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Main Authors: Thys, Cel, Alonso, Rodney Martinez, Lhomel, Antoine, Fellmann, Maxandre, Deltimple, Nathalie, Rivet, Francois, Pollin, Sofie
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.09964
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author Thys, Cel
Alonso, Rodney Martinez
Lhomel, Antoine
Fellmann, Maxandre
Deltimple, Nathalie
Rivet, Francois
Pollin, Sofie
author_facet Thys, Cel
Alonso, Rodney Martinez
Lhomel, Antoine
Fellmann, Maxandre
Deltimple, Nathalie
Rivet, Francois
Pollin, Sofie
contents This paper investigates the use of Neural Network (NN) nonlinear modelling for Power Amplifier (PA) linearization in the Walsh-Hadamard transceiver architecture. This novel architecture has recently been proposed for ultra-high bandwidth systems to reduce the transceiver power consumption by extensive parallelization of the digital baseband hardware. The parallelization is achieved by replacing two-dimensional quadrature modulation with multi-dimensional Walsh-Hadamard modulation. The open research question for this architecture is whether conventional baseband signal processing algorithms can be similarly parallelized while retaining their performance. A key baseband algorithm, digital predistortion using NN models for PA linearization, will be adapted to the parallel Walsh architecture. A straighforward parallelization of the state-of-the-art NN architecture is extended with a cross-domain Knowledge Distillation pre-training method to achieve linearization performance on par with the quadrature implementation. This result paves the way for the entire baseband processing chain to be adapted into ultra-high bandwidth, low-power Walsh transceivers.
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spellingShingle Walsh-domain Neural Network for Power Amplifier Behavioral Modelling and Digital Predistortion
Thys, Cel
Alonso, Rodney Martinez
Lhomel, Antoine
Fellmann, Maxandre
Deltimple, Nathalie
Rivet, Francois
Pollin, Sofie
Signal Processing
This paper investigates the use of Neural Network (NN) nonlinear modelling for Power Amplifier (PA) linearization in the Walsh-Hadamard transceiver architecture. This novel architecture has recently been proposed for ultra-high bandwidth systems to reduce the transceiver power consumption by extensive parallelization of the digital baseband hardware. The parallelization is achieved by replacing two-dimensional quadrature modulation with multi-dimensional Walsh-Hadamard modulation. The open research question for this architecture is whether conventional baseband signal processing algorithms can be similarly parallelized while retaining their performance. A key baseband algorithm, digital predistortion using NN models for PA linearization, will be adapted to the parallel Walsh architecture. A straighforward parallelization of the state-of-the-art NN architecture is extended with a cross-domain Knowledge Distillation pre-training method to achieve linearization performance on par with the quadrature implementation. This result paves the way for the entire baseband processing chain to be adapted into ultra-high bandwidth, low-power Walsh transceivers.
title Walsh-domain Neural Network for Power Amplifier Behavioral Modelling and Digital Predistortion
topic Signal Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.09964