Multilevel Codes for Unequal Error Protection

IEEE Transactions on Information Theory

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 1993, Pages 1234-1248

  Calderbank, A R ^a   Seshadri, N ^a  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Coded modulation multilevel codes unequal error protection soft decision decoding; Index Terms

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); DECODING; ERROR ANALYSIS; IMAGE CODING; INFORMATION THEORY; MODULATION; REDUNDANCY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPEECH CODING; TIME SHARING SYSTEMS; WHITE NOISE;

ADDITIVE WHITE GAUSSIAN NOISE CHANNEL; CODED MODULATION; MULTILEVEL CODES; SIGNAL CONSTELLATION; SOFT DECISION DECODING; UNEQUAL ERROR PROTECTION;

ERROR COMPENSATION;

EID: 0027634580     PISSN: 00189448     EISSN: 15579654     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/18.243441     Document Type: Article

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