A simple detector for trellis-coded PSK mobile radio systems

A simple detector for a trellis-coded PSK mobile radio system is proposed. A precoder is added to the regular TC-PSK modulator before convolution coding, and a simple one-bit differential detector is used in the receiver. The decision is made symbol by symbol based on the output samples. The bit error rate of this system is evaluated in fast Rayleigh fading characterizing mobile radio channels by numerical integration.