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http://dx.doi.org/10.5909/JBE.2009.14.6.733

Power Reduction of Multi-Carrier Transmission System by Using Multi-Dimensional Constellation Mappings  

Lee, Kyoung-Won (Dept. of Electronics and Computer Engineering, Cheonnam National University)
Kim, Jang-Hyun (Dept. of Electronics and Computer Engineering, Cheonnam National University)
Kim, Dae-Jin (Dept. of Electronics and Computer Engineering, Cheonnam National University)
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Journal of Broadcast Engineering / v.14, no.6, 2009 , pp. 733-741 More about this Journal
Abstract
The design rule of digital communication systems is the reliable data transmission with high spectral efficiency and minimum allowable power. This paper suggests the method that saves the average power by implementing a multi-dimensional constellation in case of multi-carrier communication system. By using multi-dimensional constellations we can relocate constellation points in the form of a sphere. If we simply convert the two-dimensional QAM modulation into multi-dimensional QAM, constellation points of 2 N dimensional cube form are made up. Relocating outermost constellation points of 2 N dimensional cube form into low energy constellation points, the constellation of the 2 N-dimensional sphere form is made up which decreases power consumption. In this paper, the multi-dimensional constellations of 2 N-dimensional sphere form are designed from 16-QAM to 2,048-QAM, and power reductions are obtained by comparing constellations of 2-dimensional QAMs and multi-dimensional constellations of 2 N-dimensional sphere form. The result shows that the average power consumption of higher dimensional constellations increases, because the more a dimension elevates, the more the relocatable constellation points increase. But, the increment of the average power savings decreases as the a dimension elevates. The transmission of the data by using multi-dimensional constellations of the sphere form is effective to save the average power consumption with little hardware complexity.
Keywords
Multi-carrier system; Multi-dimensional constellation; QAM;
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