SEP performance of coherent MPSK over fading channels in the presence of phase/quadrature error and I-Q gain mismatch

This letter presents a joint approach to the symbol-error probability (SEP) of coherent M-ary phase-shift keying in a situation where the phase error, quadrature error, and in-phase-quadrature (I-Q) gain mismatch problems take place all concurrently over an additive white Gaussian noise and arbitrary fading channel. A set of equations that characterizes the conditional SEP on an instantaneous fading signal-to-noise ratio is derived in the form of the Craig representation.