Digital Compensation of Amplifier Nonlinearities in the Receiver of a Wireless System

In order to enable efficient implementation of wireless systems with high signal dynamics, this paper proposes an approach to estimate and correct for the amplitude and phase distortion caused by nonlinear power amplifiers. The approach comprises a preamble design, an estimation method and a digital compensation algorithm. Correction for the nonlinearities is applied in the receiver, which requires no additional hardware. Performance evaluation of a 60 GHz OFDM-based system shows that the proposed approach can successfully be applied with minimal performance degradation compared to non-impaired systems.