Dept.of Radio Eng., Southeast Univ., Nanjing 210096, China;Dept.of Radio Eng., Southeast Univ., Nanjing 210096, China;Dept.of Radio Eng., Southeast Univ., Nanjing 210096, China;Dept.of Radio Eng., Southeast Univ., Nanjing 210096, China
Abstract:
The Enhanced Variable Rate Codec (EVRC) is a standard for the Speech Service Option 3 for Wideband Spread Spectrum Digital System, which has been employed in both IS-95 cellular systems and ANSI J-STC-008 PCS (Personal Communications Systems). This paper investigated the combination of turbo codes with Unequal Error Protection (UEP) and 16-QAM modulation for EVRC codec of Rate 1 to get power and bandwidth efficient coding scheme. The results show that the UEP system outperforms the Equal Error Protection (EEP) one by 1.45 dB at BER of 10 -5.