• DocumentCode
    1182133
  • Title

    Minimisation of carrier frequency acquisition time in QAM systems

  • Author

    Gagnon, Ghyslain ; Choquette, F. ; Belzile, J. ; Gagnon, Francois

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electron., Carleton Univ., Ottawa, ON
  • Volume
    45
  • Issue
    5
  • fYear
    2009
  • Firstpage
    276
  • Lastpage
    277
  • Abstract
    Two recent carrier recovery loops for high-order quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) and optimisation of their parameters for minimum frequency acquisition times are analysed. All variations on the parameters were analysed and optimised to obtain optimal loop bandwidths and damping factors, for given signal-to-noise ratios. Simulation results show that after optimisation, the average acquisition time for 64-QAM is kept below 1000 symbols over the entire range of initial frequency offsets from 0 to 1/8 the symbol rate. This number increases to 3200 symbols for 256-QAM.
  • Keywords
    quadrature amplitude modulation; QAM system; carrier frequency acquisition time minimisation; damping factor; optimal loop bandwidth; quadrature amplitude modulation system; signal-to-noise ratio;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Electronics Letters
  • Publisher
    iet
  • ISSN
    0013-5194
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1049/el:20092690
  • Filename
    4796363