An efficient combination of digital predistortion and ofdm clipping for power amplifiers

International Journal of RF and Microwave Computer-Aided Engineering

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 583-591

  Gilabert, Pere L ^a   Gadringer, Michael E ^b   Montoro, Gabriel ^a   Mayer, Markus L ^b,c   Silveira, Daniel D ^b,c   Bertran, Eduard ^a   Magerl, Gottfried ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^c Meusonic ZI de Marville ^*  (Brazil)

Author keywords

Digital predistortion; Nonlinear distortion; Ofdm; Peak to average power ratio (papr); Power amplifiers; Reduction

Indexed keywords

BASE BANDS; CLIPPING TECHNIQUES; DIGITAL PREDISTORTION; LINEAR DISTORTIONS; LINEARIZERS; MULTICARRIER SIGNAL; NONLINEAR BEHAVIOR; OFDM; PEAK TO AVERAGE POWER RATIO; PEAK-TO-AVERAGE POWER RATIO (PAPR); POWER EFFICIENCY; TEST-BENCH;

AMPLIFICATION; DISTORTION (WAVES); FREQUENCY ALLOCATION; INTEROPERABILITY; LINEARIZATION; MULTICARRIER MODULATION; NONLINEAR DISTORTION; ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; POWER CONTROL; WIMAX;

POWER AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 68849111782     PISSN: 10964290     EISSN: 1099047X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mmce.20381     Document Type: Article

References (15)

1. R. W. Bauml, R. F. H. Fischer, and J. B. Huber, Reducing the peak-to-average power ratio of multicarrier modulation by selected mapping, IEEE Lett 32 (1996), 2056-2057.
2. T. Jiang, Y. Yang, and Y. H. Song, Exponential companding technique for PAPR reduction in OFDM systems, IEEE Trans Broadcast 51 (2005), 244-248. (Pubitemid 40819428)
3. B. S. Krongold and D. L. Jones, PAR reduction in OFDM via active constellation extension, IEEE Trans Broadcast 49 (2003), 258-268.
4. R. J. Baxley, C. Zhao, and G. T. Zhou, Constrained clipping for crest factor reduction in OFDM, IEEE Trans Broadcast 52 (2006), 570-575. (Pubitemid 44955542)
5. th Vehicular Technology Conference, VTC-2003, Orlando, Florida, October 2003, Vol. 3, pp. 1478-1481.
6. rd Vehicular Technology Conference, VTC-2001, Rhodes, Greece, May 2001, Vol. 1, pp. 756-760. (Pubitemid 33087742)
7. W. Jiang, B. Xing, J. Wang, Y. Ni, C. Peng, X. Zhu, and W. Hong, Performance improvement of power amplifiers with digital linearization, Proceedings IEEE Asia-Pacific Microwave Conference, APMC-07, Bangkok, Thailand, December 2007, pp. 2607-2609.
8. R. Sperlich, Y. Park, G. Copeland, and J. S. Kenney, Power amplifier linearization with digital pre-distortion and crest factor reduction, Proceedings IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium Digest, Fort Worth, TX, June 2004, Vol. 2, pp. 669-672. (Pubitemid 40339147)
9. J. S. Kenney and J. H. Chen, Power amplifier linearization and efficiency improvement techniques for commercial and military applications, Proceedings IEEE International Conference on Microwave Radar and Wireless Communications, Krakow, Poland, May 2006, pp. 3-8.
10. M. Helaoui, S. Boumaiza, A. Ghazel, and F. M. Ghannouchi, On the RF/DSP design for efficiency of OFDM transmitters, IEEE Trans Microwave Theory Tech 53 (2005), 2355-2361. (Pubitemid 41084554)
11. P. L. Gilabert, A. Cesari, G. Montoro, E. Bertran and J. M. Dilhac, Multi look-up table FPGA implementation of an adaptive digital predistorter for linearizing RF power amplifiers with memory effects, IEEE Trans Microwave Theory Tech 56 (2008), 372-384. (Pubitemid 351207463)
12. M. Weiss, WiMax general information about the standard 802.16, Rohde & Schwarz Application Note. Munich, Germany.
13. ™ system evaluation methodology, WiMAX Forum Technical Documents and Specifications, Verison 2.1, 2008. http://www. wimaxforum.org/documents/documents/
14. G. Montoro, P. L. Gilabert, E. Bertran, A. Cesari, and D. D. Silveira, A new digital predictive predistorter for behavioral power amplifier linearization, IEEE Microwave Wireless Compon Lett 17 (2007), 448-450. (Pubitemid 46873230)
15. trade;-2004/Corl-2005 (Amendment and Corrigendum to IEEE Std 802.16-2004), New York, NY, 2006, pp. 1-864.