# Questions tagged [qpsk]

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### Questionable Eb/N0 results for different modulations - measurements for 8-PSK do not match the theory

I would like to warn you that this post will be long, so thank you in advance to everyone who reads it and is able to help. I am running a certain simulation. I created a measurement environment (...
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### Why is the bandwidth for this QPSK system larger than expected?

Below is my gnuradio-companion graph. As you can see the sample rate is 100k, I am modulating with QPSK, and am filtering the waveform (RRC) with the "Excess BW" parameter, at 0.35. The ...
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### Why 8-PSK modulation has higher Eb/N0 than QPSK or BPSK?

I run a transmitter/receiver simulation using QPSK, BPSK, and 8-PSK modulations. As far as I have noticed, the best SNR per bit results are obtained when simulating with 8-PSK modulation (and also at ...
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### Simulating Rayleigh channel - Problem with adding channel coefficents

I am currently trying to simulate a Rayleigh channel using python (numpy). Full Jupyter Notebook on GitHub: Jupyter Notebook I assume that the channel changes with each new symbol. So I create myself ...
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### Offset QPSK Demodulation using GnuRadio

I am currently trying to demodulate an Offset QPSK signal coming from a satellite using GNURadio. If I understood correctly, an OQPSK is a QPSK with one of the two bits per symbol delayed by half a ...
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### Trade-off in sample-rate & FFT-size & Doppler

I've got a stream of digital IQ samples let's say at $F_s = 1 MSPS$ that consist of a narrowband signal, in awgn. Let's say the signal BW is ~ 100Hz. The narrowband signal's center (or base) frequency ...
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### Transferring data over sound with QAM / QPSK

Been working on a FSK Modem in the last few weeks and have gotten it to work with 400bps, very reliable, atleast over a virtual audio cable, but it also works when playing a sound directly into a ...
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### QPSK transmission simulation

I am trying to simulate a QPSK transmission using GNU Radio following mpsk_stage6.grc example in Gnuradio tutorials. Currently I have no idea where is the problem and everytime I execute the flow ...
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### Packet Encoder GNU QPSK Transmission

Hello everyone!. This is a template to QPSK transmission but Packet Encoder block is no longer available in new GNURadio versions, what do I need to replace this block in order to do a QPSK ...
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### How to Tx CDMA signal physically using an existing point-to-point modem? [closed]

I am working in acoustic communication, I want to test CDMA network capabilities in acoustic environment. I had an acoustic modem that has serial interface, a WHOI micromodem. How can i serialized ...
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### Python code for QPSK modulator [closed]

Have any of you done anything like QPSK Modulation in python? I am in the middle of it and having problems in setting up bits? like odd and even bits. Have you got any idea? Regards, Sam
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### How are pulse trains generated in a radio transmitter?

When simulating a PSK signal in MATLAB or Python, I often create an impulse train where each impulse is modulated with a symbol. This modulated impulse train then passes through a pulse shape filter ...
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### How to plot BER Vs SNR of a received signal

I am using USRP to transmit and received MIMO frames similar to Wi-Fi standard that I created on my own. After receiving the signal, it is processed as described in the standard. While I plot the ...
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### MATLAB: Issue with passing data through AWGN Channel [closed]

I am trying to send QAM data through AWGN channel and I have 256 samples/symbol, I have the following code: ...
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### Phase Noise in Constellation Plot

I have the following phase noise plot (-100dBc/Hz @ 1MHz offset and -130dBc/Hz noise floor): The integrated phase jitter for this phase noise is around $4.6^\circ$. According to my understanding the ...
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### IQ Mismatch and Image

I was reading the following paper about direct conversion receivers from TI: link. In this paper they compare the performance of direct conversion and heterodyne receiver with IQ mismatch. The ...
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### Carrier Tracking Loop: Tracking noise vs Phase Noise Trade-off

I would like to compare two different implementations of carrier tracking loop which differ in the way phase detection happens in the PLL. I am using PSK modulation for the data. In the first ...
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### Signal Timing Recovery, Loop Bandwidth and SNR

As explained in the answer here, for the symbol timing recovery loop we need to keep loop bandwidth sufficiently below the modulation bandwidth of the signal so as to avoid the filtering of the signal ...
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### MATLAB: Generating a random bit stream in a frequency Band for PSK Modulation

I want to generate a pseudo-random bit stream in MATLAB in a given frequency band for PSK Modulation. I am using the idinput function to generate the bit stream: <...
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### Loop Bandwidth for Carrier Demodulation loop

I am trying to implement a simple MATLAB model for the demodulators for phase modulated signals (PSK) used in communication systems. For the detection of the phase modulated output (PM out in the ...
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### What is the QPSK Constellation Diagram used in LTE

I think the question is pretty straightforward. I have to do a class project that requires me to modulate a signal, and one of the steps is Quadrature Phase Shift Keying (QPSK). It is to be done in ...
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I am trying to simulate the effects of quantization of an ADC on different waveforms (e.g. QPSK,8PSK) in Simulink. For the case of QPSK the default BER curve would be generated with 2 bits per symbol ...
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### Modulation classification via demodulation confidence?

I'm not sure if this is the right place to post this question, but will try anyway :-) I recently started reading up on the field of automated modulation classification (AMC) where an algorithm ...
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### Digital Tanlock carrier recovery loop

I’m currently trying to understand a digital tanlock carrier recovery loop for QPSK (for example) I cannot understand how it works. For example we an ideal QPSK constellation. phi = atan2(Q/I) = pi/...
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I am trying to find a way to evaluate what would be the minimum sampling rate used in a modulated waveform using matlab / Simulink. The real scenario would be let say a M-PSK waveform of Y bandwidth ...
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### Burst QPSK demodulator

I am working in burst QPSK demodulator. I just want to double check if what I am doing is right. Large frequency feedforward recovery by FFT Carrier recovery Costas with 4 samples/symbol Timing ...
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### Nyquist sampling theorem / Nyquist - Shannon theorem evaluation over M-PSK

I am trying to simulate an M-PSK Tx-Rx System on Simulink and analyse what the effect of sampling rate reduction would have on it. More, particular I am trying to prove what Nyquist sampling theorem ...
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### Understanding Matlab's Automatic Gain Control function

I am trying to understand the automatic gain control block provided by the communications toolbox. The documentation is here: Documentation My questions are in regards to two of the configurable ...
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### Learning PSK Modulation and Demodulation - Good Text to Read?

Title sums it up. I am curious to see what you all suggest. I'm a newbie and just need some beginner/intermediate material. Thanks!
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### GNU Radio - Bandwidth and Band Reject Filter

I am currently trying to generate a psk modulated carrier with gnu radio. Attach is an image of my flow graph. As can be seen I am generating a bit stream using the Random Source module and ...
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### How to compare two 802.15.4 O-QPSK modulated digitals signals?

I am working on wireless sensors project and I am trying to simulate a transmission between two nodes. So let's say I have two nodes which transmit the message to each other, i.e. node 1 transmits ...
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### QPSK Phase Recovery : Maximum-likelihood Vs Costa's Loop

I have implemented a QPSK Costa's loop in GNU Radio and run some BER benchmarking. All is going well. Out of curiosity, I'm trying to implement the Maximum Likelihood phase recovery shown below. For ...
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### Offset QPSK detection in GNU Radio - Sample delay

An OQPSK detector is being tested in GNU Radio. The architecture was obtained from Michael Rice's Digital Communications - A discrete-time approach. The flowgraph is shown below. The modulator ...
I saw a code computing the error probability of QPSK, and I found that in this code the bit error rate is computed as symbol error rate divided by $2$. I think that $2$ is because the QPSK symbol ...