Envelope and phase distribution of two correlated Gaussian variables

  • Authors:

  • Prathapasinghe Dharmawansa;Nandana Rajatheva;Chinthananda Tellambura

  • Affiliations:

  • Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering, HKUST, Kowloon, Hong Kong and School of Engineering and Technology, Asian Institute of Technology, Klong Luang, Pathumthani, Thailand;School of Engineering and Technology, Asian Institute of Technology, Klong Luang, Pathumthani, Thailand;Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Communications
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Probability density functions (pdf's) are derived for the phase and amplitude (envelope) of the complex gain X +jY (j = √-1), where X and Y are two correlated non zero-mean Gaussian random variables. The pdf of the amplitude is derived as an infinite series, but reduces to a closed-form expression when the means are zero. The classical Rayleigh and Rician pdf's turn out to be special cases of the derived pdf. This pdf is used to analyze the error performance of non-coherent binary frequency shift keying (BFSK) with in-phase/quadrature(I/Q) imbalance over an additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channel. The resulting bit error rate (BER) expression is derived as an infinite series. The analytical expressions are validated by simulation, and the I/Q imbalance related performance degradation is quantified. Convergence of the PDF series and the BER series is established.