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Adaptive Nonlinear RF Cancellation for Improved Isolation in Simultaneous Transmit-Receive Systems
This paper proposes an active radio frequency (RF) cancellation solution to
suppress the transmitter (TX) passband leakage signal in radio transceivers
supporting simultaneous transmission and reception. The proposed technique is
based on creating an opposite-phase baseband equivalent replica of the TX
leakage signal in the transceiver digital front-end through adaptive nonlinear
filtering of the known transmit data, to facilitate highly accurate
cancellation under a nonlinear TX power amplifier (PA). The active RF
cancellation is then accomplished by employing an auxiliary transmitter chain,
to generate the actual RF cancellation signal, and combining it with the
received signal at the receiver (RX) low noise amplifier (LNA) input. A
closed-loop parameter learning approach, based on the decorrelation principle,
is also developed to efficiently estimate the coefficients of the nonlinear
cancellation filter in the presence of a nonlinear TX PA with memory, finite
passive isolation, and a nonlinear RX LNA. The performance of the proposed
cancellation technique is evaluated through comprehensive RF measurements
adopting commercial LTE-Advanced transceiver hardware components. The results
show that the proposed technique can provide an additional suppression of up to
54 dB for the TX passband leakage signal at the RX LNA input, even at
considerably high transmit power levels and with wide transmission bandwidths.
Such novel cancellation solution can therefore substantially improve the TX-RX
isolation, hence reducing the requirements on passive isolation and RF
component linearity, as well as increasing the efficiency and flexibility of
the RF spectrum use in the emerging 5G radio networks.Comment: accepted to IEE
Cancellation of Power Amplifier Induced Nonlinear Self-Interference in Full-Duplex Transceivers
Recently, full-duplex (FD) communications with simultaneous transmission and
reception on the same channel has been proposed. The FD receiver, however,
suffers from inevitable self-interference (SI) from the much more powerful
transmit signal. Analogue radio-frequency (RF) and baseband, as well as digital
baseband, cancellation techniques have been proposed for suppressing the SI,
but so far most of the studies have failed to take into account the inherent
nonlinearities of the transmitter and receiver front-ends. To fill this gap,
this article proposes a novel digital nonlinear interference cancellation
technique to mitigate the power amplifier (PA) induced nonlinear SI in a FD
transceiver. The technique is based on modeling the nonlinear SI channel, which
is comprised of the nonlinear PA, the linear multipath SI channel, and the RF
SI canceller, with a parallel Hammerstein nonlinearity. Stemming from the
modeling, and appropriate parameter estimation, the known transmit data is then
processed with the developed nonlinear parallel Hammerstein structure and
suppressed from the receiver path at digital baseband. The results illustrate
that with a given IIP3 figure for the PA, the proposed technique enables higher
transmit power to be used compared to existing linear SI cancellation methods.
Alternatively, for a given maximum transmit power level, a lower-quality PA
(i.e., lower IIP3) can be used.Comment: To appear in proceedings of the 2013 Asilomar Conference on Signals,
Systems & Computer
Wideband Self-Adaptive RF Cancellation Circuit for Full-Duplex Radio: Operating Principle and Measurements
This paper presents a novel RF circuit architecture for self-interference
cancellation in inband full-duplex radio transceivers. The developed canceller
is able to provide wideband cancellation with waveform bandwidths in the order
of 100 MHz or beyond and contains also self-adaptive or self-healing features
enabling automatic tracking of time-varying self-interference channel
characteristics. In addition to architecture and operating principle
descriptions, we also provide actual RF measurements at 2.4 GHz ISM band
demonstrating the achievable cancellation levels with different bandwidths and
when operating in different antenna configurations and under low-cost highly
nonlinear power amplifier. In a very challenging example with a 100 MHz
waveform bandwidth, around 41 dB total cancellation is obtained while the
corresponding cancellation figure is close to 60 dB with the more conventional
20 MHz carrier bandwidth. Also, efficient tracking in time-varying reflection
scenarios is demonstrated.Comment: 7 pages, to be presented in 2015 IEEE 81st Vehicular Technology
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