A low complexity coherent CPM receiver with modulation index estimation

In this paper we address the problem of low-complexity coherent detection of continuous phase modulation (CPM) signals. We exploit the per-survivor-process technique to build a reduced-state trellis and apply a Viterbi algorithm with modified metrics. In the case where the modulation index can vary, we propose a maximum-likelihood (ML) estimation of the modulation index and compare the performance of the resulting structure with a non-coherent receiver structure of the state of the art. Simulations on an additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channel both for binary and M-ary CPM show the efficiency of the proposed receiver.

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