Hi Shangqing,
I think you forgot to mention that you've already gotten answers to this on usrp-users: I wrote: > > Anyway, yes, 16 QAM is of course a lot more prone to noise than QPSK, > when using the same average power. (that's kind of logical – the 16 > QAM constellation points are a lot closer together than the four QPSK > points) > > > With any modulation, you'd set the RX gain as high as possible without > clipping – and that is a real problem with OFDM. I recommend you > google "OFDM PAPR". So, you'd use the same RX gain for QPSK as for QAM > modulation. > > > You'd of course also use the highest possible distortion-free TX gain, > for both modulations, again, the same. > > > So, what you see is exactly what you've learned in digital comms 101 – > the closer constellation points are, the more likely it is you get a > symbol error. What did you expect? And Kevin wrote: > Also keep in mind that in case of QPSK, the receiver does not need to > correct for amplitude. The receiver only needs to correct the phase > distortion caused by the channel since all information is encoded in > the phase of the QPSK symbols. > > However, in 16-QAM modulation, information is encoded in both > amplitude and phase of the 16-QAM symbols. Now receiver needs to > correct both amplitude and phase distortion caused by the channel. > > So I am not sure if the receiver algorithm can handle QAM. So, instead of asking the same question here, I'd recommend you address what you did not understand in the answers you've gotten this far! It'll make it much easier for us to help you. Sadly, you haven't addressed any of the points we made – neither that the average power is, in contrast to what you claim, the same for QAM and QPSK, nor the additional hardness in demodulating these finer-grained constellations. Best regards, Marcus On 02/18/2017 04:23 PM, Zhao Shangqing wrote: > > Hi all, > > > I am using Gnuradio and USRP X300. I am implementing OFDM > communication using 16 or 64 QAM modulation scheme. I am using the > example of OFDM given by Gnuradio, and just changing the payload > modulation to 16QAM. I cannot correctly demodulate all the samples, > but QPSK works fine. I know QAM has the different signal power. I wish > to know if I wish to demodulate the M-QAM signal, how to control the > receiving power to calibrate different signals to different powers. > > > Best regards, > > Shangqing > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss-gnuradio mailing list > Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio
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