Date of Award
2011
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Engineering Science
Program
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Supervisor
Dr. Raveendra Rao
Abstract
M-ary chirp modulations, both discontinuous- and continuous-phase, for M-ary data transmission are proposed and examined for their error rate performances in additive, white, Gaussian noise (AWGN) channel. These chirp modulated signals are described and illustrated as a function of time and modulation parameters. M-ary chirp modula tion with discontinuous phase is first proposed and then the M-ary Continuous Phase Chirp Modulation (MCPCM) is considered. General descriptions of these modula tion systems are given and properties of signals representing these modulations are given and illustrated. Optimum algorithms for detection of these signals in AWGN are derived and structures of optimum receivers are identified. Using the minimum Euclidean distance criterion in signal-space; upper bounds on Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR) gain relative to Multiple Phase Shift Keying (MPSK) are established for 2-.
*4-, and 8-ary MCPCM systems. It is observed that the maximum likelihood coherent and non-coherent receivers for MCPCM are non-linear and require multiple-symbol observations. Since symbol error probability performance analyses of these receivers are too complex to perform, union upper bounds on their performances are derived and illustrated as a function of SNR, number of observation symbols, and modulation parameters for MCPCM. Optimum 2-, 4-, and 8-ary modulation schemes that mini mize union upper bound on symbol error rates have been determined and illustrated. Our results show that 2-, 4-, and 8-ary optimum coherent MCPCM systems, with 5-symbol observation length, offer 1.6 dB, 3.6 dB, and 8 dB improvements relative to 2-ary, 4-ary, and 8-ary PSK systems, respectively. Also, it is shown that opti mum 2-ary and 4-ary non-coherent MCPCM systems can outperform 2-ary and 4-ary coherent PSK systems, respectively.
Recommended Citation
Alsharef, Mohammad A., "M-ary Chirp Modulation for Data Transmission" (2011). Digitized Theses. 3443.
https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/digitizedtheses/3443