A novel criterion for optimum concatenation scheme (MLC-STBC) in Rayleigh fading channels

Author

Yuan, Dong-Feng ; Wang, Qian ; Zhang, Peng

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Shandong Univ., Jinan, China

Volume

1

fYear

2001

fDate

6/23/1905 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

367

Abstract

In this paper, based on the characteristics of multilevel codes (MLC) and space-time block codes (STBC), the concatenation scheme combining MLC and STBC is proposed over Rayleigh fading channels. According to the fact that MLC system can achieve optimal performance according to the "capacity rule and BP (block partitioning) rule", the same topics, i.e. the optimal scheme involving in the optimal code rate design and the optimal set partitioning of MLC-STBC system are investigated in this paper. After analysis and computer simulations, a novel criterion for optimum MLC-STBC is proposed.

Keywords

BCH codes; Rayleigh channels; amplitude shift keying; channel coding; concatenated codes; land mobile radio; optimisation; 8ASK; BCH codes; MLC-STBC; Rayleigh fading channels; block partitioning rule; capacity rule; component codes; computer simulations; mobile fading channels; multilevel codes; optimal code rate design; optimal performance; optimal set partitioning; optimum concatenation scheme; simulation results; space-time block codes; Block codes; Constellation diagram; Convolutional codes; Decoding; Fading; Mobile communication; Receiving antennas; Slot antennas; Transmitters; Transmitting antennas;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vehicular Technology Conference, 2001. VTC 2001 Fall. IEEE VTS 54th

ISSN

1090-3038

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7005-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VTC.2001.956621

Filename

956621