MULTIDIMENSIONAL M-PSK TRELLIS CODES FOR FADING CHANNELS

This paper investigates the code search problem for trellis-coded mult idimensional phase modulation for Rayleigh fading channels, New set pa rtitionings for Multiple Phase-Shift Keying (M-PSK) are proposed using the effective code length (ECL) and the minimum product distance (PD) as the code design criteria, By using these set-partitionings rules, new multidimensional codes which are optimum for Rayleigh fading chann els are constructed, The proposed codes compare favorably with the exi sting multidimensional trellis codes on fading channels in terms of bi t error performance, The bit error performance is evaluated by simulat ion.