Reed Solomon coded MPSK modulation for a Gaussian channel

In this paper, construction of partitioned Reed Solomon coded modulation (RSCM) for the additive white Gaussian noise channel is investigated. By matching configuration of component codes with the channel characteristics, it is shown that this system is robust for the Gaussian channel. This approach is compared with non-partitioned RSCM, a Reed Solomon code combined with an MPSK signal set using Gray mapping; and block coded MPSK modulation using binary codes, Reed Muller codes, (RMCM). All codes use hard decision decoding algorithm. Simulation results for these schemes show that RSCM based on set partitioning performs better than not based on set partitioning and RMCM.