FSK Modulation via Segmented Tone Allocation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional FSK modulation methods face a trade-off between modulation index and spectral efficiency, leading to poor bit error ratio (BER) performance in fading channels, especially at low data rates, where increasing modulation index to improve BER results in reduced spectral efficiency and vice versa.
Innovation Solution
The method involves modulating and demodulating FSK signals by adjusting the frequency division ratio to generate a desired output frequency, allowing for wider tone intervals while maintaining spectral efficiency, achieved through a channel selection-modulator, phase locked loop, and output unit that divides frequency channels into multiple tones and allocates different channels between them.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If the modulation index is increased to improve BER performance in fading channels, then the reliability is improved, but the bandwidth is increased and spectral efficiency is decreased
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the frequency channel into multiple sub-channels or tones, allowing the system to distribute the frequency deviation across these segments. This segmentation enables the maintenance of a large effective modulation index for reliability while keeping the bandwidth occupation of each segment manageable, thus preserving spectral efficiency.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent transitions from a single-dimensional frequency modulation approach to a multi-dimensional approach by utilizing multiple tones or sub-carriers. This dimensional expansion allows the system to achieve diversity gain and improved BER performance through frequency diversity while maintaining efficient spectral utilization through the structured arrangement of multiple frequency components.
2Productivity
If the frequency interval between two tones is narrowed to increase channel efficiency, then the spectral efficiency is improved, but no diversity gain is obtained and communication may be often cut off in fading channels
Solution Approach 1:
The patent divides the frequency channel into multiple segmented tones or sub-channels. By segmenting the frequency spectrum, the system can maintain narrow individual tone intervals for spectral efficiency while the overall segmented structure provides frequency diversity, ensuring that not all segments are simultaneously affected by fading, thus maintaining communication stability.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent changes the parameter of frequency interval from a single fixed value to a distributed set of values across multiple tones. This parameter transformation allows the system to achieve both narrow effective intervals (for spectral efficiency) and sufficient separation between segmented components (for diversity gain and reliability in fading channels).
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AI summary
A method and apparatus for modulating/demodulating an FSK signal capable of overcoming a trade-off relationship between a modulation index and a spectral efficiency are disclosed. An apparatus for modulating/demodulating a frequency deviation keying (FSK) signal includes a channel selection-modulator, a phase locked loop, and an output unit. The channel selection-modulator modulates an FSK signal by setting a frequency channel to be used. The phase locked loop generates a desired output frequency ‘fout’ compared to a reference frequency ‘fREF’ by adjusting a frequency division ratio (N+n) with respect to a frequency of the modulated FSK signal. The output unit amplifies the FSK signal having the generated output frequency ‘fout’ and radiating the amplified FSK signal through an antenna. Here, each of the frequency channels is divided into two or more tones, and different frequency channels are allocated between the tones divided into two or more tones.