Adaptive modulation and coding (AMC) for bit-interleaved coded OFDM (BIC-OFDM)

Abstract

This paper proposes adaptive modulation and coding (AMC) as a method for the bit-interleaved coded OFDM (BIC-OFDM) packet transmission. Following a pair-wise error probability (PEP) analysis of AMC-BIC-OFDM in a slowly fading frequency selective channel, AMC scheme maximizes the total rate by optimally selecting the code and efficiently allocating rate and power over the frequency band. The proposed method improves upon the performance of uniform rate and power allocation scheme by 6.5 to 10 dB