Noise-immunity processing of digital multilevel pulse-amplitude modulation signals

Abstract

Introduction. The main properties and features of spectral-effective multi-level pulse amplitude modulation digital signals at coherent reception are presented. It is shown that the phase locked loop circuit (PLL) circuit used in the receiver is able to work at SNR > 5 dB.Object of the paper. We propose a new scheme of noise compensator at an intermediate frequency, allowing us to obtain increasing of SNR on 15–25 dB when error of PLL is equal zero. The noise compensator has the gain 8–18 dB at error of PLL = 33° that is able to work at SNR = 5 dB. As result, we can obtain a required SNR for determined BER in systems with multi-level PAM.Conclusions. This technical solution makes a spectrally-efficient system using multi-level amplitude modulation is also energy efficient, forward-looking and competitive. The power transmitters of cell phones and radio relay lines of mobile communication systems can be reduced by 10 times or at the same transmitter power improvement the quality of communication or range is presented.