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L16: Noise Performance of SSB & AM: (P&S Pp. 220-225 C&C 10.2)

This document summarizes key concepts about the noise performance of SSB and AM modulation: 1) SSB modulation results in an output SNR of Ac2/N0W, which is better than DSBSC but equivalent to baseband transmission for the same received power and noise PSD. 2) AM modulation has a figure of merit of approximately 0.075 compared to other linear modulations, representing an 11dB SNR loss, due to its typical modulation index values. 3) AM is subject to a "threshold effect" where output SNR decreases linearly with signal power until Ac2 is around N0W, at which point quality suddenly decreases rapidly to zero.

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L16: Noise Performance of SSB & AM: (P&S Pp. 220-225 C&C 10.2)

This document summarizes key concepts about the noise performance of SSB and AM modulation: 1) SSB modulation results in an output SNR of Ac2/N0W, which is better than DSBSC but equivalent to baseband transmission for the same received power and noise PSD. 2) AM modulation has a figure of merit of approximately 0.075 compared to other linear modulations, representing an 11dB SNR loss, due to its typical modulation index values. 3) AM is subject to a "threshold effect" where output SNR decreases linearly with signal power until Ac2 is around N0W, at which point quality suddenly decreases rapidly to zero.

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L16: Noise Performance of SSB & AM

(P&S pp. 220-225; C&C 10.2)

Last lecture

 In-phase + quadrature representation of bandpass processes


 Output SNR of DSBSC
 DSBSC modulation does not improve SNR compared to
baseband transmission

Today
– SSB vs. DSBSC
– Approximate noise analysis of AM with envelope detection
– AM Threshold Effect

L16 1
SSB with Noise

SSB signal at front end of receiver is

S(t)  Ac M (t) cos(2f ct)  Ac M̂ (t)sin(2f ct)  N (t)

where {N (t)}is mutually uncorrelated bandpass noise with psd


N 0 / 2 W/Hz over the frequency band [ f c , f c  W ].

Expressing the noise in terms of in-phase & quadrature


components, multiplying by a local oscillator and passing through
an LPF, the demodulator output is

Y (t)  0.5Ac M (t)  0.5N c (t)

L16 2
SNR of SSB

As {M (t)},{N c (t)} are uncorrelated, the output power is just the


sum of the powers of the message term + noise term. Hence
SNR is a meaningful measure of signal quality.
We know that
S N ( f  f c )  S N ( f  f c )  N 0 / 2 if  W  f  W
SNc ( f )   .
 0 otherwise
So, PN c  N 0W and

2 2
 
S 0 .25 A P Ac PM
   c M
 - better than DSBSC…?
 N o 0.25 N 0W N 0W

L16 3
SNR in Terms of Received SSB Power

Finding power of received SSB in time domain is tricky…

Easier approach – remember that SSB = DSBSC on a double


amplitude carrier, passed through unity gain ideal sideband filter.
2 2
We know (?) DSBSC signal power is 0.5(2Ac ) PM  2Ac PM .
Sideband filter removes symmetric lower sidebands of the
DSBSC signal psd. So received SSB power PR  Ac2PM .

 S P
   R
 N o N 0W

L16 4
Figure of Merit for Linear Modulation

Recall that S 0.5 Ac2 PM PR S


      
 N o , DSBSC N 0W N 0W  N b

Hence, for the same received signal power & noise psd over the
transmitted signal frequency band, DSBSC, SSB & baseband
transmission have the same output SNR.

So their figure of merit  S   S 


    =1.
 N  o  N b

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Noise Analysis of AM with Asynchronous Detection

Received signal: S(t)  Ac 1  M (t) cos(2f ct)  N (t)

where {N (t)}is mutually uncorrelated bandpass noise with psd


N 0 / 2 W/Hz over transmission band [ f c  W , f c  W ] .

Putting {N (t)} into in-phase+quadrature form, the envelope


detector output is

Y (t)  Ac 1  M (t)   N c (t)


2 2
 N s (t) .

L16 6
Approximate Analysis

If 2N 0W  E[N s (t) 2 ]  Ac2 , the 2nd term under the square root is
much smaller than the 1st, with high probability.

 Y (t)  Ac 1  M (t)   N c (t)

Applying an ideal notch filter to remove the DC term.

Y '(t)  Ac M (t)  N c (t)

SNR…?

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Figure of Merit for AM

The received AM signal power is 0.5 Ac2 1   2 PM 


From this, we can show that for AM,

S S  2 PM
      1.
 N o  N b 1   PM
2

Typically, modulation index is 0.8-0.9 & speech power’s about


0.1W.

 FoM =0.075 = 11dB loss compared to other linear, or no,


modulation.
Reason…?

L16 8
AM Threshold Effect

If 2N 0W  Ac2 , then with prob.  1 N c (t), N s (t)  Ac , yielding


Y (t)  N c (t) 2  N s (t) 2  2N c (t) Ac 1  M (t)   Ac21  M (t) 2
 N (t) Ac 1  M (t) 
 N c (t) 2  N s (t) 2 1  c 
 N c
(t) 2
 N s
(t) 2

 N (t) 2  N (t) 2  N c (t) Ac
1  M (t)
N c (t)  N s (t)
c s 2 2

 No meaningful SNR (why?)


Output SNR decreases linearly with signal power until Ac2 is
around N 0W . Around this point, signal quality suddenly decreases
much more rapidly to zero – threshold effect.

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