• DocumentCode
    1236172
  • Title

    Effect of Hard Limiting on a Quadrature PSK Signal

  • Author

    Kwon, S.Y. ; Simpson, R.S.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. Eng., Univ. of Houston, Houston, TX, USA
  • Volume
    21
  • Issue
    8
  • fYear
    1973
  • fDate
    8/1/1973 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    955
  • Lastpage
    958
  • Abstract
    The effect of a hard limiter on a quadrature PSK (QPSK) signal is determined for a sample detector and an integrate and dump detector. In the latter case the BT product is assumed to be infinite. The degradation due to hard limiting is approximately 1 dB.
  • Keywords
    Limiting; PSK signal detection; Band pass filters; Bandwidth; Degradation; Demodulation; Density functional theory; Detectors; Error probability; Frequency; Phase shift keying; Quadrature phase shift keying;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Communications, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0090-6778
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TCOM.1973.1091764
  • Filename
    1091764