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Predistorter Design for a Memory-less Nonlinear High Power Amplifier Using the $rho$th-Order Inverse Method for OFDM Systems  

Lim, Sun-Min (충남대학교 정보통신공학과)
Eun, Chang-Soo (충남대학교 정보통신공학과)
Abstract
In this paper, we propose a method to implement a predistorter of the $rho$-th order inverse filter structure to prevent signal distortion and spectral re-growth due to the high PAPR (peak-to-average ratio) of the OFDM signals and the non-linearity of high-power amplifiers. We model the memory-less non-linearity of the high-power amplifier with a polynomial model and utilize the inverse of the model, the $rho$-th order inverse filter, for the predistorter. Once the non-linearity is modeled with a polynomial, since we can determine the $rho$-th order inverse filter only with the coefficients of the polynomial, large memory is not required. To update the coefficients of the non-linear high-power amplifier model, we can use LMS or RLS algorithms. The convergence speed is high since the number of coefficients is small, and the computation is simple since manipulation of complex numbers is not necessary.
Keywords
predistorter; high-power amplifier; non-linearity;
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