Turbo-coded burst-by-burst adaptive orthogonal frequency division multiplex
(AOFDM) wide-band speech transceivers are proposed. A constant throughput
adaptive OFDM transceiver,vas designed and benchmarked against a time-varia
nt rate scheme. The proposed joint adaptation of source-codec, channel-code
c, and modulation regime results in attractive, robust, high-quality audio
systems, capable of conveying near-unimpaired wide-band audio signals over
fading dispersive channels for signal-to-noise ratios (SNR) in excess of ab
out 5 dB.