Dk. Asano et R. Kohno, SERIAL UNEQUAL ERROR-PROTECTION CODES BASED ON TRELLIS-CODED MODULATION, IEEE transactions on communications, 45(6), 1997, pp. 633-636
Unequal error-protection (UEP) codes that are designed using trellis-c
oded modulation (TCM) are proposed for use with a single data stream c
onsisting of information with two levels of importance. To achieve UEP
, the proposed scheme encodes the data according to the importance of
the information by switching between two codes which use different sig
nal constellations. Using simple trellis codes, it is shown that the e
rror rate of the important information is lower than the error rate fo
r an equivalent equal error-protection scheme.