As known, receivers with in-phase and quadrature-phase (I/Q) down conversion, especially direct-conversion architectures' always suffer from I/Q imbalance. I/Q imbalance is caused by amplitude and phase mismatch between I/Q paths. The performance degradation resulting from I/Q imbalance can not be mitigated with simply higher signal to noise ratio (SNR). Thus, I/Q imbalance compensation in digital domain is critical. There are two main contributions in this paper. Firstly, we proposed a blind estimation algorithm for I/Q imbalance parameters based on joint first and second order statistics (FSS) which has a lower complexity than conventional Gaussian maximum likelihood estimation (GMLE). This can be used for further precessing such as equalization in presence of receiver IQ imbalance. In addition, we find out the reason of error floor in conventional I/Q imbalance compensation method based on conjugate signal model (CSM). The proposed joint first order statistics and conjugate signal model (FSCSM) compensation algorithm can reach the ideal bit error rate (BER) performance.


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    Title :

    Blind Estimation Algorithms for I/Q Imbalance in Direct Down-Conversion Receivers


    Contributors:
    Song, Peiyang (author) / Zhang, Nan (author) / Zhang, Hang (author) / Gong, Fengkui (author)


    Publication date :

    2018-08-01


    Size :

    423818 byte





    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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