Accurate and efficient ber evaluation for high-speed OFDM systems impaired by TI-ADC circuit's gain mismatch

This paper presents an efficient procedure to numerically evaluate the exact bit error rate of a rectangular quadrature amplitude modulated-orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) system that is impaired by the gain mismatch of a time-interleaved analog-to-digital converter. As opposed to previous contributions, no approximations are involved in this procedure. The obtained results allow to accurately analyze the effect of this type of mismatch on the performance of practical high-speed OFDM systems. The accuracy and efficiency of the proposed technique are demonstrated by comparing analytical results with brute-force Monte-Carlo simulations.