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Constellation Rearrangement: Enhancement for Multilevel Modulation Formats and Transmit Diversity

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Radio link adaptivity will be a key feature of the air interfaces of future mobile communication systems. This adaptivity includes techniques such as fast scheduling, hybrid ARQ, transmit diversity and adaptive modulation and coding. The performance of adaptive modulation generally suffers from the power inefficiencies of multilevel modulation formats. This is due to the variations in bit reliabilities caused by the bit-mapping onto the signal constellation. This article presents a concept, called constellation rearrangement (CoRe), which improves the multilevel modulation power efficiency by the joint application with transmit diversity schemes. It is shown by a theoretical analysis for 16-QAM that the presented concept can equalize variations in bit reliabilities by employing different mapping rules for the transmission over the diversity branches. This significantly improves the receiver block error rate performance and, hence, the performance of the adaptive modulation and coding. This is proven by simulations at link-level in a multicarrier CDMA system for AWGN and fading channels employing turbo coded transmission.

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  1. Panasonic Multimedia Communication European Laboratory, Monzastr. 4c, 63225, Langen, Germany

    Christian Wengerter, Alexander Golitschek Edler von Elbwart & Eiko Seidel

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Wengerter, C., von Elbwart, A.G.E. & Seidel, E. Constellation Rearrangement: Enhancement for Multilevel Modulation Formats and Transmit Diversity. Wireless Personal Communications 29, 35–45 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1023/B:WIRE.0000037568.22190.32

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