一种突发模式下GMSK信号相干解调的方法

GMSK信号是一种连续相位调制方式,由于它具有较好的功率效率和频谱利用率,因此在无线通信领域得到广泛的应用。在此给出一种适合于数字化处理的突发GMSK调制信号的相干解调方式,利用基于FFT的载波频偏及符号时钟误差联合估计算法,实现前导字检测以及频偏和符号定时误差的估计和补偿。采用基于匹配滤波的前向位同步技术实现位同步,对存在残留频偏误差情况下该相干解调系统的解调性能进行了计算机仿真分析。仿真和实验表明,该解调方法具有良好的误码性能。     

基于FPGA的GMSK数字调制的设计和实现

目前GSM（全球移动通信系统）是世界上最广泛的移动通讯标准,其全球漫游功能和开放的系统是移动通信平台最佳的选择之一。GSM中采用了GMSK（高斯最小频移键控）调制方式,GMSK调制包络恒定,具有较高的频谱利用率。文中介绍了无线移动通信中广泛应用的GMSK数字调制方法。给出了该系统的FPGA（现场可编程门阵列）数字调制框图,并且基于FPGA开发软件ISE（集成软件环境）进行开发,最后通过仿真软件Modelsim对该系统进行仿真,最终得到满意的效果。     

GMSK数字化调制的FPGA设计与实现

针对GMSK调制的特点,提出了一种数字化的调制方法。使用matlab仿真工具对GMSK调制进行截断和量化,生成GMSK调制查找表,存入FPGA内部的存储器,通过查表实现GMSK调制的数字化,克服了传统GMSK模拟调制方法的相位不够准确,无法进行相干解调的缺点,提高系统设计的灵活性。最后分析了调制信号的频谱特性和接收端信号的基带波形,验证了GMSK数字化调制的正确性和可行性。     

Alternatives for on-board digital multicarrier demodulation

In this paper alternatives for digital multicarrier demodulators (MCD) suitable for advanced digital satellite communications systems are presented. The MCD permits the direct on-board interfacing of FDMA and TDM communication links by digital signal processing techniques. Two main functions are implemented by a MCD: demultiplexing (DEMUX) and demodulation (DEMOD). We focus here only on a digital implementation of the MCD, looking at its advantages, flexibility, better performance and VLSI integrability. The DEMUX may be implemented in a number of ways: the analytic signal method, fast Fourier transform with polyphase network technique, or multistage methods. For all the implementation methods considered it is shown that a certain degree of integration of DEMUX and DEMOD functions is possible. To this end, in the proposed MCD schemes the receiver pulse-shaping filter has been integrated in the DEMUX structure, reducing the overall implementation complexity. It is shown that, for the per-channel structure based on the analytic signal method, a highly modular and flexible implementation can also be achieved. Coherent demodulation is used to reduce the signal-to-noise ratio required to achieve a specified bit error rate. The coherent demodulation is carried out by using the maximum likelihood (ML) estimation method. Two different approaches to receiver synchronization have been studied. For the first, the carrier phase and symbol timing estimates are independently derived by suitable techniques. The second approach makes use of the maximum a posteriori probability method to estimate both the carrier phase and symbol timing of the receivied signal. In particular, for this technique it is shown that, by a suitable choice of the architecture of the digital coherent receiver, the ML demodulator can be integrated in the joint carrier and clock recovery circuit, with no increase in the overall system complexity. The digital architecture of the proposed MCD can be adapted to different digital modulation techniques. However, here we consider only the application for QPSK signals, as this modulation scheme is the most promising for digital satellite communications. A theoretical analysis and computer simulation have been used to evaluate the performance degradation of the proposed MCD, including finite-arithmetic implementation effects.     

A fully digital noncoherent and coherent GMSK receiver architecturewith joint symbol timing error and frequency offset estimation

We propose a fully digital noncoherent and coherent Gaussian minimum shift keying (GMSK) receiver architecture with joint frequency offset compensation and symbol timing recovery. Carrier phase offset can be estimated if the coherent demodulation mode is adopted. The converted base-band complex signal is first frequency discriminated and then passed through a digital filter which performs a fast Fourier transform (FFT). The frequency offset can be estimated from the DC component of the FFT, and the symbol timing error can be estimated from the phase angle of the FFT at a specified frequency which is equal to an integral multiple of half the bit rate. These two estimated parameters are then used for frequency offset compensation and symbol timing recovery during a preamble period. Coarse carrier phase can be estimated by averaging sampled in-phase and quadrature-phase signals and finding its phase angle within the preamble period after carrier frequency offset is estimated and compensated. The bit error rate (BER) performance of this GMSK receiver architecture is assessed for an additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channel by computer simulation     

Digital portable transceiver using GMSK modem and ADM codec

Digital mobile radio transmission techniques and integrated circuit devices have been developed for application to a digital portable transceiver utilizing narrow-band GMSK modulation and ADM voice coding. Design and performance of a quadrature type GMSK modulator and a single-chip coherent demodulator as the GMSK modem are described. To overcome slow fading, encountered in portable applications, switching diversity using a jitter detection type sensor is proposed and shown to be effective. An experimental portable transceiver, developed to demonstrate hardware feasibility, is also described.     

Digital Portable Transceiver Using GMSK Modem and ADM Codec

Digital mobile radio transmission techniques and integrated circuit devices have been developed for application to a digital portable transceiver utilizing narrow-band GMSK modulation and ADM voice coding. Design and performance of a quadrature type GMSK modulator and a single-chip coherent demodulator as the GMSK modem are described. To overcome slow fading, encountered in portable applications, switching diversity using a jitter detection type sensor is Proposed and shown to be effective. An experimental Portable transceiver, developed to demonstrate hardware feasibility, is also described.     

All-digital reverse modulation architecture based carrier recoveryimplementation for GMSK and compatible FQPSK

A carrier recovery circuit implementation with an all-digital reverse modulation approach for coherent detection in the GSM/GMSK system as well as the GMSK compatible improved efficiency cross-correlated FQPSK system is presented. The proposed carrier recovery implementation utilizes all-digital reverse modulation circuit in a feedback loop to remove the modulated signal from the received intermediate frequency (IF) signal and to estimate the phase error of this carrier signal using a phase-locked loop (PLL). The digital reverse modulation approach avoids the multipliers required in an analog reverse modulation design, so that it can be implemented in a single chip FPGA. Hardware implementation of the coherent detection demonstrates that cross-correlated FQPSK is completely compatible with GMSK in the system performance and the receiver structure for GSM. Experimental performance evaluations show that the proposed carrier recovery circuit provides a Bit Error Rate (BER) performance within 0.3 dB in a non-linearly amplified channel corrupted by additive white Gaussian noise (AWCN) as compared with the simulated performance of the GSM/GMSK system     

Digital modulation techniques for mobile and personal communicationsystems

The paper describes in detail various digital modulation techniques for mobile and personal communication systems. Among others, these include π/4-shift quadrature phase-shift keying (QPSK), used in the second generation digital cellular mobile systems in North America and Japan, and Gaussian minimum-shift keying (GMSK), employed in the GSM system in Europe. It then briefly discusses the current research activities in modulation schemes for future systems     

A Digital Approach to Symbol Timing Recovery Systems

An analysis of a symbol timing recovery (STR) technique using digital processing is presented. The ratio of the discrete spectral power at the symbol rate frequency to the nearby continuous spectral power is used as a criterion of STR performance. It is shown that this power ratio equals the quality factor of the narrow bandpass filter and that it does not depend on the value of the delay element. The performance of the STR subsystem is consequently determined by the quality factor of the bandpass filter rather than by the specific delay. In addition to this, some experimental evidence that the additive channel noise has little effect on the power ratio is given. A modified phase-locked loop with anLCprefiiter is proposed to extract the symbol timing clock. This prefilter improves the acquisition and synchronization performance of the PLL. The STR technique presented here has the advantages of lower cost and simpler hardware implementation over other serial STR techniques.     

GMSK Modulation for Digital Mobile Radio Telephony

This paper is concerned with digital modulation for future mobile radio telephone services. First, the specific requirements on the digital modulation for mobile radio use are described. Then, premodulation Gaussian filtered minimum shift keying (GMSK) with coherent detection is proposed as an effective digital modulation for the present purpose, and its fundamental properties are clarified with the aid of machine computation. The constitution of modulator and demodulator is then discussed from the viewpoints of mobile radio applications. The superiority of this modulation is supported by some experimental test results.     

The Effects of Time Delay Spread on Portable Radio Communications Channels with Digital Modulation

Frequency-selective fading caused by multipath time delay spread degrades digital communication channels by causing intersymbol interference, thus resulting in an irreducible BER and imposing a upper limit on the data symbol rate. In this paper, a frequencyselective, slowly fading channel is studied by computer simulation. The unfiltered BPSK, QPSK, OQPSK, and MSK modulations are considered first to illustrate the physical insights and the error mechanisms. Two classes of modulation with spectral-shaping filtering are studied next to assess the tradeoff between spectral occupancy and the performance under the influence of time delay spread. The simulation is very flexible so that different channel parameters can be studied and optimized either individually or collectively. The irreducible BER averaged over fading samples with a given delay profile is used to compare different modulation/detection methods, while the cumulative distribution of short-term BER is employed to show allowable data symbol rates for given values of delay spread. It is found that both GMSK and QPSK with a raised-cosine Nyquist pulse are suitable for a TDM/TDMA digital portable communications channel.     

基于数字正交方式实现的一种GMSK调制

从GMSK调制原理出发,分析了GMSK信号的特征,依据正交调制理论,由CPM调制的公式推导出GMSK调制的载波相位和正交I、Q分量运算公式,并提出以DSP、FPGA、DUC为平台的GMSK调制算法实现方案.文中方案成功用于某测试仪项目,根据用户需求选择码元类型、码元速率、BTb值、载波频率等参数实现了GMSK调制信号的产生.     

Limiter discriminator-detected GMSK with FM and GMSK interferencein a land mobile channel

This paper addresses Gaussian minimum-shift keyed (GMSK) receiver performance analysis for limiter discriminator detection with cochannel interference resulting from a combined cellular voice and packet radio network. A specific example is cellular digital packet data (CDPD), which shares spectrum with cellular voice users; thus, the CDPD receiver will see both narrow-band frequency modulation (NBFM) voice and GMSK data interference. Previous studies investigated the performance of a GMSK receiver with a single GMSK interferer and multipath delay. In this paper, we extend earlier work to multiple Rayleigh fading (Doppler spread) interferers having NBFM (f_dm=12 kHz) analog modulation and/or GMSK modulation. Probability of bit-error expressions are derived for the frequency modulation (FM) and GMSK interferer cases assuming medium-to-high signal-to-noise ratio regions. For scenarios of from one to six NBFM interferers, having the same total power, a corresponding Gaussian approximation is within 1.5 dB. Simulation results are also presented for various combinations of FM and GMSK interference. FM interference is only slightly worse than GMSK interference. Delay spread representing an urban scenario resulted in only a slight increase in the error floor     

Nonobvious correlation properties of quadrature GMSK, a modulationtechnique adopted worldwide

GMSK is the world's most widely used modulation technique for mobile digital telephony and digital wireless applications. We describe two GMSK modulator structures, the voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) and the quadrature modulator structure. The tremendous advantages of the quadrature modulator structure for practical GMSK modulator implementations are emphasized. We present the results of computer simulations and hardware experimental measurements performed on GSM-standardized IC chips which are used by several million subscribers in order to illustrate the operation of a GMSK modulator. Since quadrature modulator structures are used in nearly all practical GMSK chipsets, the properties of this structure are of wide interest. In this paper we highlight the crosscorrelation properties of the GMSK in-phase and quadrature-phase baseband signals, which are part of the quadrature modulator structure. While uncorrelated in-phase and quadrature-phase baseband signals are used in traditional QPSK and OQPSK modulated systems, we demonstrate that there is strong crosscorrelation between the in-phase and quadrature-phase baseband signals. The crosscorrelation is stronger if the observation interval is shorter. Nonobvious quadrature modulator/radio crosscorrelation advantages were patented by Kato/Feher (1986). Design with crosscorrelated quadrature transmitter is “contrary to the wisdom of classical linear communications theory”. Crosscorrelated quadrature modulated systems include FQPSK-KF and GMSK     

一种GMSK的均衡方法

针对GMSK信号的一种基于鉴频以后利用FFT变换来进行突发检测和时偏估计的算法,介绍了一种适用于调频信号的均衡方法.由于调频信号经过鉴频器以后得到一个实信号(可以看作是一个近似的二相调制),利用此特性采用基于信道估计(CEQCID)的均衡算法,利用巴克码良好的自相关性来估计信道的特性,采用判决反馈均衡器(DFE)来对信号进行均衡,得到的效果较好.由于将信号转化为实信号,使计算复杂度大大降低.     

Digital frequency estimation in burst mode QPSK transmission

In burst digital transmission using PSK (phase shift keying) modulation with coherent detection, the recovery of the carrier reference phase and the symbol clock is a key aspect. If all users have a common clock synchronization, symbol timing needs not to be recovered in each burst. A digital processor for carrier recovery without preambles, in the presence of frequency offset, is considered. As an example, a 2 Mb/s QPSK transmission system is considered in which E _b/N_o=10 dB, and the burst and estimation interval length L=15. Using the algorithm described and averaging eight successive estimated frequency offsets, in order to eliminate anomalous errors, the BER (bit error rate) degradation is equal to 0.14 dB when Δf=20 kHz     

MDPSK信号的一种盲接收机

随着通信技术和数字信号处理技术的发展,通信接收机应具有越来越强的参数识别能力。该文提出一种适用于任意进制的差分相移键控信号(MDPSK)的盲接收机结构,在未知信号制式的条件下,该接收机可以取信号的最佳定时同步、自动识别信号的调制制式,实现信号的盲接收。     

Feedforward symbol timing recovery technique using two samples per symbol

In this paper, a new feedforward symbol timing recovery technique using timing estimation followed by interpolation is presented for digital receivers with two samples/symbol or higher sampling rate. A few timing estimation algorithms are proposed to estimate the timing offset accurately. The basic algorithm uses only the in-phase (I) or quadrature (Q) signal for timing detection, which applies to a BPSK communication system. It is shown that the basic algorithm, when applied in quadrature modulation systems where both I and Q signals are available, can be modified slightly to yield an improved estimation precision. The mean and variance of the resulting timing estimate are analyzed and simulated, supporting a satisfactory estimation performance. It is also shown that by applying a postprocessing scheme, such as the Kalman filter, the variance can be further reduced, resulting in a smoothed timing estimate. Some of the issues concerning the implementation of the proposed technique are also addressed.     

GMSK调制信号的仿真

主要介绍数字调制技术GMSK的调制原理和仿真。首先，介绍了GMSK的基本原理，它是在MSK基础上发展的一种用于移动通信上的现代数字调制技术，然后介绍了GMSK的调制信号的仿真。该仿真主要利用了、Mathworks公司的MATLAB软件，仿真分为I信道和Q信道的仿真。