In this contribution we focus on the physical layer of UMTS Long Term Evolution (LTE) and propose an alternative transceiver concept which might be considered for further extensions of the standard. A simple repetition code is combined with a complex mapper with bit doping resulting in a Bit-Interleaved Coded Modulation with Iterative Decoding (BICM-ID) scheme. Allowing feed-back based multiple transmissions of the same coded frame similar to the hybrid automatic repeat-request scheme employed in UMTS LTE, we show that the performance in terms of goodput (error-free throughput) of the proposed BICM-ID scheme is comparable to UMTS LTE for high order modulation schemes (16QAM, 64QAM) for the considered cases, while the receiver complexity is significantly reduced.
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