Chapter3 Communication Concepts
Chapter3 Communication Concepts
Chapter3 Communication Concepts
3.1 General Considerations 3.2 Analog Modulation 3.3 Digital Modulation 3.4 Spectral Regrowth 3.5 Mobile RF Communications 3.6 Multiple Access Techniques 3.7 Wireless Standards 3.8 Appendix I: Differential Phase Shift Keying
Prepared by Bo Wen, UCLA
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Chapter Outline
Modulation
AM,PM,FM Intersymbol Interference Signal Constellations ASK,PSK,FSK QPSK,GMSK,QAM OFDM Spectral Regrowth
Mobile Systems
Cellular System Handoff Multipath Fading Diversity
Wireless Standards
GSM IS-95 CDMA Wideband CDMA Bluetooth IEEE802.11 a/b/g
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Modulation varies certain parameters of a sinusoidal carrier according to the baseband signal.
2-level
4-level
Detectability: the quality of the demodulated signal for a given amount of channel attenuation and receiver noise Bandwidth Efficiency: the bandwidth occupied by the modulated carrier for a given information rate in the baseband signal Power Efficiency: the type of power amplifier (PA) that can be used in the transmitter
Solution:
The spectrum of a random binary sequence with equal probabilities of ONEs and ZEROs is given by
Multiplication by a sinusoid in the time domain shifts this spectrum to a center frequency of fc
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Phase Modulation: Amplitude is constant and the excess phase is linearly proportional to the baseband signal
Frequency Modulation: the excess frequency is linearly proportional to the baseband signal
Solution:
(a) For a constant baseband signal
PM output simply contains a constant phase shift FM output exhibits a constant frequency shift equal to mA0
This signal can be viewed as a waveform whose phase grows quadratically with time
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Narrowband FM Approximation
Solution:
Equation above indeed suggests that cos(c - m)t and cos(c + m)t have opposite signs. Figure below (left) illustrates this case by allowing signs in the magnitude plot. For a carrier whose amplitude is modulated by a sinusoid, we have
Thus, it appears that the sidebands have identical signs. However, in general, the polarity of the sidebands per se does not distinguish AM from FM. Writing the four possible combinations of sine and cosine, the reader can arrive at the spectra shown below. Given the exact waveforms for the carrier and the sidebands, one can decide from these spectra whether the modulation is AM or narrowband FM.
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Solution:
Let us decompose the input spectrum into two symmetric spectra as shown in figure above (left). The one with sidebands of identical signs can be viewed as an AM waveform, which, due to hard limiting, is suppressed at the output. The spectrum with sidebands of opposite signs can be considered an FM waveform, which emerges at the output intact because hard limiting does not affect the zero crossings of the waveform.
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Solution:
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ASK
PSK
Called Amplitude Shift Keying, Phase Shift Keying, and Frequency Shift Keying
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A signal cannot be both time-limited and bandwidth-limited. Each bit level is corrupted by decaying tails created by previous bits.
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Solution:
We can express the sequence as
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The upconversion operation shifts the spectrum to fc Spectrum of ASK is similar but with impulses at fc
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Pulse Shaping
Baseband pulse is designed to occupy a small bandwidth.
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Ideal
Noisy
Solution:
Noise corrupts the amplitude for both ZEROs and ONEs.
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Ideal
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The constellation can also provide a quantitative measure of the impairments that corrupt the signal. Representing the deviation of the constellation points from their ideal positions, the error vector magnitude (EVM) is such a measure.
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Quadrature Modulation
QPSK halves the occupied bandwidth Pulses appear at A and B are called symbols rather than bits
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Solution:
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Important drawback of QPSK stems from the large phase changes at the end of each symbol.
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With pulse shaping, the output signal amplitude (envelope) experiences large changes each time the phase makes a 90 or 180 degree transition. Resulting waveform is called a variable-envelope signal. Need linear PA
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OQPSK
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/4 QPSK
k odd k even
Modulation is performed by alternately taking the output from each QPSK generator
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Maximum phase step is 135 degree compared with 180 degree in QPSK QPSK and its variants provide high spectral efficiency but need linear PA
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Gaussian minimum shift keying (GMSK), modulation index m = 0.5 Gaussian frequency shift keying (GFSK), modulation index m = 0.3
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Solution:
We can therefore construct the modulator as shown above, where a Gaussian filter is followed by an integrator and two arms that compute the sine and cosine of the signal at node A. The complexity of these operations is much more easily afforded in the digital domain than in the analog domain (Chapter 4).
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Saves bandwidth Denser constellation: making detection more sensitive to noise Large envelope variation: need highly linear PA
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OFDM: Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing Multipath Propagation may lead to considerable intersymbol interference
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In OFDM, the baseband data is first demultiplexed by a factor of N The N streams are then impressed on N different carrier frequencies.
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Example of OFDM
It appears that an OFDM transmitter is very complex as it requires tens of carrier frequencies and modulators (i.e., tens of oscillators and mixers). How is OFDM realized in practice?
Solution:
In practice, the subchannel modulations are performed in the digital baseband and subsequently converted to analog form. In other words, rather than generate a1(t) cos[ct+1(t)]+a2(t) cos[ct+t+2 (t)]+, we first construct a1(t) cos 1(t)+a2(t) cos[t+2(t)]+and a1(t) sin1(t)+a2(t) sin[t+2(t)]+ .These components are then applied to a quadrature modulator with an LO frequency of c.
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Peak-to-Average Ratio
Large PAR: pulse shaping in the baseband, amplitude modulation schemes such as QAM, orthogonal frequency division multiplexing
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Variable Envelope
Where xI and xQ(t) are the baseband I and Q components
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Immediate neighbors cannot utilize same frequency The mobile units in each cell are served by a base station, and all of the base stations are controlled by a mobile telephone switching office (MTSO)
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Co-Channel Interference
CCI: depends on the ratio of the distance between two co-channel cells to the cell radius, independent of the transmitted power Given by the frequency reuse plan, this ratio is approximately equal to 4.6 for the 7-cell pattern.
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Hand-off
When a mobile unit roams from cell A to cell B, since adjacent cells do not use the same group of frequencies, the channel must also change. Second-generation cellular systems allow the mobile unit to measure the received signal level from different base stations, thus performing hand-off when the path to the second base station has sufficiently low loss
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Direct path: signals experience a power loss proportional to the square of the distance Reflective path: loss increases with the fourth power of the distance
Multi-path fading: two signals possibly arriving at the receiver with opposite phases and roughly equal amplitudes, the net received signal may be very small
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Interleaving
Errors occur in clusters of bits To lower the effect of these errors, the baseband bit stream in the transmitter undergoes interleaving before modulation
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Delay Spread
Two signals in a multipath environment can experience roughly equal attenuations but different delays. Small delay spread yield a relatively flat fade whereas large delay spreads introduce considerable variation in the spectrum
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TDD: same frequency band is utilized for both transmit and receive paths but the system transmits for half of the time and receives for the other half.
FDD: employ two different frequency bands for the transmit and receive paths.
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TDD: two paths (RX,TX) do not interfere because the transmitter is turned off during reception TDD: allows direct (peer-to-peer) communication between two transceivers TDD: strong signals generated by all of the nearby mobile transmitters fall in the receive band, thus desensitizing the receiver.
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TDMA: power amplifier can be turned off during the time of the frame out of assigned time slot TDMA: digitized speech can be compressed in time by a large factor, smaller required bandwidth. TDMA: even with FDD, TDMA bursts can e timed so the receive and transmit paths are never enabled simultaneously TDMA: more complex due to A/D conversion, digital modulation, time slot and frame synchronization, etc.
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CDMA allows the widened spectra of many users to fall in the same frequency band
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Near/Far Effect: one high-power transmitter can virtually halt communications among others: Requires Power Control
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Frequency-Hopping CDMA
Can be viewed as FDMA with pseudo-random channel allocation. Occasional overlap of the spectra raises the probability of error
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2. Data Rates:
The standard specifies the data rates that must be supported
4. Type of Modulation:
Each standard specifies the modulation scheme.
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7. RX Sensitivity:
The standard specifies the acceptable receiver sensitivity, usually in terms of maximum BER
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9. RX Tolerance to Blocks:
The standard specifies the largest interferer that the RX must tolerate while receiving a small desired signal.
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GSM standard is a TDMA/FDD system with GMSK modulation, operating in different bands and accordingly called GSM900, GSM1800, and GSM 1900
GSM specifies a receiver sensitivity of -102 dBm. The detection of GMSK with acceptable bit error rate (10-3) requires an SNR of about 9 dB. What is the maximum allowable RX noise figure?
Solution:
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With the blocker levels shown in above figure, the receiver must still provide the necessary BER
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How must the receiver P1dB be chosen to satisfy the above blocking tests?
Solution:
Suppose the receiver incorporates a front-end filter and hence provides sufficient attenuation if the blocker is applied outside the GSM band. Thus, the largest blocker level is equal to -23 dBm (at or beyond 3-MHz offset), demanding a P1dB of roughly -15 dBm to avoid compression. If the front-end filter does not attenuate the out-of-band blocker adequately, then a higher P1dB is necessary.
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GSM stipulates a set of spurious response exceptions, 6 in band, 24 out of band Do not ease the compression and phase noise requirements.
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Desired channel 3 dB above the reference sensitivity level A tone and a modulated signal applied at 800-kHz and 1.6-MHz offset at -49 dBm and BER requirement must be satisfied
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Solution:
For an acceptable BER, an SNR of 9 dB is required, i.e., the total noise in the desired channel must remain below -108 dBm. In this test, the signal is corrupted by both the receiver noise and the intermodulation. If, from previous example, we assume NF = 10 dB, then the total RX noise in 200 kHz amounts to -111 dBm. Since the maximum tolerable noise is -108 dBm, the intermodulation can contribute at most 3 dB of corruption. In other words, the IM product of the two interferers must have a level of -111 dBm so that, along with an RX noise of -111 dBm, it yields a total corruption of -108 dBm. It follows from Chapter 2 that
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Desired channel 20 dB above the reference sensitivity level Must withstand an adjacent-channel interferer 9 dB above desired signal or and alternate-adjacent channel interferer 41 dB above signal
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GSM: TX Specifications
Transmitter must deliver an output of at least 2 W in the 900-MHz band or 1 W in the 1.8-GHz band Must be adjustable in steps of 2 dB from +5 dBm to the maximum level
The maximum noise that the TX can emit in the receive band must be les than -129 dBm/Hz.
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GSM: EDGE
Enhanced Data Rates fro GSM Evolution: 384kb/s, 8-PSK modulation Need pulse shaping, linear PA; requires a higher SNR
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9.6 kb/s spread to 1.23 MHz and modulated using OQPSK. Coherent detection and pilot tone used
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IS-95 spread spectrum to 1.23 MHz, provides frequency diversity Rake receiver to provides time diversity
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Soft Hand-off
Signal strength corresponding to both stations can be monitored by means of a rake receiver. Hand-off performed when nearer base station has a strong signal.
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BPSK for uplink, QPSK for downlink, nominal channel bandwidth 5MHz, rate 384 kb/s IMT-2000: total bandwidth 60 MHz, data rate 384 kb/s in a spread bandwidth of 3.84 MHz, channel spacing 5 MHz
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Output power: -49 dBm to +24 dBm. Adjacent and alternate adjacent channel power 33 dB and 43 dB below main channel.
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Reference sensitivity: -107 dBm. Sinusoidal test for only out-ofband blocking
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Solution:
To avoid compression, P1dB must be 4 to 5 dB higher than the blocker level, i.e., P1dB -40 dBm. To quantify the corruption due to cross modulation, we return to our derivation in Chapter 2. For a sinusoid A1 cos 1t and an amplitude-modulated blocker A2(1 + mcos mt) cos 2t, cross modulation appears as
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Wideband CDMA Receiver Requirements: Intermodulation Test & Adjacent Channel Test
IMT-2000 intermodulation test:
A tone and a modulated signal each at -46 dBm applied in the adjacent and alternate adjacent channels, desired signal at -104 dBm
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Bluetooth specifies an output level of 0 dBm. Bluetooth TX must minimally interfere with cellular and WLAN systems Carrier frequency of each Bluetooth carrier has a tolerance of 75 kHz
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Reference sensitivity of -70 dBm. Blocking test for adjacent and alternate channels: desired signal 10dB higher than reference sensitivity. Adjacent channel with equal power, modulated. Alternate adjacent channel with -30 dBm, modulated. Blocking test for third or higher adjacent channel: Desired signal 3 dB above sensitivity, modulated blocker in third or higher adjacent channel with power -27 dBm.
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Reference sensitivity of -70 dBm. Out of band Blocking Test: Desired signal -67 dBm, tone level of -27 dBm or -10 dBm must be tolerated according to the tone frequency range.
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Reference sensitivity of -70 dBm. Intermodulation Test: Desired signal 6 dB higher than reference sensitivity, blockers applied at -39 dBm with f = 3, 4, or 5 MHz Maximum usable input level -20 dBm
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Does the maximum usable input specification pose any design constraints?
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Yes, it does. Recall that the receiver must detect a signal as low as -60 dBm; i.e., the receiver chain must provide enough gain before detection. Suppose this gain is about 60 dB, yielding a signal level of around 0 dBm (632 mVpp) at the end of the chain. Now, if the received signal rises to -20 dBm, the RX output must reach +40 dBm (63.2 Vpp), unless the chain becomes heavily nonlinear. The nonlinearity may appear benign as the signal has a constant envelope, but the heavy saturation of the stages may distort the baseband data. For this reason, the receiver must incorporate automatic gain control (AGC), reducing the gain of each stage as the input signal level increases (Chapter 13).
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OFDM: 52 subcarriers with spacing of 0.3125 MHz, middle sub-channel and first and last 5 sub-channels are unused. 4 subcarriers are occupied by BPSKmodulated pilots.
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TX must deliver a power of at least 40 mW. Pulse shaping: 16.6 MHz Carrier leakage: 15 dB below the overall output power.
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11a/g receiver must operate properly with a maximum input -30 dBm
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Solution:
First, consider the rate of 6 Mb/s. Assuming a noise bandwidth of 20 MHz, we obtain 19 dB for the sum of the NF and the required SNR. Similarly, for the rate of 54 Mb/s, this sum reaches 36 dB. An NF of 10 dB leaves an SNR of 9 dB for BPSK and 26 dB for 64QAM, both sufficient for the required error rate. In fact, most commercial products target an NF of about 6 dB so as to achieve a sensitivity of about -70 dBm at the highest date rate.
Solution:
With an input of -30 dBm, the receiver must not compress. Furthermore, recall from previous section that an OFDM signal having N subchannels exhibits a peak-to-average ratio of about 2 lnN. For N = 52, we have PAR = 7.9. Thus, the receiver must not compress even for an input level reaching -30 dBm + 7.9 dB = -22.1 dBm. The envelope variation due to baseband pulse shaping may require an even higher P1dB.
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11b specifies overlapping channel frequencies to offer greater flexibility. Users operating in close proximity of one another avoid overlapping channels The carrier frequency tolerance is 25 ppm
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11b standard stipulates a TX output power of 100 mW (+20 dB) with the spectrum mask.
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Differential Encoding
Differential Decoding
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