We investigate reliable multicast communication over satellite networks. We compare a scenario where receivers can use a feedback channel to signal loss to a scenario where no feedback channel is available. We show that the introduction of a feedback channel is the key to allow for bandwidth-eecient, robust, and fully reliable multicast communication via satellite.

We investigate reliable multicast communication over satellite networks. We compare a scenario where receivers can use a feedback channel to signal loss to a scenario where no feedback channel is available. We show that the introduction of a feedback channel is the key to allow for bandwidth-e cient, robust, and fully reliable multicast communication via satellite.

Diagonally weighted space-time trellis codes using onebit feedback of channel information are considered. We derive performance criteria for designing STTC and weighting matrix in perfect feedback channel. A simple modification of conventional STTC using unitary rotation is proposed and some modified STTCs are found through computer search. Simulation results show that the modified STTCs achiev...

For the Gaussian channel with intersymbolinterference (ISI), it is known that there is no loss in channel capacity if the receiver is an ideal minimum mean-squared error (MMSE) decision-feedback equalizer (DFE) with error-free feedback. However, combining the DFE with channel coding is problematic. Transmitter precoding and reduced-state sequence estimation are two common approaches (cf. [1] an...

The study investigated the allocation of transmission power and bits for a point-to-point orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing channel assuming perfect channel information at the receiver, but imperfect channel information at the transmitter. Channel information was quantized at the receiver and was sent back to the transmitter via a finite-rate feedback channel. Based on limited feedback...