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Minimum shift keying: a spectrally efficient modulation The ever increasing demand for digital transmission channels, in the radio frequency (RF) band presents a potentially serious problem of spectral congestion and is likely to cause severe adjacent and cochannel interference problems. This has, in recent years, led to the investigation of a wide variety of techniques for solving the problem of spectral congestion. Some solutions to this problem include: 1) new allocations at high frequencies; 2) better management of existing allocations; 3) the use of frequency-reuse techniques such as the use of narrow-beam antennas and dual polarizing systems; 4) the use of efficient source encoding techniques; and 5) the use of spectrally efficient modulation techniques [l]. This article will consider the last approach and analyze, in particular, a modulation scheme known as minimum shift keying (MSK). The MSK signal format will be explained and its relation to other schemes such as quadrature phase shift keying (QPSK), offset QPSK (OQPSK), and frequency shift keying (FSK) pointed out. The main attributes of MSK, such as constant envelope, spectral efficiency, error rate performance of binary PSK, and self-synchronizing capability will all be explained on the basis of the modulation format. Spectral efficiency and MSK In any communication system, .the two primary communication resources are the transmitted power and channel bandwidth. A general system-design objective would be to use these two resources as efficiently as possible. In many communication channels, one of the resources may be more precious than the other and hence most channels can be classified primarily as power-limited or band-limited. (The voice grade telephone circuit, with approximately 3kHz bandwidth, is a typical band-limited channel, whereas space communication links are typically power limited).In power-limited channels, coding schemes would be generally used to save power at the expense of ban