Joint structures involving pdsccs, tcm and space time codes

In this thesis we propose new concatenated joint communication structures involving convolutional product codes, space time codes and trellis coded modulation. The first structure consists of convolutional product codes and space time codes. The second one includes convolutional product codes and trellis coded modulation. The proposed structures are all parallel decodable due to the structure of convolutional product codes and have low decoding latencies, which are the main advantages of these proposed structures considering their classical counterparts constructed using serially concatenated convolutional codes, space time codes and trellis coded modulation. The use of multi-antennas at the proposed structures increases the spectral efficiency.