Reply by February 23, 20082008-02-23
Hi all
I'm working on GMSK modem simulation in MATLAB. I'm almost done with

the modulation part albeit i'm not sure if the model I used is
correct

adding to my trouble is the ambiguity with the Power Spectral Density

of the GMSK modulated signal (also the MSK modulated signal). Here
I'm

writing the algorithm I followed to do the simulation:

bitrate=4000bps BT=0.3

1.calculated the impulse response of the GaussianLPF with the formula

g(t)= convolution(gaussian pulse , rectangular pulse of width T) as

specified in the GSM 5.04 version 8.1.2 Release 1999.
In fact I directly used the impulse response specified in the

following link
>>http://www.emc.york.ac.uk/reports/linkpcp/appD.pdf
2. then I sampled the incoming binary data stream exactly in the middle of the bit period, then over sampled the stream with an over sampling rate of 41 (here in a bit period first 20 samples will be 0 the 21st sample will be +/-1 depending on the data thenext 20 will be 0 again) 3. I convolved these samples with the Impulse response I calculated earlier. 4.then integrated the resulting signal to get 'y' 5.then calculated the I and Q channel streams as I=cos(y),Q=sin(y) then modulated it with a I/Q modulator with Fc(carrier frequency=5000) then I got the modulated signal as shown in the link below for the data:
>>http://aycu19.webshots.com/image/45298/2003374167469833630_rs.jpg
Does a GMSK modulated signal look like that??? It shows constant amplitude and frequency deviations the Ichannel vs Q channel (baseband) plot is as shown in the following link
>>http://aycu15.webshots.com/image/45574/2003383907486945009_rs.jpg
It is a circle with radius 1 as is expected of a GMSK signal I calculated its PSD of the above signal using FFT and scaled its frequency axis to 0 to Fs/2 (here Fs=16400Hz) It is in the zoomed in figure(for viewability) shown in following link http://aycu20.webshots.com/image/46459/2003353100129112203_rs.jpg My doubt here is: In many text books and technical papers the PSD of GMSK signal shows a peak at the carrier frequency but in my signal's PSD shows a dip there I'm not getting where I went wrong. PLEASE GUIDE ME WHERE I WENT WRONG AND PLEASE TELL ME THE CORRECT WAY OUT OF THIS PROBLEM