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A Robust Companding Scheme against Nonlinear Distortion of High Power Amplifiers

고출력 증폭기의 비선형 왜곡 특성에 강인한 Companding 기법

  • 김재운 (숭실대학교 정보통신전자공학부 통신및정보처리 연구실) ;
  • 한승우 (숭실대학교 정보통신전자공학부 통신및정보처리 연구실) ;
  • 신요안 (숭실대학교 정보통신전자공학부 통신및정보처리 연구실)
  • Published : 2007.11.30
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Abstract

In this paper, we propose a CCP (Companding Combined with Predistorter) scheme that maintains BER (Bit Error Rate) performance of systems, while effectively reducing PAPR (Peak-to-Average Power Ratio) of OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) signals, independent of nonlinear property of HPAs (High Power Amplifiers). The proposed CCP scheme combines the conventional companding scheme proposed by the authors with the predistorter, in order to prevent degradation of BER performance caused by signal distortion from nonlinear property of the HPA and the compression property of the companding scheme. Hence, the proposed scheme effectively reduces the PAPR and simultaneously maintains the BER performance, independent of nonlinear property of the HPA. Simulation results showed that the proposed CCP scheme provides the lowest total degradation for all the modulations, when comparing with the companding scheme proposed by Wang and the clipping scheme.

본 논문에서는 고출력 증폭기 (High Power Amplifier; HPA)의 비선형 특성에 관계없이 시스템의 비트오율 (Bit Error Rate; BER) 성능을 유지하면서 동시에 효율적으로 PAPR (Peak-to-Average Power Ratio)을 감소시킬 수 있는 CCP (Companding Combined with Predistorter) 기법을 제안한다. 제안된 CCP 기법은 기존에 본 저자들이 제안한 Companding 기법이 가지고 있는 Compression 특성과 HPA의 비선형 왜곡 특성에 의해 발생되는 전송 신호의 왜곡으로 인해 나타나는 시스템의 BER 성능 열화를 보완하기 위해 Predistorter를 기존의 Companding 기법에 결합하였다. 따라서, 제안된 CCP 기법은 HPA의 비선형 특성에 관계없이 효율적으로 PAPR을 감소시킬 수 있으며 동시에 시스템의 BER 성능도 유지시킬 수 있는 PAPR 감소 방식이라고 할 수 있다. 모의실험 결과, 제안된 CCP 기법은 TD (Total Degradation) 측면에서 Predistorter를 고려한 Clipping 기법과 Wang이 제안한 Companding 기법에 비해 모든 변조방식에서 가장 낮은 TD 성능을 나타내고 있음을 확인하였다.

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