PA Linearization by Digital Predistortion and Peak-to-Average Power Ratio Reduction in Software Defined Radios

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (09) ◽  
pp. 2050147
Author(s):  
Borisav Jovanović ◽  
Srdan Milenković
Keyword(s):  
Software Defined Radio ◽  
Average Power ◽  
Power Ratio ◽  
Digital Predistortion ◽  
Error Vector Magnitude ◽  
Power Efficient ◽  
Linearization Methods ◽  
Telecommunication Infrastructure ◽  
Power Ratio Reduction ◽  
Wireless Infrastructure

Digital predistortion (DPD), based on complex-valued memory polynomials (MP), is established as an efficient method for power amplifier (PA) linearization. The DPD facilitates compliance of the telecommunication infrastructure to strict standard specifications (transmit spectrum mask (TSM), error vector magnitude (EVM), bit error rate (BER), [Formula: see text]) by making PA more linear, while at the same time reduces the running cost of the wireless infrastructure (at both Base Transceiver Station (BTS) and User Equipment (UE) sides) by making PA more power efficient. Even when DPD is utilized, signals with high peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) produce out-of-band PA spectrum emission due to intermodulation products affecting all above-mentioned critical standard specified parameters. The novelty proposed in this paper is as follows. PA is restricted to operate within “reasonably above” PA linear region using PAPR reduction technique. The residual nonlinearity is taken care of by DPD. The combination of DPD and PAPR PA linearization methods is implemented on software-defined radio board. The necessary steps for efficient PA linearization are presented, compensating both out-of-band and in-band signal distortions. We achieved EVM = 2.0%, ACPR [Formula: see text]50[Formula: see text]dBc, at 10[Formula: see text]W LTE modulated PA output, antenna point and PA output power of 39.5[Formula: see text]dBm.

scholarly journals The peak windowing for PAPR reduction in software defined radio base stations

2020 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 273-287
Author(s):  
Borisav Jovanovic ◽  
Srdjan Milenkovic
Keyword(s):  
Software Defined Radio ◽  
Average Power ◽  
Base Stations ◽  
Papr Reduction ◽  
Error Vector Magnitude ◽  
Efficient Operation ◽  
Measurement Results ◽  
Code Division Multiple ◽  
Wireless Infrastructure

The utilization of the techniques for Peak to Average Power Ratio (PAPR) reduction makes the wireless infrastructure conform to rigorous telecommunication standard specifications (error vector magnitude (EVM), bit error rate (BER), transmit spectrum mask (TSM)). In modern modulation schemes reduction of PAPR is important requirement for distortion free and energy-efficient operation of power amplifiers (PA). In this paper novel implementation of Peak Windowing method for PAPR reduction in Software Defined Radio (SDR) Base Stations (BS) is presented. The measurement results in terms of EVM and ACPR are given for 5 MHz, 10 MHz, 15 MHz, 20 MHz Long-Term Evolution (LTE) and Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (WCDMA) modulations. In case of 10MHz LTE signal, we achieved PAPR = 8 dB, EVM = 2.0%, ACPR -52dBc at modulated PA output, antenna point.

scholarly journals Peak-to-average power ratio reduction based on Cross-Correlation in OFDM systems

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohsen Kazemian ◽  
Pooria Varahram ◽  
Shaiful Jahari B. Hashim ◽  
Borhanuddin B. Mohd. Ali ◽  
Somayeh Mohammady ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cross Correlation ◽  
Average Power ◽  
Power Ratio ◽  
Ofdm Systems ◽  
Power Ratio Reduction ◽  
Ratio Reduction

scholarly journals A Novel Hybrid Precoding-Companding Technique for Peak-to-Average Power Ratio Reduction in 5G and beyond

Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 1410
Author(s):  
Mohamed Mounir ◽  
Mohamed B. El_Mashade ◽  
Salah Berra ◽  
Gurjot Singh Gaba ◽  
Mehedi Masud
Keyword(s):  
Computational Complexity ◽  
Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Average Power ◽  
Papr Reduction ◽  
Power Ratio ◽  
Error Vector Magnitude ◽  
Hybrid Precoding ◽  
High Power Amplifier ◽  
Reduction Techniques

Several high-speed wireless systems use Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) due to its advantages. 5G has adopted OFDM and is expected to be considered beyond 5G (B5G). Meanwhile, OFDM has a high Peak-to-Average Power Ratio (PAPR) problem. Hybridization between two PAPR reduction techniques gains the two techniques’ advantages. Hybrid precoding-companding techniques are attractive as they require small computational complexity to achieve high PAPR reduction gain. Many precoding-companding techniques were introduced to increasing the PAPR reduction gain. However, reducing Bit Error Rate (BER) and out-of-band (OOB) radiation are more significant than increasing PAPR reduction gain. This paper proposes a new precoding-companding technique to better reduce the BER and OOB radiation than previous precoding-companding techniques. Results showed that the proposed technique outperforms all previous precoding-companding techniques in BER enhancement and OOB radiation reduction. The proposed technique reduces the Error Vector Magnitude (EVM) by 15 dB compared with 10 dB for the best previous technique. Additionally, the proposed technique increases high power amplifier efficiency (HPA) by 11.4%, while the best previous technique increased HPA efficiency by 9.8%. Moreover, our proposal achieves PAPR reduction gain better than the most known powerful PAPR reduction technique with a 99% reduction in required computational complexity.

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