Iterative signal processing for mitigation of analog-to-digital converter clipping distortion in multiband OFDMA receivers

Authors:
Markus Allén;Toni Levanen;Jaakko Marttila;Mikko Valkama
Affiliations:
Department of Communications Engineering, Tampere University of Technology, Tampere, Finland;Department of Communications Engineering, Tampere University of Technology, Tampere, Finland;Department of Communications Engineering, Tampere University of Technology, Tampere, Finland;Department of Communications Engineering, Tampere University of Technology, Tampere, Finland
Venue:
Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Year:
2012

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Abstract

In modern wideband communication receivers, the large input-signal dynamics is a fundamental problem. Unintentional signal clipping occurs, if the receiver front-end with the analog-to-digital interface cannot respond to rapidly varying conditions. This paper discusses digital postprocessing compensation of such unintentional clipping inmultiband OFDMA receivers. The proposed method iterativelymitigates the clipping distortion by exploiting the symbol decisions. The performance of the proposed method is illustrated with various computer simulations and also verified by concrete laboratory measurements with commercially available analog-to-digital hardware. It is shown that the clipping compensation algorithm implemented in a turbo decoding OFDM receiver is able to remove almost all the clipping distortion even under significant clipping in fading channel circumstances. That is to say, it is possible to nearly recover the receiver performance to the level, which would be achieved in the equivalent nonclipped situation.