Crossover digital predistorter for the compensation of crosstalk and nonlinearity in MIMO transmitters

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1119-1128

  Bassam, Seyed Aidin ^a   Helaoui, Mohamed ^a   Ghannouchi, Fadhel M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Antenna crosstalk; Digital predistortion (DPD); Multiple input multiple output (MIMO); Power amplifier (PA); RF crosstalk; Wideband code division multiple access (WCDMA); World interoperability for microwave access (WiMAX)

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL PREDISTORTION; MULTIPLE INPUT MULTIPLE OUTPUT; RF CROSSTALK; WIDEBAND CODE DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS; WORLD INTEROPERABILITY FOR MICROWAVE ACCESS (WIMAX);

ALGORITHMS; ANTENNAS; BROADBAND AMPLIFIERS; CODE DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS; DIGITAL RADIO; FEEDBACK CONTROL; INTEROPERABILITY; MIMO SYSTEMS; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; POWER AMPLIFIERS; RADIO SYSTEMS; SIGNAL DISTORTION; TRANSMITTERS; WIMAX;

CROSSTALK;

EID: 77958107196     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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