Scribd
Upload
14 views1 page

Binary Amplitude Shift Keying Explained

The document discusses three different modulation schemes used for narrowband communication: amplitude shift keying (ASK), frequency shift keying (FSK), and phase shift keying (PSK). It describes ASK in more detail, where binary ASK maps the bit 1 to a sinusoidal carrier signal and the bit 0 to no signal. A string of bits is mapped to a sequence of pulses, with each pulse having a duration T and amplitude Ac if the corresponding bit is a 1, and 0 amplitude if the bit is a 0. Non-binary ASK schemes can map groups of bits to multiple amplitude levels of the carrier wave.

Uploaded by

de veron
Copyright
© All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
14 views1 page

Binary Amplitude Shift Keying Explained

The document discusses three different modulation schemes used for narrowband communication: amplitude shift keying (ASK), frequency shift keying (FSK), and phase shift keying (PSK). It describes ASK in more detail, where binary ASK maps the bit 1 to a sinusoidal carrier signal and the bit 0 to no signal. A string of bits is mapped to a sequence of pulses, with each pulse having a duration T and amplitude Ac if the corresponding bit is a 1, and 0 amplitude if the bit is a 0. Non-binary ASK schemes can map groups of bits to multiple amplitude levels of the carrier wave.

Uploaded by

de veron
Copyright
© All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd

1 0 1 0 1 1

Binary amplitude
shift keying

Binary frequency
shift keying

Binary phase
shift keying

0 T 2T 3T 4T 5T 6T

Figure 3.2: Illustration of binary ASK, FSK and PSK modulation schemes

3.2 Narrowband Communication

Communication through a narrowband channel involves the mapping of different signals to the
different values of the amplitude, frequency or phase of a sinusoidal electromagnetic wave which
is also called a carrier.

Amplitude Shift Keying

The simplest amplitude modulation scheme for narrowband channels is binary amplitude shift
keying (ASK) which corresponds to mapping the bit 1 to a sinusoidal signal and the bit 0 to no
signal at all. Then a string of bits {bk : k = 0, 1, . . . , N } can be mapped to a sequence of pulses
N
X
s(t) = pk (t − kT ) (3.3)
k=0

where each pulse has duration T and is given by


(
Ac sin(2πfc t) if bk = 1
pk (t) = (3.4)
0 if bk = 0

for t ∈ [0, T ], where Ac is the amplitude of the transmitted carrier and fc is the carrier frequency.
This is illustrated in Figure 3.2. Non-binary ASK schemes are also possible which involve the
mapping of groups of bits to multiple amplitude levels of the carrier wave.

22

You might also like