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The Gain and Phase Mismatch Detection Method with Closed Form Solution for LINC System Implementation

LINC 시스템 구현을 위한 닫힌 해를 갖는 크기 위상 오차 검출 기법

  • Myoung, Seong-Sik (Georgia Electronic Design Center, Georgia Institute of Technology) ;
  • Lee, Il-Kyoo (Department of Information and Communication Engineering, Kongju National University) ;
  • Lim, Kyu-Tae (Georgia Electronic Design Center, Georgia Institute of Technology) ;
  • Yook, Jong-Gwan (Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Yonsei University) ;
  • Laskar, Joy (Georgia Electronic Design Center, Georgia Institute of Technology)
  • Published : 2008.05.31
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Abstract

This parer proposed the path mismatch detection and compensation algorithm with closed form for linear amplification with non-linear components(LINC) system implementation. The LINC system has a merit of using the high efficient amplifier by transferring the non-constant envelop signal which is high peak to average signal ratio into constant envelop signal. However, the performance degradation is very sensitive to the path mismatch such as an amplitude mismatch and a phase mismatch. In order to improve the path mismatch, the error detection and compensation method is introduced by the use of four test signals. Since the presented method has the closed form solution, the efficient and fast detection is available. The digital-IF structure of LINC system applied by the proposed error detection and compensation algorithm was implemented. The performance was evaluated with the IEEE 802.16 WiMAX baseband sinal which has 7 MHz channel bandwidth and 16-QAM. The Error Vector Magnitude(EVM) of -37.37 dB was obtained through performance test, which meets performance requirement of -24 dB EVM. As a result, the introduced error detection and compensation method was verified to improve the LINC system performance.

본 논문에서는 linear amplification with nonlinear components(LINC) 시스템의 두 신호 경로에 발생하는 크기와 위상 오차를 자동으로 검출하여 보상하는 알고리즘을 제안하였다. LINC 시스템은 첨두 대 평균 전력비가 큰 non-constant envelop 신호를 constant envelop 신호로 바꿔주어 고효율 전력 증폭기를 사용할 수 있는 장점이 있다. 그러나 LINC 시스템은 두 전력 증폭기의 경호에서 발생하는 매우 작은 경로 오차에 민감하게 성능이 열화된다는 단점이 있다. 본 논문에서는 4개의 테스트 신호를 이용하여 두 경로의 크기와 위상 오차를 검출하는 알고리즘을 제안하였다. 제안된 오차 검출 기법은 닫힌 해(closed form solution)를 가지며, 반복 계산이 필요하지 않아, 빠르고 효율적으로 오차를 검출할 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 제안된 기법을 적용하여 오차 검출과 검출된 결과를 반영하여 신호의 왜곡을 보상하는 digital-IF 형태를 갖는 LINC 시스템을 구현하였다. 구현된 LINC 시스템은 7 MHz 채널 대역을 갖고 16-QAM으로 변조된 IEEE 802.16 WiMAx 기저 대역 신호를 이용하여 성능을 분석하였으며, 제안된 기법을 이용하여 EVM이 -37.37 dB까지 개선되었으며, 이로서 LINC 시스템 구현시 제안된 오차 검출 및 보상 기법의 적용 타당성을 확인하였다.

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