title: Staged demodulation and decoding.
abstract: Coding for the phase noise channel is investigated in the paper. Specifically, Wiener's phase noise, which induces memory in the channel, is considered. A general coding principle for channels with memory is the interleaving of two or more codes. The interleaved codes are decoded in sequence, using past decisions to help future decoding. The paper proposes a method based on this principle, and shows its benefits through numerical results obtained by computer simulation. Analysis of the channel capacity given by the proposed method is also worked out in the paper.
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione, Politecnico di Milano, Piazza L. da Vinci 32, 20133 Milano, Italy.
authors.forename: Luca
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Barletta
authors.forename: Maurizio
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Magarini
authors.forename: Arnaldo
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Spalvieri
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D003198:Computer Simulation; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000379:methods*; D015233:Models, Statistical; D012815:Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted; D059629:Signal-To-Noise Ratio; D013685:Telecommunications