DocumentCode
3121219
Title
On hard decision upper bounds for coded M-ary hierarchical modulation
Author
Arslan, Suayb S. ; Cosman, Pamela C. ; Milstein, Laurence B.
Author_Institution
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
fYear
2011
fDate
23-25 March 2011
Firstpage
1
Lastpage
6
Abstract
Hierarchical modulation is used in conjunction with error correction coding in many multimedia communication systems to provide unequal protection. We show that hard decision upper bounds given for binary symmetric channels can be used to find upper bounds for the bit error rate of different bit classes of a coded M-ary hierarchical modulation.
Keywords
error correction codes; error statistics; multimedia communication; BER; binary symmetric channels; bit error rate; coded M-ary hierarchical modulation; error correction coding; hard decision upper bounds; multimedia communication systems; AWGN; Binary phase shift keying; Bit error rate; Quadrature amplitude modulation;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Information Sciences and Systems (CISS), 2011 45th Annual Conference on
Conference_Location
Baltimore, MD
Print_ISBN
978-1-4244-9846-8
Electronic_ISBN
978-1-4244-9847-5
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/CISS.2011.5766232
Filename
5766232
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