Field Experiments on 16QAM/TDMA and Trellis Coded 16QAM/TDMA Systems for Digital Land Mobile Radio Communications

Norihito KINOSHITA  Seiichi SAMPEI  Eimatsu MORIYAMA  Hideichi SASAOKA  Yukiyoshi KAMIO  Kazuyuki MIYA  Katsuhiko HIRAMATSU  Kazunori INOGAI  Koichi HOMMA  

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IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications   Vol.E77-B   No.7   pp.911-920
Publication Date: 1994/07/25
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Print ISSN: 0916-8516
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Issue on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications)
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coded modulation,  QAM,  TDMA,  field experiments,  land mobile communications,  

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Summary: 
This paper gives field experimental results on 16-ary quadrature amplitude modulation/time division multiple access (16QAM/TDMA) and trellis coded 16QAM/TDMA systems for land mobile communications in order to evaluate its capability of achieving large capacity and high quality data transmission. Pilot symbol aided space diversity and symbol timing synchronization based on maximum likelihood (ML) estimation are applied to both 16QAM/TDMA and trellis coded 16QAM/TDMA to improve transmission quality. For the trellis coded 16QAM/TDMA, trellis coding with Viterbi decoding and 2-frame symbol interleaving are further employed. The field experiments were conducted in the Tokyo metropolitan area of Japan. The results show that 16QAM/TDMA and trellis coded 16QAM/TDMA are practical modulation/access schemes for land mobile communication systems.