Constellation shaping for pragmatic turbo-coded modulation with high spectral efficiency

IEEE Transactions on Communications

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 341-345

  Raphaeli, Dan ^a   Gurevitz, Assaf ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

High spectral efficiency modulation; Signal shaping; Turbo codes

Indexed keywords

BINARY CODES; CALCULATIONS; CHANNEL CAPACITY; DECODING; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); ERROR CORRECTION; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); PULSE AMPLITUDE MODULATION; QUADRATURE AMPLITUDE MODULATION; WHITE NOISE;

CONSTELLATION SHAPING; GAUSSIAN CHANNEL CAPACITY; HUFFMANN CODE MAPPING; TURBO CODE MODULATION; VARIABLE RATE TURBO CODE;

TURBO CODES;

EID: 1842429033     PISSN: 00906778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCOMM.2004.823564     Document Type: Letter

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