Low-Complexity Frequency Domain Equalization Receiver for Continuous Phase Modulation

A new approach for frequency-domain equalization of continuous phase modulated (CPM) signals is presented. In contrast with state-of-the-art receivers, we separate channel equalization on the one hand and CPM demodulation on the other. This separation enables us to calculate independently of the CPM scheme a new low-complexity zero-forcing channel equalizer. We also present a new high-performance minimum mean square error (MMSE) channel equalizer for any CPM scheme and a method to lower its complexity for a popular class of CPM schemes. Simulations show that our new MMSE equalizer significantly outperforms state-of-the-art linear receivers in a 60 GHz multipath environment.