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Record 1 2007-04-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Telecommunications Transmission
DEF

A form of quadrature phase shift keying where the quadrature component of the signal is offset from the in-phase component by half a symbol period.

OBS

As a result the amplitude does not cross zero, and this reduces the peak to average ratio. This has advantages for power amplifiers because it reduces the peak to average ratio and as a result it is used in the reverse link for CDMA [code division multiple access] transmissions.

Key term(s)
  • off-set quadrature phase shift keying

French

Domaine(s)
  • Transmission (Télécommunications)

Spanish

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