Bandwidth Occupancy in PSK Systems

For phase-shift keying (PSK) systems a method has been presented to determine the filter parameters so that the degradation produced by the bandlimiting filters is tolerable and as many channels as possible can be accommodated in a given RF band. Thermal noise present in the system and intersymbol and interchannel interference are considered the major sources of impairment in the system, and these are the only sources of impairment considered in this paper. The method is here applied to a binary coherent PSK (CPSK) system when unequalized Butterworth and Chebyshev filters of different complexities are used as receiving filters, and suitable filter parameters have been determined.