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A Self-Attention-Based I/Q Imbalance Estimator for Beyond 5G Communication Systems


Abstract:

As high-frequency bands are considered for wireless communications, the in-phase and quadrature imbalance caused by the local oscillator and frequency mixer is becoming m...Show More

Abstract:

As high-frequency bands are considered for wireless communications, the in-phase and quadrature imbalance caused by the local oscillator and frequency mixer is becoming more severe. This study proposed an I/Q phase imbalance estimator based on the self-attention mechanism, which captures long-range dependencies to learn the relations among the input data symbols. Simulation results showed that the proposed self-attention-based method reduces the estimation error compared with the conventional methods. The proposed method can reduce the required data symbols to estimate the I/Q imbalance by half while achieving better performance at high signal-to-noise ratio regimes.
Published in: IEEE Communications Letters ( Volume: 25, Issue: 10, October 2021)
Page(s): 3262 - 3266
Date of Publication: 27 July 2021

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