EXIT-chart-matching-aided near-capacity coded modulation design and a BICM-ID design example for both Gaussian and Rayleigh channels

IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1216-1227

  Xie, Qiuliang ^a,b   Yang, Zhixing ^b   Song, Jian ^b,c   Hanzo, Lajos ^d  

^a National Engineering Laboratory Co Ltd for Digital TV   (China)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Shenzhen City Key Laboratory of Digital TV System   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adaptive binary switching algorithm (ABSA); Amplitude phase shift keying (APSK); Bit interleaved coded modulation with iterative decoding (BICM ID); Capacity; Extrinsic information transfer (EXIT) charts; Mutual information; Signal space diversity (SSD)

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); ITERATIVE DECODING; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHASE SHIFT; PHASE SHIFTERS; PULSE CODE MODULATION; RAYLEIGH FADING; TURBO CODES; WHITE NOISE;

BIT-INTERLEAVED CODED MODULATION WITH ITERATIVE DECODING; CAPACITY; EXTRINSIC INFORMATION TRANSFER CHARTS; MUTUAL INFORMATIONS; SIGNAL-SPACE DIVERSITY; SWITCHING ALGORITHMS;

QUADRATURE AMPLITUDE MODULATION;

EID: 84885149723     PISSN: 00189545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVT.2012.2228679     Document Type: Article

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