Aerial modulation for high order PSK transmission schemes

Author

Alrabadi, Osama N. ; Kalis, Antonis ; Papadias, Constantinos B. ; Prasad, Ramjee

Author_Institution

Broadband Wireless & Sensor Networks Group (BWiSE), Athens Inf. Technol. (AIT), Athens, Greece

fYear

2009

fDate

17-20 May 2009

Firstpage

823

Lastpage

826

Abstract

The performance of PSK schemes degrades as the modulation order increases and becomes somehow unreliable over wireless fading channels. In this work, we improve the performance of high order PSK transmission schemes over Rayleigh fading channels by mapping the neighboring symbols of a PSK signal constellation onto a set of weakly-correlated field patterns. We implement the scheme using a compact two element ESPAR (electronically steerable parasitic array radiator) antenna with an inter-element spacing of lambda/16. An appreciable gain regarding the system performance is obtained using the proposed scheme.

Keywords

Rayleigh channels; antenna arrays; antenna radiation patterns; phase shift keying; Rayleigh channels; aerial modulation; electronically steerable parasitic array radiator antenna; high-order PSK transmission schemes; wireless fading channels; Antenna arrays; Constellation diagram; Entropy; Fading; Impedance; Phase shift keying; Signal mapping; Transmission line matrix methods; Varactors; Wireless sensor networks; ESPAR; M-PSK modulation; Pattern Switching; Rayleigh Fading Channels;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Communication, Vehicular Technology, Information Theory and Aerospace & Electronic Systems Technology, 2009. Wireless VITAE 2009. 1st International Conference on

Conference_Location

Aalborg

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4066-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-4067-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WIRELESSVITAE.2009.5172556

Filename

5172556