What is the advantage of qam over ask and psk?
PSK and QAM modulation have two advantages over ASK:
*They are not as susceptible to noise.
*Each signal change can represent more than one bit
PSK Disadvantage
more complex signal detection / recovery process,
than in ASK and FSK
QAM advantage:
· data rate = 2 bits per bit-interval!
· higher data rate than in PSK (2 bits per bit interval), while
bandwidth occupancy remains the same
• 4-PSK can easily be extended to 8-PSK, i.e. n-PSK
• however, higher rate PSK schemes are limited by the ability of
equipment to distinguish small differences in phase uses
"two-dimensional" signaling
• original information stream is split into two sequences that
consist of odd and even symbols
· PSK modulators are often designed using the QAM principle, but
are not considered as QAM since the amplitude of the modulated
carrier signal is constant. QAM is used extensively as a modulation
scheme for digital telecommunication systems. Arbitrarily high
spectral efficiencies can be achieved with QAM by setting a
suitable constellation size, limited only by the noise level and
linearity of the communications channel.
· Noise immunity of QAM is very high.
· QAM is best suitable for high bit rates.
· Low error probability.
· Baud rate is half the bit rate therefore more effective
utilization of the available bandwidth of the transmission
channel.