On Achievable Rate of Multicarrier with Practical High Power Amplifier

Conference: European Wireless 2012 - 18th European Wireless Conference 2012
04/18/2012 - 04/20/2012 at Poznan, Poland

Proceedings: European Wireless 2012

Pages: 5Language: englishTyp: PDF

Authors:
Gutman, Igor; Wulich, Dov (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Beer-Sheva, 84105, Israel)

Abstract:
This paper investigates the achievable rate of multicarrier systems with non-linear distortion caused by high power amplifier (HPA) at the transmitter. We derive mutual information expressions for several non-linear models of HPA. Specific results are given for different values of the input backoff. It is shown that for some cases, linearization of HPA is not the best strategy. Index Terms—High power amplifier, Mutual information, Multicarrier systems.