Diversidade de modulação aplicada a canais com múltiplos percursos.

Abstract

The wireless channel has characteristics of multipath fading,due to reflections and scattering that the signal suffers over the propagation path. Fading is considered one of the main causes of performance degradation of a mobile communications system, as it strongly depends on the channel through which the signal is transmitted. Modulation diversity is a bandwidth-efficient technique that consist on the rotation of the digital signal constellation. assiciated with the interleaving of the in-phase and quadrature modulation components. The objective of the modulation diversity technique is to mitigate the effects of fading in wireless communications The results present simulations of multipath scenarios, that is, the signal is transmitted through multiple channels, each one associated with a stochastic fading factor and random delay Biterrorratesareevaluatedandcomparedforforeightdifferentscenarioswithandwithout intersymbolicinterference,fromonetosixpaths,withandwithoutlineofsight,for4-PSKand 8-PSKdigitalmodulationschemes. Transmissionbiterrorratevalues,withandwithouttheuse ofmodulationdiversityarecompared,astoevaluatethegainofthisdiversitytechniqueforsuch scenarios. Also, an analysis is performed to obtain the optimum rotation angle for the mentioned constellations, considering the different multipath scenarios. In this regard, concepts of digital modulation schemes, multiple paths, probability distributions, communication channels and diversity techniques are used.