Questions tagged [bandwidth]
the difference between the upper and lower frequencies in a contiguous set of frequencies
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Loop bandwidth for symbol timing recovery
I am trying to design the Symbol timing recovery (STR) block of DVBS Receiver.
How should I chose the loop bandwidth and damping ratio for determining the loop filter coefficients $k_1$ and $k_2$?
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Find the Equivalent Noise Bandwidth
I have already asked (in another thread) how to quantify (specify) the window function I have created. One figure I need it seems is the Equivalent Noise Bandwidth (ENBW) Or Noise Equivalent Bandwidth....
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Is there a condition for bandpass sampling?
Consider a signal that has lowest frequency component $F_l$ and highest frequency component $F_h$.
According to the theory of bandpass sampling, this signal can be sampled and succesfully recoverd if ...
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Bounds of the derivative of a bounded band-limited function
Let $f(t)$ be a function with properties:
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t\in\mathbf{R}&t\text{ is in reals}\\
f(t)\in\mathbf{R}\text{ for all } t&f(t)\text{ is in reals}\\
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Interpolation of magnitude of discrete Fourier transform (DFT)
For example for peak frequency finding, it seems valid to use band-limited interpolation methods on the complex DFT bins, or separately on their real and imaginary parts and to calculate the ...
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The necessity of null subcarrier in OFDM?
In looking to LTE specifications, with the subcarrier spacing $\Delta f = 15 \textrm{kHz}$,
for bandwidth $10 \textrm{MHz}$, fft size $N_{fft} = 1024$ that needs a sampling rate $F_s \geq 1024 \times ...
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Does "keying on" a sine wave at a zero-crossing reduce its bandwidth?
I understand that a pure sine wave of infinite duration occupies no bandwidth, i.e. it is only the modulation of a carrier that gives it sidebands. Does the exact timing of a sudden modulation make ...
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OFDM use a pulse shaping filter or not?
I've heard in various literature that band limited channels use pulse shaping filters. By the way, In OFDM it use a cyclic prefix to overcome ISI, so I wonder if OFDM does not use pulse shaping filter....
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Meaning of frequency and bandwidth of a signal, despite the fact that we do not know the signal
First of all, I am completely new to the domain of signal processing.
As far as I know, a signal can be represented with an infinite integral of infinitesimal complex exponentials, which is known as a ...
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Relation between Bandwidth and Baud-Rate for 8-PSK
I have a query on relationship between Baud Rate and Bandwidth for 8-PSK.
In 8-PSK as 3 bits together form a symbol, so Bandwidth = 2R/3 , R is Bit Rate
As bit ...
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Why is bandwidth always limited in a real (physical) channel?
I'm talking about a continuous analog channel.
Why can't it support infinite bandwidth?
Is there a physics reasons for it say for electrical signals?
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Specify notch bandwidth by pole placement
I am trying to implement a notch filter by placing zeros and poles. I found in this thread how to specify the frequency to be filtered out (referred to as $\omega_n$ in previous link,) but it is not ...
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How bandwidth is used in modulation
In a typical Digital cable environment in the US, the spectrum is divided into 6MHz bands. When a tuner locks to a signal at say 800MHz, I would assume that the band for that signal is 797 - 803 MHz. ...
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How to calculate bandwidth require for OFDM
I read LTE PHY profile and do not understand the relationship between number of FFT and bandwidth. For example LTE downlink channel bandwidth 1.25MHz and 5MHz have 128 FFTs and 512 FFTs accordingly. ...
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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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Why is the bandwidth doubled with AM?
Let's say I have an arbitrary signal which has the following frequency spectrum and a bandwidth of BNF:
Now I use Amplitude Modulation to transport the signal. The frequency spectrum will change ...
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How to calculate the required bandwidth from a spectrum diagram? [FM]
For example from this diagram.
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Essential Bandwidth of rect(t/T)
Here is a question I have been trying to solve:
Estimate the "essential bandwidth" of a rectangular pulse
$$ g(t) = \operatorname{rect}\left(\frac{t}{T}\right), $$ with $T>0$, where this "...
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What is the bandwidth of a (real) sinusoidal tone, and pulse?
I would like to know how to go about calculating the bandwidth of:
A constant (real) sinusoidal tone
A (real) sinusoidal pulse.
The question is as simple as that, but I am having a hard time with ...
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Mathematical question that comes out of using bilinear transform
So this is related to the Cookbook and I tried solving it maybe two decades ago, gave up, and was reminded of the unsolved problem. But it's pretty damn straight forward, but I still got slogged down ...
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What is a $BT$ (Bandwidth-Time) product with reference to modulation?
I would like to know what does Bandwidth-Time product mean. I understand that Bandwidth ($B$) = 1/Symbol Time ($T$), hence $BT = 1$.
But how can it vary?
What is its significance?
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Bandwidth of a signal using MATLAB
I need to find the bandwidth the signal $x = 50 \operatorname{sinc}(125(t-10))^2$.
(Where $\operatorname{sinc}(x)=\dfrac{\sin (\pi x)}{\pi x}$ [normalized] or $\operatorname{sinc}(x)=\dfrac{\sin x}{x}...
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Value of power spectral density $N_0$ or effect of scaling bandwidth to SNR
I want to compare performance over AWGN channel of two systems that are exactly identical but their bandwidth. I will talk only about baseband system for sake of simplicity. For more details about ...
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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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Uncertainty principle - Duration bandwidth principle
In one of NPTEL courses about time-frequency analysis, the professor said that the duration bandwidth principle is $\sigma_t^2 \sigma_\omega^2 \ge \frac{1}{4}$.
He added that the formula making use ...
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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. ...
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Infinite extent of spectrum, but also in time in Oppenheim's Discrete Time Signal Processing?
In Oppenheim's Discrete Time Signal Processing there's on p. 323 no limited band in both time and frequency - wouldn't that violate the Heisenberg Principle?
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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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Root mean square bandwidth of a signal with flat spectrum
I am trying to derive a simple expression for root-mean-square bandwidth $B_{\rm rms}$ for a signal that has flat spectral density over its entire bandwidth $B$. The expression for the $B_{\rm rms}$ ...
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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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Total bandwidth in a network calculation
I have data on the number of devices in a wired network and the data rates on links among these devices. I also know the positions of these devices from which I can compute the distances between the ...
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Confused on Pulse Filter Bandwidth and Symbol Rate Relation
***Still need help in 2021 - not fully clear still on Jan 20th ***
I am confused about the relation between Sinc and Rectangle transform pair and how that relates the Bandwidth of Pulses, Bandwidth of ...
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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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What's the theoretical bandwidth?
A radio signal is sampled at $f_{s}=5512$ Hz, and $n=2^{14}=16384$ points are used in the FFT to display it as a spectrogram.
The frequency resolution is $\frac{f_{s}}{n}=0.33642578125$ Hz/point, ...
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Zigbee spectrum calculation
I have information related to the wired network topology in a room with the dimensions 50x10x20m. This includes the virtual link information containing source, target and datarate on a particular link....
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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,
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Bandwidth of a trimmed sinus wave
I generate a sinus which duration is 15ms and frequeuncy of 13KHz. Is its bandwidth is (1/15ms) ? Or in other words, BW = 66.6Hz?
I ask that because I have two freqs in my system: 13K & 13.1K.
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