Title
A Low Complexity Heterodyne Multiband Mimo Receiver With Baseband Automatic Gain Control
Abstract
This paper proposes a novel heterodyne multiband multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) receiver with baseband automatic gain control (AGC) for cognitive radios. The proposed receiver uses heterodyne reception implemented with a wide-passband band-pass filter in the radio frequency (RF) stage to be able to receive signals in arbitrary frequency bands. Even when an RF Hilbert transformer is utilized in the receiver, image-band interference occurs due to the imperfection of the Hilbert transformer. In the receiver, analog baseband AGC is introduced to prevent the baseband signals exceeding the voltage reference of analog-to-digital converters (ADCs). This paper proposes a novel technique to estimate the imperfection of the Hilbert transformer in the heterodyne multiband MIMO receiver with baseband AGC. The proposed technique estimates not only the imperfection of the Hilbert transformer but also the AGC gain ratio, and analog devices imperfection in the feedback loop, which enables to offset the imperfection of the Hilbert transformer. The performance of the proposed receiver is verified by using computer simulations. As a result, the required resolution of the ADC is 9 bits in the proposed receiver. Moreover, the proposed receiver has less computational complexity than that with the baseband interference cancellation unless a frequency band is changed every 9 packets or less.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1587/transcom.E96.B.3124
IEICE TRANSACTIONS ON COMMUNICATIONS
Keywords
Field
DocType
cognitive radio, heterodyne multiband receiver, baseband automatic gain control, multiple-input multiple-output, analog devices imperfection in a feedback loop
Baseband,Telecommunications,Radio receiver design,Computer science,Computer network,MIMO,Electronic engineering,Heterodyne,Automatic gain control,Cognitive radio
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
E96B
12
0916-8516
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
5
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Tomoya Ohta142.14
Satoshi Denno27625.60
Masahiro Morikura318463.42