On QAM Speech Transmission Schemes for Microcellular Mobile PCNs

Lajos Hanzo, William Webb, Raymond Steele, Redwan A. Salami
1993 Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies  
On the way towards third generation personal communication networks (PCN) the deployment of 16-level quadrature amplitude nlodulation ( Q A W schemes is investigated via flat microcellular Rayleiph-fading mobile radio channels having mild co-channel interference with and without diversity. Our proposed differentially coded non-coherent 16-QAM scheme requires no pilot symbol assistance. no automatic gain control (AGC) and no carrier recovery. High speech quality associated with a mean opinion
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doi:10.1002/ett.4460040504 fatcat:3qswqxpiubel3gv4hrlhttc73e