Compressed sensing techniques for receiver based post-compensation of transmitter's nonlinear distortions in OFDM systems

  • Authors:
  • Damilola S. Owodunni;Anum Ali;Ahmed A. Quadeer;Ebrahim B. Al-Safadi;Oualid Hammi;Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • Signal Processing
  • Year:
  • 2014

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Abstract

In this paper, compressed sensing techniques are proposed to linearize commercial power amplifiers driven by orthogonal frequency division multiplexing signals. The nonlinear distortion is considered as a sparse phenomenon in the time-domain, and three compressed sensing based algorithms are presented to estimate and compensate for these distortions at the receiver using a few and, at times, even no frequency-domain free carriers (i.e. pilot carriers). The first technique is a conventional compressed sensing approach, while the second incorporates a priori information about the distortions to enhance the estimation. Finally, the third technique involves an iterative data-aided algorithm that does not require any pilot carriers and hence allows the system to work at maximum bandwidth efficiency. The performances of all the proposed techniques are evaluated on a commercial power amplifier and compared. The error vector magnitude and symbol error rate results show the ability of compressed sensing to compensate for the amplifier's nonlinear distortions.