Presentation 2021-08-24
Design of Multi-carrier Pilot Signals for Operation Point Estimation in Digital Pre-Distortion based Linearizer
Atushi Masubuchi, Masahiro Umehira, Xiaoyan Wang, Shigeki Takeda,
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Abstract(in English) Mobile terminal is required to improve the power utilization efficiency of HPA (High Power Amplifier) because of the increase of uplink transmission rate and utilization of millimeter-wave bands. Small OBO (Output Back Off) operation improves HPA power utilization efficiency however it increases ACLP (Adjacent Channel Leakage Power) due to HPA nonlinearity, resulting in degradation of spectrum efficiency. The authors have proposed a simplified DPD (Digital Pre-distortion) type linearizer for mobile terminal application, which does not require an auxiliary receiver and estimates its operation point by using the multi-carrier pilot signal, however more investigation is required in multi-carrier pilot signal design. This report describes the design of the multi-carrier pilot signal using Babcock frequency assignment according to the signal bandwidth. It also shows evaluation results of the operation point estimation performance of the multi-frequency pilot signal and its ACLP reduction performance.
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Keyword(in English) Multi-carrier Pilot Signal / HPA / non-linear / AM/AM / AM/PM / Digital pre-distortion / ALCP
Paper # SRW2021-13
Date of Issue 2021-08-17 (SRW)

Conference Information
Committee SRW
Conference Date 2021/8/24(1days)
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Place (in English) Online
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Topics (in English) WLAN, WPAN, Ad-hoc, mmWave, etc.
Chair Hanako Noda(Anritsu)
Vice Chair Keiichi Mizutani(Kyoto Univ.) / Kentaro Saito(Tokyo Denki Univ.) / Hirokazu Sawada(NICT)
Secretary Keiichi Mizutani(NTT) / Kentaro Saito(NIigata Univ.) / Hirokazu Sawada
Assistant Akihito Noda(Nanzan Univ.)

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Registration To Technical Committee on Short Range Wireless Communications
Language JPN
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Title (in English) Design of Multi-carrier Pilot Signals for Operation Point Estimation in Digital Pre-Distortion based Linearizer
Sub Title (in English)
Keyword(1) Multi-carrier Pilot Signal
Keyword(2) HPA
Keyword(3) non-linear
Keyword(4) AM/AM
Keyword(5) AM/PM
Keyword(6) Digital pre-distortion
Keyword(7) ALCP
1st Author's Name Atushi Masubuchi
1st Author's Affiliation The Graduate School of Ibaraki University(Ibaraki Univ.)
2nd Author's Name Masahiro Umehira
2nd Author's Affiliation The Graduate School of Ibaraki University(Ibaraki Univ.)
3rd Author's Name Xiaoyan Wang
3rd Author's Affiliation The Graduate School of Ibaraki University(Ibaraki Univ.)
4th Author's Name Shigeki Takeda
4th Author's Affiliation The Graduate School of Ibaraki University(Ibaraki Univ.)
Date 2021-08-24
Paper # SRW2021-13
Volume (vol) vol.121
Number (no) SRW-145
Page pp.pp.1-6(SRW),
#Pages 6
Date of Issue 2021-08-17 (SRW)