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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…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-01-19 Albert Guillen i Fabregas , Alfonso Martinez

A capacity-achieving scheme based on polar codes is proposed for reliable communication over multi-channels which can be directly applied to bit-interleaved coded modulation schemes. We start by reviewing the ground-breaking work of polar…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-02-04 Hessam Mahdavifar , Mostafa El-Khamy , Jungwon Lee , Inyup Kang

The space-time bit-interleaved coded modulation (ST-BICM) is an efficient technique to obtain high diversity and coding gain on a block-fading MIMO channel. Its maximum-likelihood (ML) performance is computed under ideal interleaving…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Nicolas Gresset , Loic Brunel , Joseph Boutros

In many practical communication systems, one binary encoder/decoder pair is used to communicate over a set of parallel channels. Examples of this setup include multi-carrier transmission, rate-compatible puncturing of turbo-like codes, and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-25 Christian Häger , Alexandre Graell i Amat , Alex Alvarado , Fredrik Brännström , Erik Agrell

We study the performance of binary spatially-coupled low-density parity-check codes (SC-LDPC) when used with bit-interleaved coded-modulation (BICM) schemes. This paper considers the cases when transmission takes place over additive white…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-03-05 Arvind Yedla , Mostafa El-Khamy , Jungwon Lee , Inyup Kang

This paper presents Bit-Interleaved Coded Modulation metrics for joint estimation detection using training or reference signal transmission strategies for short to long block length channels. We show that it is possible to enhance the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Mody Sy , Raymond Knopp

The mutual information of bit-interleaved coded modulation (BICM) systems, sometimes called the BICM capacity, is investigated at low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), i.e., in the wideband regime. A new linear transform that depends on bits'…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-04-23 Erik Agrell , Alex Alvarado

This paper develops a low-complexity near-optimal non-coherent receiver for a multi-level energy-based coded modulation system. Inspired by the turbo processing principle, we incorporate the fundamentals of bit-interleaved coded modulation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Ali Fazeli , Ha H. Nguyen , Halim Yanikomeroglu

We revisit the information-theoretic analysis of bit-interleaved coded modulation (BICM) by modeling the BICM decoder as a mismatched decoder. The mismatched decoding model is well-defined for finite, yet arbitrary, block lengths, and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-05-12 Alfonso Martinez , Albert Guillen i Fabregas , Giuseppe Caire , Frans Willems

We present a comprehensive study of the information rate loss of the max-log approximation for $M$-ary pulse-amplitude modulation (PAM) in a bit-interleaved coded modulation (BICM) system. It is widely assumed that the calculation of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-25 Mikhail Ivanov , Christian Häger , Fredrik Brännström , Alexandre Graell i Amat , Alex Alvarado , Erik Agrell

Spatial Modulation (SM) can utilize the index of the transmit antenna (TA) to transmit additional information. In this paper, to improve the performance of SM, a non-uniform constellation (NUC) and pre-scaling coefficients optimization…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Xinghao Guo , Hanjiang Hong , Yin Xu , Yi-yan Wu , Dazhi He , Wenjun Zhang

Doubly-selective channels, such as those that occur when the transmitter and the receiver move relative to each other at high speeds, are a key scenario for fifth generation (5G) cellular systems, which are mostly based in the use of the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-30 Tomás Domínguez-Bolaño , José Rodríguez-Piñeiro , José A. García-Naya , Luis Castedo

In this paper, probabilistic shaping is numerically and experimentally investigated for increasing the transmission reach of wavelength division multiplexed (WDM) optical communication system employing quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM).…

This paper investigates the design and performance of delayed bit-interleaved coded modulation (DBICM) with low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes. For Gray labeled square $M$-ary quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) constellations, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-04 Yihuan Liao , Min Qiu , Jinhong Yuan

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

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

We provide a comprehensive performance comparison of soft-output and hard-output demodulators in the context of non-iterative multiple-input multiple-output bit-interleaved coded modulation (MIMO-BICM). Coded bit error rate (BER), widely…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-12-07 Peter Fertl , Joakim Jalden , Gerald Matz

In this paper, a rate adaptive geometric constellation shaping (GCS) scheme which is fully backward-compatible with existing state of the art bit-interleaved coded modulation (BICM) systems is proposed and experimentally demonstrated. The…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-14 Metodi Plamenov Yankov , Smaranika Swain , Ognjen Jovanovic , Darko Zibar , Francesco Da Ros

This paper characterizes the capacity region of Gaussian MIMO broadcast channels (BCs) with per-antenna power constraint (PAPC). While the capacity region of MIMO BCs with a sum power constraint (SPC) was extensively studied, that under…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-18 Thuy M. Pham , Ronan Farrell , Le-Nam Tran

A new achievable rate for bit-metric decoding (BMD) is derived using random coding arguments. The rate expression can be evaluated for any input distribution, and in particular the bit-levels of binary input labels can be stochastically…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-31 Georg Böcherer