Performance of Nonuniform Constellations on the Gaussian Channel

IEEE Transactions on Information Theory

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 1994, Pages 1633-1638

  Betts, W ^a   Calderbank, A R ^b   Laroia, Rajiv ^b  

^a AT & T Paradyne ^*  (United States)

^b LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Bandwidth efficient communication; nonuniform signal constellations; trellis coded modulation

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BANDWIDTH; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); ERRORS; MODEMS; MODULATION; PROBABILITY; SIGNAL DISTORTION; SIGNAL ENCODING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; TRELLIS CODES;

CODED MODULATION SCHEME; GAUSSIAN CHANNEL; HIGH-SPEED VOICEBAND MODEMS; NONLINEAR ENCODING; NONUNIFORM SIGNAL CONSTELLATIONS;

VOICE/DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 0028514145     PISSN: 00189448     EISSN: 15579654     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/18.333880     Document Type: Article

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