Title :
Calculation of the Performance of Communication Systems From Measured Oscillator Phase Noise
Author :
Khanzadi, M. Reza ; Kuylenstierna, Dan ; Panahi, A. ; Eriksson, Thomas ; Zirath, Herbert
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Signals & Syst., Chalmers Univ. of Technol., Gothenburg, Sweden
Abstract :
Oscillator phase noise (PN) is one of the major problems that affect the performance of communication systems. In this paper, a direct connection between oscillator measurements, in terms of measured single-side band PN spectrum, and the optimal communication system performance, in terms of the resulting error vector magnitude (EVM) due to PN, is mathematically derived and analyzed. First, a statistical model of the PN, considering the effect of white and colored noise sources, is derived. Then, we utilize this model to derive the modified Bayesian Cramér-Rao bound on PN estimation, and use it to find an EVM bound for the system performance. Based on our analysis, it is found that the influence from different noise regions strongly depends on the communication bandwidth, i.e., the symbol rate. For high symbol rate communication systems, cumulative PN that appears near carrier is of relatively low importance compared to the white PN far from carrier. Our results also show that 1/f 3 noise is more predictable compared to 1/f 2 noise and in a fair comparison it affects the performance less.
Keywords :
Bayes methods; acoustic noise measurement; error statistics; phase estimation; phase noise; white noise; EVM bound; PN estimation; colored noise sources; communication bandwidth; cumulative PN; error vector magnitude; high symbol rate communication systems; measured single-side band PN spectrum; modified Bayesian Cramér-Rao bound; optimal communication system performance; oscillator measurements; oscillator phase noise; statistical model; white PN; white noise sources; Communication systems; Estimation; Phase locked loops; Phase noise; System performance; Bayesian Cramér-Rao bound; colored phase noise; communication system performance; error vector magnitude; phase noise; phase-locked loop; voltage-controlled oscillator;
Journal_Title :
Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TCSI.2013.2285698