Lectures

Digital Modulation for wireless

communications

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 Change which part of the
Carrier?
Carrier: A sin[t +] Frequency modulation
A = const (FM)
A = const
= const
= (t) carries information
= const
= const
Amplitude modulation
(AM) Phase modulation (PM)
A = A(t) carries A = const

information = const

= const = (t) carries

information
= const

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Amplitude Shift Keying (ASK)
Baseband
Data
1 0 0 1 0
ASK
modulated
signal
Acos(t) Acos(t)

Pulse shaping can be employed to remove spectral spreading

ASK demonstrates poor performance, as it is heavily affected by
noise, fading, and interference

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Frequency Shift Keying (FSK)
Baseband
Data
1 0 0 1
BFSK
modulated
signal
f1 f0 f0 f1
where f0 =Acos(c-)t and f1 =Acos(c+)t
Example: The ITU-T V.21 modem standard uses FSK
FSK can be expanded to a M-ary scheme, employing multiple frequencies
as different states

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Phase Shift Keying (PSK)
Baseband
Data
1 0 0 1
BPSK
modulated
signal
s1 s0 s0 s1
where s0 =-Acos(ct) and s1 =Acos(ct)
Major drawback rapid amplitude change between symbols due to phase
discontinuity, which requires infinite bandwidth. Binary Phase Shift Keying
(BPSK) demonstrates better performance than ASK and BFSK
BPSK can be expanded to a M-ary scheme, employing multiple phases and
amplitudes as different states

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Binary Phase Shift Keying (BPSK)
If the sinusoidal carrier has an amplitude Ac and energy per
bit Eb
Then the transmitted BPSK signal is either:

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Linear Modulation Techniques:
Digital modulation can be broadly classified as:
1. Linear (change Amplitude or phase)
2. Non linear modulation techniques (change
frequency).
Linear Modulation Techniques:
The amplitude /phase of the transmitted signal s(t),
varies linearly with the modulating digital signal, m(t).
These are bandwidth efficient (because it doesnt
change frequency) and hence are very attractive for
use in wireless communication systems where there
is an increasing demand to accommodate more and
more users within a limited spectrum.
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Pros & Cons

Linear Modulation schemes have

very good spectral efficiency,
However, they must be transmitted
using linear RF amplifiers which
have poor power efficiency.

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Note
Phase modulation can be regarded as
amplitude modulation because it can
really change envelope;

Thus both of them belong to linear

modulation!

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Differential Modulation
In the transmitter, each symbol is modulated
relative to the previous symbol and
modulating signal, for instance in BPSK 0
= no change, 1 = +1800
In the receiver, the current symbol is
demodulated using the previous symbol as a
reference. The previous symbol serves as an
estimate of the channel. A no-change
condition causes the modulated signal to
remain at the same 0 or 1 state of the
previous symbol.
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DPSK
Let {dk} denote the differentially encoded sequence with
this added reference bit. We now introduce the following
definitions in the generation of this sequence:
If the incoming binary symbol bk is 1, leave the symbol
dk unchanged with respect to the previous bit.
If the incoming binary symbol bk is 0, change the symbol
dk with respect to the previous bit.

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DPSK

to send symbol 0, we advance the phase of the

current signal waveform by 180 degrees,
to send symbol 1, we leave the phase of the current
signal waveform unchanged.

Generation of DPSK:
The differential encoding process at the transmitter
input starts with an arbitrary first bit, serving as
reference.
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Differential Phase Shift Keying (DPSK):

DPSK is a non coherent form of phase shift keying which

avoids the need for a coherent reference signal at the
receiver.

Advantage:
Non coherent receivers are easy and cheap to build,
hence widely used in wireless communications.
DPSK eliminates the need for a coherent reference signal
at the receiver by combining two basic operations at the
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Pulse Carrier

Carrier:
A train of identical
pulses regularly
spaced in time

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Pulse-Amplitude Modulation
(PAM)
Modulation in which
the amplitude of
pulses is varied in
accordance with the
modulating signal.
Used e.g. in
telephone switching
equipment such as a
private branch
exchange (PBX)

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Pulse-Duration Modulation (PDM)
Modulation in
which the duration
of pulses is varied
in accordance with
the modulating
signal.

Deprecated synonyms:
Used e.g. in telephone switching pulse-length modulation,
equipment such as a private
branch exchange (PBX)
pulse-width modulation.

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Demodulation & Detection
Demodulation
Is process of removing the carrier signal to
obtain the original signal waveform
Detection extracts the symbols from
the waveform
Coherent detection
Non-coherent detection

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Coherent Detection
An estimate of the channel phase and
attenuation is recovered. It is then possible to
reproduce the transmitted signal and
demodulate.

Requires a replica carrier wave of the same

frequency and phase at the receiver.

Also known as synchronous detection (I.e.

carrier recovery)
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Coherent Detection 2
Carrier recovery methods include
Pilot Tone (such as Transparent Tone in Band)
Less power in the information bearing signal, High peak-
to-mean power ratio
Carrier recovery from the information signal
E.g. Costas loop
Applicable to
Phase Shift Keying (PSK)
Frequency Shift Keying (FSK)
Amplitude Shift Keying (ASK)

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Non-Coherent Detection
Requires no reference wave; does not exploit
phase reference information (envelope
detection)

Differential Phase Shift Keying (DPSK)

Frequency Shift Keying (FSK)
Amplitude Shift Keying (ASK)

Non coherent detection is less complex than

coherent detection (easier to implement), but has
worse performance.
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QPSK
Quadrature Phase Shift Keying (QPSK)
can be interpreted as two independent
BPSK systems (one on the I-channel
and one on Q-channel), and thus the
same performance but twice the
bandwidth (spectrum) efficiency.

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QPSK Constellation Diagram
Q Q

I I

Carrier phases Carrier phases

{0, /2, , 3/2} {/4, 3/4, 5/4, 7/4}

Quadrature Phase Shift Keying has twice the

bandwidth efficiency of BPSK since 2 bits are
transmitted in a single modulation symbol
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Types of QPSK
Q Q Q

I I I

Conventional QPSK Offset QPSK /4 QPSK

Conventional QPSK has transitions through zero (i.e. 1800 phase

transition). Highly linear amplifiers required.
In Offset QPSK, the phase transitions are limited to 900, the transitions on
the I and Q channels are staggered.
In /4 QPSK the set of constellation points are toggled each symbol, so
transitions through zero cannot occur. This scheme produces the lowest
envelope variations.
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All QPSK schemes require linear power amplifiers
Quadrature Phase Shift Keying (QPSK):
Also a type of linear modulation scheme
Quadrature Phase Shift Keying (QPSK) has twice the
bandwidth efficiency of BPSK, since 2 bits are transmitted
in a single modulation symbol.
The phase of the carrier takes on 1 of 4 equally spaced
values, such as where each value
of phase corresponds to a unique pair of message bits.
The QPSK signal for this set of symbol states may be
defined as:

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QPSK

The striking result is that the bit error probability of

QPSK is identical to BPSK, but twice as much data can be
sent in the same bandwidth. Thus, when compared to
BPSK, QPSK provides twice the spectral efficiency with
exactly the same energy efficiency.
Similar to BPSK, QPSK can also be differentially encoded
to allow non-coherent detection.

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Multi-level (M-ary) Phase and
Amplitude Modulation

16 QAM 16 PSK 16 APSK

Amplitude and phase shift keying can be combined to transmit several

bits per symbol.
Often referred to as linear as they require linear amplification.
More bandwidth-efficient, but more susceptible to noise.
For M=4, 16QAM has the largest distance between points, but requires
very linear amplification. 16PSK has less stringent linearity
requirements, but has less spacing between constellation points, and is
therefore more affected by noise.

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Distortions

Perfect channel White noise Phase jitter

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Bandwidth Efficiency
fb Eb fb
log 2 1
W W
fb capacity (bits per second)
W bandwidth of the modulating baseband signal (Hz)
Eb energy per bit
noise power density (watts/Hz)
Thus
Eb fb total signal power
W total noise power
fb
bandwidth use efficiency
W
= bits per second per Hz
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Comparison of Modulation Types
Modulation Bandwidth Log2(C/B) Error-free
Format efficiency C/B Eb/N0
16 PSK 4 2 18dB
16 QAM 4 2 15dB
8 PSK 3 1.6 14.5dB
4 PSK 2 1 10dB
4 QAM 2 1 10dB
BFSK 1 0 13dB
BPSK 1 0 10.5dB
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Spectral Efficiencies -
Examples
GSM Europe Digital Cellular
Data Rate = 270kb/s; Bandwidth = 200kHz
Bandwidth efficiency = 270/200 =
1.35bits/sec/Hz
IS-95 North American Digital Cellular
Data Rate = 48kb/s; Bandwidth = 30kHz
Bandwidth efficiency = 48/30 =
1.6bits/sec/Hz

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BFSK Transmitter

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Coherent Detection Of BFSK

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FSK Spectrum

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Minimum Shift Keying (MSK)

MSK is a continuous phase-frequency shift keying;

Why MSK?
-- Exploitation of Phase Information besides frequency.

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Representation of a MSK signal

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MSK Transmitter

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MSK Receiver

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M-ary

Combined Linear and nonlinear (Constant Envelope)

Modulation Techniques

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Topics :

What is M-ary modulation?

Various M-ary modulation Techniques:
M-ary Phase Shift Keying (MPSK)
M-ary Quadrature Amplitude Modulation
(QAM)
M-ary Frequency Shift Keying (MFSK)

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Definition:

In this modulation Technique the digital data is sent by

varying both the envelope and phase(or frequency) of an RF
carrier.

These modulation techniques map base band data into four

or more possible RF carrier signals. Hence, these
modulation techniques are called M-ary modulation.

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M-ary signaling scheme:
In this signaling scheme 2 or more bits are grouped
together to form a symbol.

One of the M possible signals

s1(t) ,s2(t),s3(t),sM(t)
is transmitted during each symbol period
of duration Ts.

The number of possible signals = M = 2n,

where n is an integer.

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The symbol values of M for a given value of n:

n M = 2n Symbol
1 2 0, 1

2 4 00, 01, 10, 11

3 8 000, 001, 010,011,...

4 16 0000, 0001, 0010,0011,.

. .

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 Depending on the variation of amplitude, phase or
frequency of the carrier, the modulation scheme is called
as M-ary ASK, M-ary PSK and M-ary FSK.

Fig: waveforms of (a) ASK (b) PSK (c)FSK 47

Fig: 4-ary Multiamplitude signal

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 M-ary Phase Shift Keying(MPSK)

In M-ary PSK, the carrier phase takes on one of the M

possible values, namely i = 2 * (i - 1) / M
where i = 1, 2, 3, ..M.
The modulated waveform can be expressed as

where Es is energy per symbol = (log2 M) Eb

Ts is symbol period = (log2 M) Tb.

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The above equation in the Quadrature form is

By choosing orthogonal basis signals

defined over the interval 0 t Ts

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 M-ary signal set can be expressed as

Since there are only two basis signals, the constellation of

M-ary PSK is two dimensional.

The M-ary message points are equally spaced on a circle of

radius Es, centered at the origin.

The constellation diagram of an 8-ary PSK signal set is

shown in fig.

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Fig: Constellation diagram of an M-ary PSK system(m=8)

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Derivation of symbol error probability:
Decision Rule:

Fig: Constellation diagram for M=2 (Binary PSK)

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 If a symbol (0,0,0) is transmitted, it is clear
that if an error occurs, the transmitted signal is most
likely to be mistaken for (0,0,1) and (1,1,1) and the
signal being mistaken for (1,1,0) is remote.

The decision pertaining to (0,0,0) is bounded by = -

/8(below 1(t)- axis) to = + /8 ( above 2(t)- axis)

The probability of correct reception is

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Fig: Probability density function of Phase .

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The average symbol error probability of an coherent M-ary
PSK system in AWGN channel is given by

Similarly, The symbol error Probability of a differential M-

ary PSK system in AWGN channel is given by

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Fig: The performance of symbol error probability for
-different values of M
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Power Efficiency and Bandwidth :

Fig: MPSK signal sets for M=2,4,8,16

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Power efficiency:
Increasing M implies that the constellation is more densely
packed, and hence the power efficiency (noise tolerance) is
increased.

Bandwidth Efficiency:
The first null bandwidth of M-ary PSK signals decrease as
M increases while Rb is held constant.
Therefore, as the value of M increases, the bandwidth
efficiency also increases.

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 M-ary Quadrature Amplitude
Modulation (QAM)

Its a Hybrid modulation

As we allow the amplitude to also vary with the phase, a

new modulation scheme called quadrature amplitude
modulation (QAM) is obtained.

The constellation diagram of 16-ary QAM consists of a

square lattice of signal points.

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Fig: signal Constellation of M-ary QAM for M=16

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Fig: Decomposition of signal Constellation of M-ary QAM

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 The general form of an M-ary QAM signal can be defined
as

where
Emin is the energy of the signal with the lowest amplitude
and
ai and bi are a pair of independent integers chosen
according to the location of the particular signal point.

In M-ary QAM energy per symbol and also distance

between possible symbol states is not a constant.

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It reasons that particular values of Si (t) will be detected with higher
probability than others.

The signal Si (t) may be expanded in terms of a pair of basis functions

defined as

The coordinates of the i th message point are ai Emin and biEmin

where (ai, bi) is an element of the L by L matrix given by

Where L =M.
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 For the example M=16- QAM the L by L matrix is

Derivation of symbol error probability:

The average probability of error in an AWGN channel is
given by

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 In terms of average signal energy,Eavg

Power Efficiency and Bandwidth :

Power efficiency of QAM is superior to M-ary
PSK.

Bandwidth efficiency of QAM is identical to M-

ary PSK.
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Fig: signal constellation of M-ary QPSK and M-ary QAM(M=16)
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Fig: QAM for M = 16

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 M-ary Frequency Shift
Keying(MFSK)

In M-ary FSK modulation the transmitted signals are

defined by:

where fc = nc/2Ts, for some fixed integer n.

The M transmitted signals are of equal energy and
equal duration, and the signal frequencies are
separated by 1/2Ts Hertz, making the signals
orthogonal to one another.
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The average probability of error based on the union bound
is given by

Using only the leading terms of the binomial expansion:

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Power Efficiency and Bandwidth :
Bandwidth:

The channel bandwidth of a M-ary FSK signal is :

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The channel bandwidth of a noncohorent MFSK is :

This implies that the bandwidth efficiency of an M-ary

FSK signal decreases with increasing M. Therefore, unlike
M-PSK signals, M-FSK signals are bandwidth inefficient.

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