BER bounds of a trellis coded GMSK signal

Author

Caldera, Manora ; Chung, Kah-Seng

Author_Institution

Australian Telecommun. Cooperative Res. Centre, Curtin Univ. of Technol., Perth, WA, Australia

Volume

2

fYear

2002

fDate

28-31 Oct. 2002

Firstpage

960

Abstract

In this paper, the error bounds for trellis coded modulation, formed by combining rate-1/2 convolution coding and GMSK (B₀T=0.3), are presented for an additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channel as well as a channel suffering from amplitude fading. In the derivations, a Viterbi decoder is used to select the most likely transmitted sequence. The bounds obtained for the AWGN channel are tight to within 2.5 dB for the code. Computer simulations have also been carried out to verify the analytical bounds over AWGN, and frequency-flat fading channels. Simulated results over AWGN fall within 1 dB of the theoretical lower bound.

Keywords

AWGN channels; Viterbi decoding; convolutional codes; error statistics; fading channels; minimum shift keying; trellis coded modulation; AWGN channel; BER bounds; Viterbi decoder; additive white Gaussian noise channel; amplitude fading; computer simulations; convolution coding; error bounds; frequency-flat fading channels; lower bound; simulated results; trellis coded GMSK signal; trellis coded modulation; AWGN channels; Additive white noise; Amplitude modulation; Bit error rate; Computer simulation; Convolution; Decoding; Fading; Modulation coding; Viterbi algorithm;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

TENCON '02. Proceedings. 2002 IEEE Region 10 Conference on Computers, Communications, Control and Power Engineering

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7490-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/TENCON.2002.1180280

Filename

1180280