Title
Sensitivity analysis of multicarrier digital pre-distortion/ equalization techniques for non-linear satellite channels
Date Issued
13 November 2013
Access level
open access
Resource Type
conference paper
Author(s)
Piazza R.
Bhavani Shankar M.R.
Zenteno E.
Rönnow D.
Liolis K.
Zimmer F.
Grasslin M.
Berheide T.
Cioni S.
Abstract
On-board joint power amplification of multiple-carrier DVB-S2 signals using a single High-Power Amplifier (HPA) is an emerging configuration that aims to reduce flight hardware and weight. However, effects specific to such a scenario degrade power and spectral efficiencies with increased Adjacent Channel Interference caused by non-linear characteristic of the HPA and power efficiency loss due to the increased Peak to Average Power Ratio (PAPR). The paper studies signal processing techniques that counteract for both aspects enabling efficient multicarrier on board amplification. Digital pre-distortion (DPD) at the gateway and equalization (EQ) at the User Terminal are the designed avenues of attack to mitigate the non-linear effects and improve power as well as spectral efficiencies. This paper builds on our initial work in Ref.1 that performed a survey on the adaptability of various compensation techniques to the considered scenario and short-listed the most favourable ones. Preliminary performance analysis of these techniques was undertaken with Signal to Interference Ratio (SINR) as the figure of merit. The contribution of this work over Ref. 1 includes: (a) a full DVB-S2 chain is simulated with the chosen techniques with Total Degradation (TD) as the figure of merit and (b) a sensitivity analysis is performed to study the dependence of the pre-distortion/ equalization performance (measured as TD) on the channel parameters.
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Telecomunicaciones
Ingeniería eléctrica, Ingeniería electrónica
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84887217003
ISBN of the container
978-162410244-8
Conference
31st AIAA International Communications Satellite Systems Conference, ICSSC 2013
Sponsor(s)
The authors would like to thank the European Space Agency (ESA) for their support through the ARTES 5.1 project “On Ground Multicarrier Digital Equalization/Predistortion Techniques for Single or Multi Gateway Applications” (APEXX) – ESA Contract No.: 4000105192/12/NL/AD. Moreover, the authors would like to thank particularly Mr. Nicolas Girault from ESA/ESTEC (TIA).
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