Abstract
Bandwidth efficient parallel-concatenated Turbo Trellis Coded Modulation (TTCM) schemes were designed for communicating over uncorrelated Rayleigh fading channels. A symbol-based union bound was derived for analysing the error floor of the proposed TTCM schemes. A pair of In-phase (I) and Quadrature-phase (Q) interleavers were employed for interleaving the I and Q components of the TTCMcoded symbols, in order to attain an increased diversity gain. The decoding convergence of the IQ-TTCM schemes was analysed using symbol-based EXtrinsic Information Transfer (EXIT) charts. The best TTCM component codes were selected with the aid of both the symbolbased union bound and non-binary EXIT charts, for designing capacity-approaching IQ-TTCM schemes in the context of 8PSK, 16QAM, 32QAM and 64QAM modulation schemes.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 2030-2039 |
| Number of pages | 10 |
| Journal | IEEE Transactions on Communications |
| Volume | 56 |
| Issue number | 12 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 2008 |
| Externally published | Yes |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Keywords
- Code design
- Decoding convergence
- Distance spectrum
- EXIT charts
- Turbo Trellis Coded Modulation
- Union bound