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Digital Modulation Techniques For Modern Communication Systems

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ABSTRACT

This project describes the different types of digital modulation techniques that are implemented in modern communication systems. Currently most of the wireless transmission and radio communication systems adapts digital modulation techniques because of its ability to provide high information capacity, better data encryption, greater noise immunity and easier multiplexing of different forms of inputs/information such as sound, video etc. All the experiments and data collected are obtained using software called Simulink. Digital modulation techniques have the ability to convey more information in the same channel than analog modulation techniques this also implies that same amount of data can be stored in less space. The basic techniques which include Amplitude shift keying, Phase Shift keying, Frequency Shift keying and Quadrature Phase shift keying have been demonstrated by creating a model using the blocks and channels available in the Simulink library. The signal used in all of the experiments which is to be transmitted is a randomly generated sequence of bits and the carrier signal used is a high frequency sinusoidal signal. All of these experiments vary a characteristic (frequency, amplitude and phase) of the carrier sinusoid to represent the signal that is to be transmitted. A separate communication system has been developed which accepts sound as input signal which is digitally modulated and the corresponding output is obtained accordingly.

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