Performance of block-coded land mobile satellite systems

Abstract

Although various measurements have indicated that mobile satellite channels Lire not memoryless, most related coded system performance analysis assumes perfect interleaving is in place so that the effect of channel memory can be completely ignored. This paper presents a systematic method to accurately and efficiently predict the performance of errors-and-erasures or errors-only decoders for block-coded systems in general mobile satellite channels. Numerical results Lire provided to Validate our analytic results. Copyright (C) 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.