Analysis of GMSK with Two-Bit Differential Detection in Land Mobile Radio Channels

The effect of intersymbol interference (ISI) of Gaussian filtered minimum shift keying (GMSK) on the probability of error of twobit differential detection is analyzed theoretically in fast Rayleigh fading characterizing land mobile radio channels. A closed form expression is derived for the probability of error. Numerical results are presented for cases of practical interest to researchers and designers of cellular land mobile radio systems.     

Pilot tone aided coherent GMSK systems for sound/data mobilebroadcasting

A Gaussian minimum-shift keying (GMSK) modem with built-in fade canceler is proposed narrowband mobile digital broadcasting systems. The proposed scheme combines DC suppressing line code and high-pass filters to create a spectral null at the carrier frequency of the transmit GMSK signal spectrum. This enables an unmodulated carrier pilot tone to be transmitted with the digital broadcast signal without mutual interference. In the receiver, the recovered pilot is used to coherently demodulate the received signal without phase ambiguity. The pilot can be also be used to track and cancel out the random phase noise induced by fast fading. The scheme is applied to a 16 kb/s BT=0.25 GMSK signal with B_v=800 Hz, and its performance over a fast Rayleigh fading channel is investigated using computer simulation. The results demonstrates that the proposed coherent modem is capable of significantly outperforming conventional differential detection in fast fading environments such as a broadcasting channel for mobile reception     

Performance of GMSK in a land mobile radio channel

Discriminator detection of Gaussian minimum shift keying (GMSK) in a cellular mobile-communication channel is analyzed. The channel is modeled as a frequency-selective fast Rayleigh fading channel corrupted by additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) and co-channel interference (CCI). A closed-form expression for the probability of error is derived. Numerical computation is used to obtain the GMSK bit error rate (BER) performance for various combinations of channel parameters. These results show that GMSK gives slightly better performance compared to that for π/4-quadrature phase shift keying (QPSK) previously reported in the literature     

Analysis of GMSK with differential detection in land mobile radio channels

The effect of intersymbol interference (ISI) of Gaussian filtered minimum shift keying (GMSK) on the probability of error of one bit differential detection is analyzed theoretically in fast Rayleigh fading characterizing land mobile radio channels. A closed-form expression is derived for the probability of error as a function of the fading rate, IF filter bandwidth, signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and ISI. Numerical results are presented for cases of practical interest to researchers and designers of cellular land mobile radio systems.     

Performance of 16 kbit/s GMSK transmission with postdetection selection diversity in land mobile radio

Through laboratory simulation tests and field experiments in the Tokyo metropolitan area, 16 kbit/s Gaussian filtered minimum shift keying (GMSK) transmission performance has been experimentally clarified in the 920 MHz land mobile radio environment. The experimental results agree closely with theory, and they show that fast multipath fading severely degrades average bit error rate (BER) performance in GMSK transmission. However, a space diversity reception technique using a postdetection selection combining scheme is able to efficiently mitigate the fast multipath fading.     

Performance of 16 kbit/s GMSK Transmission with Postdetection Selection Diversity in Land Mobile Radio

Through laboratory simulation tests and field experiments in the Tokyo metropolitan area, 16 kbit/s Gaussian filtered minimum shift keying (GMSK) transmission performance has been experimentally clarified in the 920 MHz land mobile radio environment. The experimental results agree closely with theory, and they show that fast multipath fading severely degrades average bit error rate (BER) performance in GMSK transmission. However, a space diversity reception technique using a postdetection selection combining scheme is able to efficiently mitigate the fast multipath fading.     

Multipath distortion of differentially encoded GMSK with 2-bdifferential detection in bandlimited frequency-selective mobile radiochannel

Error performance of Gaussian minimum-shift keying (GMSK) with 2-b differential detection in a frequency-selective mobile radio channel is analyzed. The two-wave model using two Rayleigh waves with constant group time-delay is adopted to describe a frequency-selective mobile radio channel. The Gaussian-type bandpass filter is introduced as a receiving filter to demonstrate the effects of band limitation at the receiver. A preferable receiving bandwidth in the frequency-selective mobile channel is also discussed. It is shown that the preferable receiving bandwidth is almost that obtained in an additive Gaussian noise channel since the magnitude of the interfering (or delayed) wave is relatively small. It is hardly affected by the maximum Doppler frequency and remains almost constant for the various parameters, e.g. average carrier-to-noise power ratio     

High-speed digital transmission experiments in 920 MHz urban and suburban mobile radio channels

Field experiments have been conducted to clarify the feasibility of introducing a newly developed Gaussian filtered minimum shift keying (GMSK) modulation method into 920 MHz mobile radio systems, and have been performed in the Tokyo urban, and the Yokosuka suburban areas.     

Combined frequency and differential phase shift keying withnon-coherent detection in a satellite mobile channel

We analyze the performance of combined binary frequency and M-ary differential phase shift keying (2FSK/MDPSK) in the satellite mobile channel (SMC). We use two detectors in which the frequency symbol is detected by a limiter discriminator detector (LDD) and the phase symbol by a differential phase detector (DPD). It is shown that this system is power and bandwidth efficient when compared with other systems with constant envelope (or nearly constant envelope) and noncoherent detection like L-ary DPSK (LDPSK), Gaussian minimum shift keying (GMSK) and MSK     

GMSK调制及其在软件无线电上的应用

GMSK（高斯最小移频键控）是一种典型的连续相位调制方式,具有包络恒定、频谱紧凑、抗干扰能力强等特点。本文阐述了GMSK调制的原理与特点,提出了其在软件无线电发射机系统中的应用,通过MATLAB软件,利用Simulink建模仿真,详细分析了各模块作用及设置,最后给出了GMSK信号调制的信号仿真图。仿真结果表明,GMSK基带信号具有良好的功率谱,同时能够有效避免I/Q两条支路信号幅度及正交载波相位失衡,可有效降低邻道干扰,在通信中有广阔的应用前景。     

On the spectral efficiency of CPM systems over real channel in thepresence of adjacent channel and cochannel interference: a comparisonbetween partial and full response systems

In all the new radio systems to be designed-for example, local radio networks or portable communication systems-a crucial point is determination of the actual spectral efficiency obtainable. To this end, the fundamental role played by adjacent and cochannel interference must be considered. The computer program implemented allows general analysis of continuous phase modulation (CPM) systems with limiter-discriminator detection and symbol-by-symbol regeneration, the combined effects of intersymbol interference, noise, and adjacent channel or cochannel interference have been tested to give the design criteria of the transmission system. To emphasize the role played by interference, an ideal multipath-free channel has been considered: with reference to a binary case, Gaussian minimum-shift keying (GMSK) systems have been investigated and compared with full-response CPM systems to obtain a suitable tradeoff between spectral efficiency (connected to channel spacing at radio frequency) and signal-to-noise ratio with fixed bit-error probability. The numerical results presented emphasize the performance obtainable with full- and partial-response techniques for varying system parameters such as phase deviation index, receiver filter bandwidth, and spectral efficiency     

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.     

Evaluation of 16 kbit/s digital voice transmission for mobile radio

In this paper 16 kbit/s digital voice transmission with conventional channel spacing of 25 kHz, employing a 16 kbit/s adaptive delta modulation (ADM) coder-decoder (CODEC) is evaluated. The main characteristics of narrow-band digital FM modulation schemes, such as tamed FM, Gaussian filtered minimum shift keying (GMSK), four-level FM and phase locked loop-quaternary phase shift keying (PLL-QPSK), are compared by laboratory tests. Digitized voice quality in a digital channel incorporating a 16 kbit/s ADM CODEC and GMSK coherent detection was compared with voice quality of a conventional analog FM channel. Bit error ratio (BER) performance is shown to depend primarily on demodulation schemes. Digital voice quality is inferior to that of analog voice with an opinion score difference of about 0.5 in fading environments. This kind of digital voice transmission will be applicable for those systems that require high security at an expense of speech quality.     

Fractional Multi‐bit Differential Detection Technique for Continuous Phase Modulation

A new low‐complexity differential detection technique, fractional multi‐bit differential detection (FMDD), is proposed in order to improve the performance of continuous phase modulation (CPM) signals such as Gaussian minimum shift keying (GMSK) and Gaussian frequency shift keying (GFSK). In comparison to conventional one‐bit differential detected (1DD) GFSK, the FMDD‐employed GFSK provides a signal‐to‐noise ratio advantage of up to 1.8 dB in an AWGN channel. Thus, the bit‐error rate performance of the proposed FMDD is brought close to that of an ideal coherent detection while avoiding the implementation complexity associated with the carrier recovery. In the adjacent channel interference environment, FMDD achieves an even larger SNR advantage compared to 1DD.     

Blind detection of CPM signals transmitted over frequency-flatfading channels

We propose a novel detection scheme for continuous-phase modulation (CPM) signals transmitted over frequency-flat fading channels. Its most significant feature is that it operates without statistical information on the fading channel, and for this reason it is nicknamed “blind detector.” Its error-rate performance is assessed with minimum shift keying (MSK) and Gaussian MSK (GMSK) schemes and compared with the performance of other decoders     

Direct frequency modulation of an ADPLL for bluetooth/GSM with injection pulling elimination

We propose and demonstrate a Gaussian frequency-shift keying and Gaussian minimum-shift keying (GMSK) pulse-shape filtering for wireless RF transmitters with an arbitrary reference frequency. The filter is software controlled to work in a multistandard radio. Spurs, which are due to the frequency injection pulling, in cases when the reference harmonics are close enough to the oscillating frequency, are avoided by means of retiming the reference clock by the RF oscillator. Baseband clock for the pulse-shape filtering is derived through a simple fractional-N division of the reference frequency. This saves area and power since it is no longer required to create a low-jitter clock for baseband symbol generation and modulating data. It is especially advantageous when the available reference frequency is not an integer multiple of the symbol rate. The presented transmitter is realized without any explicit analog filtering and is part of a commercial single-chip fully compliant Bluetooth radio fabricated in a digital 130-nm CMOS process. We demonstrate the software programming capability through an experimental GMSK modulation for the global system for mobile communication.     

A Novel Serially Concatenated GMSK System for Satellite Communications

A novel serially concatenated GMSK system is proposed for satellite communications subject to low SNR, limited power and spectrum resources. First, we design a Nonrecursive continuous-phase encoder (NRCPE) based GMSK based on the Rimoldi's decomposition. Then, a corresponding pilot-aided quasi-coherent demodulation algorithm is developed, whose basic principle is that a modified BCJR-based detection performs on the received signals with initial and ending trellisstates being determined using the very limited pilot overhead. Finally, we choose proper modulation parameters for the NRCPE based Gaussian minimum shift keying GMSK signaling according to the trade-offs between the power and spectral efficiency. The simulation results show that the LDPC coded GMSK system using the proposed algorithm can achieve excellent performance and can also work well in the presence of the large Doppler shifts and some burst errors.     

Performance of the π/4-DQPSK, GMSK, and QAM modulation schemesin mobile radio with multipath fading and nonlinearities

As mobile communications have become so indispensable, every possible effort should be spent to achieve the optimum operating conditions. In addition to the normal impairments associated with wireless communications, in general, the mobile channel suffers from particular limitations that confine the performance of a mobile radio system. Among those impairments are the bandwidth limitation, interference, and multipath fading. With the strong motivation toward portable radio and personal communication systems, power limitation has manifest itself in the picture, and, consequently, nonlinear operation of the amplifiers involved (hence, the channel) will have to be dealt with. Constant envelope modulation schemes have been used in digital mobile radio systems recently installed. The Gaussian minimum shift keying (GMSK) is employed in the Global System for Mobile (GSM) communications installed in Europe, while in the North American IS-54 system, the modulation scheme used is the π/4-DQPSK. As the quest for higher data rates has kept on increasing, multilevel modulation schemes have been proposed with their performance over nonlinear channels having been overlooked. The paper provides a comparative study, based on simulation, and tests the performance of various modulation schemes operating over a wide variety of mobile radio channel conditions. The effective throughput of all systems is also considered     

Differential detection of GMSK signals with low BtTusing the SOVA

A noncoherent Gaussian minimum phase-shift keying (GMSK) detector using differential phase detection combined with the soft-output Viterbi algorithm (SOVA) is presented. This approach overcomes the severe intersymbol interference (ISI) of GMSK signals with low B_tT. Unlike conventional detectors the SOVA produces soft-decision bits resulting in larger coding gains in subsequent convolutional decoders     

A multicarrier GMSK modulator with on-chip D/A converter for base stations

A multicarrier Gaussian minimum shift keying (GMSK) modulator with a 14-bit on-chip digital-to-analog (D/A) converter is presented. The design contains four GMSK modulators, which generate GMSK modulated carriers at the user-defined center frequencies. In wireless base stations, the modulated transmit signals are usually combined at the RF frequency after power amplification. The multicarrier modulator combines four GMSK modulated signals in the digital domain, thereby eliminating the need for an antenna microwave combiner. A new digital ramp generator and output power-level controller performs both the burst ramping and the dynamic power control in the digital domain. The maximum dynamic performance is obtained by multiplexing two D/A converters with output sampling switches. The digital multicarrier GMSK modulator is designed to fulfill the derived spectrum and phase-error specifications of the GSM 900/1800/1900 base stations for pico-, micro-, and macrocells. The die area of the chip is 26.8 mm/sup 2/ in 0.35-/spl mu/m CMOS (in BiCMOS) technology. Power consumption is 706 mW at 3.3 V with 52 MHz.