Until this point, we have considered data transmissions over
simple additive Gaussian channels that are not time or band
limited. In this module we will consider channels that do have
bandwidth constraints, and are limited to frequency range around
zero (DC). The channel is best modified as
gt
g
t
is the impulse response of the baseband channel.
Consider modulated signals
x
t
=
s
m
t
x
t
s
m
t
for
0≤t≤T
0
t
T
for some
m∈12…M
m
1
2
…
M
. The channel output is then
r
t
=∫−∞∞
x
τ
gt−τdτ+
N
t
=∫−∞∞
S
m
τgt−τdτ+
N
t
r
t
τ
x
τ
g
t
τ
N
t
τ
S
m
τ
g
t
τ
N
t
(1)
The signal contribution in the frequency domain is
∀f:
S
m
˜
f=
S
m
fGf
f
S
m
˜
f
S
m
f
G
f
(2)
The optimum matched filter should match to the filtered signal:
∀f:
H
m
opt
f=
S
m
f¯Gf¯e(−i)2πft
f
H
m
opt
f
S
m
f
G
f
2
f
t
(3)
This filter is indeed
optimum
(
i.e., it maximizes signal-to-noise ratio);
however, it requires knowledge of the channel impulse response.
The signal energy is changed to
E
s
˜
=∫−∞∞|
S
m
˜
f|2df
E
s
˜
f
S
m
˜
f
2
(4)
The band limited nature of the channel and the stream of time
limited modulated signal create aliasing which is referred to as
intersymbol interference. We will investigate ISI
for a general PAM signaling.