A higher rate turbo equalization with multilevel block-coded modulation

In mobile communications including the cellular phone, the signal quality is often degraded due to multipath fading. However, a demand for a high-data-rate and a large capacity is growing even in the mobile communication. In this paper, to achieve the higher data-rate mobile communication, we propose a turbo equalization with multilevel block-coded modulation (BCM). The turbo equalization has an excellent ability of equalization and the BCM can comparatively make the transmission rate high and the calculation cost low. We combine these techniques and investigate the transmission characteristics.