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Analysis of nonlinear distortions in OFDM systems

OFDM 시스템의 비선형 왜곡 분석

  • Published : 1998.04.01
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Abstract

In this paper, the effect of nonllinear distortion, caused by a high-power amplifier(HPA) in an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) system, on the receiver part is analyzed. Since the HPA, which can be modeled by a memeoryless Volterra system, distorts OFDM signals in a nonlinear fashion, the received signal at each subchannel includes the multiplicative distortion of 1-st order as well as additive nonlinear distortion of high-order. the nonlinear distortion can be viewed as a nonlinear interchannel interference (NICI) since it consists of harmonic distortions and intermodulation distortions, produced by oother subchannels affecting the subchannel of interest. In this paper, we analytically derive the variance of NICI in terms of average input power using the volterra model for HPA, and then calculate the bit-effor rate(BER) performance of an OFDM system. Also, we propose a simple method to compensate for the phase distortion in OFDM system amplified by HPA, OFDM system employing 16-QAM constellation input.

본 논문에서는 고출력 증폭기(HPA: high-power amplifier)를 사용하는 OFDM(orthogonal frequency division multiplexing) 시스템에서의 비선형 왜곡이 수신단에 미치는 영향에 대해서 분석한다. 메모리 없는 Volterra 시스템으로 모델링 되는 고출력 증폭기는 OFDM 신호를 비선형적으로 왜곡시키므로 각 부채널에서의 OFDM 심볼은 1차의 곱셈 왜곡과 고차의 가산성 비선형 왜곡을 포함하게 된다. 이 비선형 왜곡항은 현재의 부채널에 영향을 미치는 모든 다른 부채널들의 harmonic왜곡과 intermodulation 왜곡으로 구성되어 있기 때문에 이는 비선형 인접 부채널간 간섭(NICI:nonlinear interchannel interference)으로 볼 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 NICI의 분산을 고출력 증폭기의 Volterra 모델과 입력 신호의 평균 전력을 통해 해석적으로 구하고 이를 이용하여 OFDM 시스템의 비트 오류율 성능을 계산한다. 또한 고출력 증폭기를 갖는 OFDM 시스템의 위상 왜곡을 수신단에서 보상하기 위한 간단한 방법을 제시하고 이 경우의 비트 오류율을 계산한다. 제안된 분석 방법이 타당함을 16-QAM 방식을 사용하는 OFDM 시스템에 대해 컴퓨터 모의 실험을 수행함으로써 입증한다.

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