Superposition turbo TCM for multirate broadcast

Bergmans and Cover identified the capacity region of the Gaussian degraded broadcast channel, where different receivers observe the transmitted signal with different signal-to-noise ratios. This letter presents a superposition turbo-coding scheme that performs within 1 dB of the capacity region boundary of the degraded broadcast channel at a bit-error rate of 10/sup -5/.

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