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I am confused about how to give the expression of noise. Can someone tell me if my equations are correct?

If the received RF signal is expressed as:

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where

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If I want to add a AWGN, can I give the expression of noise as the following?

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If not, what is the correct equation of the noise? Also, in the MATLAB simulation, I often add noise to a baseband signal by using: sqrt(NoisePower) * randn(). What should I do in the case of bandpass signal? Thanks guys!

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Yes, you can represent your bandpass noise as:

$ n(t) =n_I(t)\cos(2\pi f_c t)-n_Q(t)\sin(2\pi f_c t),$

where $n_I(t)$ and $n_Q(t)$ represent the inphase and quadrature components of the noise signal. In matlab you can generate this sequence as

n = sqrt(Npwr/2) *(randn(1,len)+j*randn(1,len))

The scaling factor is different than in the baseband case because both the inphase and quadrature components have unit power (before scaling), so when added together the total power is equal to 2 and therefore the $\sqrt{2}$ factor is needed in the scaling factor to get unit power.

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  • $\begingroup$ Thanks! If the signal is a BPSK signal, the quadrature component should be considered as zero. And what is the noise then? Does the noise still has two components? $\endgroup$
    – Berman Song
    Commented Oct 2, 2018 at 5:15
  • $\begingroup$ Yes the noise will have both inphase and quadrature components. You might want to look these notes - see slide VI-6. The modulator shifts the signal and noise by $\pm f_c$ and then the lowpass filter removes one of the shifts. $\endgroup$
    – David
    Commented Oct 2, 2018 at 12:04
  • $\begingroup$ I just got another question. In your answer, you show me how to generate the noise in matlab. But, isn't this noise a broad band noise? If I want to generate a bandpass noise, do I need a bandpass filter? $\endgroup$
    – Berman Song
    Commented Dec 11, 2018 at 3:59
  • $\begingroup$ No, the noise I showed you how to generate, generates a baseband version of the bandpass noise. This is so you don't have to generate the noise at high frequency (lots of samples) and then baseband. The noise generated does occupy the whole of the baseband frequency range. $\endgroup$
    – David
    Commented Dec 12, 2018 at 20:13

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