A Layered MIMO CPM System with Incoherent Demodulation

A multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) wireless transmission system with continuous phase modulation (CPM) is considered. A novel MIMO CPM receiver with incoherent modulation is presented. The incoherent demodulation of CPM allows an uncomplicated handling of a frequency offset compared to coherent approaches requiring exact knowledge of the carrier frequency. Blind signal separation (BSS) is applied in the proposed MIMO CPM receiver to separate the signals without any knowledge of the MIMO channel. The BSS permits the demodulation of each separated signal by an incoherent CPM demodulator. For bandwidth efficient transmission partial response CPM and non-binary modulation is applied. The applicability of the proposed system is verified by simulation results.