Effects of adjacent channel interference in MSK and OQPSK on hard limited satellite systems

This paper presents an analytical technique for performance assessments of Minimum Shift Keying (MSK) and Offset Quadrature Phase Shift Keying (OQPSK) signals transmitted over hard limited satellite channels in the presence of intersymbol and adjacent channel interference. Introducing a new equivalent model in which the intersymbol and adjacent channel interference components do not pass through the hard-limiter, the bit error probability is obtained with the aid of Gram-Charlier expansion. The effects of the interference on the bit error probability are estimated.