A novel general approach to the optimal synthesis of trellis-codes for arbitrary noisy discrete memoryless channels

Author

Baccarelli, E. ; Cusani, R. ; Piazzo, L.

Author_Institution

INFOCOM Dept., Rome Univ., Italy

fYear

1995

fDate

17-22 Sep 1995

Firstpage

68

Abstract

A new general criterion for the optimal design of (possibly) time-varying and nonlinear trellis-codes for reliable transmission of digital information sequences over arbitrary (possibly) time-varying discrete memoryless channels (DMCs) is presented. The criterion is derived on the basis of new tight generally time-varying analytical upper bounds developed for the performance evaluation of MAP decoders with finite decoding constraint-lengths which minimise the symbol-error probability. New procedures related to the proposed criterion are also presented, allowing a direct construction of good trellis-codes for any arbitrary DMC and for any assigned value of the decoding constraint-length

Keywords

digital communication; maximum likelihood decoding; noise; optimisation; probability; time-varying channels; trellis coded modulation; trellis codes; MAP decoders; decoding constraint length; decoding constraint lengths; digital information sequences; noisy discrete memoryless channels; nonlinear trellis codes; optimal design; optimal synthesis; performance evaluation; reliable digital transmission; symbol error probability; time varying analytical upper bounds; time varying discrete memoryless channels; time varying trellis codes; Convolutional codes; Hamming distance; Maximum likelihood decoding; Maximum likelihood estimation; Memoryless systems; Monte Carlo methods; Performance analysis; Riccati equations; Upper bound; Working environment noise;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Theory, 1995. Proceedings., 1995 IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Whistler, BC

Print_ISBN

0-7803-2453-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISIT.1995.531170

Filename

531170