Topics to be Covered

A/D Source Channel

Source Modulator
converter encoder encoder

Absent if
source is Noise Channel
digital

D/A Source Channel

User Detector
converter decoder decoder

 Binary digital modulation  Comparison study

 M-ary digital modulation

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 Digital Modulation
 In digital communications, the modulation process
corresponds to switching or keying the amplitude, frequency,
or phase of a sinusoidal carrier wave according to incoming
digital data
 Three basic digital modulation techniques
 Amplitude-shift keying (ASK) - special case of AM
 Frequency-shift keying (FSK) - special case of FM
 Phase-shift keying (PSK) - special case of PM
 Will use signal space approach in receiver design and
performance analysis

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 Binary Modulation
 In binary signaling, the modulator produces one of two
distinct signals in response to one bit of source data at a
time.

101101001

 Binary modulation types

Binary PSK Binary FSK Binary ASK

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 Binary Phase-Shift Keying (BPSK)
0 1 1 0 1 0 0 1
 Modulation

“1”

“0”

 , bit duration
 : carrier frequency, chosen to be for some fixed
integer or f c >> 1/ Tb
 : transmitted signal energy per bit, i.e.

 The pair of signals differ only in a 180-degree phase shift

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 Signal Space Representation for
BPSK
 There is one basis function

with

 Then and
 A binary PSK system is characterized by a signal space
that is one-dimensional (i.e. N=1), and has two message
points (i.e. M =2)

0 s1
s2
 Decision Rule of BPSK
 Assume that the two signals are equally likely, i.e.

 Then the optimum decision boundary is the midpoint of the

line joining these two message points
Region R2 Region R1

r r
0
s2 s1
 Decision rule:
 Guess signal (or binary 1) was transmitted if the
received signal point r falls in region R1
 Guess signal (or binary 0) was transmitted otherwise
 BPSK Transmitter

Input binary m(t)

Spectrum Product Binary PSK
data shaping filter modulator wave s(t)

Carrier wave

Rectangular
pulse

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 BPSK Receiver

Say 1 if threshold is exceeded

Tb Decision
∫ 0
dt
device
Say 0, otherwise

Threshold

demodulator detector

 is the carrier-phase offset, due to propagation delay or

oscillators at transmitter and receiver are not synchronous
 The detection is coherent in the sense of
 Phase synchronization
 Timing synchronization

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 Binary FSK
0 1 1 0 1 0 0 1
 Modulation

“1”

“0”

 : transmitted signal energy per bit

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 Signal Space for BFSK
 Two orthogonal basis functions are required

 Signal space representation

Message
point

Message point

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 Decision Regions of Binary FSK
 Observation vector
R2 Decision boundary
Message
point
R1
Message point

 The receiver decides in favor of s1 if the observation vector r

falls inside region R1. This occurs when r1 > r2

 When r1 < r2 , r falls inside region R2 and the receiver decides

in favor of s2
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 Binary FSK Transmitter

On-off signalling form

1
0

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Coherent Binary FSK Receiver

Tb
∫ 0
dt

+
Decision Choose 1 if l>0
+ Device Choose 0 otherwise
-
Tb
∫ 0
dt

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 Binary ASK
 Modulation 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 1

“1”
“0”
 Average energy per bit (On-off signaling)

 Decision Region Region R2 Region R1

s2 s1

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 We have discussed
Update
 Coherent modulation schemes, .e.g.
BPSK, BFSK, BASK
 They needs coherent detection,
assuming that the receiver is able to
detect and track the carrier wave’s
phase

 In many practical situations, strict phase

synchronization is not possible. In these
situations, non-coherent reception is required.

 We now consider:
 Non-coherent detection on binary FSK
 Differential phase-shift keying (DPSK)
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 Non-coherent scheme: BFSK
 Consider a binary FSK system, the two signals are

, : unknown random phases with uniform distribution

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 Differential PSK (DPSK)
 Non-coherent version of PSK
 Phase synchronization is eliminated using differential
encoding
 Encode the information in phase difference between successive
signal transmission. In effect,
 to send “0”, advance the phase of the current signal by 1800 ;
 to send “1”, leave the phase unchanged
 Provided that the unknown phase contained in the received
wave varies slowly (constant over two bit intervals), the phase
difference between waveforms received in two successive bit
intervals will be independent of .

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 Generation of DPSK signal
 Generate DPSK signals in two steps
 Differential encoding of the information binary bits
 Phase shift keying

 Differential encoding starts with an arbitrary reference bit

Information
sequence 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 1
Differentially ___________
encoded 1 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 1 d i = d i −1 ⊕ mi
sequence Initial bit

Transmitted
Phase 0 0 π 0 0 π 0 0 0

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DPSK Transmitter Diagram

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 Differential Detection of DPSK Signals
Choose 1 if l > 0
Tb Decision
∫ 0
dt
device
Otherwise choose 0

Delay Threshold of
Tb zero volts

 Output of integrator (assume noise free)

 The unknown phase becomes irrelevant

 If = 0 (bit 1), then y > 0
 if =π (bit 0), then y < 0
 Error performance

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 Topics to be Covered
A/D Source Channel
Source Modulator
converter encoder encoder

Absent if
source is Noise Channel
digital

D/A Source Channel

User Detector
converter decoder decoder

 Binary digital modulation  Comparison study

 M-ary digital modulation

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 M-ary Modulation Techniques
 In binary data transmission, send only one of two possible
signals during each bit interval Tb
 In M-ary data transmission, send one of M possible signals
during each signaling interval T
 In almost all applications, M = 2n and T = nTb, where n is
an integer
 Each of the M signals is called a symbol
 These signals are generated by changing the amplitude,
phase, frequency, or combined forms of a carrier in M
discrete steps.
 Thus, we have:
 MASK MPSK MFSK MQAM
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 M-ary Phase-Shift Keying (MPSK)
 The phase of the carrier takes on M possible values:

 Signal set:

 = Energy per symbol

1
 f c >>
T
 Basis functions

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 MPSK (cont’d)
 Signal space representation

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 MPSK Signal Constellations

BPSK QPSK 8PSK 16PSK

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 Practical Applications
 BPSK:
 WLAN IEEE802.11b (1 Mbps)
 QPSK:
 WLAN IEEE802.11b (2 Mbps, 5.5 Mbps, 11 Mbps)
 3G WDMA
 DVB-T (with OFDM)
 QAM
 Telephone modem (16QAM)
 Downstream of Cable modem (64QAM, 256QAM)
 WLAN IEEE802.11a/g (16QAM for 24Mbps, 36Mbps; 64QAM for 38Mbps
and 54 Mbps)
 LTE Cellular Systems
 FSK:
 Cordless telephone
 Paging system
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