Turbo Trellis Coded Modulation with Enhanced Transition Metric over Rayleigh Fading Channels

  • Authors:

  • Kostas V. Koutsouvelis;Christos E. Dimakis;S. S. Kouris

  • Affiliations:

  • Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Telecom. Division, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece;Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Telecom. Division, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece;Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Telecom. Division, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

  • Venue:
  • Wireless Personal Communications: An International Journal
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

This paper investigates the performance of a new Turbo Trellis Coded Modulation scheme over correlated flat fading channels with channel interleaving. The novelty of the scheme is based on the application of a new modified transition metric incorporated in the symbol-by-symbol MAP algorithm. We consider frequency non-selective, slow Rayleigh fading channels. Extensive simulation results together with EXIT chart analysis show that the proposed scheme achieves better performance compared to the conventional transition metric when channel state information is not available at the decoder.