Filter-Based Turbo Equalization with 2X16QAM Trellis Coded Modulation and Partially Iterative Channel Tracking

Author

Nysaeter, Asgeir ; Otnes, Roald

Author_Institution

UniK-Univ. Graduate Center, Kjeller

fYear

2006

fDate

23-25 Oct. 2006

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

7

Abstract

A system with serially concatenated 2times16QAM multiple trellis coded modulation (MTCM) and linear minimum mean square error (LMMSE) turbo equalization is proposed for an unknown and time-varying intersymbol interference (ISI) channel. The outer and inner codes are a rate 2/3 binary code and a rate 6/8 recursive TCM code respectively. Frequency hopping is included for increased diversity, and each frequency hop channel is initially identified by linear interpolation between two training sequence based estimates. Channel tracking is improved for each new iteration by using a weighted sum of the interpolation based estimate and an estimate made from the soft decoder information. The weights are determined from calculated reliabilities of the estimates. A comparison is made between turbo equalization with this new combined channel estimate, and with only an interpolation based estimate

Keywords

binary codes; channel estimation; concatenated codes; equalisers; filtering theory; frequency hop communication; intersymbol interference; iterative methods; least mean squares methods; quadrature amplitude modulation; time-varying channels; trellis coded modulation; turbo codes; 2times16QAM; ISI; LMMSE; MTCM; binary code; channel estimation; filter-based turbo equalization; frequency hopping; iterative channel tracking; linear interpolation; linear minimum mean square error; multiple trellis coded modulation; quadrature amplitude modulation; recursive TCM code; serial concatenation; soft decoder information; time-varying intersymbol interference channel; training sequence; Binary codes; Concatenated codes; Frequency diversity; Frequency estimation; Interpolation; Intersymbol interference; Iterative decoding; Mean square error methods; Modulation coding; Time varying systems;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Military Communications Conference, 2006. MILCOM 2006. IEEE

Conference_Location

Washington, DC

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0617-X

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-0618-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MILCOM.2006.302191

Filename

4086532