New Carrier Recovery Method for 16 -QAM System Based on Full Constellation Points

摘要

The relationship between the data to be transmitted and the signal phase in the 16-level quadrature amplitude modulation (16-QAM) constellation is derived. Then a new carrier recovery method based on this relationship is proposed, where both the diagonal and non-diagonal signal points are used for carrier recovery. The analysis and simulation results show that, the proposed method for 16-QAM has a higher acquisition speed than the times-four carrier recovery method, and has a wider acquisition bandwidth and smaller phase errors than the diagonal constellation based carrier recovery method.