Design and evaluation of two block coded modulation schemes

Presents a study on the design and evaluation of two block coded modulation systems. One of the systems uses a binary construction and quadrature amplitude modulation. The other utilizes a ternary construction and phase modulation. The performance of the two coded schemes are compared theoretically with those of uncoded schemes of the same bandwidth, average power and transmission rate. The ternary scheme is also evaluated practically by computer simulations. Furthermore, the sub-optimum detection algorithm which is used in the ternary scheme is surveyed from the computational complexity and the memory requirement viewpoints