A Compensating Method Based on SOM for Nonlinear Distortion in 16-QAM-OFDM System

Xiaoqiu WANG  Hua LIN  Jianming LU  Hiroo SEKIYA  Takashi YAHAGI  

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IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences   Vol.E87-A   No.6   pp.1641-1644
Publication Date: 2004/06/01
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Print ISSN: 0916-8508
Type of Manuscript: LETTER
Category: Nonlinear Problems
Keyword: 
OFDM,  self-organizing map,  nonlinear distortion,  

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Summary: 
This paper presents a compensating method based on Self-Organizing Map (SOM) for nonlinear distortion, which is caused by high-power amplifier (HPA) in 16-QAM-OFDM system. OFDM signals are sensitive to nonlinear distortions and different methods are studied to solve them. In the proposed scheme, the correction is done at the receiver by a SOM algorithm. Simulations are carried out considering an additive white Gaussian (AWG) transmission channel. Simulation results show that the SOM algorithm brings perceptible gains in a complete 16-QAM-OFDM system.