Compression of an input signal prior to high power radio frequency (RF) amplification and transmission is disclosed. A compression device can receive an input signal and generate a compressed signal that can be passed to an amplification stage to reduce intermodulation effects. The compression device can further generate compression information that can be transmitted to enable a mobile device receiving an amplified version of the compressed signal and the compression information to decompress the amplified version of the compressed signal. Further, a mobile device that can receive an amplified compressed signal and compression information, such that the mobile device can decompress the amplified compressed signal, is also disclosed. The disclosed subject matter can enable use of lower cost, smaller, and less complex RF amplifiers within a wireless network environment.

A communication management resource implements an iterative process to derive settings for digital precoder W, analog precoder A, and decode function D with a bandwidth-limited fronthaul link between the application of digital precoder W and the application of analog precoder A. The iterative process includes: for a first instance of digital precoder W and decode function D, optimize an instance of the analog precoder A; and based on the optimized instance of the analog precoder A, optimize a second instance of the digital precoder W and the decode function D. In one implementation, for each iteration of multiple iterations, the communication management resource: i) optimizes an instance of the analog precoder A based on an instance of the digital precoder W and the decode function D, and ii) optimizes an instance of the digital precoder W and the decode function D based on the instance of the analog precoder A.

A communication management resource implements an iterative process to derive settings for digital precoder W, analog precoder A, and decode function D with a bandwidth-limited fronthaul link between the application of digital precoder W and the application of analog precoder A. The iterative process includes: for a first instance of digital precoder W and decode function D, optimize an instance of the analog precoder A; and based on the optimized instance of the analog precoder A, optimize a second instance of the digital precoder W and the decode function D. In one implementation, for each iteration of multiple iterations, the communication management resource: i) optimizes an instance of the analog precoder A based on an instance of the digital precoder W and the decode function D, and ii) optimizes an instance of the digital precoder W and the decode function D based on the instance of the analog precoder A.

A radio data communication system includes a plurality of radio units, each radio unit having a transceiver and an antenna, and a gateway unit connected to each of the plurality of radio units via a first data bus. Each transceiver in the plurality of radio units is configured to receive a data signal from a respective antenna, compress the received data signal using a data compression algorithm, and transmit the compressed data signal to the gateway unit via the first data bus. The data compression algorithm includes a bit shifting operation performed by a multiply-accumulate operation.

A radio data communication system includes a plurality of radio units, each radio unit having a transceiver and an antenna, and a gateway unit connected to each of the plurality of radio units via a first data bus. Each transceiver in the plurality of radio units is configured to receive a data signal from a respective antenna, compress the received data signal using a data compression algorithm, and transmit the compressed data signal to the gateway unit via the first data bus. The data compression algorithm includes a bit shifting operation performed by a multiply-accumulate operation.