The Effect of Phase Error on DPSK Error Probability

Abstract

Expressions are found for the effect of an error in the delay of the preceding signal, which provides the reference phase for the decoding of the present signal in differential phase-shift-keying reception. The signal-to-noise ratio is allowed to be different for the two signals that are compared by the receiver's phase detector. The results are applicable to both binary and quaternary DPSK. In addition, an approximation is obtained for the error probability when the two Signal-to-noise ratios are equal to the same large value.