D(2)SA: A DPSK-based distributed sample acquisition for coherently demodulated MPSK/DS-CDMA systems

We present DPSK-based distributed sample acquisition (D(2)SA) as a novel va riant of the distributed sample acquisition family for application to the M -ary phase-shift keying signaling direct-sequence code-division multiple-ac cess systems. The D-2 SA employs differentially coherent phase-shift keying (DPSK) to convey the shift register generator state samples and the prerot ation of the data constellation to realize the coherent demodulation of the data stream. The use of DPSK instead of orthogonal modulation as the means of the state sample conveyance improves the system performance in terms of both system complexity and acquisition time.