Receiver I/Q Imbalance: Tone Test, Sensitivity Analysis, and the Universal Software Radio Peripheral

Receiver I/Q Imbalance : Tone Test, Sensitivity Analysis, and the Universal Software Radio Peripheral

QC 20100525 QC 20111107
The problem of determining the gain imbalance, quadrature skew, and local oscillator leakage of contemporary radio frequency receivers by tone test is considered. A least squares approach for indirect estimation of the sought-for parameters is proposed, which is linear in six out of its seven parameters. The performance of the method, particularly its accuracy as a function of measurement time, imbalance parameters, and signal-to-noise ratios, is investigated. The theoretical predictions of the performance are illustrated by Monte Carlo simulations and experimental data that are obtained from testing several universal software radio peripheral (USRP) receivers. This paper shows that, for the studied off-the-shelf receivers, gain imbalance and quadrature skew may accurately be predicted (i.e., < 0.1 dB and < 1 degrees, respectively) by employing baseband data covering only a handful of full periods of the excitation stimuli. Using short records of data, this paper also shows that local oscillator leakage adding a bias term in the receiver baseband data may suffer from a systematic bias error on the order of 15 dB in the estimate. To obtain local oscillator leakage estimates with an uncertainty on the order of 1 dB, the measurement time has to be increased by two orders of magnitude.

TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER Elektroteknik och elektronik Signalbehandling hsv//swe
ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering Signal Processing hsv//eng
Broad topic: 5. Instrumentation for and Measurement in Communications
Cramer-Rao bound (CRB)
gain imbalance
in-phase/quadrature (I/Q)
imbalance
local oscillator (LO) leakage
quadrature skew
receivers
tone tests
universal software radio peripheral (USRP)
parameter-estimation
compensation
algorithm
phase
ieee-standard-1057
frequency
systems
signals

Zetterberg, PerKTH,Signalbehandling,ACCESS Linnaeus Centre(Swepub:kth)u18qjdrj (författare)
KTHSignalbehandling (creator_code:org_t)

Ingår i:IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)59:3, s. 704-7140018-94561557-9662

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