Behavioral modeling and predistortion

IEEE Microwave Magazine

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 52-64

  Ghannouchi, Fadhel ^a,c   Hammi, Oualid ^b,c  

^a MTT Society   (Germany)

^b Green Radio Technologies Inc   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASE BANDS; BEHAVIORAL MODELING; DEVICE UNDER TEST; DIGITAL PREDISTORTION; INPUT AND OUTPUTS; LINEARIZATION TECHNIQUE; LOOK UP TABLE; MATHEMATICAL RELATION; MEMORY POLYNOMIAL; PRE-DISTORTION; VOLTERRA MODEL; WAVE FORMS; WIENER MODELS;

SIGNAL PROCESSING; TABLE LOOKUP;

LINEARIZATION;

EID: 70450277213     PISSN: 15273342     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MMM.2009.934516     Document Type: Article

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