Wide-Band Frequency-Shift Keyed Receiver Performance in the Presence of Intersymbol Interference

The noncoherent binary frequency-shift keyed (FSK) receiver analyzed in this concise paper employs predetection filters with bandwidths much larger than the symbol rate. Wide-band predetection filtering is used in order to trade performance for simplicity and reduced costs. In this analysis bit-error rate (BER) degradation due to wide predetection filter bandwidths and intersymbol interference caused by postdetection filtering is determined. The postdetection filters considered are single-pole RC and two-pole Butterworth filters. The receiver performance using these filters is compared with the performance achieved when using integrate-and-dump postdetection filtering. Experimental and simulation results are presented which agree well with the analysis.