A single envelope modulator-based envelope-tracking structure for multiple-input and multiple-output wireless transmitters

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 60, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 3317-3327

  Yu, Chao ^a   Zhu, Anding ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Digital predistortion (DPD); envelope tracking (ET); multiple input and multiple output (MIMO); power amplifier (PA); Volterra series

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL PREDISTORTION; ENVELOPE TRACKING; INPUT AND OUTPUTS; MEMORY EFFECTS; MULTIPLE DATA; MULTIPLE INPUT AND MULTIPLE OUTPUTS; OVERALL EFFICIENCY; STATIC NON-LINEARITY; STRUCTURE CHANGE; SUPPLY VOLTAGES; SYSTEM COSTS; SYSTEM IMPLEMENTATION; VOLTERRA SERIES; WIRELESS TRANSMITTER;

POWER AMPLIFIERS; TRANSMITTERS;

MIMO SYSTEMS;

EID: 84867103512     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2012.2208653     Document Type: Article

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