Computer Science – Information Theory
Scientific paper
2011-09-05
Computer Science
Information Theory
18 pages, 17 figures, 2 tables
Scientific paper
A decode and forward protocol based Trellis Coded Modulation (TCM) scheme for the half-duplex relay channel, in a Rayleigh fading environment, is presented. The proposed scheme can achieve any spectral efficiency greater than or equal to one bit per channel use (bpcu). A near-ML decoder for the suggested TCM scheme is proposed. It is shown that the high SNR performance of this near-ML decoder approaches the performance of the optimal ML decoder. The high SNR performance of this near-ML decoder is independent of the strength of the Source-Relay link and approaches the performance of the optimal ML decoder with an ideal Source-Relay link. Based on the derived Pair-wise Error Probability (PEP) bounds, design criteria to maximize the diversity and coding gains are obtained. Simulation results show a large gain in SNR for the proposed TCM scheme over uncoded communication as well as the direct transmission without the relay. Also, it is shown that even for the uncoded transmission scheme, the choice of the labelling scheme (mapping from bits to complex symbols) used at the source and the relay significantly impacts the BER vs SNR performance. We provide a good labelling scheme for $2^l$-PSK signal set, where $l\geq 2$ is an integer.
Muralidharan Vijayvaradharaj T.
Rajan Sundar B.
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