The application discloses a
signal modulation method, a
demodulation method, a communication method, equipment and a
system, and belongs to the technical field of
wireless communication. The application decomposes a digital domain modulation process into three basic operations of
zero padding mapping, inverse
Fourier transform and point-by-point phase weighting.
Diagonal elements of a
chirp weighting matrix used for realizing the point-by-point phase weighting are unit modulus complex exponential terms, only point-by-point
phase rotation is applied to the
signal without changing the amplitude, and the orthogonal structure of the Fourier basis can be maintained. A
zero padding mapping matrix used for realizing the
zero padding mapping is used for mapping information symbols to predetermined
frequency domain positions in a dimensionally expanded
signal space, only a part of dimensions carry information, and the remaining dimensions are explicitly reserved as redundant dimensions, so that the
processing gain and the
data rate are decoupled, and the structured sparsity used for the
processing gain is directly constructed in the digital domain. By adjusting, a significant
processing gain is obtained, and the link quality and the
data transmission rate can be compatible under a low signal-to-
noise ratio condition.