Adaptive Blind Postdistortion and Equalization of System Impairments for a Single-Channel Concurrent Dual-Band Receiver

Concurrent dual-band receivers use fewer RF components to flexibly receive signals in the dual bands. To further reduce the number of components, a compact concurrent dual-band receiver architecture has been demonstrated in this paper. It employs only a single down-conversion channel to down-convert the dual-band signals simultaneously. The down-converted signal is a relatively narrowband signal without the wide gap between the two bands. Hence, slower analog-to-digital converters can be adopted in the subsequent circuits to digitize the received signal. Due to the nonlinearity of the low-noise amplifier, there might be noticeable nonlinearity distortion and memory effects in the received dual-band signals. To ensure high signal quality, a blind postdistortion algorithm is proposed to cancel out the nonlinearity distortion in the two received signals adaptively. Subsequently, the blind finite-impulse response equalizers for each band are built based on the modified constant modulus algorithm and the decision-directed equalization method. In addition, the nonideal wireless channel response is also able to be compensated using the proposed algorithm. Experimental results have shown perfect postcompensation performances of the overall algorithms in the dual bands.