OFDM systems with Multiple Trellis Coded Modulation

In an attempt to improve the performance under frequency selective fading environment, we propose in this paper an Orthogonal-Frequency-Division-Multiple-Access (OFDM) system in which MTCM (Multiple Trellis Coded Modulation) is applied to a set of multiple subcarriers. The code is designed to enlarge the summation of the Euclidean distance and the product distance. We also propose a scheme for assigning the symbols to subcarriers adaptively based on the channel state information (CSI) fed back from the reception receive end, and evaluate the performance applying these two codes and the proposed scheme under a multipath Rayleigh fading environment.