• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.32 no.11C
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• pp.1079-1086
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• 2007

In this paper, we propose a CCP (Companding Combined with Predistorter) scheme that maintains BER (Bit Error Rate) performance of systems, while effectively reducing PAPR (Peak-to-Average Power Ratio) of OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) signals, independent of nonlinear property of HPAs (High Power Amplifiers). The proposed CCP scheme combines the conventional companding scheme proposed by the authors with the predistorter, in order to prevent degradation of BER performance caused by signal distortion from nonlinear property of the HPA and the compression property of the companding scheme. Hence, the proposed scheme effectively reduces the PAPR and simultaneously maintains the BER performance, independent of nonlinear property of the HPA. Simulation results showed that the proposed CCP scheme provides the lowest total degradation for all the modulations, when comparing with the companding scheme proposed by Wang and the clipping scheme.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics T
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• v.36T no.4
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• pp.94-102
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• 1999

This paper is related with the compensation of communication channel characteristics using predistorter, and the considered characteristic is the additive noise, phase rotation and frequency selective fading which occurred in communication channel. Predistorter can minimize the effect of obstacle element which occured in channel at receiving side by transmitting the predistortion of signal after modulation, the coefficient of inverse electrical charateristic of communication channel is performed at transmitting side. For this purpose, the predistorter is designed by using Tricepstrum Equalization Algorithm which is adaptive equlizer algorithm, and the receiving side must transmit the probing signal to transmitting side. Using the probing signal, the transmitting side can obtain the inverse characteristic coefficient of communication channel, and this probing signal must be transmitted periodically. We assumed that the channel characteristic do not change during this one period. As a result of computer simulation, we confirmed that the performance of predistorter was fairly good as same as the adaptive equalizer, and this technique have a effectiveness that can be used in the forward channel of mobile communication in order to achieve high speed transmission.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2000.06a
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• pp.256-259
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• 2000

The OFDM (orthogonal frequency division multiplexing) systems are based en the transmission of a given set of signals on multiple orthogonal subcarriers, resulting in large variation in amplitude of transmit signals, and severe distortion by nonlinear characteristic of a high power amplifier (HPA) is unavoidable. We propose in this paper a computationally efficient structure of a baseband predistorter for compensation of nonlinear distortion by the HPA. Moreover, a predistorter which can be utilized in high speed transmission systems such as wireless ATM based on the proposed structure is designed using VHDL, and synthesized by the Synopsys tool.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2000.11a
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• pp.377-380
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• 2000

In this paper, a new adaptive linearizer architecture with the predistorter is proposed. In the M.Ghaderi's paper, two analog predistorters and an envelope detector are used. Analog circuits for the analog predistorter and the envelope detector can cause imperfection and inaccuracy of the system and make circuits more complex. To solve those problems, most of processes including the predistortion are made by the DSP. The RLS algorithm is applied so that the errors between power amplifier output signals through the postdistorters and predistorted input signals can be converged to the global minimum.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2000.09a
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• pp.553-556
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• 2000

This paper proposes an adaptive linearization method of Volterra nonlinear systems using DWT(Discrete Wavelet Transform)and an LMS-type predistorter. In particular, the proposed wavelet transform-domain lineatization method leads to diagonalization of the input vector auto-correlation matrix which yields improvement of the convergence rate of the corresponding transform-domain LMS algorithm. Furthermore, the adaptive Volterra predistorter followed by a corresponding weakly Volterra nonlinear system(here. a TWT amplifier model in a satellite communication system) is utilized to compensate for the distortion in the output. Also,12-PSK and 4-QAM are applied as the input to the nonlinear system to be tested. Some simulation results show that the proposed linearization approach has better performance than DCT-based or conventional normalized LMS algorithms do.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.13 no.5
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• pp.475-483
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• 2002

The new architecture for the stabilization of an adaptive linearizer using the RLS algorithm is presented. The delay lock loop is apl)lied to compensate the feedback loop delay of the nonlinear amplifier output, and the Yang's algorithm is used to mitigate the numerical unstability of the RLS algorithm. This method is applied to the linearizer using the polynomial predistorter, and it's efficacy is verified by the simulation of the proposed structure.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics A
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• v.31A no.12
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• pp.9-15
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• 1994

In this paper, the linearized power amplifier using digital adaptive predistorter is implemented in order to restrict spectral spreading and adjacent channel interference. The linearized systems is composed of a DSP56001 processor that executes predistortion in baseband. 90.deg. phase shifter, power splitter/combiner, quadrature modulator/demodulator of 360MHz band, and nonlinear amplifier. A ${\pi}$/4-shift QPSK is used to modulate digital random signals. As the quantized power of baseband signal and the output of amplifier are fed to the predistorter, and predistorting values are calculated using an adaptive algorithm. In the experiment, a peak to sidelobe ratio of the linearized amplifier is improved up to 15dB in comparison with conventional nonlinear amplifier, which means that the distortion of transmitted signal is decreased and adjacent channel interference was reduced.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.12 no.5
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• pp.802-809
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• 2001

A linear power amplifier for the VHF frequency-hopping(FH) transmitter using an adaptive predistortion linearizer is designed. An analog polynomial linearizer as predistorter is employed. The recursive least square(RLS) algorithm is employed in the optimization process to minimize the errors between the predistorter and postdistorter output signals. Experimental results show that the adjacent channel power of the designed power amplifier is reduced by of 10 dB.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2006.06a
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• pp.173-174
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• 2006

High power amplifier (HPA), which is used in transmitter of wireless communication systems, usually works in near saturation point in order to achieve maximum efficiency. In this region, HPA can introduce undesirable nonlinear effects. In this paper, we present a polynomial modeling method for efficient techniques to compensate for nonlinear distortion introduced by nonlinear HPA. Proposed polynomial predistorter inverses actual amplifier. Namely, we derive polynomials of amplifiers from analytical method and the electrical parameters in the data sheet of an actual amplifier and then can derive polynomial predistorter by inversing them. It is an effective and a simple method to compensate nonlinear distortion. SSPA(Solid-state power amplifier) is considered. We also analyze the effects of predistortion on the SER performance of communication system with 16-QAM modulation format. The results have shown the efficiency of this model.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2002.07c
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• pp.1815-1818
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• 2002

In this paper, a predistorter is presented for the orthogonal frequency division multiplxing (OFDM) systems with a transmit raised cosine (RC) pulse shaping filter and a high power amplifier (HPA). By exploiting zero-intersymbol interference (ISI) nature of the RC filter, the proposed predistorter placed before the filter only utilizes memoryless nonlinearity of the HPA, not the overall nonlinearity with memory induced by a combination of the filter and HPA. The predistirtion is realized upon fixed point iteration on OFDM symbols. Simulation results show that the proposed predisorter can be effectively employed to achieve significant performance improvement.