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We propose an improved beamforming matrix compression by Givens Rotation with the use of variable feedback rate. The variable feedback rate means that the number of bits used to represent the quantized beamforming matrix is based on the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-06-23 Chau Yuen , Sumei Sun , Mel Meau Shin Ho

Multi-Input Multi-Output (MIMO) techniques have been incorporated with Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) for broadband wireless communication systems. Bit-Interleaved Coded Multiple Beamforming (BICMB) can achieve both…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-07-02 Boyu Li , Ender Ayanoglu

The past decade has seen notable advances in our understanding of structured error-correcting codes, particularly binary Reed--Muller (RM) codes. While initial breakthroughs were for erasure channels based on symmetry, extending these…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Henry D. Pfister , Galen Reeves

In this paper, we use reinforcement learning to find effective decoding strategies for binary linear codes. We start by reviewing several iterative decoding algorithms that involve a decision-making process at each step, including…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Fabrizio Carpi , Christian Häger , Marco Martalò , Riccardo Raheli , Henry D. Pfister

This study revokes the performance of continuous phase modulation (CPM) able to generate a single-sideband (SSB) spectrum directly. This signal is analyzed in terms of modulation indices, pulse lengths, and pulse widths, all of which affect…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-17 Karim Kassan , Haïfa Farès , D. Christian Glattli , Yves Louët

A method is proposed, called channel polarization, to construct code sequences that achieve the symmetric capacity $I(W)$ of any given binary-input discrete memoryless channel (B-DMC) $W$. The symmetric capacity is the highest rate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Erdal Arikan

Coded modulation (CM) is the combination of forward error correction (FEC) and multilevel constellations. Coherent optical communication systems result in a four-dimensional (4D) signal space, which naturally leads to 4D-CM transceivers. A…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-25 Alex Alvarado , Erik Agrell

Probabilistic constellation shaping has been used in long-haul optically amplified coherent systems for its capability to approach the Shannon limit and realize fine rate granularity. The availability of high-bandwidth optical-electronic…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-31 Md Sabbir-Bin Hossain , Georg Bocherer , Talha Rahman , Tom Wettlin , Nebojsa Stojanovic , Stefano Calabro , Stephan Pachnicke

For a layered probabilistic shaping (PS) scheme with a general decoding metric, an achievable rate is derived using Gallager's error exponent approach and the concept of achievable code rates is introduced. Several instances for specific…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-23 Georg Böcherer

Quantum computation of vibrational properties of molecules is a promising platform to obtain computational advantages for computational chemistry. However, fault-tolerant quantum computations of vibrational properties remain a relatively…

The quantum bit error rate is a key quantity in quantum communications. If the quantum channel is the atmosphere, the information is usually encoded in the polarization of a photon. A link budget is required, which takes into account the…

Image Coding for Machines (ICM) has become increasingly important with the rapid integration of computer vision technology into real-world applications. However, most neural network-based ICM frameworks operate at a fixed rate, thus…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-06 Yui Tatsumi , Ziyue Zeng , Hiroshi Watanabe

Latent variable models have been successfully applied in lossless compression with the bits-back coding algorithm. However, bits-back suffers from an increase in the bitrate equal to the KL divergence between the approximate posterior and…

The capacity of bandlimited direct-detection channels is challenging to compute or approach due to the receiver non-linearity. A generalized vector approximate message passing (GVAMP) detector is designed to achieve high rates at a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Daniel Plabst , Mohamed Akrout , Tobias Prinz , Amine Mezghani , Gerhard Kramer

A wiretap channel is served as the fundamental model of physical layer security techniques, where the secrecy capacity of the Gaussian wiretap channel is proven to be achieved by Gaussian input. However, there remains a gap between the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Li Shen , Yongpeng Wu , Peihong Yuan , Chengshan Xiao , Xiang-Gen Xia , Wenjun Zhang

Probabilistic constellation shaping enables easy rate adaption and has been proven to reduce the gap to Shannon capacity. Constellation point probabilities are optimized to maximize either the mutual information or the bit-wise mutual…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Shrinivas Chimmalgi , Laurent Schmalen , Vahid Aref

Bayesian Model Mixing (BMM) is a statistical technique that can be used to combine models that are predictive in different input domains into a composite distribution that has improved predictive power over the entire input space. We…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-11-02 A. C. Semposki , R. J. Furnstahl , D. R. Phillips

Shaping codes are used to generate code sequences in which the symbols obey a prescribed probability distribution. They arise naturally in the context of source coding for noiseless channels with unequal symbol costs. Recently, shaping…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Yi Liu , Yonglong Li , Pengfei Huang , Paul H. Siegel

We consider coding schemes for channels with non-uniform inputs (NUI), where standard linear block codes can not be applied directly. We show that multilevel coding (MLC) with a set of linear codes and a deterministic mapper can achieve the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Jing Jiang , Krishna R. Narayanan

Distribution matching is a fixed-length invertible mapping from a uniformly distributed bit sequence to shaped amplitudes and plays an important role in the probabilistic amplitude shaping framework. With conventional constantcomposition…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-08-13 Tobias Fehenberger , David S. Millar , Toshiaki Koike-Akino , Keisuke Kojima , Kieran Parsons