Wireless Oom

Q: What is Eb/N0?
Eb/No is S/N (Signal to Noise ratio) divided by spectral efficiency.
“SNR per bit”
Q: Why is Eb/N0 important in digital communication?
Motivation:
- analog waveform is a power signal (infinite energy, finite average power)
- digital waveform is an energy signal (zero average power, non-zero finite energy) since a waveform is transmitted only during each symbol [...]

(bit/s)/Hz
Spectral efficiency is obtained by (maximum throughput achieved/bandwidth).
It is the amount of information that can be transmitted over a given bandwidth.