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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…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-12-30 Kaipeng Li , Amanullah Ghazi , Chance Tarver , Jani Boutellier , Mahmoud Abdelaziz , Lauri Anttila , Markku Juntti , Mikko Valkama , Joseph R. Cavallaro

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…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Yizhuo Wu , Gagan Deep Singh , Mohammadreza Beikmirza , Leo C. N. de Vreede , Morteza Alavi , Chang Gao

In massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) downlink systems, the physical implementation of the base stations (BSs) requires the use of cheap and power-efficient power amplifiers (PAs) to avoid high hardware cost and high power…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-04 Yatao Liu , Mingjie Shao , Wing-Kin Ma

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…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-18 Yizhuo Wu , Ang Li , Chang Gao

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…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-23 Mahmoud Abdelaziz , Lauri Anttila , Chance Tarver , Kaipeng Li , Joseph R. Cavallaro , Mikko Valkama

In this work, we analyze how the use of companding techniques, together with digital predistortion (DPD), can be leveraged to improve system efficiency and performance in simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) systems…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-28 Santiago Fernández , F. Javier López-Martínez , Fernando H. Gregorio , Juan Cousseau

A radio frequency (RF) power amplifier (PA) plays an important role to amplify the message signal at higher power to transmit it to a distant receiver. Due to a typical nonlinear behavior of the PA at high power transmission, a digital…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Ganesh Prasad , Håkan Johansson , Rabul Hussain Laskar

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,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-26 Huanqiang Duan , Manno Versluis , Qinyu Chen , Leo C. N. de Vreede , Chang Gao

Nonlinear distortion of a multicarrier signal by a transmitter Power Amplifier (PA) can be a serious problem when designing new highly energy-efficient wireless systems. Although the performance of standard reception algorithms is seriously…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Pawel Kryszkiewicz , Hanna Bogucka

In multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) systems, the non-linear behavior of the power amplifiers (PAs) may cause degradation of the linear precoding schemes dealing with interference between user equipments (UEs), e.g., the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-03 Juan Vidal Alegría , Ashkan Sheikhi , Ove Edfors

This paper is concerned with digital predistortion for linearization of RF high power amplifiers (HPAs). It has two objectives. First, we establish a theoretical framework for a generic predistorter system, and show that if a postdistorter…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-16 Hong Jiang , Paul Wilford

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…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-02 Chance Tarver , Alexios Balatsoukas-Stimming , Joseph R. Cavallaro

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…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-25 Yibo Wu , Ulf Gustavsson , Mikko Valkama , Alexandre Graell i Amat , Henk Wymeersch

Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) precoders are typically designed by minimizing the transmit power subject to a quality-of-service (QoS) constraint. However, current sustainability goals incentivize more energy-efficient…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-28 Thomas Feys , Xavier Mestre , Emanuele Peschiera , François Rottenberg

Large array-based transmission uses the combination of a massive number of antenna elements and clever precoder designs to achieve array gain and spatially multiplex different users. These precoders require linear front-ends, and more…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-18 François Rottenberg , Gilles Callebaut , Liesbet Van der Perre

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…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Manno Versluis , Yizhuo Wu , Chang Gao

This paper introduces a new approach to physical layer security (PLS) by leveraging power amplifier (PA) nonlinear distortion through distortion-aware precoding. While some conventional PLS techniques inject artificial noise orthogonal to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-11 Reza Ghasemi Alavicheh , Thomas Feys , MD Arifur Rahman , François Rottenberg

This paper investigates the use of Neural Network (NN) nonlinear modelling for Power Amplifier (PA) linearization in the Walsh-Hadamard transceiver architecture. This novel architecture has recently been proposed for ultra-high bandwidth…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-11 Cel Thys , Rodney Martinez Alonso , Antoine Lhomel , Maxandre Fellmann , Nathalie Deltimple , Francois Rivet , Sofie Pollin

Non-linear transceivers and non-reciprocity of downlink and uplink channels are two major challenges in the deployment of massive multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) systems. We consider an over-the-air (OTA) approach for digital…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-26 Ashkan Sheikhi , Ove Edfors , Juan Vidal Alegría

Derived from the regular perturbation treatment of the nonlinear Schrodinger equation, a machine learning-based scheme to mitigate the intra-channel optical fiber nonlinearity is proposed. Referred to as the perturbation theory-aided (PA)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-06 Xiang Lin , Shenghang Luo , Sunish Kumar Orappanpara Soman , Octavia A. Dobre , Lutz Lampe , Deyuan Chang , Chuandong Li