Current radio frequency power amplifiers in 3G base stations have very high power consumption leading to a hefty cost and negative environmental impact. In this paper, we propose a potential architecture design for future wireless base station. Issues associated with components of the architecture are investigated. The all-digital transmitter architecture uses a combination of envelope elimination and restoration (EER) and pulse width modulation (PWM)/pulse position modulation (PPM) modulation. The performance of this architecture is predicted from the measured output power and efficiency curves of a GaN amplifier. 57% efficiency is obtained for an OFDM signal limited to 8 dB peak to average power ratio. The PWM/PPM drive signal is generated using the improved Cartesian sigma delta techniques. It is shown that an RF oversampling by a factor of four meets the WLAN spectral mask, and WCDMA specification is met by an RF oversampling of sixteen. © 2009 Vandana Bassoo et al.
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Bassoo, V., Tom, K., Mustafa, A. K., Cijvat, E., Sjoland, H., & Faulkner, M. (2009). A potential transmitter architecture for future generation green wireless base station. Eurasip Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, 2009. https://doi.org/10.1155/2009/821846
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