Multiple trellis coded 16 QAM.

by Kingsley, King-chi, Kwan.Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1994.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 85-88).Tables of ContentsLists of Figures & TablesAcknowledgmentsAbstractChapter Chapter 1 --- IntroductionChapter 1.1 --- Digital Communication System --- p.P. 1Chapter 1.2 --- Channel Coding --- p.P. 1Chapter 1.3 --- Convolution Encoder --- p.P. 4Chapter 1.4 --- Additive White Gaussian Noise (AWGN) Channel --- p.P. 7Chapter 1.5 --- Trellis Diagram --- p.P. 8Chapter 1.6 --- Error Event and Free Distance --- p.P. 8Chapter 1.7 --- Euclidean Distance --- p.P. 10Chapter 1.8 --- Organization of the Thesis --- p.P. 11Chapter Chapter 2 --- QAM and MTCMChapter 2.1 --- Introduction --- p.P. 13Chapter 2.2 --- M-ary Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (QAM)Chapter 2.2.1 --- M-ary Digital Modulation --- p.P. 13Chapter 2.2.2 --- Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (QAM) --- p.P. 14Chapter 2.2.3 --- Probability of Bit Error of M-ary QAM --- p.P. 16Chapter 2.3 --- Trellis Coded Modulation (TCM) --- p.P. 17Chapter 2.4 --- Multiple Trellis Coded Modulation (MTCM) --- p.P. 19Chapter Chapter 3 --- Set Partitioning of Signal SetsChapter 3.1 --- Introduction --- p.P. 21Chapter 3.2 --- Traditional Set Partitioning MethodsChapter 3.2.1 --- Ungerboeck's Set Partitioning Method --- p.P. 21Chapter 3.22 --- Set Partitioning by M.K. Simon and D. Divsalvar --- p.P. 23Chapter 3.3 --- The new Set Partitioning MethodChapter 3.3.1 --- Nomenclature of the Signal Points in the Signal Constellations --- p.P. 24Chapter 3.3.2 --- Generation of the Signal Sets --- p.P. 26Chapter 3.3.3 --- Partitioning of the Signal SetsChapter 3.3.3.1 --- Input Constraints of the Partitioning Method --- p.P. 30Chapter 3.3.3.2 --- The Set Partitioning Method --- p.P. 30Chapter 3.3.4 --- Distance Properties of the Partitioned Signal Sets --- p.P. 36Chapter 3.3.5 --- The Selection Scheme --- p.P. 39Chapter 3.3.6 --- Assignment of Signal Subsets into Trellis --- p.P. 42Chapter Chapter 4 --- Performance EvaluationChapter 4.1 --- Introduction --- p.P. 46Chapter 4.2 --- Upper Bound of Error ProbabilityChapter 4.2.1 --- Probability of Symbol Error --- p.P. 46Chapter 4.2.1.1 --- Upper Bound on Probability of Symbol Error --- p.P. 48Chapter 4.2.1.2 --- Computation of the Transfer Function --- p.P. 49Chapter 4.2.2 --- Probability of Bit Error --- p.P. 51Chapter 4.3 --- Computation of the Free Distance --- p.P. 53Chapter Chapter 5 --- Results Presentation and DiscussionsChapter 5.1 --- Introduction --- p.P. 58Chapter 5.2 --- Results PresentationsChapter 5.2.1 --- Normalized Square Free Euclidean Distance --- p.P. 58Chapter 5.2.2 --- Error Probability --- p.P. 71Chapter 5.3 --- Discussions --- p.P. 77Chapter Chapter 6 --- Conclusions --- p.P. 83Bibliography --- p.P. 85Chapter Appendix A - --- Flowchart of the Program --- p.P. 89Chapter Appendix B - --- Tabulated Results of d2free --- p.P. 10