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Multilevel Coset Codes on Lattices

Information Theory 2026-04-08 v1 math.IT

Abstract

This work introduces coset Bombe codes, a novel class of multilevel coset codes that generalize polar codes to dense lattice structures. By leveraging multilevel coding with non-binary codes designed for the lattice modulations and making use of Voronoi shaping, Bombe codes integrate the geometric strengths of dense lattices such as D4D_4 with the capacity-approaching properties of polar codes. Experimental results in additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channels demonstrate that coset Bombe codes significantly outperform both BICM and MLC state-of-the-art schemes on 16-QAM. The proposed scheme simulated on AWGN achieves up to 0.8 dB of gain and reduces block size latency by half while maintaining superior bit and block error rate (BER/BLER) performance on codewords of 256 and 1024 bits.

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@article{arxiv.2604.06125,
  title  = {Multilevel Coset Codes on Lattices},
  author = {Leopold Bertholet and Chloe Makdad and Stephen Mackes and Daniel Chew and Matthew Robinson},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.06125},
  year   = {2026}
}
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