Adaptive coded modulation for fading channels

Abstract

Abstract-We apply coset codes to adaptive modulation in fading channels. Adaptive modulation is a powerful technique to improve the energy efficiency and increase the data rate over a fading channel. Coset codes are a natural choice to use with adaptive modulation since the channel coding and modulation designs are separable. Therefore, trellis and lattice codes designed for additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channels can be superimposed on adaptive modulation for fading channels, with the same approximate coding gains. We first describe the methodology for combining coset codes with a general class of adaptive modulation techniques. We then apply this methodology to a spectrally efficient adaptive M-ary quadrature amplitude modulation (MQAM) to obtain trellis-coded adaptive MQAM. We present analytical and simulation results for this design which show an effective coding gain of 3 dB relative to uncoded adaptive MQAM for a simple four-state trellis code, and an effective 3.6-dB coding gain for an eight-state trellis code. More complex trellis codes are shown to achieve higher gains. We also compare the performance of trellis-coded adaptive MQAM to that of coded modulation with built-in time diversity and fixed-rate modulation. The adaptive method exhibits a power savings of up to 20 dB.

On multiplexing data streams using trellis-coded modulation in centralized wireless networks

“…Another approach to multiplexing URLLC and eMBB traffic is Trellis-and Network-coded modulation (TC-NCM) [17]. Based the Ungerboeck's scheme [18] and the general type of coset coding advocated by Goldsmith in [19] and Chapter 8 of [20], the authors propose adaptive TC-NCM structure, where the transmitter adapts the coding rate and modulation mode according to the channel estimates fed back via feedback channels. The main disadvantage of this method is the lack of encoding of the URLLC stream, which negatively affects the reliability and transmission rate of URLLC messages.…”