Joint Design of Twin-Antenna Assisted Space-Time Multilevel Sphere Packing Aided Coded Modulation

Author

Tee, R.Y.S. ; Alamri, O. ; Hanzo, L.

Author_Institution

Sch. of ECS, Univ. of Southampton, Southampton

fYear

2006

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

A new multilevel coding (MLC) scheme invoking sphere packing (SP) modulation is proposed, where the SP arrangement is jointly designed with a space time block code (STBC) for the sake of attaining an additional space diversity gain. An iterative multistage decoding (MSD) aided multilevel sphere packing demodulator is proposed for attaining a high decoding performance at a low decoding complexity, when communicating over a correlated Rayleigh channel. The appropriate design of a 4-dimensional (4D) sphere packing bit-to-SP-symbol mapping scheme and the beneficial choice of the individual coding rates of the MLC scheme allows us to provide an unequal error protection capability, which is often required for efficient audio or video transmissions.

Keywords

Rayleigh channels; antenna arrays; block codes; communication complexity; correlation methods; demodulation; diversity reception; error correction codes; iterative decoding; modulation coding; space-time codes; STBC; correlated Rayleigh channel; demodulator; iterative multistage decoding complexity; multilevel coding; space diversity gain; space time block code; sphere packing aided coded modulation; twin antenna; unequal error protection capability; Block codes; Demodulation; Diversity reception; Error correction codes; Iterative decoding; Maximum likelihood decoding; Maximum likelihood detection; Modulation coding; Protection; Transmitting antennas;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vehicular Technology Conference, 2006. VTC-2006 Fall. 2006 IEEE 64th

Conference_Location

Montreal, Que.

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0062-7

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-0063-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VTCF.2006.79

Filename

4109344