Environment-adaptive concurrent companding and bias control for efficient power-amplifier operation

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 607-618

  Sen, Shreyas ^a   Senguttuvan, Rajarajan ^b   Chatterjee, Abhijit ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptation; companding; low power transmitters; orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM); peak to average ratio (PAR); power amplifier (PA); transmit power control; worldwide interoperability for microwave access (WiMAX)

Indexed keywords

COMPANDOR CIRCUITS; CONCURRENCY CONTROL; HIGH FREQUENCY AMPLIFIERS; INTEROPERABILITY; ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; POWER AMPLIFIERS; TRANSMITTERS; WIMAX;

ADAPTATION; COMPANDING; LOW-POWER TRANSMITTERS; PEAK TO AVERAGE RATIOS; TRANSMIT POWER CONTROL;

POWER CONTROL;

EID: 79952003419     PISSN: 15498328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSI.2010.2072410     Document Type: Article

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