Predistortion for power amplifier linearization in full-duplex transceivers without extra RF chain

Fernando H. Gregorio, Gustavo J. Gonzalez, Juan Cousseau, Taneli Riihonen, Risto Wichman

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Abstract

Genuine full-duplex operation requires effective mitigation of self-interference (SI) due to simultaneous transmission and reception at the same frequency band. In addition to its well-known harmful effect on signals of high peak-to-average power ratio, nonlinear behavior of a power amplifier (PA) complicates SI cancellation and induces spectral regrowth. We introduce a digital predistortion architecture that linearizes the response of the PA in a full-duplex transceiver. Specifically, we propose a two-step procedure to estimate the predistorter parameters and the SI canceller coefficients. Different from a direct application of conventional predistorters, the proposed architecture does not need an extra RF chain to estimate the PA response and exploits the inherent SI signal instead. Finally, simulation results show that the proposed scheme is able to increase significantly the signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio at the transceiver output and to reduce out-of-band emissions when compared to linear and nonlinear cancellation without predistortion.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2017 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2017 - Proceedings
PublisherIEEE
Pages6563-6567
Number of pages5
ISBN (Electronic)9781509041176
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 16 Jun 2017
MoE publication typeA4 Article in a conference publication
EventIEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing - New Orleans, United States
Duration: 5 Mar 20179 Mar 2017

Publication series

NameProceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing
PublisherIEEE
ISSN (Electronic)2379-190X

Conference

ConferenceIEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing
Abbreviated titleICASSP
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityNew Orleans
Period05/03/201709/03/2017

Keywords

  • digital predistortion
  • Full duplex
  • nonlinear distortion
  • self-interference
  • spectral regrowth

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