Document Type
Thesis
Date of Award
Spring 5-31-1989
Degree Name
Master of Science in Electrical Engineering - (M.S.)
Department
Electrical Engineering
First Advisor
Fidel Morales-Moreno
Second Advisor
Joseph Frank
Third Advisor
Chung H. Lu
Abstract
We introduce a new concept, called matched punctured trellis encoding, that simplifies the complexity of Maximum Likelihood Sequence Estimation (MLSE) receivers for combined trellis encoding and modulations with memory. Matched punctured trellis encoding is applied to tamed frequency modulation (TFM) which is a bandwidth efficient correlative - FM scheme. TFM finds applications in satellite, microwave radio, and mobile communications.
Our approach is based on puncturing a rate - 1/2 matched convolutional code to obtain a rate - 2/3 mismatched code. A matched code is one that produces trellis coded modulations of minimum complexity. Puncturing these codes to obtain mismatched codes of higher rates increases the complexity of the trellis coded modulations and in return one can achieve greater coding gains. However, the main idea here is that using suboptimum MLSE receivers, with just the complexity of the matched codes, good coding gains can still be achieved. Furthermore, we conclude that the new rate - 2/3 coded modulations obtained with our approach achieve greater coding gains (for same complexity comparisons) than previously published work.
The new codes are obtained by exhaustive computer search techniques and coding gains of up to 5.73 dB for 32 decoder states are achieved. These new codes are good for use with TFM modulation in an AWGN channel.
Recommended Citation
Koo, Bonchul, "Reduced complexity receivers for trellis coded modulations via punctured trellis codes" (1989). Theses. 1371.
https://digitalcommons.njit.edu/theses/1371
