A Joint PAPR Reduction and Digital Predistortion Based on Real-Valued Neural Networks for OFDM Systems

The peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) reduction and linearization techniques are both effective methods to improve the efficiency of the transmitter in digital video broadcasting (DVB) systems. Traditional methods deploy the PAPR reduction model and the linearization model, respectively, without considering their mutual influence. Therefore, the joint optimizations of PAPR reduction and linearization techniques are proposed. However, these methods train the PAPR reduction model and the linearization model based on the time-division training method. It is difficult to meet the requirements of multiple objectives. To address this issue, this paper proposes a joint PAPR reduction and digital predistortion (DPD) method using the real-valued neural network (RVNN) for Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) systems. The proposed method jointly trains the PAPR reduction function and the DPD function with multi-objective optimization, to achieve PAPR reduction and linearization simultaneously. Especially, this method unifies the PAPR reduction function and the DPD function into one model based on RVNN, and no extra processing is required at the receiver. Compared with the traditional methods, the experimental results show that the proposed method has superior performance in PAPR, adjacent channel power ratio (ACPR) and bit error rate (BER), while having lower computational complexity.