Channel-adaptive modulation

Packet reservation multiple access (PRMA) assisted adaptive modulation using 1, 2 and 4 bit/symbol transmissions is proposed as an alternative to dynamic channel allocation (DCA) in order to maximise the number of users supported in a traffic cell. The cell is divided in three concentric rings and in the central high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) region 16-level star quadrature amplitude modulation (16-StQAM) is used, in the first ring differential quaternary phase shift keying (DQPSK) is invoked, while in the outer ring differential phase shift keying (DPSK) is utilised. A channel SNR of about 7, 10 and 20 dB, respectively, was required in order to maintain a bit error ratio (BER) of about 1%, which can then be rendered error-free by the binary BCH error correction codes used. A 4.7 kbps algebraic code excited linear predictive (ACELP) speech codec is favoured, which is protected by a quad-class source-sensitivity matched BCH coding scheme, yielding a total bit rate of 8.4 kbps. A GSM-like voice activity detector (VAD) controls the PRMA-assisted adaptive system, which ensures a capacity improvement of a factor of 1.78 over PRMA-aided binary schemes.