Bayat, OğuzShafai, BahramSalehi, MasoudUçan, Osman N.Osman, Onur2020-11-212020-11-2120081074-5351https://doi.org/10.1002/dac.928https://hdl.handle.net/11467/3680The design of multilevel turbo codes using M-PSK is optimized to achieve a low bit error rate (BER). Unequal error protection is employed via group set partitioning in multi-stage decoding to minimize the error propagation and BER. Simulation results are performed under Gaussian and Rayleigh fading channels to depict the superiority of the new scheme. Copyright ©2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.eninfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessMultilevel codingSignal set partitioningTransmission systemsTurbo codesArticle217791798Q3WOS:000257900800007Q22-s2.0-4774915517410.1002/dac.928