The invention relates to the technical field of
wireless communication, and discloses a
signal receiving method applied to DSSS-OQPSK and a differential
rake receiver, and the method comprises the following steps: carrying out multipath separation on a received
signal, and sequentially carrying out the following steps on each path: a, carrying out de-spreading
processing based on a direct sequence spreading code, and generating a complex symbol sequence containing a
phase error; b, performing conjugate differential operation on adjacent complex symbols to eliminate phase errors, and obtaining differential symbols after the phase errors are eliminated; combining the differential symbols after the phase errors are eliminated according to the receiving power of the paths where the differential symbols are located, wherein the receiving power is obtained through channel
estimation (CE); and outputting the combined
demodulation signal. According to the method, energy-based combination is carried out on differential symbols output by each path, and the method is not sensitive to
frequency deviation,
phase deviation and sampling deviation.