Behavioural Analysis of Internal Mechanism of Nonlinear Distortion in OFDM Signal Systems

Author

Lei, Yiming ; O´Droma, Máirtín

Author_Institution

Telecommun. Res. Centre, Univ. of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland

fYear

2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

The IMP distortion occurring with the amplification of OFDM signals through a nonlinear RF power amplifier (PA) is analysed with a view to establishing internal relations and impairment significance of different types and combinations - composition categories- of IMPS. Through this, a novel estimation method was deduced to calculate power spectral densities (PSD) of nonlinear distortion. This method also helps expose some PA independent and operating point (OP) independent characteristics of PSD of nonlinear distortion. The simulation and analysis is based on the use of an IEEE 802.11a OFDM signal and a nonlinear PA model is derived from envelope characteristic measurements of an X-band and S-band GaN power amplifier.

Keywords

OFDM modulation; nonlinear distortion; power amplifiers; radiofrequency amplifiers; wireless LAN; IEEE 802.11a OFDM signal; OFDM signal systems; behavioural analysis; internal mechanism; nonlinear PA model; nonlinear RF power amplifier; nonlinear distortion; power amplifier; power spectral densities; Analytical models; Distortion measurement; Nonlinear distortion; OFDM; Power amplifiers; Power measurement; RF signals; Radio frequency; Radiofrequency amplifiers; Signal analysis;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Global Telecommunications Conference, 2009. GLOBECOM 2009. IEEE

Conference_Location

Honolulu, HI

ISSN

1930-529X

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4148-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/GLOCOM.2009.5425495

Filename

5425495