Computer Science – Information Theory
Scientific paper
2010-08-16
Computer Science
Information Theory
Submitted to the IEEE Transactions on Communications
Scientific paper
Recent results have shown that the performance of bit-interleaved coded modulation (BICM) using convolutional codes in nonfading channels can be significantly improved when the interleaver takes a trivial form (BICM-T), i.e., when it does not interleave the bits at all. In this paper, we give a formal explanation for these results and show that BICM-T is in fact the combination of a TCM transmitter and a BICM receiver. To predict the performance of BICM-T, a new type of distance spectrum for convolutional codes is introduced, analytical bounds based on this spectrum are developed, and asymptotic approximations are also presented. It is shown that the minimum distance of the code is not the relevant optimization criterion for BICM-T. Optimal convolutional codes for different constrain lengths are tabulated and asymptotic gains of about 2 dB are obtained. These gains are found to be the same as those obtained by Ungerboeck's one-dimensional trellis coded modulation (1D-TCM), and therefore, in nonfading channels, BICM-T is shown to be asymptotically as good as 1D-TCM.
Agrell Erik
Alvarado Alex
Szczecinski Leszek
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