PROVIDING FOR CONTRACTHOLDERS SYSTEMATIC INVESTMENT

Brand	Owner	Address	Description
PRIVEST	Prudential Insurance Company of America; The	751 BROAD ST. Newark NJ 07102	Providing for Contractholders Systematic Investment in a Managed Portfolio of Private Placement Debt Securities Through a Separate Variable Contract Account;
	Where the owner name is not linked, that owner no longer owns the brand

Technical Examples

Non-systematic and non-linear PC-TCM (Parallel Concatenate Trellis Coded Modulation). A non-systematic and non-linear PC-TCM code is presented that provides quite comparable performance to turbo encoding using only systematic and linear trellis codes (e.g., convolutional codes). The non-systematic and non-linear PC-TCM described herein may be modified to support a wide variety of code rates (e.g., rate 2/3, 5/6, 8/9, and 3/4 among other rates) and also a wide modulation types (e.g., 8 PSK (8 Phase Shift Key) and 16 QAM (16 Quadrature Amplitude Modulation) among other modulation types). In one embodiment, a non-systematic and non-linear PC-TCM presented herein comes to within approximately 0.15 dB of a systematic and linear turbo code. A design approach is presented that allows for the design of such non-systematic and non-linear PC-TCM codes and several exemplary embodiments are also presented that have been designed according to these presented principles.