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The Impact of Nonlinear HPA on the Determination of the Impulse Sample Power in IP-OFDM Systems

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The recently introduced impulse postfix OFDM (IP-OFDM) system, which performs channel estimation in time-domain by exploiting the IP instead of pilot tones, can achieve the enhanced bit error rate (BER) performance compared to that of conventional OFDM systems. Since there is a peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) issue of using the IP, however, the decision criteria for determining the power boosting factor (PBF) of IP were proposed to resolve the PAPR issue while achieving the optimum BER performance in the IP-OFDM system with an ideal high power amplifier (HPA). In this paper, a practical IP-OFDM system with a nonlinear HPA is considered and the impact of nonlinear HPA on the determination of the PBF of IP as well as the BER performance are analyzed. The BER lower bound is also derived in the case of QPSK and 16QAM. It is shown that the approximated lower bound approaches to the simulation results as the PBF is increased. According to the analytical results, due to the nonlinearity of the HPA, 1–3dB increased PBF than the ideal PBF is required to achieve the optimum BER performance, which is even deteriorated compared to that of IP-OFDM with an ideal soft envelope limiter.

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  1. Central R&D Laboratory, Korea Telecom (KT), Seoul, 137-792, Korea

    Byung Moo Lee

  2. Department of Electronic Engineering, Kwangwoon University, Seoul, 139-701, Korea

    Youngok Kim

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Lee, B.M., Kim, Y. The Impact of Nonlinear HPA on the Determination of the Impulse Sample Power in IP-OFDM Systems. Wireless Pers Commun 70, 1353–1361 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-012-0752-x

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