Performance of Joint Equalization and Trellis-Coded on Multipath Fading Channels

In this paper an upper bound on bit error probability of a maximum-likelihood sequence estimation (MLSE) equalizer for trellis-coded modulation (TCM) systems with diversity reception is derived for multipath Rayleigh fading channels. Analytical and simulation results show that our bound is good for all cases considered especially when diversity reception is used.