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The Capacity Loss of Dense Constellations

Information Theory 2016-11-17 v1 math.IT

Abstract

We determine the loss in capacity incurred by using signal constellations with a bounded support over general complex-valued additive-noise channels for suitably high signal-to-noise ratio. Our expression for the capacity loss recovers the power loss of 1.53dB for square signal constellations.

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@article{arxiv.1205.5522,
  title  = {The Capacity Loss of Dense Constellations},
  author = {Tobias Koch and Alfonso Martinez and Albert Guillén i Fàbregas},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1205.5522},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

To appear in the Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT). Corrected a minor error in Figure 1