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Xianzhen Yang

Bio: Xianzhen Yang is an academic researcher from Portland State University. The author has contributed to research in topic(s): Amplifier & Intermodulation. The author has an hindex of 3, co-authored 12 publication(s) receiving 29 citation(s).

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TL;DR: A spectrum model of the intermodulation and cross-modulation for dual-band OFDM signals in terms of third-order intercept points is derived, which is useful to the design and test of concurrent dual- band RF transmitters for RF engineers.
Abstract: In this paper, the nonlinear effects of amplified dual-band orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) signals are analyzed. Furthermore, a spectrum model of the intermodulation and cross-modulation for dual-band OFDM signals in terms of third-order intercept points ( ${IP}_{3}$ ) is derived. The experimental measurements match the analytical predictions, which is useful to the design and test of concurrent dual-band RF transmitters for RF engineers.

9 citations

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TL;DR: The effects of IM and CM in passband will be discussed, IM represents a reduction for compressive devices, and CM reflects an interference caused by the signal from the other band, and followed by the analysis of out-of-band IM.
Abstract: A significant development of recent research in nonlinear distortion is the expansion of the conventional two-tone test for power amplifiers to the concurrent dual-band transmitters, by Amin et al . A general framework using dual two-tones is developed, which shows that the output signal is affected not only by intermodulation (IM) products but also by cross-modulation (CM) products. In this paper, we will make a number of clarifications to Amin et al. ’s paper. The effects of IM and CM in passband will be discussed, IM represents a reduction for compressive devices, and CM reflects an interference caused by the signal from the other band, and followed by the analysis of out-of-band IM. It was concluded that out-of-band IM needs to be taken into consideration for the design of power amplifiers when two bands are very close.

5 citations

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TL;DR: A novel approach for estimating the Saleh model’s parameters using the gain and third-order intercept point (IP3) of a power amplifier to compensate for the memoryless AM/AM nonlinear distortion of power amplifiers in wireless communications is presented.
Abstract: This paper presents a novel approach for estimating the Saleh model’s parameters using the gain and third-order intercept point (IP3) of a power amplifier. The IP3 is a widely used technical parameter for describing the nonlinearity of the power amplifier in wireless communications. The proposed approach minimizes an objective function of error between the third-order Taylor series and the Saleh Amplitude-to-Amplitude (AM/AM) model. This approach of the parameters estimation is also used for identifying the Digital Predistortion (DPD) to compensate for the memoryless AM/AM nonlinear distortion of power amplifiers in wireless communications. Finally, the Saleh model accuracy and DPD linearization are validated based on the WCDMA measurement signal.

4 citations

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TL;DR: A unified spectrum expression for OFDM, FBMC, and F-OFDM is developed, which provides comparative insights into those techniques and a representative sideband quantification is included.
Abstract: Although orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) has been standardized for 5G, filter bank multi-carrier (FBMC) and filtered orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (F-OFDM) remain competitive as candidates for future generations of wireless technologies beyond 5G, due to their reduced spectrum leakage and thus enhanced spectrum efficiency. In this article, we developed a unified spectrum expression for OFDM, FBMC, and F-OFDM, which provides comparative insights into those techniques. A representative sideband quantification is included at the end of this article.

2 citations


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01 Jan 2016
TL;DR: In this article, the design of linear precoders or decoders for multiuser multiple-input multiple-output filterbank multicarrier (FBMC) modulations in the case of a strong channel frequency selectivity is presented.
Abstract: The design of linear precoders or decoders for multiuser multiple-input multiple-output filterbank multicarrier (FBMC) modulations in the case of a strong channel frequency selectivity is presented. The users and the base station (BS) communicate using space division multiple access. The low complexity proposed solution is based on a single tap per-subcarrier precoding/decoding matrix at the BS in the downlink/uplink. As opposed to classical approaches that assume flat channel frequency selectivity at the subcarrier level, the BS does not make this assumption and takes into account the distortion caused by channel frequency selectivity. The expression of the FBMC asymptotic mean squared error (MSE) in the case of strong channel selectivity derived in earlier works is developed and extended. The linear precoders and decoders are found by optimizing the MSE formula under two design criteria, namely zero forcing or minimum MSE. Finally, simulation results demonstrate the performance of the optimized design. As long as the number of BS antennas is larger than the number of users, it is shown that those extra degrees of freedom can be used to compensate for the channel frequency selectivity.

23 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, Michalowicz et al. provide an extension of Isserlis theorem to the case of a Bernoulli location mixture of a Gaussian vector, and also provide an example for a scale location" mixture of Gaussian, namely the d-dimensional generalized hyperbolic distribution.
Abstract: In a recent paper, Michalowicz et al. provide an extension of Isserlis theorem to the case of a Bernoulli location mixture of a Gaussian vector. We extend here this result to the case of any location mixture of Gaussian vector; we also provide an example of the Isserlis theorem for a "scale location" mixture of Gaussian, namely the d-dimensional generalized hyperbolic distribution.

18 citations

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01 Jan 2016
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16 citations

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TL;DR: Two types of predistorters are presented, first is RFin–RFout analog predistorter, in which linearization is performed by RF components in the analog domain, and the second is hybrid RF predistsorter which takes the advantage of advanced DSP platform for improving the performance of RFin-RF out analogpredistorter.
Abstract: The 5G and beyond systems require the highly efficient linear power amplifier (PA) at the base station to deliver promised data rate in a power efficient manner. To facilitate higher data rates in future 5G communication, the demands for the wideband signals are continuously increasing, which creates adversity in employing digital predistortion (DPD) for the linearization of RF PA in ultra-wideband systems. System bandwidth constraint of the conventional DPD does not provide sufficient linearization of wideband signals. In this paper, we present two types of predistorter, first is RFin–RFout analog predistorter, in which linearization is performed by RF components in the analog domain, and the second is hybrid RF predistorter which takes the advantage of advanced DSP platform for improving the performance of RFin–RFout analog predistorter. The proposed predistorters eliminate the constraint on the system bandwidth of the conventional DPD. The requirements of data converters and reconstruction filters are relaxed in the analog predistorter (APD) architecture, whereas hybrid digitally controlled (HDC) APD eliminates the need of analog components by compensating the delay digitally. In order to validate this concept, a ZX60V-63+ PA from minicircuits is tested with 160-MHz eight-component carrier-long term evolution signal. The proposed APD architecture is able to deliver an adjacent channel power ratio (ACPR) of −46.4 dBc with an ACPR improvement of 13.4 dB at 1-dB back-off. Furthermore, with digital intervention, modified model, HDC-APD further provides a significant improvement in the linearization performance and delivers an ACPR of −53.5 dBc with an ACPR improvement of 20.5 dB.

13 citations

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TL;DR: Three novel behavioral models and DPD schemes for nonlinear multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) transmitters in presence of cross-talk are proposed and shown experimentally that with partially non-coherent signal generation, the performance of the DPD degrades compared to coherent signal generation.
Abstract: The demands for high data rates and broadband wireless access require the development of wireless systems that can support wide and multi-band signals. To deploy these signals, new radio frequency (RF) front-ends are required which impose new challenges in terms of power consumption efficiency and sources of distortion e.g., nonlinearity. These challenges are more pronounced in power amplifiers (PAs) that degrade the overall performance of the RF transmitter. Since it is difficult to optimize the linearity and efficiency characteristics of a PA simultaneously, a trade-off is needed. At high input power, a PA exhibits high efficiency at the expense of linearity. On the other hand, at low input power, a PA is linear at the expense of the efficiency. To achieve linearity and efficiency at the same time, digital pre-distortion (DPD) is often used to compensate for the PA nonlinearity at high input power. In case of multi-channel PAs, input and output signals of different channels interact with each other due to cross-talk. Therefore, these PAs exhibit different nonlinear behavior than the single-input single-output (SISO) PAs. The DPD techniques developed for SISO PAs do not result in adequate performance when used for multi-channel PAs. Hence, an accurate behavioral modeling is essential for the development of DPD for multi-channel RF PAs. In this thesis, we propose three novel behavioral models and DPD schemes for nonlinear multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) transmitters in presence of cross-talk. A study of the source of cross-talk in MIMO transmitters have been investigated to derive simple and powerful modeling schemes. These models are extensions of a SISO generalized memory polynomial model. A comparative study with a previously published MIMO model is also presented. The effect of coherent and partially non-coherent signal generationon DPD performance is also highlighted. It is shown experimentally that with partially non-coherent signal generation, the performance of the DPD degrades compared to coherent signal generation. In context of multi-channel RF transmitters, PA behavioral models and DPD schemes suffer from a large number of model parameters with the increase in nonlinear order and memory depth. This growth leads to high complexity model identification and implementation. We have designed a DPD scheme for MIMO PAs using a sparse estimation technique for reducing model complexity. This technique also increases the numerical stability when linear least square estimation model identification is used. A method to characterize the memory effects in a nonlinear concurrent dual-band PAs is also presented. Compared to the SISO PAs, concurrent dual-band PAs are not only affected by intermodulation distortions but also by cross-modulation distortions. The characterization of memory effects inconcurrent dual-band transmitter is performed by injecting a two-tone test signal in each input channel of the transmitter. Asymmetric energy surfaces are introduced for the intermodulation and cross-modulation products, which can be used to identify the power and frequency regions where the memory effects are dominant.

9 citations