Power-efficient M-ary PSSK Communications with Uncertain Phase Errors

Abstract

M-ary phase-silence-shift-keying (PSSK), one of power-efficient modulation schemes, has enhanced symbol error rate (SER) performance by 6 dB compared with that of the conventional phase-shift-keying (PSK). Phase tracking problem of the PSSK with phase-locked-loop (PLL) is discussed in this paper. Capacity of the PSSK for the additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channel and Rayleigh fading channel is analyzed. Capacity loss of the PSSK due to the PLL is small, which tells us that the PSSK demodulator can be practically implemented.