3.0 A Simple Solution To The Carrier Phase Ambiguity Problem
Differential encoding has been used to work around the carrier ambiguity for many years. For phase modulations, source data is coded such that phase differences rather than absolute phase coordinates become the information-bearing attribute of the signal. The QPSK and OQPSK modulations use I and Q independently, with each channel transporting one symbol stream. Starting with the first binary digit, bit 0, even numbered bits form the sequence {ek} and odd numbered bits form the sequence {ok+1} where the counting index is changed from the bit index n to the symbol pair index
Figure M-4 illustrates how QPSK modulators process bits in pairs (dibits), mapping and asserting time coincident symbol phase coordinates (Ik,Qk)52. Phase state changes commence and end on symbol interval timing boundaries, each state taking on one of four possible values at detector decision instants. However, the case of interest is shown in Figure M-5.
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