Novel Calibration Algorithm of Multiport Wideband Receivers Based on Real-Valued Time-Delay Neural Networks

In this paper, a novel calibration algorithm based on real-valued time-delay neural network (RVTDNN) is proposed for the multiport receiver to recover I/Q signals from the received modulated signals, especially from wideband signals. All the system impairments, including the nonideal six-port correlator, the nonlinearity of the diodes, and the memory effects under the excitation of the wideband signals, are taken into consideration. The RVTDNN, which has three layers, consists of four inputs and two outputs (in-phase and quadrature signals), and its parameters (biases and weights) are all real-valued and are determined by the backpropagation algorithm. Finally, the proposed calibration method is validated by a 2–18-GHz six-port receiver under 3G and 4G signals. The performance of the error vector magnitude between the transmitted signals and received signals is always less than 1.8%, which validates the correctness of the proposed model.