Trellis coding technique to increase adjacent channel interference

Abstract

An optimum communication system employs an encoder coupled to a mapper and two parallel branches, each branch having a transmit filter a digital-to-analog converter, a low pass filter and a modulator coupled in series. Both modulators are coupled to a summer which provides an rf signal to a transmit antenna. A second antenna is coupled to a first down converter, an IF filter, a second down converter, an analog-to-digital converter and a decoder. The encoder is optimized by choosing a desired minimum Euclidean distance between symbols multiplied by the average to peak transmit power ratio (MPDR), an encoder alphabet and a number of constellation points. All possible encoder states and all possible input symbols are permutated to result in a plurality of encoder sets. The minimum distance between coded symbols and a P.sub.ib /P.sub.ab power ratio for each code set is determined. The encoder is adapted to output an encoder set U having a largest P.sub.ib /P.sub.ab power ratio having a large adjacent channel interference protection ratio. In an alternative embodiment, a minimum P.sub.ib /P.sub.ab power ratio (MPR) is chosen. The encoder is adapted to output an encoder set U having the largest minimum distance between coded symbols multiplied by the average to peak transmitted power ratio, that also has a P.sub.ib /P.sub.ab ratio that exceeds MPR.