Sistema de comunicações com sinais m-QAM não – ortogonais

Abstract

This work presents studies on communication systems, whose signals used for transmission of information are non-orthogonal, overlapping in frequency and carrier spacing less than the rate of symbols. The research is aimed to obtain structures of transmitter, optimal and sub-optimal receivers using modeling and mathematical analysis of systems including the channel. Furthermore, propose strategies for symbol detection and performance evaluation. Seven strategies of reception to N signals m-QAM non-orthogonal through the AWGN channel. Among the strategies of detection two are optimal and the others five are suboptimal. The two optimal receivers structures presented in this paper are: the classical receiver maximum likelihood (ML) receiver and maximum likelihood based on the Gram-Schmidt decomposition. The suboptimal receivers in this work are of two types: receivers with linear and nonlinear equalization. The first type of receiver is developed based on the criteria of minimum mean square error (MMSE) and the zero forcing (ZF). It is presented the development of analytical design of each linear receiver architectures, as well as determined the error of the estimators. The receivers with nonlinear equalization are based on successive interference cancellation (SIC). In this paper, we propose a modification to the original algorithm of SIC, resulting in a new architecture of equalization. The performance of the proposed receivers is evaluated under different number of carriers and the degree of spectral overlap using computer simulation. Finally, we present the conclusions of this work and future prospects of the research.