Scalable Behavioral Models and Predistorters for Broad Band Power Amplifiers

A Master of Science thesis in Electrical Engineering by Asma Asim Ali entitled, “Scalable Behavioral Models and Predistorters for Broad Band Power Amplifiers”, submitted in May 2023. Thesis advisor is Dr. Oualid Hammi and thesis co-advisor is Dr. Usman Tariq. Soft copy is available (Thesis, Completi...

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المؤلف الرئيسي: Ali, Asma Asim (author)
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spelling Scalable Behavioral Models and Predistorters for Broad Band Power AmplifiersAli, Asma AsimPower amplifiersLinearizationPredistortersNeural networksBehavioral modelScalableA Master of Science thesis in Electrical Engineering by Asma Asim Ali entitled, “Scalable Behavioral Models and Predistorters for Broad Band Power Amplifiers”, submitted in May 2023. Thesis advisor is Dr. Oualid Hammi and thesis co-advisor is Dr. Usman Tariq. Soft copy is available (Thesis, Completion Certificate, Approval Signatures, and AUS Archives Consent Form).With the ever-changing improvements in the realm of telecommunication, power amplifiers (PAs), being an indispensable component, are required to adhere to very high demands. The technology behind manufacturing power amplifiers has also improved over time but they are still prone to suffer from nonlinearities. Since amplification requires the PAs to be driven at high voltage levels, it is inevitable for them to exhibit such nonlinear behavior. This thesis was a pursuit to find a neural network (NN) based digital predistorter (DPD) to rectify the power amplifier’s nonlinear behavior. The proposed model was scalable and obliges with changing average power levels, varied bandwidth as well as heterogeneous carrier configurations of signals. The proposed neural network was assessed for behavioral modeling and showed that it is capable of accurately mimicking the memory as well as static nonlinearities of the device under test (DUT) with an average normalized mean square error (NMSE) of -29.67dB. The proposed DPD NN model was investigated for robustness with respect to the signal’s characteristics, such that the offline model does not require signal dependent updates. The signal with the highest memory effect intensity (MEI) was then proposed for the model's initial training and was found to be linearizing all the rest of the various configurations and reaching ACLR values up to -55dBc. The proposed DPD has been tested on 20MHz long-term evolution (LTE) as well as 40MHz, 30MHz, 20MHz and 10MHz new radio (NR) signals with various carrier configurations and power levels and has been observed to be meeting the 5G NR ACLR requirements. Furthermore, the proposed DPD was also trained on reduced sampling rate data to accommodate for limited hardware capabilities. It proved to be still scalable and provided satisfying linearization performance with an average ACLR of -49.29dBc.College of EngineeringDepartment of Electrical EngineeringMaster of Science in Electrical Engineering (MSEE)Hammi, OualidTariq, Usman2023-08-30T10:22:52Z2023-08-30T10:22:52Z2023-05info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/doctoralThesisapplication/pdf35.232-2023.12http://hdl.handle.net/11073/25313en_USoai:repository.aus.edu:11073/253132025-06-26T12:20:35Z
spellingShingle Scalable Behavioral Models and Predistorters for Broad Band Power Amplifiers
Ali, Asma Asim
Power amplifiers
Linearization
Predistorters
Neural networks
Behavioral model
Scalable
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title Scalable Behavioral Models and Predistorters for Broad Band Power Amplifiers
title_full Scalable Behavioral Models and Predistorters for Broad Band Power Amplifiers
title_fullStr Scalable Behavioral Models and Predistorters for Broad Band Power Amplifiers
title_full_unstemmed Scalable Behavioral Models and Predistorters for Broad Band Power Amplifiers
title_short Scalable Behavioral Models and Predistorters for Broad Band Power Amplifiers
title_sort Scalable Behavioral Models and Predistorters for Broad Band Power Amplifiers
topic Power amplifiers
Linearization
Predistorters
Neural networks
Behavioral model
Scalable
url http://hdl.handle.net/11073/25313