Monobit Digital Receivers for QPSK: Design, Analysis and Performance

TL;DR

This paper develops and analyzes monobit digital receivers for QPSK modulation, addressing high data rate communication challenges with low-complexity solutions and compensation techniques for IQ imbalances.

Contribution

It introduces a practical monobit receiver design for QPSK, including iterative demodulation and imbalance compensation methods, with performance analysis and simulation validation.

Findings

Suboptimal receiver suffers only 3dB SNR loss in AWGN channels.

Double training sequences effectively mitigate IQ imbalance effects.

Performance degradation due to amplitude imbalance is negligible.

Abstract

Future communication system requires large bandwidth to achieve high data rate up to multigigabit/ sec, which makes analog-to-digital (ADC) become a key bottleneck for the implementation of digital receivers due to its high complexity and large power consumption. Therefore, monobit receivers for BPSK have been proposed to address this problem. In this work, QPSK modulation is considered for higher data rate. First, the optimal receiver based on monobit ADC with Nyquist sampling is derived, and its corresponding performance in the form of deflection ratio is calculated. Then a suboptimal but more practical monobit receiver is obtained, along with iterative demodulation and small sample removal. The effect of the imbalances between the In-phase (I) and Quadrature-phase (Q) branches, including the amplitude and phase imbalances, is carefully investigated too. To combat the performance loss caused by IQ imbalances, monobit receivers based on double training sequences are proposed. Numerical simulations show that the low-complexity suboptimal receiver suffers only 3dB signal to noise ratio (SNR) loss in AWGN channels and 1dB SNR loss in multipath static channels compared with the matched filter based monobit receiver with full channel state information (CSI). The impact of the phase difference between the transmitter and receiver is presented. It is observed that the performance degradation caused by the amplitude imbalance is negligible. Receivers based on double training sequences can efficiently compensate the performance loss in AWGN channel. Thanks to the diversity offered by the multipath, the effect of imbalances on monobit receivers in fading channels is slight. I