Data predistortion techniques using intersymbol interpolation

Two data predistortion techniques are presented that compensate for high-power amplifier (HPA) nonlinearities in digital microwave radio systems by employing quadrature amplitude-modulation (QAM) signal formats. The first one is a T/2-spaced predistortion technique that ensures distortion-free HPA output at two points per symbol interval T. The second is a T/3-spaced predistortion technique which cancels nonlinear distortion at the HPA output at three points per symbol interval. As opposed to conventional data predistortion, which can only compensate for warping of the signal constellation, the new techniques are effective against intersymbol interference. Using the 64- and 256-QAM signal constellations, it is shown that the proposed techniques lead to a very efficient utilization of the available HPA power. It is shown that, of the two techniques, the T/3-spaced data predistortion employs narrower transmit-pulse shaping and achieves higher protection against adjacent-channel interference at the expense of some additional complexity     

Analysis of predistortion, equalization, and ISI cancellationtechniques in digital radio systems with nonlinear transmit amplifiers

An analysis made of the performance of predistortion, equalization, and intersymbol interference (ISI) cancellation techniques in compensating for the transmit amplifier nonlinearity in digital microwave radio systems. The study is carried out using the 64 QAM and 256 QAM signal formats and two values of the roll-off factor in the Nyquist pulse shaping. The simulated compensation techniques include three types of predistortion, two ISI cancellers, and several nonlinear equalizers with or without decision feedback. A basic result is that decision-feedback equalizers do not offer any significant advantage over nonrecursive equalizers. It is also shown that ISI cancelers with a memoryless equalizer as first-stage decision device do not perform any better than nonlinear equalizers of similar complexity. Another contribution an improved fifth-order analog signal predistortion technique is analyzed. The gain that can be achieved using a modified 256 QAM signal constellation that is more robust to nonlinear distortion is quantified     

Novel linearizer using balanced circulators and its application tomultilevel digital radio systems

A miniaturized RF predistortion linearizer for a GaAs field-effect transistor power amplifier applicable to 256 quadrature-amplitude modulation (QAM) digital microwave systems is presented. This linearizer, which is based upon the cuber linearizer technique, utilizes circulators and a pair of diodes in the distortion generator to obtain high signal component isolation, and in the variable phase shifter to compensate for temperature variations. This allows miniaturization and easy adjustment of the circuit. Results show that a distortion reduction of more than 10 dB is obtained over a 300 MHz bandwidth. It was verified that distortion reduction can be achieved over a temperature range from 0 to 50°C. The fundamental characteristics of the linearizer and its effect on the 256-QAM signal are shown. The results show an improvement of more than 6 dB in the output back-off of the amplifier     

具有低相位偏差敏感度的异步双层QAM调制

高阶QAM(Quadrature Amplitude Modulation)调制是提高频谱效率的一个有效途径,但它对相位偏差容忍度较差.文章提出了一种异步双层QAM调制方法,可在发射端用较低的调制阶数实现和传统高阶QAM调制相当的频谱效率,并分别针对提出的异步双层QAM调制和传统QAM调制,推导了平坦瑞利块衰落信道下固定相位偏差的误符号率闭合解析表达式.理论分析与计算机仿真结果吻合,研究表明,误符号率为10^-1时,异步双层256-QAM调制在相位偏差为0.9度的误符号率性能与无相位偏差情况比较,差异仅为0.3dB;而传统高阶4096-QAM调制的差异为11dB.     

一种适用于高阶QAM系统Bussgang类盲均衡新方法

该文提出一种适用于高阶QAM系统的新Bussgang类多模盲均衡算法。将新的代价函数与星座匹配误差函数结合,给出一种瞬时双模切换混合算法,然后设计了一种基于判决圆的模式切换准则,从而达到进一步有效降低新算法稳态误差的效果。最后,仿真结果以高阶256QAM信号为例,验证了该算法对于高阶QAM信号的盲均衡能力和良好效果。     

卫星通信中的数字基带预失真技术研究

数字基带预失真技术是克服高功率放大器非线性失真最有效的方法之一。早期对预失真技术的研究大多局限与无记忆非线性，但对于宽带和多载波应用。记忆非线性失真将不能再被忽略，无记忆预失真非线性补偿机制可能失效。文中研究了卫星通信系统中大功率记忆非线性功放的自适应基带预失真线性化技术，提出了一种基于记忆多项式的非直接学习结构的自适应基带预失真方案，给出了自适应算法。仿真结果表明，该方案能有效抑制带外频谱扩散，减小带内失真，降低误比特率，实现有记忆非线性大功率放大器的自适应预失真。     

An improved look-up table predistortion technique for HPA with memory effects in OFDM systems

It is well known that HPAs (High Power Amplifiers) are inherently nonlinear devices and many researches have focused on the predistortion for memoryless HPAs. However, memory effects of HPAs can no longer be ignored when communication systems have wider bandwidth. Memoryless predistortion techniques proposed previously seldom have satisfactory effectiveness for typical wideband applications such as OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) systems. In this paper, an improved adaptive predistortion method called 2D LUT (2-dimension look-up table) with different accuracy levels is presented to linearize HPAs with memory effects. Simulation and experimental results show that 2D LUT implements excellent performance in mitigating the signal deterioration caused by memory effects, both rectifies the signal constellation distortion and suppresses the spectrum emission. Large scale matrix computation is also avoidable in these adaptive algorithms, which makes them feasible when a real-time system is necessary.     

New phase and frequency detectors for carrier recovery in PSK andQAM systems

Phase and frequency detectors (PFDs) are presented that considerably extend the acquisition range of carrier-recovery loops in digital communication systems. Based on a simple modification of conventional phase detectors (PDs), the proposed detectors are applicable to a large variety of modulation schemes, including the popular PSK and QAM signal formats. Their application to QPSK and 16- and 64-QAM is extensively discussed, and simulated frequency-detector (FD) characteristics, as well as acquisition behavior of several PFDs, are reported for QPSK and 16 QAM. The results of an experimental evaluation using a 16-QAM laboratory modem are also reported which show that the detectors increase the acquisition range achievable by conventional PDs by more than one order of magnitude. In PSK, the improved acquisition performance is obtained with no penalty in steady-state phase jitter. In combined amplitude- and phase-shift keying, it generally leads to increased jitter, but this is easily avoided by incorporating a lock indicator and switching back to the original PD after lock is acquired     

基于256-QAM星座图重排HARQ技术

介绍了一种基于256-QAM调制的混合ARQ(HARQ)技术,该技术通过星座图重排,降低了多级调制造成的比特之间可靠性的差异,能够显著提高HARQ的性能。首先,提出了标准的符合格雷映射关系的256-QAM星座图后,并通过选取另外3个星座图进行重排,构成基于256-QAM的4星座图影射规则。仿真结果表明该方法最终降低复杂度并提高HARQ性能,这将对未来256-QAM的应用(例如HSDPA、HSUPA)提供较大的参考价值和现实意义。     

Analysis of different optimization criteria for IF predistortion indigital radio links with nonlinear amplifiers

A compensation technique for nonlinearities is usually necessary in QAM digital satellite links. Analog waveform compensation has the advantage of reducing out-of-band spectral emissions with respect to end-to-end digital predistortion, in addition to its easy realization. Nevertheless, it has been often neglected in the literature because of its lack of adaptivity; we propose making the predistorter fully adaptive. Different control schemes applied to fifth-order IF predistortion with different optimization criteria have been investigated. A simulation-based analysis shows that adaptive IF compensation achieves excellent performance if compared with static predistortion of the same order. Comparisons with upper bounds related to digital predistortion with memory, moreover, denote that IF analog predistortion can be truly considered an alternative approach, especially for narrow pulse shaping     

A <Emphasis Type="Italic">N</Emphasis>-Radon Based OFDM Trasceivers Design and Performance Simulation Over Different Channel Models

In this paper a new method is proposed to perform the N-Radon orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM), which are equivalent to 4-quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM), 16-QAM, 64-QAM, 256-QAM, ... etc. in spectral efficiency. This non conventional method is proposed in order to reduce the constellation energy and increase spectral efficiency. The proposed method gives a significant improvement in Bit Error Rate performance, and keeps bandwidth efficiency and spectrum shape as good as conventional Fast Fourier Transform based OFDM. The new structure was tested and compared with conventional OFDM for Additive White Gaussian Noise, flat, and multi-path selective fading channels. Simulation tests were generated for different channels parameters values including multi-path gains vector, multi-path delay time vector, and maximum Doppler shift.     

A robust digital baseband predistorter constructed using memory polynomials

Power amplifiers (PAs) are inherently nonlinear devices and are used in virtually all communications systems. Digital baseband predistortion is a highly cost-effective way to linearize PAs, but most existing architectures assume that the PA has a memoryless nonlinearity. For wider bandwidth applications such as wideband code-division multiple access (WCDMA) or wideband orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (W-OFDM), PA memory effects can no longer be ignored, and memoryless predistortion has limited effectiveness. In this paper, instead of focusing on a particular PA model and building a corresponding predistorter, we focus directly on the predistorter structure. In particular, we propose a memory polynomial model for the predistorter and implement it using an indirect learning architecture. Linearization performance is demonstrated on a three-carrier WCDMA signal.     

QAM and QPRS digital broadband cable systems

The performance of high-level modulation schemes in non-linear broadband digital communication systems is investigated. The tolerance of 16-, 64-, 256-QAM and 49-, 225-QPRS schemes to these non-linearities is given in terms of their phase margins. Our research results show that high level QAM schemes are less sensitive to non-linearities when operated in offset mode. Comparison of non-linearly amplified broadband QAM and QPRS schemes reveals that QPRS schemes need less carrier-to-noise ratio (CNR) than corresponding QAM schemes for identical operating conditions. Also, when the non-linearities are not severe, the degradation in performance is controlled by AM/PM characteristic of the broadband amplifier.     

An adaptive digital predistortion for compensating nonlinear distortions in RF power amplifier with memory effects

In this paper, an adaptive digital predistortion based on a memory polynomial model is proposed in order to linearize the power amplifier with memory effect. The coefficients of the power amplifier model have been extracted using a least square method and those of predistortion have been identified by applying an indirect learning structure. Finally, the performance of digital predistortion has been demonstrated using the simulation of the power amplifier and the digital predistortion excited by a modulated 16 QAM signal in Matlab software. According to the simulation results, the criterion of adjacent channel power ratio (ACPR) declined by around 15 dB and the input/output power spectrum density of the power amplifier has quite similar curves. The linearized power amplifier output spectrum demonstrates the superiority of the proposed predistorter in eliminating the spectral regrowth which is caused by the memory effect in comparison to the other linearization methods.     

On compensating nonlinear distortions of an OFDM system using anefficient adaptive predistorter

This paper presents an efficient adaptive predistortion technique compensating for nonlinear distortions caused by a high-power amplifier (HPA) cascaded with a linear filter in an OFDM system. In the proposed approach, the memoryless HPA, preceded by a linear filter with memory in OFDM systems, is modeled by the Wiener system, which is then precompensated by the proposed adaptive predistorter with a minimum number of filter taps. It is confirmed by computer simulation that the proposed approach produces a faster convergence speed than the previous adaptive predistortion technique, and provides a small output backoff as low as 5.5 dB for an OFDM system employing an HPA with a linear filter     

GCMAC-based predistortion for digital modulations

The subject of this paper is the compensation for nonlinearities in digital communication systems by means of predistortion. In this work, we apply the generalized cerebellar model articulation controller (GCMAC) to simplify and accelerate the predistorter convergence. The range of analyzed predistorters includes: 1) a symbol-rate data predistorter that, for a given time span, achieves a similar level of compensation provided by present techniques, but with faster convergence; 2) a fractionally spaced data predistorter that controls, at the same time, the signal constellation and the transmitted spectrum; 3) a decision-feedback scheme that compensates for remote nonlinearities; and 4) a digital signal data predistorter. The performance of the proposed data and signal predistorters is evaluated using typical linear and nonlinear modulated transmitted signals such as QAM and GMSK     

射频功放记忆效应的准确辨识和定量计算

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1024-QAM and 256-QAM Coded Modems for Microwave and Cable System Applications

Low redundancy FEC coded 1024-QAM modems, staggered 1024-QAM, and 256-QAM modems for spectrally efficient (up to 8.84 bits/s/Hz) microwave and cable systems applications are described. Such a high spectral efficiency is required for CEPT-1 (2.048 Mbit/s) rate digital transmission in a single analog supergroup (SG` band as well as for other emerging systems applications. Practical constraints of operational analog FDM systems are presented and taken into account in the choice of the low redundancy FEC codec and the coded 1024-QAM modem. Theoretical, computer simulation and experimental results of 256QAM modems have been extended to the feasibility study of 512-QAM, 961-QPRS, and 1024-QAM modems. Our experience with 256-QAM modems which have a T-1 (1.544 Mbit/s) rate in a 240 kHz analog supergroup (SG) band, i.e., an efficiency of 6.66 bits/s/Hz, demonstrates that a regenerative span over 1000 km is feasible over FDM radio systems. A significantly increased spectral efficiency of 8.84 bits/s/Hz is required for CEPT-1/SG system applications. Our R&D results, presented in this paper, demonstrate the feasibility of FEC coded 1024QAM modems, equipped with powerful digital adaptive equalizers, carrier phase noise, and symbol clock jitter cancellation subsystems, for the transmission of CEPT-1 rate signals in a single SG band.     

一种低复杂度STBC译码算法

根据逐级QAM(Quadrature Amplitude Modulation)调制方案提出了广义干扰抵消的思想,并根据STBC(Space-TimeBlock Coding)系统传统的最大似然(ML)译码算法,提出了一种基于逐级解调思想的低复杂度STBC译码方法。在分别采用64QAM和256QAM调制方式下,新的译码算法比传统的ML译码算法的复杂度分别降低了90%和97%以上。同时,用理论和仿真结果证明了该译码方法达到了ML的译码性能。因而,这种新的译码方法在没有性能损失的前提下降低了译码的复杂度。     

Performance characteristics and applications of hybrid multichannelANI-VSB/M-QAM video lightwave transmission systems

The performance characteristics and applications of hybrid multichannel amplitude modulation vestigal sideband (AM-VSB)/M-quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) video lightwave transmission systems operating at either 1310 or 1550 nm are reviewed. These systems can transport up to 80 AM-VSB video channels and more than 30 64/256-QAM digital video channels over a standard single-mode fiber (SMF) using a single laser transmitter. Five main transmission impairment mechanisms for these systems are reviewed as follows: (a) clipping-induced impulse noise, (b) bursty nonlinear distortions, (c) multiple optical reflections, (d) stimulated Brillouin scattering, and (e) self-phase modulation. For AM-QAM video lightwave trunking applications, the in-line erbium-doped fiber amplifier (EDFA) selection is discussed using a frequency-domain simulation model. Such lightwave trunking systems can provide an AM carrier-to-noise ratio (CNR) greater than 50 dB with composite second order (CSO) and composite-triple-beat (CTB) distortions less than -65 dBc, and nearly error-free transmission (BER⩽10^-9) for the 64-QAM channels with signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of 30-dB or better. Comparison between 64-QAM and 256-QAM video channel transmission and the effect of the QAM channels on the AM-VSB channels are also presented. The implications of these results and others in hybrid multichannel AM-QAM video lightwave trunking systems are discussed