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Efficient Feedforward Linearization Technique Using Genetic Algorithms for OFDM Systems

EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing volume 2010, Article number: 354030 (2010) Cite this article

Abstract

Feedforward is a linearization method that simultaneously offers wide bandwidth and good intermodulation distortion suppression; so it is a good choice for Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) systems. Feedforward structure consists of two loops, being necessary an accurate adjustment between them along the time, and when temperature, environmental, or operating changes are produced. Amplitude and phase imbalances of the circuit elements in both loops produce mismatched effects that lead to degrade its performance. A method is proposed to compensate these mismatches, introducing two complex coefficients calculated by means of a genetic algorithm. A full study is carried out to choose the optimal parameters of the genetic algorithm applied to wideband systems based on OFDM technologies, which are very sensitive to nonlinear distortions. The method functionality has been verified by means of simulation.

1. Introduction

The new telecommunication systems, such as digital audio broadcasting (DAB) [1] and digital video broadcasting (DVB-T, DVB-H) [2, 3], are based on a multicarrier modulation as the Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) scheme. An OFDM signal consists of a sum of subcarriers that are modulated by using phase shift keying (PSK) or quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) [4]. The OFDM transmission is an efficient way to deal with multipath and its implementation is less complex than an equalizer. It is also robust against narrowband interferences, because such interferences affect only a small percentage of the subcarriers. Another advantage of the OFDM system is that the digital transmitter and receiver can be efficiently implemented using the Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) algorithm. However, one of its drawbacks is its sensitivity to nonlinear distortions due to its greatly variable envelope and high peak-to-mean envelope power ratio values [5–7]. As a result of nonlinearity effects (mainly from power amplifier), the transmission spectrum is expanded into adjacent channels, an effect known as Adjacent Channel Interference (ACI). One way to achieve linear amplification is by using a class A power amplifier working with a high backoff, which corresponds to moving the operating point of the amplifier to the linear region. However, it implies low power efficiency. High power efficiency can be obtained with class AB power amplifiers, but they show more nonlinear characteristics. In order to achieve both spectrum and power efficiency, several classical linearizing techniques for power amplifiers have been proposed in the technical literature. These techniques are usually categorized as Feed-forward, Feedback, Predistortion, and LINC transmitter. According to the recent literature [8–20], several techniques have been used to reduce the effects of nonlinear distortion on the performance of OFDM systems. In this paper the authors have proposed and analyzed the Feedforward technique, which presents better performance regarding linearity improvement. Feedforward is a linearization method that simultaneously offers wide bandwidth and good Intermodulation distortion (IMD) suppression, and so it is a good choice for an OFDM system. The Feedforward configuration consists of two circuits, the signal cancellation circuit and the error cancellation circuit. The purpose of the signal cancellation circuit is to suppress the reference signal from the main amplifier output signal leaving only amplifier distortion in the error signal. The purpose of the error cancellation circuit is to suppress the distortion component of the power amplifier output signal. The degree of cancellation is mainly determined by the amplitude and phase balances of the signals over the bandwidth of interest [21]. Due to a high peak-to-average ratio (PAPR) of the signal, the error amplifier is easily saturated and the distortion generated limits the error cancellation capability of the Feedforward scheme. Several authors have considered different methods to obtain a tight tolerance for amplitude and phase mismatches of the two loops [22–32], but the method presented here is based on genetic algorithms (GAs) and it requires a simple additional circuit to obtain the desired matching based on the measurement of the out-of-band interference, maintaining the output mean power [33].

The paper is organized as follows. Section 2 presents briefly the Feedforward structure. Section 3 details the proposed correction method applied to the Feedforward linearization scheme. Section 4 presents a review of the genetic algorithms and Section 5 includes a study of the main GA parameters in the proposed method and shows the results applied to OFDM signals.

2. Feedforward Structure

In a Feedforward structure (see Figure 1), the input signal is split to form two identical paths. The signal in the top path, v i (t), is amplified by the main power amplifier, whose nonlinearities result in intermodulation and harmonic distortions added to the original signal. A directional coupler takes a sample of the main amplifier output signal, v o (t), and feeds it to a subtracter where a time-delayed portion of the original signal v i (t), present in the lower path, is subtracted. The result of this subtraction process is an error signal,v e (t), containing substantially the distortion information from the main amplifier. This error signal, which usually presents low levels, can be amplified linearly to the required level to cancel the distortion in the main path and fed to the output coupler, when the main path signal is also fed. The error signal will cancel the distortion information of the main path signal providing an amplified version,v s (t), of the original input signal.

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Schematic diagram of a basic Feedforward structure.

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One of the disadvantages of this technique is its high degree of matching required between the circuit elements in both amplitude and phase. This matching must be also maintained over the correction bandwidth of interest. The effect of the unmatching in amplitude and phase between the circuits elements may be analyzed as follows.

The amplifier output signal, v o (t), can be written as a linear component, which corresponds with the amplified input signal, together with a distortion signal,v d (t):

(1)

where v i (t) is the input signal and c o is the linear term of the main power amplifier complex gain.

The error signal is obtained as follows, supposing a null delay:

(2)

where A is the attenuation factor and and C 1 are the coupling factors of the input coupler and the cancellation loop coupler, respectively (all factors expressed in linear units).

Then, the error signal is amplified by the error amplifier, supposed linear (typically a class A amplifier working with low signal levels in linear region) and with a gain G e and injected into the coupled port of the output coupler (with a coupling factor C 2 ). The main through-path signal of this coupler is the output of the main amplifier, v o (t). Thus, the final output signal, v s (t), is

(3)

It can be seen from (3) that for the output signal to contain only an amplified replica of the input signal, the following conditions must remain:

(4)

Both conditions must hold along the time and for possible changes due to temperature variations, amplifier bias, and component aging, among others. Several articles and patents have been published relating to correction schemes designed to maintain the amplitude and phase balances over time and temperature [22–32]. The idea of the correction method presented in this paper is to introduce two complex coefficients, one in each loop of the feedback structure, to compensate for the amplitude and phase imbalances. In the practice, these coefficients will be vector modulators. The out-of-band distortion information is used to obtain the optimal values of these coefficients by means of a genetic algorithm.

3. Correction Method Model

A schematic diagram of the simulation model is depicted in Figure 2. Both complex coefficients and are introduced in the Feedforward structure to hold a suitable matching between the circuit elements and to meet both conditions from (4). Both coefficients are calculated by means of a genetic algorithm, which uses the out-of-band distortion information. Its aim is to reduce the distortion in the output signal, maintaining the output mean power.

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Simulation model.

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The most usually proposed correction schemes [22–32] are based on three generic adaptation techniques: the use of pilot signals inserted at various points in the circuit, methods based on adjustments to minimize the power at critical points in the circuit, and a gradient signal to drive the adaptation with additional circuitry. The pilot signal detection methods are based on introducing, previously to the main amplifier, a pilot signal, with the same frequency as the third-order intermodulation products. The control system tries to cancel this pilot signal; so simultaneously the intermodulation products are also cancelled. The idea is good for a narrowband system, but it is not the better method for a wideband system. The power minimization techniques minimize the distortion components of the output signal. All those detection architectures are basically designed to the reduction of the distortion components from the output signal. The proposed method is based on this last scheme, with the idea of introducing two vector modulators, one in each loop of the Feedforward scheme, to compensate for the amplitude and phase imbalances minimizing the out-of-band distortion. It is assumed that the complex coefficient for the vector modulator in the first loop is and in the second loop is . The computation of these coefficients is achieved by means of a genetic algorithm whose aim is to reduce the out-of-band distortion. The proposed system requires only a process of downconversion to an intermediate frequency (IF) and two RF power detectors, including filtering, one to measure the output signal power and the other one for the out-of-band signal. Respect to other optimization methods, the optimization techniques based on gradient attempt to estimate the gradient of the error surface and proceed to an optimum solution by following the negative direction of this estimated vector. These algorithms are well known, widely used, proven simple, and effective, but one of their problems is that gradient descent is a local optimization technique, which is limited because it is unable to converge to the global optimum on a multimodal error surface if the algorithm is not initialized in the basin of attraction of the global optimum. It will be a drawback in the presented model, because the proposed fitness function contains several local minima. If a local minimum is reached and it does not fulfil the function fitness condition, the algorithm does not probably converge. Besides, the derivatives of the objective function related to all variables have to be estimated, and so it implies a higher computational load.

4. Genetic Algorithms

Genetic algorithms are stochastic search procedures modelled on the Darwinian concepts of natural selection and evolution. In genetic algorithms a set or population of potential solutions is caused to evolve toward a global optimal solution that occurs as a result of pressure exerted by a fitness-weighted selection process and exploration of the solution space. The most important concepts of the genetic algorithms are summarized [34, 35].

  1. (i)

    Gene: is a coded representation of individual optimization parameter. A string of genes is called a chromosome.

  2. (ii)

    Population is the total number of chromosomes being processing within each generation.

  3. (iii)

    Generation is the iterations in the genetic algorithm optimization.

  4. (iv)

    Parents are the members of the current generation.

  5. (v)

    Children are the members of the next generation. They are generated by application of simple stochastic operators, such as crossover, and mutation.

  6. (vi)

    Fitness: the objective function defining the optimization goal, called a fitness function, is a means of assigning a value to each individual in the population. The fitness function assigns to an individual a number representing a measure of the goodness.

The proposed genetic algorithm is comprised of the following steps.

  1. (1)

    Encode the solution parameters as genes.

  2. (2)

    Create a string of the genes to form a chromosome (member).

  3. (3)

    Initialize a starting population by creating N members by a randomised manner.

  4. (4)

    Evaluate and assign fitness values to each member in the population.

  5. (5)

    Convergence test. Stop if the termination criterion is met.

  6. (6)

    Else, generate new population, called children, by recombination and mutation selecting some members of the current population, called parents.

  7. (7)

    Loop to the step 4 and repeat for a new population.

The selection procedure introduces the influence of the fitness function to the genetic algorithm optimization process. The fitness function is the measure of the goodness of a member of the population. Selection cannot be based only on choosing the best member of the population because it may not be very close to the optimal solution. Different types of selection strategies have been developed and used for genetic algorithm optimisation. Several of the more important and most widely used of these selection strategies are as follows.

Population Decimation

Members are ranked according to their fitness values from the largest to the smallest. A minimum fitness is chosen as a cut-off point and any member with a lower fitness than the minimum is removed from the population. The remaining members are used to produce the new generation. The advantage of this technique is its simplicity, and the disadvantage is that once a member has been removed from the population, any characteristic of that member is lost.

Proportionate Selection

The probability of selecting a member from the population is a function of the relative fitness of the member. Members with high fitness will participate in the production of the next generation more often than less fit members.

Tournament Selection

In this technique a subpopulation of individuals is chosen at random from the population. The member in the subpopulation with the highest fitness wins the tournament and becomes the selected member. All of the subpopulation members are then placed back into the general population and the process is repeated.

Once a pair of members has been selected as parents, a pair of children is created by recombining and mutating of the parents using the basic genetic algorithm operators, crossover and mutation. The crossover operator accepts the parents and generates two children. The effect of crossover is to rearrange the genes with the objective of producing better combinations of genes. The mutation operator provides a means for exploring portions of the solution surface that are not represented in the genetic makeup of the current population.

5. Results

The source signal for simulations was an OFDM signal, similar to the DVB-T standard signal [2], with the following parameters:

  1. (i)

    2K mode:1705 active subcarriers,

  2. (ii)

    subcarrier spacing: 4.464 kHz,

  3. (iii)

    useful symbol duration: 224 microseconds,

  4. (iv)

    constellation: 16 QAM.

  5. (v)

    The modulated OFDM signal during a symbol can be expressed as follows:

(5)

. is the inverse of the carrier spacing, ∆ is the duration of the guard interval, k denotes the carrier number, f c is the central frequency of the RF signal, and c i,k is a complex symbol for the carrier k. There is a clear resemblance between (5) and the inverse Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT). Since various efficient Fast Fourier Transform algorithms exist to perform the DFT and its inverse, it is a convenient form of implementation to use the inverse FFT (IFFT) in a DVB-T modulator to generate samples corresponding to the useful part, long, of each symbol. The guard interval is added by taking copies of the last of these samples and appending them in front. This process is then repeated for each symbol in turn, producing a continuous stream of samples, which constitutes a complex baseband representation of the DVB-T signal. A subsequent up-conversion process then gives the real signal s(t) centered on the frequency,f c .

The amplifier is characterized by a complex gain, which depends on the input signal level. The amplifier complex gain is extracted from AM-AM and AM-PM characteristics of a class AB amplifier. This design is simulated, by means of Microwave Office, using the model of a LDMOS transistor from Polyfet (with a driver) at 600 MHz (50  system) [20]. The simulated downconversion process is assumed without errors, including the appropriate filtering stage in the digital signal processor. All results are obtained by means of simulation using the MATLAB software.

5.1. Genetic Parameters

5.1.1. Fitness Function

The proposed fitness function is defined to reduce the out-of-band spurious emission. The fitness function compares individual performance given by the interference measurement with the desired performance. The fitness function returns a value to the genetic algorithm that is in some manner proportional to its goodness.

Due to the coexistence of many digital and analog broadcast signals in the whole service bandwidth, the requirements with respect to the spectrum level outside the channel bandwidth are determinated in the standard DVB-T through spectrum emission templates [2]. For example, the spectrum level at frequency offset of 3.8 MHz and 4.25 MHz from the center frequency must be at least 32.8 dB and 66.9 dB lower than the center spectrum, respectively (power level measured in a 4 kHz bandwidth).

Thus, a desired performance for the spectrum level is to obtain an interference measurement at frequency offset of 4.25 MHz less than 67 dB (assuming 0 dB corresponds to the total output power), assuring an output signal mean power of 10 5% Watts. This output power requirement has been included in the fitness function to get, in addition to spectrum efficiency, also power efficiency. This is an important advantage of the proposed method regarding other linearization techniques, where the linearity is obtained by means of an Output Power Backoff, reducing the power efficiency. Moreover, with the proposed fitness function, a distortion measurement at frequency offset of 3.8 MHz less than 32.8 dB is also obtained. The convergence criteria used to stop the genetic algorithm are that any member of the population reaches an interference measurement at 4.25 MHz offset less or equal than 67 dBc, ensuring an output mean power of 10 Watts (5%). If it does not occur, the GA stops when the number of iterations is higher than 20; in this case, it is considered that the genetic algorithm has not converged, and the best calculated solution is selected. The evaluation process of the fitness function is described in Figure 3.

Figure 3
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Evaluation process of the fitness function (Max_Iteration =20, 10 Watts, BW_Offset = 4. 25 MHz, −67 dBc ).

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5.1.2. Coding

Genetic algorithms operate on a coding of the parameters instead of the parameters themselves. The coding is a mapping from the parameter space to the chromosome space that transforms the set of parameters, usually numbers, to a finite length string. In the proposed method, the parameters simulate the complex coefficients and . Both, real and imaginary, parts are coded by a binary coding. The genetic algorithm optimisation operates on the coded form of the parameters, but the fitness function is calculated with the decoded parameters. In the binary decoding process is necessary to define the minimum and maximum range bounds of the coefficients and , and it determinates the range bounds of imbalances between circuit elements to be corrected by the proposed method in Figure 2. Another important parameter is the number of bits for the binary coding. Figure 4 shows the minimum reached interference value, measured at frequency offset of 4.25 MHz, for several amplitude and phase errors between circuit elements, when and are coded with 16, 32, and 48 bits for each one.

Figure 4
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Interference measurement (at 4. 25 MHz frequency offset of the centre frequency) reached applying the proposed correction method for several amplitude and phase imbalances between circuit elements when and are coded with 16, 32, and 48 bits.

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It can be seen that the proposed correction method using a codification of 32 bits is enough to meet the desired specifications regarding out-of-band distortion reduction, assuming errors between circuit elements among 1.5 dB and . A codification of 16 bits is also possible but with a lower probability of convergence and a higher value in the number of codification bits does not provide any improvement, only a higher computational load.

5.1.3. Selection Technique

Another important choice is the selection technique of the genetic algorithm. Figure 5 compares the histogram taking into account the iteration of convergence as the quality factor for the three above-mentioned selection techniques. It can be seen that the best selection strategy for the presented problem is the population decimate technique and this will be the used selection method in the following presented results.

Figure 5
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Histogram of the number of occurrences regarding the iteration of convergence for three different selection techniques: population decimation, proportionate, and tournament selection with the following parameters: Populate N = 60, Subpopulate (for tournament selection) = 4, Parents size M = 16, crossover probability = 1, and mutation probability = 0.05.

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5.1.4. Genetic Operators

A research for typical genetic algorithm parameters, crossover and mutation among others, has been also carried out in order to find the optimal value for each one.

Threshold (Parents Size)

This parameter defines the number of parents used in the next generation. It is a very important parameter in the convergence speed of the genetic algorithm. Figure 6 shows the finalization iteration of the algorithm and the obtained distortion reduction depending on the threshold parameter. It can be seen that a low value in this parameter implies generally a faster convergence and higher interference reduction, but if the value is too low, convergence problems could appear. Thus, a threshold value close to 0.25 is chosen.

Figure 6
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Iteration of convergence of the genetic algorithm and the obtained distortion reduction in function of the threshold parameter.

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Crossover

This operator redistributes the characteristics of a pair of parents to create a new population member. The new member contains elements from both parents depending on the crossover probability. Figure 7 shows the iteration of convergence of the genetic algorithm and the obtained distortion reduction depending on the crossover operator. Typically high probability values have been found to work best in most situations. In this case, a probability value of 1 is chosen by simplicity in the implementation.

Figure 7
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Iteration of convergence of the genetic algorithm and the obtained distortion reduction in function of the crossover probability.

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Mutation

The mutation rate creates a binary mutation string which modifies the new member. Generally, it is suggested that mutation process should occur with a low probability. Figure 8 shows the iteration of convergence and the obtained distortion reduction depending on the mutation probability. It can be seen that the optimal mutation probability value is around 0.05.

A high population size implies not only a less number of iterations for the genetic algorithm convergence, but also a longer computational and evaluation time and higher computational load. Table 1 shows the obtained results in 1000 trials for several population sizes regarding convergence probability of the GA, iteration of convergence (on average) and its standard deviation. It can be seen that a low population size decreases the convergence probability. Therefore, according to simulations, a trade-off solution between convergence and computation for this parameter can be 60.

Thus, the following results presented in this paper have been obtained using the next parameters:

  1. (i)

    population decimate selection,

  2. (ii)

    population size ,

  3. (iii)

    parents size ,

  4. (iv)

    mutation probability = 0.05,

  5. (v)

    crossover probability = 1,

  6. (vi)

    32 bits for coding and .

Table 1 Convergence probability of the proposed genetic algorithm and its iteration of convergence (on average and standard deviation) for several population sizes.
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Figure 8
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Iteration of convergence of the genetic algorithm and the obtained distortion reduction in function of the mutation probability.

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5.2. Transmit Signal Power Spectrum Performance

Figure 9 shows the normalized power spectral density (PSD) of the output power amplifier signal with and without the proposed correction method for each iteration. It shows the genetic algorithm adaptation in function of the number of iterations for a simulation in short, where the iteration of convergence is 3. The interference measurement at a 4.25 MHz frequency offset without correction is around 35 dBc, but applying the proposed method an interference measurement less than 70 dBc is reached in a few iterations. Simulation conditions are a 1 dB amplitude imbalance and a phase imbalance between circuit elements (corresponding to all couplers of the two loops) and 10 Watts output mean power, for a 16-QAM modulated OFDM input signal.

Figure 9
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Normalized Power Spectral Density of the output signal using a Feedforward scheme with and without the proposed distortion cancellation method for each iteration of the GA.

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5.3. Error Vector Magnitude

The Error Vector Magnitude (EVM) is another important measurement in digital communication systems, which is more focused on modulation quality and performed on the received signal. EVM is defined in [36] as

(6)

where I and Q are the ideal coordinates of the constellation points, and are the errors at the received points, N is the number of received points of the constellation, and is the magnitude of the vector to the outermost state of the constellation. The difference between the position of the j th received symbol and the ideal one is the cause of nonnull values of , , and EVM.

The 16-QAM received signal constellation without and with the correction method for the proposed FeedForward scheme is depicted in Figure 10(a) and Figure 10(b), respectively. The calculated EVM improves after the proposed linearization method is applied (EVM6.7% without and EVM2% with the proposed correction method).

Figure 10
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Received signal constellation diagram (normalized): (a) without and (b) with the proposed linearization method.

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The vector error requirement can be also included in the fitness function; therefore, besides an interference value less than –67 dBc, the EVM has to be less than a threshold value. The inclusion of an EVM condition (<5%) in the fitness function has been tested and the results have not changed, because this condition fulfil always. Moreover, it does not imply any improvement respect to reduction in the number of iterations, but it supposes an increase in the computational complexity and in the additional circuitry to demodulate the signal.

5.4. Delay

In a Feedforward scheme, signals traveling through an amplifier have an associated group delay due to the transit time through the semiconductors and the delay through matching and interconnection networks. It is necessary to introduce compensating time delay elements into both loops. Even if the amplitude and phase are perfectly adjusted in both loops, a delay difference between the upper and lower branches of a cancellation circuit causes a reduction of the effective bandwidth. Besides, a delay mismatch also causes an increase in the out-of-band distortion [37, 38].

A null loop delay has been assumed in the previous simulations. Accurate delay matching is important to improve the performance of this method, but it is not a limitation when implementing it in a real system. First, a fixed-delay value can be calculated to reduce the group delays of both loops as it is presented in [39], and then adaptive delay circuits can be devised for situations in which operating conditions produce delay variations in excess.

6. Conclusion

Feedforward is a linearization method that simultaneously offers wide bandwidth and good IMD suppression; therefore it is suitable for an OFDM signal. However, amplitude and phase imbalances between the two loops, of which is composed the Feedforward scheme, produce mismatched effects that lead to degrade its performance. The proposed method can achieve an accurate adjustment between circuit elements of both loops. This adjustment can be performed along the time to compensate for temperature, environmental, and operating changes. The idea is to introduce two complex coefficients, simulating two vector modulators, to correct amplitude and phase imbalances. These coefficients are calculated by means of a genetic algorithm. A full study is carried out to obtain the optimal values of the genetic algorithm parameters for wideband wireless OFDM systems. Using a simulation procedure we have shown that the method converges in a few iterations towards very low interference levels in out-of-band channels improving also the vector error measurement. The proposed method implies a very simple architecture and easy practical implementation. This method could be implemented in a real system by means of suitable commercial devices.

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This work has been financed by the Spanish Government (Project TEC2008-06684-C03-02/TEC from MICINN and FEDER), Gobierno de Aragón (Project PI003/08 and WALQA Technology Park), and the European IST Project EUWB

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García, P., Mingo, J., Carro, P. et al. Efficient Feedforward Linearization Technique Using Genetic Algorithms for OFDM Systems. EURASIP J. Adv. Signal Process. 2010, 354030 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1155/2010/354030

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