIGITAL ARITHMETIC; DISTORTION (WAVES); NONLINEAR DISTORTION; POWER AMPLIFIERS; SIGNAL DISTORTION;

ADJACENT CHANNEL POWER RATIO (ACPR); CLOSED LOOPS; DIGITAL PRE-DISTORTER; DISTORTION (DEFORMATION); IMPLEMENTATION COMPLEXITY; MEMORY EFFECTS; MODEL EXTRACTION; OPEN LOOPS; POLYNOMIAL FUNCTIONS; PREDISTORTER (PD); ROOT MEAN-SQUARE ERROR (RMSE); SOLID STATE RADIO FREQUENCY (RF) POWER AMPLIFIERS; SYSTEM COMPLEXITY; SYSTEM IDENTIFICATION (SI); TIME PARAMETERS; UNDER-SAMPLING; VOLTERRA-SERIES; WIRELESS TRANSMITTERS;

TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS;

EID: 47649100836     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2008.925211     Document Type: Article

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