In this PhD thesis, we investigate the single-sideband frequency shift keying (SSB-FSK), a continuous phase modulation (CPM) scheme having, by essence, the original feature of the single-sideband (SSB) spectrum. First, we present the origin of the signal from quantum physics. Then, we propose a simplified Maximum likelihood sequence detection (MLSD) detector for conventional CPM schemes based on the rearrangement shown in the SSB-FSK signal model. To fully exploit the SSB-FSK performance, we examine the signal error probability, bandwidth occupancy, and receiver complexity. Since different performance metrics are considered, we employed a multi-objective optimization to achieve new SSB-FSK schemes that outperform conventional CPM schemes.Mo...