A Reconfigurable Power Amplifier for Mobile WIMAX Applications

Yolanda Fernández; Miguel Peña; Francisco Díaz

Mobile Lightweight Wireless Systems. Second International ICST Conference, MOBILIGHT 2010, Barcelona, Spain, May 10-12, 2010, Revised Selected Papers

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A Reconfigurable Power Amplifier for Mobile WIMAX Applications

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@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-642-16644-0_3,
    author={Yolanda Fern\^{a}ndez and Miguel Pe\`{o}a and Francisco D\^{\i}az},
    title={A Reconfigurable Power Amplifier for Mobile WIMAX Applications},
    proceedings={Mobile Lightweight Wireless Systems. Second International ICST Conference, MOBILIGHT 2010, Barcelona, Spain, May 10-12, 2010, Revised Selected Papers},
    proceedings_a={MOBILIGHT},
    year={2012},
    month={10},
    keywords={WIMAX amplifier reconfigurable power efficiency and linearity},
    doi={10.1007/978-3-642-16644-0_3}
}

Yolanda Fernández
Miguel Peña
Francisco Díaz
Year: 2012
A Reconfigurable Power Amplifier for Mobile WIMAX Applications
MOBILIGHT
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-16644-0_3

Yolanda Fernández¹^,*, Miguel Peña¹^,*, Francisco Díaz¹^,*

1: TTI Telecommunication and Information Technologies

*Contact email: yfernandez@ttinorte.es, mpena@ttinorte.es, fdiaz@ttinorte.es

Abstract

This paper presents the design of a reconfigurable power amplifier for Mobile WIMAX applications in the user terminal. The amplifier, which operates from 3.4GHz to 3.5GHz, is based on the Doherty technique. This power efficiency enhancement technique is suitable for modern wireless communications systems, as Mobile WIMAX, that present with high peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) to target high peak data rates while maintaining a trade-off between efficiency and linearity. In addition, reconfigurability in output power levels is added to the design to adapt it to different power scenarios. This work has been carried out in the framework of the CELTIC project MOBILIA, “Mobility Concepts for IMT-Advanced”.

Keywords: WIMAX amplifier reconfigurable power efficiency and linearity

Published: 2012-10-17

: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-16644-0_3