Although the term narrowband process is usually used for the case where W _ f0,

we will use both terms bandpass process and narrowband process interchangeably.
Figure 4.24 shows the power spectrum of a bandpass process.
Note that, as in Section 2.5, there is no need for f0 to be the mid-band frequency,
or, in general, there is even no need for f0 to be in the frequency band of the process.
Bandpass processes are suitable for modeling modulated signals. A random process
is usually modulated on a carrier for transmission over a communication channel
and the resulting process is a bandpass process. The noise that passes through a bandpass
filter at the front end of a receiver is also a bandpass process.
As we have seen in Section 2.5, there are certain ways to express bandpass signals
in terms of equivalent lowpass signals. The purpose of this section is to generalize those
results to the case of random processes. As we will see, many of the results of Section 2.5
can be generalized in a straightforward manner to bandpass processes.
Let X(t) be a bandpass process as defined above. Then RX (τ ) is a deterministic
bandpass signal whose Fourier transform SX ( f ) is nonzero in the neighborhood of f0.
If X(t) is passed through a quadrature filter with impulse response 1
πt , and transfer

function H( f ) = −j sgn( f ), the output process is the Hilbert transform of the input
process, and according to Example 4.2.20, we have
RX ˆX (τ ) = −ˆRAlthough the term narrowband process is usually used for the case where W _ f0,
we will use both terms bandpass process and narrowband process interchangeably.
Figure 4.24 shows the power spectrum of a bandpass process.
Note that, as in Section 2.5, there is no need for f0 to be the mid-band frequency,
or, in general, there is even no need for f0 to be in the frequency band of the process.
Bandpass processes are suitable for modeling modulated signals. A random process
is usually modulated on a carrier for transmission over a communication channel
and the resulting process is a bandpass process. The noise that passes through a bandpass
filter at the front end of a receiver is also a bandpass process.
As we have seen in Section 2.5, there are certain ways to express bandpass signals
in terms of equivalent lowpass signals. The purpose of this section is to generalize those
results to the case of random processes. As we will see, many of the results of Section 2.5
can be generalized in a straightforward manner to bandpass processes.
Let X(t) be a bandpass process as defined above. Then RX (τ ) is a deterministic
bandpass signal whose Fourier transform SX ( f ) is nonzero in the neighborhood of f0.
If X(t) is passed through a quadrature filter with impulse response 1
πt , and transfer

function H( f ) = −j sgn( f ), the output process is the Hilbert transform of the input
process, and according to Example 4.2.20, we have
RX ˆX (τ ) = −ˆR