Diversity Pi/4-DQPSK demodulation
US5841816A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Mar 28, 1994 |
| Grant date | Nov 24, 1998 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Mar 28, 2014 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04L2025/0356
- WIPO fieldDigital communication
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A method and system for demodulating received signals in radio communication systems. Pi/4-DQPSK modulated signals can be demodulated to provide additional quality measurements and to facilitate diversity combination or selection. For example, a carrier is modulated with digital data using Pi/4-DQPSK to convey two bits of data by changing the radio carrier phase from the value at the end of the last symbol through an angle of either .+-.45 degrees or .+-.135 degrees, these four possibilities representing the bit pairs 00, 01, 11 or 10. The transitions of the radio signal are filtered in the complex (I,Q) plane to limit the spectrum. At the receiver, the received signal is downconverted, filtered and amplified using a hard-limiting intermediate frequency (IF) amplifier. The IF amplifier also produces an approximately logarithmic indication of the signal strength before limiting. The hard-limited IF signal containing phase information is fed to a direct phase digitizer. A numerical value representing instantaneous phase is produced and processed to demodulate data symbols. The demodulated data symbols can be combined with the logarithmic signal strength information to produce quality…
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