Multiple-symbol detection of MPSK in narrow-band interference and AWGN

We propose a new technique for rejection of narrow-band interference (NBI) based on multiple-symbol detection of coherent or differential phase-shift keying (DPSK). We first show that the direct use of multiple-symbol detection offers poor performance when NBI is dominant. Our proposed technique employs a special signaling or coding scheme which is shown to be robust against NBI. The evaluation of bit-error rate (BER) shows significant performance improvement in NBI vis-a-vis direct multiple-symbol detection. When viewed as a coding scheme, the proposed signaling scheme is significantly simpler for achieving the same coding gain than conventional error correction codes.