Multilevel coding using trellis-coded modulation and reed-solomon codes
CA 2090166 C · Owner: American Telephone And Telegraph Company · Inventors: Wei, Lee-Fang
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A multilevel coded modulation scheme trellis encodes a portion of the input data, and the resulting encoded stream is used to identify a particular one of a predetermined number of subsets of symbols of a predetermined signal constellation. The remaining input data is coded using a Reed-Solomon (RS) code whose output is used to select for transmission a particular symbol from the identified subset. In applications in which phase hits or other channel phenomena may cause the received signal points to be phase-rotated versions of the signal points that were transmitted, differential encoding is included in the overall coded modulation scheme. In different embodiments the differential …
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