Journal of Applied Sciences ›› 2010, Vol. 28 ›› Issue (4): 331-336.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.0255-8297.2010.04.001

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Simplification of Bit Metric Calculation for 32QAM


WANG Lei, XU Da-zhuan   

  1. College of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing 210016, China
  • Received:2010-03-30 Revised:2010-06-06 Online:2010-07-23 Published:2010-07-23
  • Contact: WANG Lei, XU Da-zhuan

Abstract:

We present a simplified 32QAM bit metric calculation method. By dividing the complex plane and merging similar regions, the bit metric is obtained by calculating the distance between the received symbol and a line assigned to each region. Simulation shows that computational complexity in calculating bit metrics is greatly reduced without degrading the performance as compared to the log-MAP and max-log-MAP methods.

Key words: soft demodulation, quadrature amplitude modulation, bit metric, maximum a posteriori

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