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Analog Communication - Modulation

Modulation is the process of varying a carrier signal in order to transmit a message signal over long distances. It involves changing parameters of a high-frequency carrier wave based on the message signal in order to strengthen the overall signal and make it less susceptible to noise and interference. Common modulation techniques include amplitude modulation, frequency modulation, and phase modulation for continuous waves, as well as pulse amplitude, width, and position modulation for pulses.

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Analog Communication - Modulation

Modulation is the process of varying a carrier signal in order to transmit a message signal over long distances. It involves changing parameters of a high-frequency carrier wave based on the message signal in order to strengthen the overall signal and make it less susceptible to noise and interference. Common modulation techniques include amplitude modulation, frequency modulation, and phase modulation for continuous waves, as well as pulse amplitude, width, and position modulation for pulses.

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Analog Communication - Modulation

For a signal to be transmitted to a distance, without the effect of any external interferences or noise
addition and without getting faded away, it has to undergo a process called as Modulation. It
improves the strength of the signal without disturbing the parameters of the original signal.

What is Modulation?
A message carrying a signal has to get transmitted over a distance and for it to establish a reliable
communication, it needs to take the help of a high frequency signal which should not affect the
original characteristics of the message signal.

The characteristics of the message signal, if changed, the message contained in it also alters.
Hence, it is a must to take care of the message signal. A high frequency signal can travel up to a
longer distance, without getting affected by external disturbances. We take the help of such high
frequency signal which is called as a carrier signal to transmit our message signal. Such a process
is simply called as Modulation.

Modulation is the process of changing the parameters of the carrier signal, in accordance with the
instantaneous values of the modulating signal.

Need for Modulation


Baseband signals are incompatible for direct transmission. For such a signal, to travel longer
distances, its strength has to be increased by modulating with a high frequency carrier wave, which
doesn’t affect the parameters of the modulating signal.

Advantages of Modulation
The antenna used for transmission, had to be very large, if modulation was not introduced. The
range of communication gets limited as the wave cannot travel a distance without getting distorted.

Following are some of the advantages for implementing modulation in the communication systems.

Reduction of antenna size


No signal mixing
Increased communication range
Multiplexing of signals
Possibility of bandwidth adjustments
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Improved reception quality

Signals in the Modulation Process


Following are the three types of signals in the modulation process.

Message or Modulating Signal


The signal which contains a message to be transmitted, is called as a message signal. It is a
baseband signal, which has to undergo the process of modulation, to get transmitted. Hence, it is
also called as the modulating signal.

Carrier Signal
The high frequency signal, which has a certain amplitude, frequency and phase but contains no
information is called as a carrier signal. It is an empty signal and is used to carry the signal to the
receiver after modulation.

Modulated Signal
The resultant signal after the process of modulation is called as a modulated signal. This signal is
a combination of modulating signal and carrier signal.

Types of Modulation
There are many types of modulations. Depending upon the modulation techniques used, they are
classified as shown in the following figure.

The types of modulations are broadly classified into continuous-wave modulation and pulse
modulation.
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Continuous-wave Modulation
In continuous-wave modulation, a high frequency sine wave is used as a carrier wave. This is
further divided into amplitude and angle modulation.

If the amplitude of the high frequency carrier wave is varied in accordance with the
instantaneous amplitude of the modulating signal, then such a technique is called as
Amplitude Modulation.

If the angle of the carrier wave is varied, in accordance with the instantaneous value of the
modulating signal, then such a technique is called as Angle Modulation. Angle modulation is
further divided into frequency modulation and phase modulation.

If the frequency of the carrier wave is varied, in accordance with the instantaneous value
of the modulating signal, then such a technique is called as Frequency Modulation.

If the phase of the high frequency carrier wave is varied in accordance with the
instantaneous value of the modulating signal, then such a technique is called as Phase
Modulation.

Pulse Modulation
In Pulse modulation, a periodic sequence of rectangular pulses, is used as a carrier wave. This is
further divided into analog and digital modulation.

In analog modulation technique, if the amplitude or duration or position of a pulse is varied in


accordance with the instantaneous values of the baseband modulating signal, then such a
technique is called as Pulse Amplitude Modulation (PAM) or Pulse Duration/Width Modulation
(PDM/PWM), or Pulse Position Modulation (PPM).

In digital modulation, the modulation technique used is Pulse Code Modulation (PCM) where the
analog signal is converted into digital form of 1s and 0s. As the resultant is a coded pulse train, this
is called as PCM. This is further developed as Delta Modulation (DM). These digital modulation
techniques are discussed in our Digital Communications tutorial

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