The effect of pulse shaping and transmitter filter on the performance of FSK-DPD and CPM-DPD in satellite mobile channel

This paper investigates how a bandlimiting transmitter filter and the shape of the frequency pulse effect the bit-error probability of frequency shift keying with differential phase detection in satellite mobile channel. Numerical results are presented for the case when the transmitter and receiver filters are Butterworth filters of order N_T=4 and N_R=3, respectively, and the frequency shaping pulse is rectangular or raised cosine. It is shown that in all cases of practical interest, continuous phase modulation (with raised cosine pulse shaping) gives a lower bit-error probability and requires less bandwidth than frequency-shift keying (with rectangular pulse shaping) when all other parameters (number of symbols, Rician factor of the channel, order of filters, etc.) are the same