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Concurrent Multiband Direct RF Sampling Receivers

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Stephen Henthorn
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T. O’Farrell *
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Mohammad Reza Anbiyaei
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Kenneth Lee Ford
DOI:10.1109/TWC.2022.3196279delete
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Abstract

Abstract

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Direct radio frequency (RF) sampling receivers are investigated for use in concurrent multiband reception for mobile broadband (MBB) applications. The recent proliferation of different frequency bands and standards in wireless communications has allowed large increases in mobility and throughput, but the number of receivers in a device is limited by physical space and power consumption. Software Defined Radio (SDR) is increasingly being explored to reduce the number of analog RF components required. This paper examines the use of direct RF digitization, allowing tunable and concurrent reception of multiple bands with a single RF front-end. Full mathematical models of both Nyquist and subband sampling receivers are presented and used to investigate a quadband LTE receiver, which is modeled in Simulink and implemented in a hardware-in-the-loop (HWIL) testbed. Individual bands are simulated to have at worst -95dBm sensitivity for 16-QAM with Nyquist sampling and -83dBm with subband sampling. Desensitization of the receivers due to multiband processing is evaluated theoretically and experimentally, showing a maximum of 3dB degradation, which is within the LTE standard for adjacent band interference.
Keywords:
Receivers
Radio frequency
Standards
Wireless communication
Throughput
Bandwidth
Frequency measurement
Software defined radio
direct RF sampling
subband sampling
multiband receiver
concurrent receiver

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IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications cover
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
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University of Sheffield
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Alzahra University
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