Digital Communication Systems (EEE353) 1

Assignment # 03

Submission Date: May 16,’13

We have given the following error probabilities expressions for the three Binary Modulation Techniques
(OOK, BPSK, and BFSK), assuming an AWGN channel and coherent maximum likelihood (ML) detection.
𝐸
𝑚𝑎𝑥 𝐸𝑎𝑣𝑔
OOK 𝑃𝑒 = 𝑄 (√ 2𝑁 ) = 𝑄 (√ 𝑁0
)
0

2𝐸𝑚𝑎𝑥 2𝐸𝑎𝑣𝑔
𝐵𝑃𝑆𝐾 𝑃𝑒 = 𝑄 (√ 𝑁0
) = 𝑄 (√ 𝑁0
)

𝐸𝑚𝑎𝑥 𝐸𝑎𝑣𝑔
𝐵𝐹𝑆𝐾 𝑃𝑒 = 𝑄 (√ ) = 𝑄 (√ )
𝑁0 𝑁0

Consider average energies and maximum energies for calculating symbol error probability and
comment which one of the following modulation technique is the best.

Hint:

Usually, these things are expressed in dB, Compare all these Modulation Schemes and then decide.