Modulation and demodulation

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To transmit complex value over a real channel, we first take the real part of the signal and modulate
it with a complex exponential of frequency at the carrier frequency.

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We first perform the modulation with the complex exponential at the carrier frequency, then take the
real part of the resulting signal.

At the receiver, to demodulate the signal, we multiply the received continuous-time signal with a
cosine and sine function at the carrier frequency. The resulting spurious component in the spectrum
are removed by lowpass filtering.

Design example

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The capacity of a channel is a theoretical bound. In practice, we can transmit a signal at a higher
rate than this bound.

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The capacity of a channel is a theoretical bound and, as such, is a limitation on the number of bits
per second we can transmit over this channel.

The capacity of a channel is a theoretical bound. In practice, we can transmit a signal at a higher
rate than this bound.

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The capacity of a channel is a theoretical bound and, as such, is a limitation on the number of bits
per second we can transmit over this channel.
The capacity of a channel is a function of the SNR and the channel bandwidth.

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Shannon theorem is constructive. Not only we know the capacity of a channel but we have a mean
to design a system that achieve this capacity.

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Shannon theorem is not constructive and does not give a practical system that archieves this bound.

Reciever design

How does the receiver estimate characteristics of a channel?

By sending the parameters of the channel estimated by the transmitter at the beginning of the
message.

By fixing the parameters in the hardware implementation as standards.

By sending at the beginning of a transmission a sequence known to the receiver.

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Adaptive equalization

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Adaptive equalization is used to compensate distortions introduced by the communication channel.

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Channel characteristics change over time. This is the reason why an adaptive solution is needed.

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ADSL design

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The first letter of the ADSL acronym stands for asymmetric. The portion of the spectrum for up- and
downstream are not equal.

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ADSL uses a series of independent sub channels because the overall channel is hard to
characterise.

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Each subchannel implements an independent QAM modulation scheme.

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Each subchannel has an associated independent antenna, that operates optimally in the frequency
range of the channel.

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All sub channel outputs are summed and the real part of this sum is sent to a single antenna. This is
possible because the signals are in different frequency bands, in other terms orthogonal and can
thus be separated again at the receiver.
Discrete multitone modulation

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DMT is just an efficient implementation based on the IDFT of the bank of modems.

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NN is the upsampling factor.

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NN is the number of subchannels and 2N2N the upsamling factor.

DMT is implemented at the receiver.

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DMT is implemented at the transmitter.