Rician flat-fading channel – simulation

In wireless environments, transmitted signal may be subjected to multiple scatterings before arriving at the receiver. This gives rise to random fluctuations in the received signal and this phenomenon is called fading. The scattered version of the signal is designated as non line of sight (NLOS) component. If the number of NLOS components are sufficiently … Read more

QAM Modulation using Karnaugh-map walks

This article focused on constructing constellation for rectangular QAM modulation using Karnaugh-map walks. Exploit inherent property of Karnaugh-maps to construct Gray coded QAM constellation points. M-ary Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (M-QAM) In MQAM modulations, the information bits are encoded as variations in the amplitude and the phase of the signal. The M-QAM modulator transmits a series … Read more

QAM modulation: simulate in Matlab & Python

A generic complex baseband simulation technique, to simulate all M-ary QAM modulation techniques is given here. The given simulation code is very generic, and it plots both simulated and theoretical symbol error rates for all M-QAM modulation techniques. Rectangular QAM from PAM constellation There exist other constellation shapes (like circular, triangular constellations) that are more … Read more