Receiver I/Q imbalance: Tone test, sensitivity analysis, and the universal software radio peripheral

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 704-714

  Händel, Peter ^a   Zetterberg, Per ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Broad topic: 5. Instrumentation for and Measurement in Communications; Cram r Rao bound (CRB); Gain imbalance; In phase quadrature (I Q) imbalance; Local oscillator (LO) leakage; Quadrature skew; Receivers; Tone tests

Indexed keywords

BROAD TOPIC: 5. INSTRUMENTATION FOR AND MEASUREMENT IN COMMUNICATIONS; GAIN IMBALANCE; IN-PHASE/QUADRATURE; LOCAL OSCILLATOR (LO) LEAKAGE; LOCAL OSCILLATORS;

ABERRATIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; INSTRUMENTS; MEASUREMENTS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; RADIO; RADIO RECEIVERS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 76849102395     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2009.2025989     Document Type: Article

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