Abstract
This paper proposes a novel crest factor reduction (CFR) algorithm to be deployed on WCDMA basestation. Generally speaking, it is well described that the reduction of peak-to-average ratio (PAR) yields the possibility of using low cost power amplifier such that the basesation becomes economic However, the simple reduction of PAR could degrade the signal quality measured by either peak code domain error (PCDE) or error vector measurement (EVM), and the level of channel interference constrained by adjacent channel leakage ratio (ACLR). Regarding these imperfections, this paper introduces an effective CFR algorithm in which the function of filter-dependent CFR (FDCFR) incorporated with the histogram-based waterfilling code domain compensation (HBWCDC) carries out. To verify the performance of the proposed CFR technique, substantial simulations including comparative works are conducted with obeying W-CDMA basestation verification specification. To exploit the superiority, the performance of the proposed method is tentatively compared with that associated to the simple memoryless clipping method and the memory-required filter-dependent clipping method.
이동통신 기지국 시스템에서 송신 신호의 PAR 성능을 (peak-to-average power ratio) 개선함으로써 범용 전력 증폭기의 사용이 가능하게 되며, 이로 인해 전체적인 기지국 비용의 절감을 기대할 수 있다. 일반적으로 PAR 값을 줄임으로 인해 기지국 송신신호의 인근 대역 간섭 제한 성능을 나타내는 ACLR이나 (adjacent channel leakage ratio) 품질을 나타내는 EVM이나 (error vector magnitude) PCDE 성능의 (peak code domain error) 열화를 발생시킨다. 본 논문에서 이러한 문제점을 해결하기 위하여 필터링 기반의 CFR 방식인 (crest factor reduction) FDCFR 알고리즘을 (filter-dependent CFR) 소개하며, 히스토그램 기반 코드 영역 보상(HBWCDC; histogram based waterfilling code domain compensation)기법을 제안한다. 본 논문에서 제안한 CFR 알고리즘은 PAR 감소뿐만 아니라 앞서 언급한 ACLR, EVM 및 PCDE등의 성능 열화를 방지한다.
