Rate-Compatible Punctured Bit-Interleaved Coded Modulation for Mobile Satellite Communications

Tadashi MINOWA

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IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications   Vol.E87-B    No.8    pp.2082-2089
Publication Date: 2004/08/01
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Print ISSN: 0916-8516
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Recent Fundamental Technologies for Broadband Satellite Communications)
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Keyword: 
bit-interleaved coded modulation,  iterative decoding,  mobile satellite communication,  Rayleigh fading,  punctured convolutional codes,  

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Summary: 
Fading in mobile satellite communications severely degrades the performance of data transmission. It is commonly modeled with non-frequency selective Rayleigh fading. For this type of channel, a new structure for a bit-interleaved coded modulation (BICM) scheme is presented and evaluated to determine its effectiveness compared to previously proposed schemes. This scheme is referred to as rate-compatible punctured BICM (RCP-BICM), in that its BICM encoder is able to yield a wide range of data rates by using a punctured convolutional code obtained by periodically perforating parity bits from the output of a low-rate-1/2 systematic convolutional code. A trellis-coded modulation (TCM) scheme and a turbo TCM (TTCM) scheme are discussed and evaluated for comparison with the RCP-BICM scheme. Simulation results demonstrate that the RCP-BICM scheme with hard-decision iterative decoding is superior to the TCM scheme by 3 dB at a bit error rate (BER) of 10-5 over an Rayleigh fading channel, and comes at a BER of 10-5 within 1 dB of the TCM scheme over an additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channel.