Title
Multicarrier LUT-based data predistortion for non-linear satellite channels
Abstract
Current satellite communication architectures can be potentially improved by applying multicarrier power amplification. Joint on-board amplification of multiple carriers reduces hardware and weight, enabling cost-efficient satellite architectures. However, on board power amplification is inherently a non-linear operation, whose distortion effects drastically increase when the high power amplifier (HPA) is operated in multiple carrier mode due to the generated inter-modulation products. In order to achieve the desired on-board power efficiency and to reduce the non-linear distortion, specific countermeasures need to be put in place. In this work we provide a novel data predistortion technique for multiple carriers satellite channel based on look up table (LUT) for high throughput applications. In contrast to known single carrier LUT techniques, the entries of the table are obtained by pursuing an analytical approach exploiting channel model and implementing recursive least squares techniques (RLS). A novel method to reduce the number of LUT entries based on LUT partitioning is proposed. Considerable performance gains over standard polynomial based predistortion are realized by the proposed technique.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1109/ICC.2014.6883999
Communications
Keywords
Field
DocType
least squares approximations,nonlinear distortion,power amplifiers,satellite communication,table lookup,HPA,LUT partitioning,RLS,generated inter-modulation products,high power amplifier,joint on-board amplification,look up table,multicarrier LUT-based data predistortion,multicarrier power amplification,nonlinear distortion,nonlinear satellite channels,novel data predistortion technique,recursive least squares techniques,satellite communication architectures,LUT partition,Look-Up Table,Non-linear distortions,inter-modulation products,multicarrier predistortion,recursive least square algorithm,satellite communication
Electrical efficiency,Signal processing,Lookup table,Telecommunications,Computer science,Real-time computing,Electronic engineering,Communications satellite,Distortion,Recursive least squares filter,Predistortion,Amplifier
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1550-3607
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Roberto Piazza111.07
Bhavani Shankar Mysore Rama Rao2266.76
Björn E. Ottersten36418575.28
Mysore, R.B.S.400.34