A Monte Carlo study of absolute phase determination
R. S. Bucy, José M. F. Moura, A. John Mallinckrodt · IEEE Transactions on Information Theory · 1983
The problem of absolute phase tracking and the development of the properties of an optimal estimator of absolute phase are considered. Using Monte Carlo simulation, this estimator's performance is compared with that of the phase-locked loop on the basis of slip distribution growth rate. Further slip prediction is considered and a statistic, based on the entropy of the conditional distribution of the phase given the observations, is shown to be effective.