ISSN:
1572-8129
Keywords:
Fading channels, Trellis coded modulation, concatenated coding, differential phase shift keying, interleaved coding
Source:
Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
Topics:
Electrical Engineering, Measurement and Control Technology
Notes:
Abstract The performance improvement of conventional TCM schemes over frequency nonselective slow Rayleigh fading channels, caused by a slight modification on the metric calculation of the Viterbi decoder, is investigated in this paper. A statistical analysis of the Euclidean distances at the input of the Viterbi decoder is carried out to explain this improvement. Furthermore, the performance improvement of two concatenated coding systems incorporating the above modification, under the same conditions, is studied. The performance of the TCM and the concatenated systems is evaluated by Monte Carlo simulation. The results show that the examined systems, using the proposed modification on the metric calculation, achieve BER performances comparable to other codes and systems, especially designed for fading channels.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1009593612908
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