An application of MMSE predistortion to OFDM systems

Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) particularly suffers from the presence of nonlinearities since the signal amplitude is Rayleigh distributed. The degradation introduced by the nonlinear amplifier in the transmitter can be significantly reduced by using an analog cubic predistorter minimum mean square error (MMSE) predistorter proposed by the authors (see ibid., vol.43, no.12, p.2966, 1995).