On multilevel block modulation codes

The multilevel technique for combining block coding and modulation is investigated. A general formulation is presented for multilevel modulation codes in terms of component codes with appropriate distance measures. A specific method for constructing multilevel block modulation codes with interdependency among component codes is proposed. Given a multilevel block modulation code C with no interdependency among the binary component codes, the proposed method gives a multilevel block modulation code C' that has the same rate as C, a minimum squared Euclidean distance not less than that of C, a trellis diagram with the same number of states as that of C, and a smaller number of nearest neighbor codewords than that of C. Finally, a technique is presented for analyzing the error performance of block modulation codes for an additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channel based on soft-decision maximum likelihood decoding. Error probabilities of some specific codes are evaluated by simulation and upper bounds based on their Euclidean weight distributions. >

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