A Simple Power Margin Quality Measure for Correlated Random Variates Derived from the Normal Distribution

This paper provides a power-margin-based measure of the quality of computer-generated random variates having a distribution that derives from the multivariate Gaussian distribution. The measure is designed to be simple to compute, and to provide assessments which are meaningful and intuitive in communication system simulation applications. For example, the measure can be used to assess and compare the qualities of different methods of generating Rayleigh fading samples for simulation.