Lower bound based on Kalman carrier recovery below the information rate of Wiener phase noise channel

A new lower bound below the information rate transferred through the Additive White Gaussian Noise (AWGN) channel affected by discrete-time multiplicative Wiener´s phase noise is proposed in the paper. The proposed lower bound is based on the Kalman approach to data-aided carrier phase recovery, and is less computationally demanding than known methods based on phase quantization and trellis representation of phase memory. Simulation results show that the lower bound is close to the actual channel capacity, especially at low-to-intermediate signal-to-noise ratio.