EEE310 Communication Theory

09-Effect of Noise on
Analog Modulation Systems II
DR. THILINI RAJAKARUNA
Analog Modulation Systems:
Noise in Communication Systems
Ideal Low-Pass Filtered White Noise, Narrow-band Noise
Effect of noise on,
Conventional Amplitude Modulation,
Double-Sideband Suppressed Carrier AM (DSB-SC),
Single-Sideband AM (SSB), Vestigial-Sideband AM (VSB)

Ref:
Communication Systems, Simon Hykin, 4E
Communication Systems Engineering, John G. Proakis, M. Salehi, 2E

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Noise in Communication Systems
Performance of a communication system is constrained by,

• Transmission bandwidth, and power

• Presence of noise.

Bandwidth is a resource that must be conserved as much as possible (very expensive in the
commercial market)

Noise: the unwanted and beyond our control waves that disturb the transmission of signals

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Noise on linear modulation systems

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Performance of linear-modulation systems
in the presence of noise
 The noise performance of the various types of bandpass systems is examined by
evaluating the signal-to-noise power ratio at the receiver output, (SN)out, when a
modulated signal plus noise is present at the receiver input.

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Effect of Noise on a Baseband System
 Receiver consists only of a lowpass filter with bandwidth W. The noise power at the
output of the receiver is,

 denote the received power by PR, the baseband SNR is given by,

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Single-sideband (SSB) AM
Modulated signal,

where 𝑚(𝑡) is the Hilbert transform of 𝑚(𝑡). Hilbert transform has impulse
response h(t) = 1/πt and frequency response,

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Single-sideband (SSB) AM

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Single-sideband (SSB) AM signal:
positive frequencies

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Bandwidth of SSB AM Signal

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Example:

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Demodulation of SSB AM Signals
 Received signal, multiplied with a locally generated sinusoid cos(2πfct + φ),

 Output of lowpass filter,

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Summary

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Vestigial-Sideband (VSB) AM
 DSB modulation technique takes twice the bandwidth of m(t)
 SSB technique is too expensive to implement. Works satisfactorily for an
information-bearing signal (e.g., speech signal) with an energy gap
centered around zero frequency
 VSB is obtained by partial suppression of one of the sidebands of a DSB
signal.
 Transmission bandwidth of a VSB modulated signal is defined the vestige
bandwidth and W, the message bandwidth.
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Vestigial-Sideband (VSB) AM
 Generate a DSB-SC AM signal and passing it through a sideband filter with
frequency response H( f ),

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VSB-shaping filter

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Practical VSB Shaping filter

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