Predistortion and nonlinear detection for OFDM signals in the presence of nonlinear high power amplification

Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) is characterised by a large peak‐to‐average‐power ratio and an orthogonal signal design. As a consequence, OFDM is particularly vulnerable with respect to nonlinear distortions caused, for example by a nonlinear high power amplifier (HPA). In the pre...

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Published in:European transactions on telecommunications 2007-06, Vol.18 (4), p.411-418
Main Authors: Han, Huy Dung, Hoeher, Peter Adam
Format: Article
Language:English
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Applied sciences
Detection, estimation, filtering, equalization, prediction
Exact sciences and technology
Information, signal and communications theory
Miscellaneous
Multiplexing
Radiocommunications
Signal and communications theory
Signal processing
Signal, noise
Telecommunications
Telecommunications and information theory
Transmitters. Receivers
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Summary:Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) is characterised by a large peak‐to‐average‐power ratio and an orthogonal signal design. As a consequence, OFDM is particularly vulnerable with respect to nonlinear distortions caused, for example by a nonlinear high power amplifier (HPA). In the presence of nonlinear high power amplification, OFDM suffers from crosstalk between all subcarriers. Furthermore, the power density spectrum is significantly widened. In this article, we simultaneously use a memoryless predistorter (PD) at the transmitter side and a nonlinear detector at the receiver side. The PD reduces the out‐of‐band power, whereas the nonlinear detector improves the bit error rate (BER). Since maximum‐likelihood detection is prohibitive, a novel reduced‐state symbol detector (RSSD) derived from the maximum‐likelihood detector is proposed. For a QPSK/OFDM system in the presence of a memoryless solid‐state power amplifier, it is shown that the PD is not only useful for spectral shaping, but also in order to reduce the computational complexity of the nonlinear detector and to provide more robustness, concerning an incomplete knowledge of the characteristics of the nonlinearity at the receiver. The overall raw bit error performance is shown to be close to that of a linear QPSK/OFDM system. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
ISSN:1124-318X
1541-8251
DOI:10.1002/ett.1172