Noncoherent continuous-phase modulation for DS-CDMA

The combination of continuous phase modulation (CPM) with direct-sequence code-division multiple access (DS-CDMA) for multiuser transmission over the additive white Gaussian noise channel is discussed. Concentrating on the important special case of generalized minimum-shift keying, particularly simple receiver structures are obtained. To emphasize on low complexity, noncoherent reception is proposed and appropriate transmitter and receiver designs are provided. The application of reduced-state noncoherent sequence detection and noncoherent filter adaptation ensures high power efficiency and robustness against channel phase variations. Simulation results confirm that the chosen approach of CPM for DS-CDMA achieves high performance with very moderate complexity.