Authors: M Tschauner Md F T Oshim M Adrat M Antweiler B Eschbach P Vary
Publish Date: 2017/01/31
Volume: 89, Issue: 1, Pages: 145-161
Abstract
In this article we present a novel methodology to optimize Hierarchically Modulated BitInterleaved Coded Modulation with Iterative Decoding HMBICMID This methodology allows designing a receiver which supports several configurations Each configuration is able to decode the same transmitted signal over the air with different fidelity This concept permits using radios with varying processing capabilities eg handheld radios vehicular based radios etc However earlier simulation results have shown that HMBICMID loses if compared to nonhierarchical schemes in Bit Error Rate BER performance due to InterLayer Interferences and design restrictions Our proposed iterative tunable procedure optimizes hierarchical modulation schemes considering two criteria the Harmonic Mean of the minimum squared Euclidean Distance and the bit error probability The optimization is done by moving critical constellation points towards the optimal direction A novel modulation scheme has been found and simulation results show an improved asymptotic BER performance in a wide range of channel conditions for an exemplary twolayered HMBICMID Finally we present an analysis of HMBICMID in context of Extrinsic Information Transfer Charts
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