• DocumentCode
    776010
  • Title

    Comparison of High-Level Modulation Schemes for High-Capacity Digital Radio Systems

  • Author

    Borgne, Michel

  • Author_Institution
    CNET Lannion B, 22301 Lannion, France
  • Volume
    33
  • Issue
    5
  • fYear
    1985
  • fDate
    5/1/1985 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    442
  • Lastpage
    449
  • Abstract
    This paper presents a comparative study of four 2n-state quadrature amplitude modulation techniques, namely, 16, 32, 64, and 128 QAM, in a digital radio system environment. The effects of filtering, interference, amplifier nonlinearities, and selective fading are investigated using computational and simulation methods. Increase of the carrier-to-noise ratio (CNR) at a fixed symbol error probability (10^{-3} ) is taken as a robustness criterion.
  • Keywords
    Quadrature amplitude modulation; Radio communication; Amplitude modulation; Digital communication; Digital modulation; Fading; Filtering; Filters; Modems; Nonlinear distortion; Phase modulation; Quadrature amplitude modulation;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Communications, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0090-6778
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TCOM.1985.1096321
  • Filename
    1096321