Serial-Turbo-Trellis-Coded Modulation With Rate-1 Inner Code

Serially concatenated turbo codes have been proposed to satisfy requirements for low bit- and word-error rates and for low (in comparison with related previous codes) complexity of coding and decoding algorithms and thus low complexity of coding and decoding circuitry. These codes are applicable to such high-level modulations as octonary phase-shift keying (8PSK) and 16-state quadrature amplitude modulation (16QAM); the signal product obtained by applying one of these codes to one of these modulations is denoted, generally, as "serially concatenated trellis-coded modulation" ("SCTCM"). These codes could be particularly beneficial for communication systems that must be designed and operated subject to limitations on bandwidth and power.