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5.2-3>Paper ID < 5.2-3>Paper ID < Amplitude-DQPSK Modulation for High-Data-Rate Terrestrial Digital Multimedia Broadcasting Dae-Ken Kwon*, Hyoung-Nam Kim*, Member, IEEE, Hyoungsoo Lim**, Jong Soo Lim** *Dept. of Electronics Engineering, Pusan National University, Busan 609-735, Korea, E-mail:[email protected] ** Broadcasting System Research Group, ETRI, Daejeon 305-350, Korea Im(x) Abstract - Amplitude-DQPSK modulation method is proposed Im(x) for a high-data-rate T-DMB system with the backward compatibility to existing receivers. Simulation results show that α β ββ the proposed A-DQPSK can be a good choice to achieve high- 1a a2 a3 data rate over other possible modulation schemes. Re(x) Re(x) I. INTRODUCTION Terrestrial Digital Multimedia Broadcasting (T-DMB) service was launched in Korea to provide an effective solution (a) (b) for mobile broadcasting. The T-DMB system is based on the Fig. 1. Constellation diagrams. (a) DAPSK, (b) A-DQPSK. European Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB) system known as Eureka-147 [1] which adopts Coded Orthogonal Frequency Binary Data DQPSK OFDM Symbol (conventional) Mapping x Generator Division Multiplexing (COFDM) and Differential Quadrature Phase Shift Keying (DQPSK). As well as audio services in Binary Data DASK (additional) Mapping DAB, T-DMB has provided video services almost the same as (a) terrestrial DTV contents with the enhanced bit error immunity Binary Data DQPSK x OFDM Symbol obtained by additional Reed-Solomon coding and (conventional) Mapping Generator convolutional interleaving of MPEG-4 encoded video data [2]. Binary Data ASK Amplitude The quality of video service in T-DMB is originally VCD- (additional) Mapping pilot insertion like on 5-7 inch LCD display, and maximum picture ASK Modulation Block resolution is 352× 288 [3]. This resolution may be acceptable (b) in current services for handheld or small vehicle-equipped Fig. 2. T-DMB transmission system. (a) DAPSK, (b) A-DQPSK modulation. receivers. However, T-DMB service is expected to be channels where the channel coefficients are relatively constant extended to public transportation, such as buses, trains, and over at least two consecutive symbol intervals. In fast fading excursion ships, most of which are equipped with large-size channels caused by high-speed moving receivers, however, display. The data rate of the current T-DMB system is this condition does not hold. insufficient for an appropriate quality of video service on such As a good candidate for the modulation scheme of a high- large-size display. To solve this problem, the increase of the data-rate T-DMB system with the backward compatibility, we data rate of T-DMB has been recently considered. It is noted propose a novel modulation scheme of 16-Amplitude that the backward compatibility should be assured while the Differential Quadrature Phase Shift Keying (A-DQPSK) in transmission scheme would be modified for a high-data-rate which phase is modulated by DQPSK and amplitude is T-DMB system. modulated by amplitude shift keying (ASK). The proposed A typical way of increasing data rate is to increase the scheme of estimating channel spectral amplitudes in each number of constellation points. One of the easiest ways is to individual OFDM symbol is robust for fast fading channels. use multilevel modulation techniques, like 16-Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (QAM). 16-QAM uses a coherent II. TRANSMISSION SYSTEM FOR HIGH-DATA-RATE T-DMB modulation technique which generally estimates a channel with the help of pilot symbols [4]-[5]. Since the T-DMB A-DQPSK and DAPSK constellations are shown in Fig. 1. system does not include any available pilot symbols except for (a) and (b), respectively. In the DAPSK constellation, the phase reference symbols [2], 16-QAM may not be amplitude factor which characterizes the distance between appropriate for the modulation scheme of a high-data-rate T- amplitude circles has been optimized in [6] to set a = 1.4. In DMB system. Another considerable modulation scheme is the A-DQPSK constellation, two parameters of α and β Differential Amplitude Phase Shift Keying (DAPSK) [6], [7] which affect the backward compatibility and the bit error rate which does not require any pilot symbols, channel estimation, in the enhanced data rate T-DMB system have been to be or equalization. This simple method works well in slow fading α = 1.5 , β = 1, through extensive simulations. To maintain compatibility with existing receivers, conventional T-DMB data is modulated by DQPSK and additional data by This work was supported in part by the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), Korea. amplitude modulation. Conventional T-DMB receivers can 0 0 10 10 DQPSK,v =10km/h DQPSK,v =200km/h DAPSK,v =10km/h -1 DAPSK,v =200km/h -1 10 A-DPSK,v =10km/h 10 A-DPSK,v =200km/h -2 -2 10 10 BER BER -3 -3 10 10 DAPSK, v=10km/h DAPSK, v=200km/h A-DPSK, v=10km/h A-DPSK, v=200km/h -4 -4 10 10 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 SNRdB SNRdB Fig. 3. Comparison of the backward compatibility performance of DAPSK Fig. 4. Comparison of DAPSK and A-DQPSK in the high-data-rate T-DMB and A-DQPSK in the DQPSK demodulator. system. successfully demodulate A-DQPSK or DAPSK modulated modulation is severer than A-DQPSK. The reason is that the signal by regarding it as a DQPSK modulated signal. channel varies rapidly with the increase of vehicles speed Fig. 2 shows a high-data-rate T-DMB transmission system between two consecutive symbol intervals. This degrades the where amplitude modulated symbols are combined with the performance of the differential detection. The results mean conventional DQPSK symbols. In the DAPSK T-DMB system, that A-DQPSK is superior to other modulation schemes for DAPSK symbols in time domain is multiplied with DQPSK high-data-rate transmission. modulated symbols. In A-DQPSK, like the similar way to pilot symbol assisted modulation [4]-[5], amplitude pilots are IV. CONCLUSIONS inserted in the ASK modulation block. Whereas DQPSK We proposed an Amplitude-DQPSK modulation scheme for modulation used in the T-DMB prevents from inserting a high-data-rate T-DMB system and evaluated its performance known phase symbols, amplitude information can be used for comparing with DAPSK modulation. The backward data or known pilot transmission in the proposed scheme. compatibility to the DMB receiver was assured with less than Therefore, amplitude pilots make it possible to precisely 3-dB loss. A-DQPSK shows better BER performance than estimate channel amplitude response and the amplitude of the DAPSK, especially in mobile environment. The proposed received signal is equalized by using the estimated channel method may be considered as a good candidate for the coefficients. transmission scheme of a high-data-rate T-DMB system. III. 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