IEEE Communications Letters
EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking - Special issue on interference management in wireless communication systems: theory and applications
An efficient measure for nonlinear distortion severity due to HPA in downlink DS-CDMA signals
EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking
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We analyze the effects of the nonlinear distortions, introduced by the transmitting high-power amplifier (HPA), on the performance of the linear decorrelating multiuser detector in direct-sequence code-division multiple-access (DS-CDMA) downlink systems. By assuming and motivating the Gaussian distribution of the nonlinear distortion noise, the symbol-error rate (SER) and the total degradation (TD) has been derived theoretically in additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) and frequency-flat Rayleigh fading channels. Simulation results show that the analytical model is quite accurate in many scenarios.