phase shift keying

Modulation scheme encoding all information into phase.

si(t)={Ag(t)ej2π(i1)/Mej2πfct}

signal constellation points are given by

si1=Acos(2π(i1)M)
si2=Asin(2π(i1)M)

All signals have equal energy, A2.

Based on the number of points in the diagram, M (because we need to map M messages onto coefficients in signal space), there are a few popular variants of PSK. Namely

2PSK
binary phase shift keying
4PSK
quadrature phase shift keying

psk_constellation.png

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