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Design and Performance Evaluation of Predistorter to Compensate HPA Nonlinearity in 16-QAM System

16-QAM 시스템에서 HPA 비선형성을 보상하기 위한 사전왜곡기의 설계 및 성능 평가

  • Jang, Kyeongsoo (Department of Electronic Engineering, Chungbuk National University) ;
  • Ryu, Heung-Gyoon (Department of Electronic Engineering, Chungbuk National University)
  • Received : 2017.07.11
  • Accepted : 2017.11.30
  • Published : 2017.12.29
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Abstract

When using a high-power amplifier(HPA) for high-speed communication, the nonlinear characteristics of the HPA deteriorate power efficiency, bit error rate(BER) performance, and spectral efficiency. Because it is inevitable to use the HPA to obtain sufficient transmission power for high-speed communication, it is necessary to compensate for nonlinearity of the HPA by using a predistorter. In this study, a predistorter was used to compensate for the nonlinearity of the HPA, and the nonlinear distortion was compensated using the predistorter. Simulation results show that the compensation of the nonlinearity of the HPA using the predistorter achieves a BER performance similar to that of an ideal linear amplifier, and that the spectral mask is also satisfied.

초고속 통신을 위해 HPA(High Power Amplifier)를 사용할 때, HPA의 비선형 특성은 전력 효율 및 BER(Bit Error Rate) 성능 및 스펙트럼 효율 등을 열화시키는 원인이 된다. 초고속 통신을 위한 충분한 송신 전력을 얻기 위해서는 HPA의 사용이 불가피하므로 사전왜곡기를 사용하여 HPA의 비선형성을 보상시켜줄 필요가 있다. 본 논문에서는 HPA의 비선형성을 보상해주기 위한 용도의 사전왜곡기를 HPA의 앞단에 사용하여 비선형 왜곡을 보상하여, 이를 성좌도, 스펙트럼, BER 성능 등으로 비교하여 분석하였다. 시뮬레이션 결과, 사전왜곡기를 사용하여 HPA의 비선형성을 보상해줌으로써 이상적인 선형 증폭기와 비슷한 수준의 BER 성능을 얻을 수 있었으며 스펙트럼 마스크도 충족하는 것을 확인할 수 있었다.

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