EVALUATION OF THE INFLUENCE OF THE VALUE OF THE DYNAMIC RANGE OF THE RADIO RECEIVER ON THE NOISE IMMUNITY OF RECEIVING SIGNALS WITH QUADRATURE AMPLITUDE MODULATION

Abstract

The improvement of digital communication lines of radio information transmission systems in the direction of increasing the complexity of the signal-code structures used, increasing the speed of information exchange, the use of modern channel compaction technologies, on the one hand, and the high complexity of the surrounding electromagnetic environment, on the other hand, objectively determines the need to improve the radio receiving systems of digital communication lines in the direction of increasing their noise immunity. In this regard, in order to justify the technical requirements for noise immunity to radio receiving systems of the designed transmission lines, it is advisable to take into account the basic indicators of the quality of functioning of the radio receiving device, in order to obtain analytical expressions and graphical dependencies for evaluating the noise immunity of receiving signals with more complex combined types of modulation (QAM-64 and higher), used and planned for use. Of the large number of indicators that characterize the dynamic range, the most informative and sufficiently characterize the quality of the linear path are: the dynamic range for reducing the transmission coefficient (compression) by 1 dB and the dynamic range for third-order intermodulation distortion. The effect of interference received on the side channels (which include combination and mirror), as well as on neighboring channels, limits the lower limit of the dynamic range of the receiving device and, as a result, reduces the resulting signal-to-noise ratio at the output. The degree of suppression of the combination channels is determined, first of all, by the frequency plan and the linearity of the amplitude characteristic of the mixer of the first frequency converter, the mirror channel – the quality of filtering the mirror frequencies in the input preselector, the neighboring channel – the selectivity of the filters of the main selection. In this article, an analytical model and the resulting graphical dependencies are developed to assess the degree of influence of compression distortions on the noise immunity of receiving multi-position quadrature-amplitude modulated signals, and the requirements for the value of the dynamic range of radio receiving systems are theoretically justified.