Hierarchical trellis coded modulation
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1. A method for decoding a quantity of coded electronic information, the method comprising:
- at least partially decoding the quantity of coded information using a high protection code decoder to produce an estimated information bit;
re-encoding the estimated information bit for a next decoding stage to be performed; and
at least partially decoding the re-encoded estimated information bit using a low protection code decoder to produce an estimation of a vector to be transmitted.
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Abstract
A system and method for encoding information is disclosed. In one embodiment, information is encoded using a high protection code for the least significant bit and a low protection code for the next three most significant bits. The remaining bits are uncoded. The high protection code may be a turbo code and the low protection code may be a trellis coded modulation code. In this embodiment, the collection of bits is then mapped according to a diagonally shifted QAM constellation technique.
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34 Claims
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1. A method for decoding a quantity of coded electronic information, the method comprising:
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at least partially decoding the quantity of coded information using a high protection code decoder to produce an estimated information bit; re-encoding the estimated information bit for a next decoding stage to be performed; and at least partially decoding the re-encoded estimated information bit using a low protection code decoder to produce an estimation of a vector to be transmitted. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. A system for decoding a quantity of coded electronic information, the system comprising:
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a high protection code decoder configured to at least partially decode the quantity of information to produce an estimated information bit; a re-encoder configured to re-encode the estimated information bit for a next decoding stage to be performed; and a low protection code decoder configured to at least partially decode the re-encoded estimated information bit to produce an estimation of a vector to be transmitted. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18)
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19. A method for decoding electronic information comprising:
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decoding a first part of the electronic information encoded with a first code using a first decoder to obtain an estimated information bit, wherein the first code does not affect asymptotic performance of the method; re-encoding the estimated information bit for a second decoding stage to be performed; and decoding a second part of the electronic information encoded with a second code using a second decoder to produce an estimated vector to be transmitted, wherein the second code has a different degree of error protection than the first code. - View Dependent Claims (20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26)
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27. A system for decoding electronic information comprising:
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a first decoding stage to decode a first part of the electronic information encoded with a first code to obtain an estimated information bit, wherein the first code does not affect asymptotic performance of the method; a re-encoding stage configured to re-encode the estimated information bit for a second decoding stage to be performed; and the second decoding stage to decode a second part of the electronic information encoded with a second code to produce an estimated vector to be transmitted, wherein the second code has a different degree of error protection than the first code. - View Dependent Claims (28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34)
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