Transmission of SDH signals through future satellite channels usinghigh-level modulation techniques

The authors discuss the possibility of transmitting synchronous digital hierarchy (SDH) signals through two-link nonlinear satellite channels. Transmitting such high bit rate signals through a standard 54 MHz or 36 MHz transponder bandwidth requires the use of high-level modulation schemes. The techniques and technologies needed to make the use of 16-ary quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) and 64-ary QAM transmissions feasible for future satellite communication systems are examined. It is shown that it is possible to transmit a synchronous transport module-level 1 (STM-1) signal through a standard 54 or 36 MHz transponder bandwidth using 16-ary QAM or 64-ary QAM transmission, respectively, for the 6/4 GHz band. However, for higher frequency bands, due to high fade margins needed to achieve the high availability and performance for SDH systems, is not practical to transmit the STM-1 signal through such standard transponder bandwidths     

Analysis of different sub-carrier allocation of M-ary QAM-OFDM downlink in RoF system

In this paper, the performance of a 60 GHz radio over fiber (RoF) system with 4/16/64 quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) downstream signals is studied. Delivery of 10 Gbit/s M-ary QAM (MQAM) OFDM signals through the 20-km-long single-mode fiber (SMF) is complicated in terms of intensity modulation and direct detection (IM/DD). Using self-homodyne method, the beating of two independent light waves generating the millimeter-wave at the photodetector can be down-converted to baseband in the electrical domain. Meanwhile, three kinds of sub-carrier arrangement schemes are compared and discussed, and the simulation results show that lower peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) can be obtained adopting the adjacent scheme. At bit error rate (BER) of 10-3, the receiver sensitivity using 4QAM-OFDM sub-carrier signal is almost enhanced by 4 dB and 9 dB compared with those of 16QAM-OFDM signal and 64QAM-OFDM signal.     

Quantum detection and mutual information for QAM and PSK signals

We analyze the performance of the error probability and the mutual information for quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) and phase-shift keying systems based on quantum detection theory. It is shown that the quantum receiver called square root measurement gives about 5.7 dB improvement in power in comparison with the classical one. Furthermore, we show that the quantum QAM system can achieve the same reliability as the conventional intensity modulation-direct detection (IM-DD) system with almost equal power, compressing the required bandwidth, while the reliability is degraded in general     

Bandwidth compressive 64-state sqam modems for non-linearly amplified satcom systems

A new class of spectral and power efficient offset modes of the M-ary QAM modulation technique, 64SQAM (superposed QAM), is analysed. The power spectrum of 64SQAM reveals a fast spectral roll-off and a low out-of-band energy. P(e) performance is analysed with different baseband wave shapes of 64SQAM in AWGN linear channels. For the operation of M-ary QAM at the highest power efficiency (i.e. at the saturation mode of HPA), a new bandwidth compressive NLA (non-linearly amplified) 64SQAM is investigated. Retaining a compact power spectrum and allowing a simple filtering strategy, NLA-64SQAM operates within 0–75 dB C/N degradation at P(e) = 10^?6.     

Iterative demodulation, demapping, and decoding of coded non-square QAM

It is shown that a non-square (NS) 2/sup 2n+1/-ary quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) can be decomposed into a single parity-check (SPC) block encoder and a memoryless modulator in such a way that the inherent block encoder has a recursive nature. When concatenated with a forward-error-correcting (FEC) code, iterative demodulation, demapping, and decoding of the FEC code and the inherent SPC code of NS-2/sup 2n+1/-QAM is then possible. Simulation results show that coded NS-8QAM performs nearly 2 dB better than standard 8QAM and star-8QAM, and nearly 1 dB better than 8-ary phase-shift keying when the FEC code is a rate-1/2, 16-state convolutional code, while coded NS-32QAM performs 0.75 dB better than standard 32QAM.     

Compensation of Frequency Offset for Differentially Encoded 16- and 64-QAM in the Presence of Laser Phase Noise

The compensation of frequency offset for differentially encoded 16- and 64-ary quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) in the presence of laser phase noise is investigated. Differential encoding is employed to solve the four-fold phase ambiguity problem in a nondata-aided transmission system with square QAM constellations. Simulation results show that frequency offset and phase noise can successfully be compensated using a second-order digital filter loop for the square QAM constellations.      

Coded QAM using a binary convolutional code

As an alternative to trellis coding, a binary convolutional code is considered for use with such nonbinary modulation schemes as quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM). A Gray code is used to map the encoder output to the M-ary QAM constellation. The focus is on the design of 16-ary coded QAM with a rate 3/4 punctured convolutional code of a constraint length 7. A quantized binary metric generation method is proposed and shown to be suboptimum as compared to the direct use of a M-ary unquantized metric. Impressive coding gains and bandwidth efficiency are shown in comparison with uncoded systems     

Transmission of 32-Tb/s Capacity Over 580 km Using RZ-Shaped PDM-8QAM Modulation Format and Cascaded Multimodulus Blind Equalization Algorithm

In this paper, we propose a novel synthesizing method for high-speed 8-ary quadratic-amplitude modulation (QAM) optical signal generation using commercial optical modulators with binary electrical driving signals. Using this method, we successfully generated 114-Gb/s pulse-duration modulation (PDM)-8QAM optical signals. Intradyne detection of PDM-8QAM optical signals with robust blind polarization demultiplexing has been demonstrated by using a new cascaded multimodulus equalization algorithm. With return-to-zero-shaped PDM-8QAM modulation and the proposed blind polarization demultiplexing algorithm, we demonstrate transmission of a record 32-Tb/s fiber capacity (320$,times,$114 Gb/s) over 580 km of ultralow-loss single-mode fiber-28 fiber by utilizing ${rm C}+{rm L}$-band erbium-doped fiber-amplifier-only optical amplification and single-ended coherent detection technique at an information spectral efficiency of 4.0 bit/s$cdot$Hz.      

16 QAM Carrier Recovery PLL for Service-Channel Transmission Using FSK Additional Modulation

This paper describes the design and performance of the 16 QAM carrier recovery PLL for service-channel transmission using FSK additional modulation. When FSK additional modulation is applied, tracking phase error occurs and corrupts the 16 QAM signal. To reduce the phase error without widening the loop noise bandwidth is an important issue in the 16 QAM-FSK double modulation scheme. An analytical expression to estimate the peak phase error due to class 4 partial response FSK is established, By using the approximation formula, an optimization of the carrier recovery PLL is presented. Moreover, experiments and computer simulations are carried out for the 200 Mbit/s 16 QAM and 64 kbit/s SC double modulation system. As a result, it is demonstrated that a 0.1 dB 16 QAM equivalent power loss and an 8 dB frequency deviation margin of SC transmission performance can be obtained.     

A Multilevel Coded Modulation Approach for Hexagonal Signal Constellation

We propose a new coded modulation called hexagonal shell modulation (HSM). The HSM has a signal constellation composed of shell-like tiling of hexagons and thus has a lower peak-to-average power ratio (PAR) than a standard square quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) with comparable bandwidth efficiency and minimum Euclidean distance. The main challenge is that HSM has a non-power-of-two number of constellation points, and thus assignment of binary information to HSM is not straightforward. We resolve this by applying a multilevel coded modulation (MLC) scheme where a ternary set partitioning combined with binary-input ternary-output (BITO) turbo codes is employed to fully exploit the property of the nonpower- of-two constellation points. Throughout this letter, we focus on an 18-ary HSM with the information rate of 3 bit/symbol as a specific example. It is shown that this system outperforms the standard square 16-QAM with the same rate when PAR is constrained.     

Automatic modulation recognition algorithm for MQAM signal

An automatic modulation recognition algorithm for MQAM signal was proposed.Firstly,the feature parameter F based on the fourth order cumulants was constructed to classify the square QAM and the cross QAM.Secondly,the compactness of zero center normalized instantaneous amplitude was calculated to identify the 16QAM from the square QAM.Thirdly,the baud rate was estimated by frequency spectrum of amplitude square,and timing was synchronized to delete the ISI and resume the relatively ideal constellations.And aiming at the 32QAM and the 128QAM,two different clustering radii were set,and clustering point density was got respectively by the subtractive clustering algorithm,and then the 32QAM and the 128QAM was classified depending on the difference of density value.In the same way,the 64QAM and the 256QAM were classified.The proposed algorithm can recognize five kinds of QAM signals,including 16QAM signals,32QAM signals,64QAM signals,128QAM signal and 256QAM signal without prior knowledge of frequency and baud rate.Furthermore,the proposed algorithm does not need complex iterative process,which can be applied in practical signal recognition.     

基于双平行MZM调制器的矢量毫米波信号传输性能分析北大核心CSCD

提出了一种基于双平行马赫-曾德尔调制器(dual parallel Mach-Zehnder modulators,DP-MZM)的单边带矢量毫米波信号产生和传输方案,在MATLAB和VPI联合仿真环境下分析了90 GHz波段不同调制格式信号的产生和传输性能。仿真中,DP-MZM工作在光载波抑制(optical carrier suppression,OCS)模式时,小信号驱动的两个子调制器输出的单边带信号相互叠加后,无需使用滤波器,可以实现完全抑制中心载波的效果。结果表明:经过该系统传输后,各调制信号的误码率(bit error rate,BER)均可达到硬判决前向纠错(hard judgment forward error currection,HD-FEC)阈值。概率整形后正交幅度调制信号的误码性能明显优于均匀正交幅度调制信号,其中,7 bit/symbol概率整形256阶正交幅度调制(probability shaping 256 quadrature amlitude modulation,PS-256QAM)信号经过系统传输后功率增益最为明显,经过50 km光纤传输后,提升了2.94 dB的功率增益。与目前存在的载波抑制毫米波产生方案相比,该系统结构相对简单,可调节度高,信号传输增益明显,因此具有一定的应用价值。     

V-BLAST系统中采用发射功率分配的MMSE迭代软干扰抵消算法

作为一种软输入软输出的MIMO检测算法,MMSE迭代软干扰抵消算法在MIMO Turbo接收机中得到广泛的关注。为了进一步改善系统性能,采用链路自适应方案是很好的选择。该文给出变发射功率的MMSE迭代软干扰抵消算法,并采用了一种有效的发射功率分配方案,只需要很少的控制信令,就可以获得较大的误码率性能改善。通过没有信道编译码的链路仿真,在4发4收QPSK调制的V-BLAST系统中,如果误码率要求为BER=10-3,MMSE迭代软干扰抵消检测算法迭代次数为2时,采用推荐的发射功率分配方案比不采用发射功率分配方案的系统性能提高了约2dB,如果调制方式为16QAM,系统性能提高了约6dB。     

Complexity reduction and performance improvement of a decisionfeedback equalizer for 16QAM in land mobile communications

This paper proposes a complexity-reduced decision feedback equalizer (DFE) for 16-ary quadrature amplitude modulation (16QAM) using tap gain interpolation, bi-directional equalizing (BDE) and space diversity combining (SDC) to achieve high spectral efficiency and high quality data transmission over frequency-selective fading channels in land mobile communications. To reduce the amount of computation required for BDE and SDC, we propose a tap gain interpolation scheme and pre-decision schemes for both processes. Computer simulation of a (16QAM/TDMA system) confirms that the proposed scheme improves frequency-selective fading compensation performance by 6 dB or more while using only 27% of the computation of conventional single branch DFE receivers     

突发自适应调制信号的调制识别算法研究

针对突发自适应调制信号中的PSK和QAM调制方式识别问题,本文提出了一种能够识别BPSK、QPSK、8PSK以及16QAM、32QAM、64QAM、128QAM、256QAM八种信号类型的盲识别算法。该算法首先对信号的循环平稳性进行了分析和讨论,给出了利用循环高阶累积量的特征实现信号识别分类的理论依据。然后,提出了三种基于循环累积量的特征分别实现了QAM和PSK类间识别、MPSK类内识别以及方形QAM与十字形QAM的识别。最后通过对MQAM信号的瞬时幅度分布特性的深入研究和分析,提出了一种基于瞬时包络平方的方差的特征实现了QAM的类内识别。该算法选择了二叉树支持向量机作为识别分类器,并设计了一种新的识别流程完成了对上述信号调制方式的识别。该算法无需精确同步,对载波相位具有较好的鲁棒性,并能够对中频信号进行识别。仿真实验表明,该算法能够实现在较低信噪比条件下突发信号的识别。      

Complex Quadrature Spatial Modulation

In this paper, we propose a spatial modulation (SM) scheme referred to as complex quadrature SM (CQSM). In contrast to quadrature SM (QSM), CQSM transmits two complex signal constellation symbols on the real and quadrature spatial dimensions at each channel use, increasing the spectral efficiency. To achieve that, signal symbols transmitted at any given time instant are drawn from two different modulation sets. The first modulation set is any of the conventional QAM/PSK alphabets, while the second is a rotated version of it. The optimal rotation angle is obtained through simulations for several modulation schemes and analytically proven for the case of QPSK, where both results coincide. Simulation results showed that CQSM outperformed QSM and generalized SM by approximately 5 dB and 4.5 dB, respectively, for the same transmission rate. Its performance was similar to that of QSM; however, it achieved higher transmission rates. It was additionally shown numerically and analytically that CQSM outperformed QSM for a relatively large number of transmit antennas.     

Signaling constellations for fading channels

The performance of various coherent 8-ary and 16-ary modulations in additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) and slowly fading channels are analyzed. New expressions for the exact symbol error rates (SER) in fading with diversity combining are derived for any two-dimensional signaling format having polygonal decision boundaries. Maximal ratio combining, equal gain combining, and selection combining are considered. The SER formulas obtained make it possible for the first time to optimize parameters of various constellations precisely and to determine,which constellation has the lowest probability of error. For example, a star constellation such as that specified in the CCITT V.29 standard can be improved by adjusting the amplitude ratios of the points in the constellation to save about 0.63 dB power in AWGN without sacrificing the phase error tolerance, while maintaining the same error rate. The sensitivity of each constellation to phase error is presented and comparisons are made. Six 8-ary signal sets and 11 16-ary signal sets are examined using the new symbol error probability formulas to determine best signal sets for fading channels     

Pilot-Symbol-Aided 16PSK and 16QAM for Digital Land Mobile Radio Systems

The paper proposes a novel pilot-symbol-aided (PSA) technique for fading compensation of digital signals in the mobile environments. In a PSA system, the data sequence at the transmitter is divided into frames of data. A pilot symbol from a known pseudoradom-symbol sequence is inserted periodically into a frame of data symbol for transmission. In a conventional PSA-receiver, these pilot symbols are extracted from the received signal and used to estimate the effects of signal distortion introduced in the fading channel. The resultant estimates are then used to correct the distortion effects in the received data frames. In the paper, a novel estimation technique that uses the data symbols as well as the pilot symbols is proposed. The technique has the major advantages of simple implementation and short storage-delay time. Results are presented in a series of computer-simulation tests. These assess the effectiveness of the estimation technique on the BER performances of a 16-ary phase-shift keyed (16PSK) and a 16-ary quadrature-amplitude modulated (16QAM) signals in the frequency-selective and frequency-nonselective Rayleigh fading channels. The channels are corrupted by co-channel interference or additive white Gaussian noise. Results of differential-detected 16PSK and star-16QAM signals are also presented for comparison. It has been shown that, the use of PSA technique can significantly improve the bit-error-rate performances of the systems, relative to those using differential detection.     

基于HHT和支持向量机的数字调制信号识别

提出了一种基于HHT和支持向量机的实际数字调制信号识别算法。首先介绍了HHT方法的基本原理，对三种数字调制信号进行分析，提出用于识别实际FSK，PSK和QAM信号的特征参数，然后运用支持向量机算法分类三种数字调制信号，仿真结果表明，在信噪比10dB时，识别率达95％以上。     

Bit-interleaved coded modulation with iterative decoding using constellation shaping over Rayleigh fading channels

We propose to investigate the performance of bit-interleaved coded modulation with iterative decoding (BICM-ID) over Rayleigh fading channel by using constellation shaping (CS). The (CS) is implemented by inserting shaping block codes between mapping and channel coding functions, in order to generate non-equiprobable distribution of a 16-ary QAM signal constellation. Simulation results carried out on 2-bit/s/Hz 16-QAM BICM-ID indicate that is possible to obtain a gain of 1.2 dB at a BER of 10^-3 compared to the equiprobable 16-QAM BICM-ID schemes. It is also shown that, the error floor level can reduced by applying the signal space diversity technique.