Patent ID: 8315295
Filing Date: 2012-11-20
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method of designing a set of modulation and coding schemes for use in a communication system in accordance with probability distribution of quality of a received signal in the communication system, the method comprising: acquiring, in an apparatus, the probability distribution of the quality of the received signal in the communication system; and performing, in the apparatus, calculation on the target performance of the communication system based on the acquired probability distribution of the quality of the received signal and a plurality of modulation and coding schemes via traversing various possible sets of modulation and coding schemes selected from the plurality of modulation and coding schemes to design a set of modulation and coding schemes for maximizing the overall performance of the communication system, so that a range having higher appearance probabilities of the quality of the received signal are provided with more levels of the modulation and coding schemes than another range having lower appearance probabilities of the quality of the received signal; wherein the calculation on the target performance of the communication system is performed on the basis of the acquired probability distribution of the signal to interference plus noise ratio of the communication system and an error performance curve of each of a predetermined plurality of predetermined modulation and coding schemes.