Study of the Power Amplifier transfer function symmetry and its relation to dynamic effects

Future wireless networks will employ unprecedentedly high number of transmitters along-with larger bandwidth signals. Therefore, complexity efficient Power Amplifier (PA) modelling methods with the ability to quantify memory effects are required. This paper presents a low complexity method to quantify memory effects by studying the symmetry in the PA transfer functions estimated with the density estimation method. It is shown that the symmetry helps in reducing the method complexity by more than two orders of magnitude. Further, it is verified that the symmetry can be used as a non-model based metric for quantifying memory effects in PAs.

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