QAM
Noun
Meaning
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Initialism of quadrature amplitude modulation.
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Analog QAM suffers from the same problem as Single-sideband modulation : the exact phase of the carrier is required for correct demodulation at the receiver.
Analog QAM Analog QAM: measured PAL colour bar signal on a vector analyser screen.
Bit-loading (bits per QAM constellation) on an ADSL line Communication systems designed to achieve very high levels of spectral efficiency usually employ very dense QAM constellations.
Arbitrarily high spectral efficiencies can be achieved with QAM by setting a suitable constellation size, limited only by the noise level and linearity of the communications channel.
For example, hierarchical QAM is used in DVB, where the constellation points are grouped into a high-priority QPSK stream and a low-priority 16-QAM stream.
Expressions for the symbol-error rate of rectangular QAM are not hard to derive but yield rather unpleasant expressions.