Questions tagged [bandwidth]
the difference between the upper and lower frequencies in a contiguous set of frequencies
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Nyquist Maximum data rate formula for PCM
The Nyquist maximum data rate formula for a binary PCM is given by
$$C = 2B\log_2L$$
I'm not very sure what "$B$" is here. Is it the bandwidth of the signal being sampled or is it the channel ...
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Find Bandwith from Spectral Efficiency and Eb/N0
to give you a short intro of why I am asking here. My Uni is offering a TeleCom Lecture, I love the topic but all they teach is electronics, the exercise sheets are still TeleCom, we get no supporting ...
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Bandwidth of a finite impulse response filter
In a machine learning application, a model learns to apply a filter h(n) via convolution to a 1-dimensional input signal s(n) (e....
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Calculating Data Rate using Bandwidth, Transmission Power, Noise Power Spectrum Density and Channel Gain
I'm a Software Engineering student researching on Load Balancing in IoT and I need to calculate data rate. However, I don't know how to use these values to attain data rate despite searching on the ...
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What is a transmission rate of 802.11a WIFI radio?
I am trying to understand the transmission rate at which a WiFi radio sends its packets to other radios ?
Like in DSRC (which is 802.11p system) , DSRC Radio broadcasts its message 10 times a second ...
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Notch Filter with given Bandwidth
I have to use Matlab with the iirnotch()-function to design a notch filter. The notch should sit at 520Hz, the Bandwidth should be 100Hz and I have a sampling ...
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Binary Polar vs 4-PAM Signalling
Why is binary polar signalling not feasible for a data rate of 2.0Mbps within a bandwidth not exceeding 1MHz?
Is it due to the fact that binary signalling can only transfer 1 bit of data per symbol ...
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Appropriate channel bandwidth for my BPSK modulated Psuedo-Random code on direct conversion transceiver
My hardware is an analog device SDR+Xilinx FPGA (sdr = fmcomms4-ebz). The direct conversion transceiver (ad9364) has a tunable channel bandwidth of 200Khz - 56Mhz. I am employing BPSK modulation on a ...
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QPSK Data Rate vs Bandwidth at Passband: Why can it only transmit 1 bit per Hz and not 2 bits per Hz?
1) This is a follow up question to the most up-voted answer to this question.
2) The accepted answer is that "QPSK transmits 1 bit per Hz at passband".
3) The theory found in books seems to agree ...
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Chirp resolution as a function of bandwidth
My question concerns about the Chirp resolution during the crosscorrelation as a function of the sampling rate and available bandwidth. Suppose at a transmitter a chirp signal is transmitted (ranging ...
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How is frequency related to data rate?
How does (if it does) frequency affect/relates to Data Rate.
Why for example using the same modulation, LoRa (in the physical layer),
you get somewhere around 250kbps at 2.4Ghz and only 20kbps at ...
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What is the meaning of inverse signal bandwidth?
I have been studying the two ray model in communication systems.
The text I'm studying has two signals, $u(t)$, which is Line of Sight and $u(t-t')$, which is the reflected signal.
It quotes,
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Noise power and bandwidth
$$N=kTB$$
In this formula for calculating noise power, why do we use the total bandwidth of the system?
I mean our signal is at $f_0$ carrier frequency, why is it effected by a large bandwidth and ...
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Minimum Channel Bandwidth for PCM
Please check if my answer to GATE IN 2010 question 11.20 is correct/can be improved upon.
So, every $\frac{1}{f_s}$ sec, a sample is taken. The signal amplitude is quantized into $2^n$ levels such ...
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Passband vs Baseband Bandwidth
Bandwidth is the difference between the upper and lower frequencies in
a continuous band of frequencies. A key characteristic of bandwidth is
that any band of a given width can carry the same ...
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Bandwidth of the Derivative of a Message [duplicate]
If I have a message signal $m(t)$ and it has a bandwidth $B$. I know that the bandwidth of $m^N(t)$ is $NB$. But what is the bandwidth of $\frac{d m(t)}{dt}$?
Thanks!
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Bounds of the difference of a bounded band-limited function
For a continuous signal (function), we have Bernstein inequality :
$$
|{df(t)}/dt| \le 2AB\pi
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where $A=\sup|f(t)|$ and $B$ is the bandwidth of $f(t)$. The question is: is there a relationship ...
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What is an intuitive understanding of the difference between the minimum required bandwidth and actual bandwidth?
When using for example, polar signaling of full width rectangular pulses, the bandwidth is equal to the pulse rate $Rb$, which is also the bit rate.
$B=R_b$ for full width rectangular pulses.
But ...
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Quantization level versus bandwidth [closed]
Why is it that increasing the number of quantization levels $L$ results in an increase in the signal's bandwidth?
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Bounds of the derivative of a bounded band-limited function
Let $f(t)$ be a function with properties:
$$\begin{array}{ll}
t\in\mathbf{R}&t\text{ is in reals}\\
f(t)\in\mathbf{R}\text{ for all } t&f(t)\text{ is in reals}\\
|f(t)|<A\text{ for all }t&...
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Why Shannon Theorem has nothing to do with frequency?
According to Shannon theorem
$$C= B \log _2(1 + S/N)$$
My question is, why there is no frequency in this formula?
Let's say we have 2 channels, both of them have same 20 MHz bandwidth,
one is from ...
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Modulation and allocation in GSM900
I want to do one project and I just want to make sure that I've understood correctly.
Human's voice frequency is around 85-255Hz.
When we talk on phone, carrier is modulated with voice signal in ...
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Intersymbol interference due to limited channel bandwidth
What is the difference between limited-bandwidth induced intersymbol interference (ISI) and ISI due to multipath propagation.
I noticed that the delay spread in indoor environment is in the range of ...
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How can I design a PI controller for a closed loop system, which requires a bandwidth equal to the natural frequency and a set Phase Margin?
For a school project I have to hand in a small report on a this problem. I've been studying so much for it but right now I'm just mixing up everything I've seen and just don't know where to start. I'd ...
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How Does the RMS of White Noise Change with Sampling Frequency?
There is an analog system which includes the continuous-time linear equalizer (CTLE). With some .noise analysis the power-spectral density (PSD) of the noise in that system is provided. So let's not ...
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Bandwidth of Information Signal
I have trouble finding the bandwidth of a signal. Say I have an info bearing signal m(t)=sinc(2t/pi). I found the fourier transform of the sinc function and found that the angular frequency was 1/pi. ...
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Separate speech signals that are bandlimitted
I have 2 kind of signals (refer figures) in a folder. One is band limited to 4khz and another is band limited to 8khz, both are with sampling frequency 16khz. I need to separate them. Any idea??
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Short length windowed sinc filter
I have a 50-60Hz signal being sampled at a frequency of 25 kHz & I'm trying to filter all frequencies beyond 70 Hz with a reasonable steep transition band (approx 4 Hz) & good attenuation (~40+...
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Wavelet central frequency
What is the definition of the central frequency of a Wavelet and the bandwidth of a Wavelet? How do they affect the resultant waveform of the wavelet?
Thanks.
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Condition for modelling noise as white noise
I am reading a book on Communication System by Simon Haykin. In the topic of white noise there is a paragraph
"We may state that as long as the bandwidth of noise process at input of a system is ...
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Could 2 synchronised RX chains be used to receive a signal too wide for just one of them?
Say the goal is to demodulate a "wide" signal, e.g. 300 MHz wide. An SDR is available with a maximum RX bandwidth of 150 MHz (ADC sampling freq. limitation), but it comes with 2 RX channels sharing ...
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Bandwidth of product of two signals
POINT 1: According to convolution theorem, if g1(t) has a bandwidth B1 and g2(t) has a bandwidth B2, then product g1(t)g2(t) has a bandwidth = B1 + B2.
POINT 2: Now, consider an AM waveform s(t)=g(t)...
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Parseval's Theorm and Effective Bandwidth
This question says that RMS bandwidth (effective bandwidth) is defined based on the carrier frequency of a signal. This makes intuitive sense to me that the carrier frequency shouldn't determine the ...
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Understanding the definition of signal's bandwidth
In class, we have defined bandwidth of a signal as the difference between the maximal and minimal frequency. Also, our tutor explained that the bandwidth indicates how fast the signal is changing.
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Estimating the bandwidth of various signals
I am trying to estimate the bandwidth of different signals, with different modulations, as seen in a PSD graph. I've heard about a "$3\ \rm dB$ rule" in this context. I don't need extreme accuracy. ...
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The number of bits per symbol is less than one
For a channel of bandwidth B Hz and signal-to-noise ratio of S/N, i have used Shannon-formula to calculate the maximum channel capacity C. For transmitting at the nyquist baud rate (2 symbol/sec), ...
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“Capacity” concept in Shannon Theorem
I have a question about the Shannon Theorem. According to this theorem the maximum capacity of a link can be calculated with the formula:
$$C=B\log_2(1+S/N)$$
where $B$ is the bandwidth and $S/N$ is ...
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Clarification on how bandwidth effects input signal
I know that the system bandwidth is the maximum range of frequencies that a system can handle. Is the reason that the input signal gets distorted as the bandwidth decreases a result of fewer segments ...
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How to calculate transfer rate and needed bandwidth
I have two questions:
1- If I want to transfer a photo via bluetooth, how should I find how long it takes to transfer? I mean the formula between the image size, bluetooth bandwidth and time.
2- If ...
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Time-Bandwidth Product
The following text is cited from a textbook, "Spotlight Mode Synthetic Aperture Radar: A Signal Processing Approach", I would like to ask if anyone knows the proof to the following statements, as the ...
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How to calculate bandwidth of a wire, “air” or other channels?
I'm really curious of how engineers identify what is the frequency range that could be sent through "wire" as channel? Do they put wire in front of them and make test that consists of sending ...
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Information in GFSK signal
I was measuring a Bluetooth LE Signal, particullary a Channel with center frequency 2402 MHz and Bandwidth of 2 MHz, 2401 - 2403 MHz.
Those measurement points are just the highest peaks.
In the ...
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Why does BLE require twice the bandwidth of Bluetooth Classic?
Bluetooth Classic Basic Rate sends data at a rate of 1 Mbps using GFSK modulation in 1 MHz-wide data channels. Bluetooth Low Energy also transmits at that same data rate and modulation, however, it ...
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How does one compute the band width of a signal in the time domain $x(t)$?
Sorry if this is a super easy question, I am really not a signals guy (more of a statistician, computer scientist). But I was trying to reconstruct/learn a sinusoidal function $x(t)$ with linear ...
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What is the definition of the bandwidth of a signal?
I was reading over the famous Nyquist–Shannon sampling theorem and I was trying to understand what the term bandwidth meant rigorously (exactly) with no ambiguity. In this site the define it as follow:...
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Bandwidth and Bit rate
I'm kind of confused about digital transmission.
Is the bandwidth occupied by some digital signal the Fourier spectrum of the bit (pulse) format,or the one determined by the bit rate?
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Computing overall bitrate of a transmitter with a two chunks package
I'm programming a digital communication system in MATLAB and I have a two chunk package, let's say a header and a body, and I'm using a different channel code for each chunk, i. e. BHC1 and BCH2. But ...
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Correct way to add AWGN to a signal
I have a signal, S whose bandwidth is bw Hertz and is sampled at fs Hertz.
To contaminate it with a noise corresponding to SNR <...
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What does $[-\pi \; \pi]$ band-limited signal mean?
I know that a band-limited signal is a signal which have a limited set of frequencies.
What is then the relation between band limiting and $[-\pi \; \pi]$ since $-\pi$ and $\pi$ are related to ...
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Bandwidth confusion
Let's imagine that I took a Fourier analysis of a random voice signal that I want to sample and plotted it's frequency components in frequency domain (frequency vs amplitude). Now I want to sample it. ...
