Performance of trellis-coded modulation for equalized multipathfading ISI channels

The performance of TCM on equalized multipath fading ISI channels with different equalization schemes is examined. Trellis codes that are effective for AWGN channels and flat fading channels with interleaving are evaluated for equalized multipath fading channels. For joint MLSE equalization and decoding the equivalent uncoded system outperforms all the trellis-coded systems that are examined. Trellis codes that are designed for flat fading channels with interleaving perform well if interleaving is used and an MLSE equalizer is used before deinterleaving. An effective interleaver-deinterleaver is identified that allows joint DDFSE equalization and decoding to be used without the need for equalization before decoding