Performance of Bandlimited and Hardlimited PSK Signals

Abstract

Transmission of a signal through a channel, such as a satellite communication channel, results in distortion of the signal due to bandlimiting in the individual channels and hardlimiting. The purpose of this paper is to study the effects that channel distortion due to filtering and hardlimiting have on the performance of BPSK and QPSK. The results will be used to determine the maximum bit rate which can be transmitted through a channel having a particular bandwidth with a specified limit in degradation of performance.