Trellis Code Design for Correlated Fading

and

Achievable Rates for Tomlinson-Harashima Precoding

Richard D. Wesel

Stanford University

Copyright August 1996

Chapters 1 and 2.

Chapter 3.

Chapter 4.
For the journal paper that ultimately resulted from Chapter 4 (after years of further research) see R. D. Wesel, X. Liu, C. Komninakis, and J. M. Cioffi, "Constellation Labeling for Linear Encoders," IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Sept. 2001, vol. 47, no. 6, pp. 2417-2432.

Chapter 5.

Chapter 6
The results of Chapter 6 are presented in R. D. Wesel and J. M. Cioffi, "Trellis Codes for Periodic Interleavers," IEEE Communications Letters, April 1999, vol. 3, no. 4, pp 103-105. Further results from the periodic fading perspective are available in R. D. Wesel, X. Liu, and W. Shi, "Trellis Codes for Periodic Erasures," IEEE Transacations on Communications, June 2000, vol. 48, no. 6, pp 938-947.

Chapter 7.
The results of Chapter 7 are presented in R. D. Wesel, and J. Cioffi, " Achievable Rates for Tomlinson-Harashima Precoding,"IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, March 1998, vol. 44, no. 2, pp 824-831.

Conclusion, Appendix and References.

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