We investigate a novel nondata-aided method for jointly estimating timing a
nd carrier frequency offset in MSK-type modulation. The algorithm has a fee
dforward structure and Lends itself to a simple digital implementation, Its
estimation accuracy depends on a design parameter that may be varied to tr
ade performance for computational complexity. Setting the parameter to unit
y yields a synchronization scheme already known in the literature. Computer
simulations are used to assess the synchronizer performance on AWGN Raylei
gh fading channels with MSK and Gaussian MSK modulation.