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Neural network (NN)-based Digital Predistortion (DPD) has demonstrated superior performance in improving signal quality in wideband radio frequency (RF) power amplifiers (PAs) employing complex modulation. However, NN DPDs usually rely on a…
Digital Pre-Distortion (DPD) enhances signal quality in wideband RF power amplifiers (PAs). As signal bandwidths expand in modern radio systems, DPD's energy consumption increasingly impacts overall system efficiency. Deep Neural Networks…
Digital predistortion (DPD) is essential for mitigating nonlinearity in RF power amplifiers, particularly for wideband applications. This paper presents TCN-DPD, a parameter-efficient architecture based on temporal convolutional networks,…
Digital predistortion (DPD) is crucial for linearizing radio frequency (RF) power amplifiers (PAs), improving signal integrity and efficiency in wireless systems. Neural network (NN)-based DPD methods surpass traditional polynomial models…
The use of up to hundreds of antennas in massive multi-user (MU) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) poses a complexity challenge for digital predistortion (DPD) aiming to linearize the…
With the rise in communication capacity, deep neural networks (DNN) for digital pre-distortion (DPD) to correct non-linearity in wideband power amplifiers (PAs) have become prominent. Yet, there is a void in open-source and…
Digital predistortion (DPD) is a method commonly used to compensate for the nonlinear effects of power amplifiers (PAs). However, the computational complexity of most DPD algorithms becomes an issue in the downlink of massive multi-user…
This study reports a novel hardware-friendly modular architecture for implementing one dimensional convolutional neural network (1D-CNN) digital predistortion (DPD) technique to linearize RF power amplifier (PA) real-time.The modular nature…
Digital predistortion (DPD) is a widely adopted baseband processing technique in current radio transmitters. While DPD can effectively suppress unwanted spurious spectrum emissions stemming from imperfections of analog RF and baseband…
The increasing adoption of Deep Neural Network (DNN)-based Digital Pre-distortion (DPD) in modern communication systems necessitates efficient hardware implementations. This paper presents DPD-NeuralEngine, an ultra-fast, tiny-area, and…
Tracking the nonlinear behavior of an RF power amplifier (PA) is challenging. To tackle this problem, we build a connection between residual learning and the PA nonlinearity, and propose a novel residual neural network structure, referred…
Frequency domain (FD)-digital predistortion (DPD) is a low-complexity DPD solution for massive multiple-inputmultiple-output (MIMO) transmitters (TXs). In this letter, we extend FD-DPD to scenarios with multiple signal states (e.g.,…
We investigate neural network (NN) assisted techniques for compensating the non-linear behaviour and the memory effect of a 5G PA through digital predistortion (DPD). Traditionally, the most prevalent compensation technique computes the…
The primary source of nonlinear distortion in wireless transmitters is the power amplifier (PA). Conventional digital predistortion (DPD) schemes use high-order polynomials to accurately approximate and compensate for the nonlinearity of…
This article investigates digital predistortion (DPD) linearization of hybrid beamforming large-scale antenna transmitters. We propose a novel DPD processing and learning technique for an antenna sub-array, which utilizes a combined signal…
Efficient mitigation of power amplifier (PA) nonlinear distortion in multi-user hybrid precoding based broadband mmWave systems is an open research problem. In this article, we first carry out detailed signal and distortion modeling in…
Noncontiguous transmission schemes combined with high power-efficiency requirements pose big challenges for radio transmitter and power amplifier (PA) design and implementation. Due to the nonlinear nature of the PA, severe unwanted…
In this article, we propose a novel digital predistortion (DPD) solution that allows to considerably reduce the complexity resulting from linearizing a set of power amplifiers (PAs) in single-user large-scale digital beamforming…
In modern 5G user equipments (UEs), the power amplifier (PA) contributes significantly to power consumption during uplink transmissions, especially in cell-edge scenarios. While reducing power backoff can enhance PA efficiency, it…
Digital predistortion is the process of correcting for nonlinearities in the analog RF front-end of a wireless transmitter. These nonlinearities contribute to adjacent channel leakage, degrade the error vector magnitude of transmitted…