Shannon Limit

In AWGN (Additive White Guassian Noise),

( )
C = B log2 1 + S
N

( )
I SNR (dB) = 10 log10 S
N
I Can calculate
I limit to how much data can be sent
through bandwidth B.
I minimum SNR to be able to get given
datarate in given bandwidth B.

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 Capacity Trade Offs
Trade off of 3 variables
I BER (bit error rate)
( )
I Power Ef iciency
Eb
N 0

I Spectral Ef iciency (bps/Hz)

Channel C
capacity limit W

R/B (bits/s)/Hz M=64QAM

M=8PAM (SSB)
M = 16QAM
M=4PAM PSK
(SSB)
M=16

DPSK
M=8

M=4 PSK M=4

M=2 PAM
(SSB) For BER = 10E-5

M=2 M=2
5 10 15 20 25

SNR per bit - Eb/No (dB)

Based on Proakis ”Digital Communication”.

Modulation schemes (PSK, FSK, QAM) will be covered later.
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 Interesting Points

I Without noise - capacity would be

in inite. (Even with Interference)

I For a Probability of Error of 0.5, can

send in inite data, even with noise!

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