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Title:	Reduced complexity receivers for trellis coded modulations via punctured trellis codes
Author:	Koo, Bonchul
View Online:	njit-etd1989-021 ([ix], 71 pages ~ 2.3 MB pdf)
Department:	Department of Electrical Engineering
Degree:	Master of Science
Program:	Electrical Engineering
Document Type:	Thesis
Advisory Committee:	Morales-Moreno, Fidel (Committee chair) Frank, Joseph (Committee member) Lu, Chung H. (Committee member)
Date:	1989
Keywords:	Radio frequency modulation--Receivers and reception. Coding theory. Digital communications.
Availability:	Unrestricted
Abstract:	We introduce a new concept, called matched punctured trellis encoding, that simplifies the complexity of Maximum Likelihood Sequence Estimation (MLSE) receivers for combined trellis encoding and modulations with memory. Matched punctured trellis encoding is applied to tamed frequency modulation (TFM) which is a bandwidth efficient correlative - FM scheme. TFM finds applications in satellite, microwave radio, and mobile communications. Our approach is based on puncturing a rate - 1/2 matched convolutional code to obtain a rate - 2/3 mismatched code. A matched code is one that produces trellis coded modulations of minimum complexity. Puncturing these codes to obtain mismatched codes of higher rates increases the complexity of the trellis coded modulations and in return one can achieve greater coding gains. However, the main idea here is that using suboptimum MLSE receivers, with just the complexity of the matched codes, good coding gains can still be achieved. Furthermore, we conclude that the new rate - 2/3 coded modulations obtained with our approach achieve greater coding gains (for same complexity comparisons) than previously published work. The new codes are obtained by exhaustive computer search techniques and coding gains of up to 5.73 dB for 32 decoder states are achieved. These new codes are good for use with TFM modulation in an AWGN channel.