IEEE Access (Jan 2019)

Circular <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\theta$ </tex-math></inline-formula>-QAM: A Circle-Shaped QAM for Higher-Order Modulation

  • Seongjin Ahn,
  • Dongweon Yoon

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2946339
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7
pp. 149005 – 149012

Abstract

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This paper proposes M-ary circular θ-quadrature amplitude modulation (CTQAM) for M = 2l, l ≥ 4, which is constructed by rearrangement of the signal points based on θ-QAM. We provide a construction method for the signal constellation of CTQAM and analyze the symbol and bit error performances of M-ary CTQAM in additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) and Nakagami-m fading channels. Through computer simulations, we validate theoretical results.

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