Somebody recently asked me this question “Does Shannon Capacity Increase by Dividing a Frequency Band into Narrow Bins”. To be honest I was momentarily confused and thought that this may be the case since many of the modern Digital Communication Systems do use narrow frequency bins e.g. LTE. But on closer inspection I found that the Shannon Capacity does not change, in fact it remains exactly the same. Following is the reasoning for that.<\/p>\n
Shannon Capacity is calculated as:<\/p>\n
C=B*log2(1+SNR)<\/p>\n
or <\/p>\n
C=B*log2(1+P\/(B*No))<\/p>\n
Now if the bandwidth ‘B’ is divided into 10 equal blocks then the transmit power ‘P’ for each block would also be divided by 10 to keep the total transmit power for the entire band to be constant. This means that the factor P\/(B*No) remains constant. So the total capacity for the 10 blocks would be calculated as: <\/p>\n
C=10*(B\/10)*log2(1+P\/(B*No))<\/p>\n
So the Shannon Capacity for the entire band remains the same.<\/p>\n
PS: The reason for the narrower channels is that for a narrow channel the channel appears relatively flat in the frequency domain and the process of equilization is thus simplified (a simple multiplication\/division would do).<\/p>\n
Note: ‘No’ is the Noise Power Spectral Density and ‘B*No’ is the Noise Power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Somebody recently asked me this question “Does Shannon Capacity Increase by Dividing a Frequency Band into Narrow Bins”. To be honest I was momentarily confused and thought that this may be the case since many of the modern Digital Communication Systems do use narrow frequency bins e.g. LTE. But on closer inspection I found that the Shannon Capacity does not change, in fact it remains exactly the same. Following is the reasoning for that. Shannon Capacity is calculated as: C=B*log2(1+SNR) or C=B*log2(1+P\/(B*No)) Now if the bandwidth ‘B’ is divided into 10 equal blocks then the transmit power ‘P’ for each […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,81,18],"tags":[47,114,51,28,29],"class_list":["post-1924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-capacity","category-fundamentals","category-lte","tag-4g","tag-lte","tag-ofdm","tag-shannon-capacity","tag-snr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raymaps.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raymaps.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raymaps.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raymaps.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raymaps.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1924"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.raymaps.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1929,"href":"https:\/\/www.raymaps.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1924\/revisions\/1929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raymaps.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raymaps.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raymaps.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}