DocumentCode
1093706
Title
Trellis decoding of combined diversity-coding scheme (MLSD) for fading channels
Author
Mohamed-pour, K. ; Farrell, P.G.
Author_Institution
Commun. Res. Group, Manchester Univ., UK
Volume
32
Issue
10
fYear
1996
fDate
5/9/1996 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
873
Lastpage
874
Abstract
The performance of a receiver using a combination of soft-decision decoding and diversity reception is investigated for nonselective multipath Rayleigh fading channels. A new scheme for soft-diversity, soft-decision detection, maximum likelihood selection and decoding (MLSD), is introduced, in which decisions on the diversity channels and decoding are carried out simultaneously by using a trellis and the Viterbi algorithm
Keywords
Rayleigh channels; Viterbi decoding; diversity reception; fading; maximum likelihood decoding; multipath channels; trellis codes; Viterbi algorithm; combined diversity-coding scheme; diversity reception; fading channels; maximum likelihood selection/decoding; nonselective multipath Rayleigh channels; soft-decision decoding; soft-diversity; trellis decoding;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Electronics Letters
Publisher
iet
ISSN
0013-5194
Type
jour
DOI
10.1049/el:19960587
Filename
509931
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