Shaping Bits
Information Theory
2010-01-19 v1 math.IT
Abstract
The performance of bit-interleaved coded modulation (BICM) with bit shaping (i.e., non-equiprobable bit probabilities in the underlying binary code) is studied. For the Gaussian channel, the rates achievable with BICM and bit shaping are practically identical to those of coded modulation or multilevel coding. This identity holds for the whole range of values of signal-to-noise ratio. Moreover, the random coding error exponent of BICM significantly exceeds that of multilevel coding and is very close to that of coded modulation.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1001.3036,
title = {Shaping Bits},
author = {Albert Guillen i Fabregas and Alfonso Martinez},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1001.3036},
year = {2010}
}
Comments
5 pages, submitted to the 2010 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory