• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.9 no.10
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• pp.1087-1094
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• 2014

In general, a speaker generates nonlinear distortions owing to a design principle, manufacturing process, and so on, which decreases and changes a sound quality. So, if the speaker is linearized by compensating these nonlinear distortions, the sound quality and satisfaction can be increased. In this paper, a new adaptive controller was proposed to be applied for compensating nonlinear distortions of a speaker. Through computer simulations as well as the analytical analysis, it could be shown that it is possible for both conventional adaptive controller and proposed adaptive controller, to be applied for linearizing the speaker with nonlinear distortions. Also, the simulations results demonstrated that the proposed adaptive controller may have faster convergence speed and better capability of compensating the nonlinear distortion than the conventional adaptive controller with nearly equal computation complexity.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.17 no.7
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• pp.61-73
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• 1998

라우드스피커의 비선형 음향특성을 해석하기 위하여 라우드스피커 다이아프램의 비 선형특성을 실험적으로 분석하였다. 라우드스피커를 집중질량계로 모델링하고, 출력소음이 없을 때 적용이 가능한 하모닉 발란스법과 출력소음이 있을 때도 적용할 수 있는 통계적 방 법인 라그란지 배수법을 사용하여 비선형 매개변수를 규명하였다. 70Hz 이하의 주파수 영역 에서는 라그란지 배수법이 2차 하모닉 왜곡특성에서 상대적으로 좋은 결과를 보였으며, 3차 하모닉 왜곡특성에서는 하모닉 발란스법이 실험결과와 잘 일치하였다. 전압가진 및 전류 가 진실험을 통하여, 일반화된 주파수 응답함수를 유도하였고 하모닉 왜곡 및 상호변조 특성을 고찰하였다. 고차 주파수 응답특성은 라우드스피커 비선형 매개변수의 변동에 따른 다이아 프램의 비선형특성을 해석하는데 유용한 수단이 될 수 있음도 확인하였다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.41 no.2
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• pp.9-18
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• 2004

OFDM is a special case of multicarrier transmission, where a high-rate datastream is transmitted over a number of lower rate subcarriers. In this paper, the structure of ORM system is studied, and causes of inter carrier interference (ICI) are analyzed. Based on analysis, this paper shows a technique to prevent a distortion due to nonlinearity of high power amplifier. The proposed scheme is a predistorter(PD) for high power amplifier linearization in OFDM system. This is verified by comparing BER characteristics of OFDM system, between used PD and not used PD, and superiority is shown by comparing BER characteristics of OFDM system, between used the proposed PD and used some other PDs.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.23 no.4
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• pp.976-987
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• 1998

In this paper, the effect of nonllinear distortion, caused by a high-power amplifier(HPA) in an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) system, on the receiver part is analyzed. Since the HPA, which can be modeled by a memeoryless Volterra system, distorts OFDM signals in a nonlinear fashion, the received signal at each subchannel includes the multiplicative distortion of 1-st order as well as additive nonlinear distortion of high-order. the nonlinear distortion can be viewed as a nonlinear interchannel interference (NICI) since it consists of harmonic distortions and intermodulation distortions, produced by oother subchannels affecting the subchannel of interest. In this paper, we analytically derive the variance of NICI in terms of average input power using the volterra model for HPA, and then calculate the bit-effor rate(BER) performance of an OFDM system. Also, we propose a simple method to compensate for the phase distortion in OFDM system amplified by HPA, OFDM system employing 16-QAM constellation input.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.13 no.6
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• pp.538-545
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• 2002

In the orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) system, the nonlinear distortion in the high power amplifier(HPA) degrades the system performance because of the high peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR). In this paper, a semi-analytical method is newly proposed for the performance evaluation of the nonlinearly distorted OFDM communication system. In the proposed method, at first, the probability density function (pdf) of the PAPR is generated by computer simulation. Then, mean and variance of the non-linear distortion noise process are computed. Next, the overall BER is found by the analytical method. When the equivalent SSPA model is applied in case of the QPSK/16-QAM and AWGN channel, the BER is calculated for the variation of the IBO(input back-off) and PAPR parameter. It is shown that the results by proposed method are very similar to those of the conventional Monte-Carlo method. The computation time can be considerably reduced than the conventional method that depends on the magnitudes of BER and IBO.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.16 no.6 s.97
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• pp.644-651
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• 2005

In this paper, a new predistortion method to reduce nonlinearity or a traveling wave tube amplifiers(IWTAs) is proposed. Nonlinear transfer characteristics of TWTA are analyzed using carrier complex power series. Inverse carrier complex power series or a predistortion linearizer to linearizer TWTA are also proposed. The inverse nonlinear distortion characteristics of predistorter can be realized with reflective structure that is composed of Schottky diode and resistive-terminated transmission line. The AM-to-AM and the AM-to-PM characteristics for TWTA by proposed predistortive linearizer on K-band were improved from -5.825 dB and -37.321^{\circ} to 0.786 dB and 6.742^{\circ}, respectively.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.32 no.10A
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• pp.1072-1077
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• 2007

In this paper, a power amplifier intermodulation distortion has been analyzed to improve linearity and the analysis results are used to minimize the distortion for linear power amplifier design. The proposed design technique is which the intermodulation distortions of the final amplifier are removed by driver intermodulation distortions. This proposed technique is based on AM to AM distortion analysis using power series, and AM to PM distortion analysis results using Bessel function. To verify this technique implement a cellular HPA(High Power Amplifier) 30W. From the results of the implementation and measurement for the linear power amplifier, the spurious characteristic is shown as 50 dBc at 1.98 MHz with 30 W with 20FA. These results show that distortion characteristics are improved as much as 10 dB in spurious characteristic compared with conventional design method.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.12 no.5
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• pp.686-693
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• 2001

In this paper, a new carrier complex power series which represents nonlinear transfer function of high power amplifier is derived. Using this transfer function, the nonlinear transfer function of predistortive circuit for linearizing the distortion effect of a HPA(High Power Amplifier) is derived and fabricated. A measured gain and $P_{1dB}$ of the fabricated HPA in IMT-2000 basestation transmitting band are 34.06 dB and 35.4 dBm. The predistortive circuit using inverse carrier complex power series is fabricated and operated with HPA. The predistortive HPA improves C/I(Carrier to Intermodulation) ratio of HPA by 17.01 dB(@Pout=25.43 dBm/tone) with 2-tone at 2.1375 GHz and 2.1425 GHz.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.10 no.5
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• pp.711-718
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• 1999

Some of modern communication systems make use of broadband digital modulation with 5 MHz and 10 MHz. In the broadband communication systems, the nonlinear properties of power amplifier have a great effect on all systems. This paper analyzed the ACPR characteristics of WLL reverse link power amplifier with the varying AM and PM nonlinearities and suggests the required backoff from 1 dB compression point to satisfy the ACPR specifications. Also the comparions between the measured and the simulated characteristics are presrnted.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.19 no.12
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• pp.1339-1349
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• 2008

In this paper, a nonlinear relationship between an input complex envelope and an output complex envelope of m-th harmonic zone is theoretically analyzed, and AM/$AM_m$ and AM/$PM_m$ are defined. A scheme to extract these characteristics from measured in-phase and quadrature-phase data is suggested. The proposed analysis is verified with a fundamental-fundamental and fundamental-third harmonic measurements for a InGaP power amplifier(PA). Based on the harmonic-band nonlinear analysis and extraction scheme, a new technique to send a signal in m-th harmonic band with a harmonic signal Linearization Digital Predistortion(DPD) scheme is presented. A numerical analysis and a Look-Up Table(LUT) based DPD algorithms to linearize output signal on m-th harmonic zone are developed. For a 16- and a 64-QAM input signals, a DPD for third harmonic signal linearization is implemented, and output spectrum and signal constellation are measured. The wholly distorted signals are linearized, and thus the measured Error Vector Magnitudes (EVM) are 6.4 % and 6.5 % respectively. The results show that a proposed scheme linearizes a nonlinearly distorted harmonic band signals. The proposed nonlinear analysis and predistortion scheme can be applied to multiband transmitter in next generation software defined radio(SDR)/cognitive radio(CR) wireless system.