A Burst Modulation/Demodulation Method for Narrowband Ubiquitous Communication Systems
T. Fujita, Daisei Uchida, Yosuke Fujino, Osamu Kagami, K. Watanabe · IEICE Transactions on Communications · 2008
This paper presents a wireless burst modulation/demodulation method for narrowband ubiquitous communication systems. This method especially suits those systems, whose traffic is especially dominated by short frame bursts. The proposed modulation method provides a preamble-less frame structure with training symbols, which improves both transmission efficiency and burst synchronization performance. Moreover, the proposed demodulation method achieves superior burst synchronization performance in low carrier-to-noise power ratio (CNR) environments by applying a synchronization method that includes symbol timing recovery, slot synchronization, carrier frequency correction and channel tracking. In addition, this paper presents the result of experiments on hardware prototypes of the proposed modulator and demodulator. The basic operation and practical performance of the proposed method is confirmed through testbed studies.