New Pulse Shapes for Enhanced Spectral Efficiency in Digital Radio Communications

Abstract

Linear modulation schemes such as phase shift keying (PSK) and quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) are inherently spectrally efficient. This research seeks enhanced spectral efficiency by designing new spectrally efficient pulse shapes for such digital modulations. The pulses designed are of finite duration and exhibit zero intersymbol interference when received through an additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channel. It is shown that the resulting communications signals have optimal spectral roll-off while maintaining optimum bit error ratio performance when received via an AWGN channel. The bandwidths and power spectral densities of communications signals using these pulses are compared with tranditional spectrally efficient communications signals.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 2007
Accession Number
ADA474346

Entities

People

  • Nga C. Wei

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Amplitude Modulation
  • Artificial Satellites
  • Bandwidth
  • Command And Control
  • Communication Systems
  • Computational Complexity
  • Data Rate
  • Digital Communications
  • Efficiency
  • Engineering
  • Frequency Domain
  • Frequency Shift
  • Gaussian Noise
  • Intersymbol Interference
  • Modulation
  • Radio Communications
  • Satellite Communications

Fields of Study

  • Engineering
  • Physics

Readers

  • Radio communications and signal processing.