Digital Compensation for Analog Front-Ends: A New Approach to Wireless Transceiver Design

1. Introduction.

1.1. Wireless transceiver functional description.

1.2. Evolution of the wireless transceiver design.

1.3. Contribution of the book.

1.4. Organization.

2. New Air Interfaces.

2.1. Orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing.

2.2. Single-carrier with frequency domain equalization.

2.3. Multi-input multi-output OFDM.

2.4. Code-division multiple access.

2.5. Frequency-division multiple access.

References.

3. Real Lie Front-Ends.

3.1. Front-end architectures.

3.2. Constituent blocks and their non-idealities.

3.3. Individual non-idealities.

Referneces.

4. Impact of the Non-Ideal Front Ends on the System Performance.

4.1. OFDM system in the presence of carrier frequency domain and IQ imbalance.

4.2. SC-FDE system in the presence of carrier frequency offset, sample clock offset and IQ imbalance.

4.3. Comparison of the sensitivity of OFDM and SC-FDE to CFO, SCO and IQ imbalance.

4.4. OFDM and SC-FDE systems in he presence of phase noise.

4.5. OFDM system in the presence of clipping, quantization and nonlinearity.

4.6. SC-FDE system in the presence of clipping, quantization an nonlinearity.

4.7. MIMO systems.

4.8. Multi-user systems.

References.

5. Generic OFDM System.

5.1. Definition of the generic OFDM system.

5.2. Burst detection.

5.3. AGC setting (amplitude estimation).

5.4. Coarse timing estimation.

5.5 Coarse CFO estimation.

5.6. Fine timing estimation.

5.7. Fine CFO estimation.

5.8. Complexity of auto- and cross-correlation.

5.9. Joint CFO and IQ imbalance acquisition.

5.10. Joint channel and frequency-dependent IQ imbalance estimation.

5.11. Tracking loops for phase noise and residual CFO/SCO.

References.

6. Emerging Wireless Communication Systems.

6.1. IEEE 802.11n.

6.2. 3GPP Long-term evolution.

Appendices.

A. MMSE Linear Detector.

B. ML Channel Estimator.

C. Matlab Models of Non-Idealities.

D. Mathematical Conventions.

E. Abbreviations.

Index.