摘要 |
A tetrahedron modem phase modulates input serial binary data and demodulates input waveforms based on a four dimensional vector set. The phase modulation scheme has four possible state vectors (or symbols), that form a tetrahedron in four dimensional space. This symbol geometry improves the bit error rate performance over conventional PSK methods for a given signal to noise ratio. In addition the tetrahedron modem aids bit synchronization and eliminates phase ambiguity in the receiver. Lastly, the tetrahedron modulator outputs a constant envelope waveform, which may be subjected to non-linear devices and channels without fear of negative effects due to amplitude distortion. |