Decision feedback detection of minimum shift keying

A new decision feedback (DF) receiver for minimum shift keying (MSK) is derived, which uses the previously detected symbols to estimate the initial phase in the current symbol for optimum coherent detection. Some of theoretical and simulated bit error rate (BER) performance results are presented. The results show that the DF detection provides good bit error performance in the AWGN channel, and is also an efficient detection method for MSK in a fast Rayleigh fading mobile channel.