Title :
A simulation study of trellis-coded modulation for a satellite link
Author :
Tehan, Anthony ; Scanlan, John O.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron. & Electr. Eng., Univ. Coll. Dublin, Ireland
fDate :
11/1/1997 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
Trellis-coded modulation (TCM) offers a theoretical gain of more than 3 dB for an additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channel without an increase in signal bandwidth and without any alteration of the transmitted information rate. This article describes the simulation of TCM for an INTELSAT VI satellite link. It shows that the use of a simple four-state code can give a gain of up to 2.7 dB
Keywords :
Gaussian channels; access protocols; channel capacity; phase shift keying; satellite communication; satellite links; time division multiple access; trellis coded modulation; AWGN channel; COPSK; INTELSAT VI satellite link; TCM; TDMA; additive white Gaussian noise; coded octal phase-shift keying; four-state code; gain; signal bandwidth; simulation study; time division multiple-access; transmitted information rate; trellis-coded modulation; AWGN; Additive white noise; Convolutional codes; Demodulation; Downlink; Error probability; Filters; Modulation coding; Quadrature phase shift keying; Satellites;
Journal_Title :
Communications, IEEE Transactions on
