Discrete-time communication system model

Key focus: Baseband communication system and its equivalent DSP implementation (discrete time model) with a pulse shaping & matched filter is briefly introduced.

If a train of pulses representing an information sequence need to be sent across a band-limited dispersive channel, the bandwidth of the channel should be large enough to accommodate the entire spectrum of the signal that is being sent. If we try to stuff the signal spectrum without proper pulse shaping into a band-limited channel, the spectrum of the received signal at the receiver will be truncated by the band-limiting nature of the channel. In time-domain, the energy of one pulse may spill to the time slot allocated for one or more adjacent pulses, leading to Inter-Symbol Interference (ISI) and therefore a source of error in the receiver.

ISI can be minimized by optimal signal design and the detection of a signal with known pulse shape that is buried in noise is a well-studied problem in communication. At the receiver, optimal signal detection is performed by a matched filter whose impulse response is matched to the impulse response of the pulse shaping filter employed at the transmitter.

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A typical baseband communication system and its equivalent DSP implementation (discrete time model) with a matched filter is shown in Figure 1. The interpolating filter at the transmitter is implemented in DSP as a chain of upsampler and a pulse shaping function. The upsampler inserts L-1 zeros between the successive incoming data samples and the pulse shaping filter fills in the zeros generated by the upsampler by using a pulse shaping function. On the other hand, the receiver contains a downsampler that keeps every Lth sample starting from a specified offset. The factor L denotes the oversampling factor or upsampling ratio which is given as the ratio of symbol period (Tsym) and the sampling period (Ts) or equivalently, the ratio of sampling rate Fs and the symbol rate Fsym as

A typical baseband communication system (top) and its equivalent DSP implementation (bottom)
Figure 1: A typical baseband communication system (top) and its equivalent DSP implementation (bottom)

The interpolating filter at the transmitter is implemented in DSP as a chain of upsampler and a pulse shaping function. The upsampler inserts zeros between the successive incoming data samples and the pulse shaping filter fills in the zeros generated by the upsampler by using a pulse shaping function. On the other hand, the receiver contains a downsampler that keeps every sample starting from a specified offset. The factor denotes the oversampling factor or upsampling ratio which is given as the ratio of symbol period () and the sampling period () or equivalently, the ratio of sampling rate and the symbol rate as

The implementation of impulse response of the most widely discussed pulsing shaping functions (filters) will follow in the next series of articles, followed by an example on a complete matched filter system with square-root raised-cosine pulse shaping.

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Topics in this chapter

Pulse Shaping, Matched Filtering and Partial Response Signaling
● Introduction
● Nyquist Criterion for zero ISI
● Discrete-time model for a system with pulse shaping and matched filtering
 □ Rectangular pulse shaping
 □ Sinc pulse shaping
 □ Raised-cosine pulse shaping
 □ Square-root raised-cosine pulse shaping
● Eye Diagram
● Implementing a Matched Filter system with SRRC filtering
 □ Plotting the eye diagram
 □ Performance simulation
● Partial Response Signaling Models
 □ Impulse response and frequency response of PR signaling schemes
● Precoding
 □ Implementing a modulo-M precoder
 □ Simulation and results

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Mathuranathan Viswanathan, is an author @ gaussianwaves.com that has garnered worldwide readership. He is a masters in communication engineering and has 12 years of technical expertise in channel modeling and has worked in various technologies ranging from read channel, OFDM, MIMO, 3GPP PHY layer, Data Science & Machine learning.

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