Two-stage demodulation and decoding for the phase noise channel

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 that of interleaving 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.