High Dimensional Trellis Coded Modulation

Abstract

This work develops a high dimensional circular trellis-coded modulation with permuted state structure (HDCTCM) for power-limited spread spectrum channels. High dimensional simplex signal constellation is systematically developed to achieve the optimal energy efficiency and maximize the minimum distance among error events for any size trellis. By systematically analyzing the error events, sets of state transitions that should be assigned simplex are identified. Butterfly structure of circular trellis coding is successfully related to those state transitions and perfectly aligned into a multidimensional matrix. An algebraic representation of a simplex in a high dimensional space is introduced, and a corresponding signal constellation and symbol assignment procedure are built. A circular trellis code has an unknown starting state; conventional algorithms for calculating the minimum distance of a trellis code always assume a known starting state. This work develops a computational algorithm to calculate minimum distance of circular trellis codes. The coding gain of HDCTCM is evaluated after the minimum distance is obtained. Tight upper and lower bonds on the minimum distance of HDCTCM codes are derived. Furthermore, a method to build codes that have the bounds of the minimum distance is developed. Whereas, in most coding schemes, the optimal distance codes can only be obtained through exhaustive search.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 2002
Accession Number
ADA402122

Entities

People

  • Alan R. Lindsey
  • Jeffrey C. Dill
  • Xiangyu Song

Organizations

  • Ohio University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force Research Laboratories
  • Algorithms
  • Code Division Multiple Access
  • Coding
  • Communication Systems
  • Computer Programming
  • Constellations
  • Decoding
  • Digital Communications
  • Efficiency
  • Energy Efficiency
  • Lepidoptera
  • Modulation
  • Multiple Access
  • Three Dimensional
  • Two Dimensional
  • Wireless Communications

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  • Graph Algorithms and Convex Optimization.
  • Operations Research
  • Radio communications and signal processing.

Technology Areas

  • Space