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An efficient algorithm for the construction of polar codes for higher-order modulation is presented based on information-theoretic principles. The bit reliabilities after successive demapping are estimated using the LM-rate, an achievable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-10-26 Georg Böcherer , Tobias Prinz , Peihong Yuan , Fabian Steiner

In the beginning of 21st century there has been a dramatic shift in the market dynamics of telecommunication services. The transmission from base station to mobile or downlink transmission using M-ary Quadrature Amplitude modulation (QAM)…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2010-03-30 M. A. Masud , M. Samsuzzaman , M. A. Rahman

Several recent standards such as IEEE 802.11a/g, IEEE 802.16, and ECMA Multiband Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (MB-OFDM) for high data-rate Ultra-Wideband (UWB), employ bit-interleaved convolutionally-coded multicarrier…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Chris Snow , Lutz Lampe , Robert Schober

In this letter, we incorporate index modulation (IM) into affine frequency division multiplexing (AFDM), called AFDM-IM, to enhance the bit error rate (BER) and energy efficiency (EE) performance. In this scheme, the information bits are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Jing Zhu , Qu Luo , Gaojie Chen , Pei Xiao , Lixia Xiao

A new coded modulation scheme is proposed. At the transmitter, the concatenation of a distribution matcher and a systematic binary encoder performs probabilistic signal shaping and channel coding. At the receiver, the output of a bitwise…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-04-23 Georg Böcherer , Patrick Schulte , Fabian Steiner

In this paper, we have considered the optimization of the $M$-ary quadrature amplitude modulation (MQAM) constellation size to minimize the bit energy consumption under average bit error rate (BER) constraints. In the computation of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-06-23 Qing Chen , Mustafa Cenk Gursoy

Achievable information rates of bipolar 4- and 8-ary constellations are experimentally compared to those of intensity modulation (IM) when using an oversampled direct detection receiver. The bipolar constellations gain up to 1.8 dB over…

In dynamically varying optical wireless communication (OWC) links, conventional quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) in optical orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) requires frequent channel estimation and equalization,…

Optics · Physics 2026-03-19 Tian Cao , Ping Wang , Tianfeng Wu , Kaile Wang , Jian Song

We consider the problem of jointly optimum modulation and estimation of a real-valued random parameter, conveyed over an additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channel, where the performance metric is the large deviations behavior of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Neri Merhav

In this paper, we consider a two-way relay network in which two users exchange messages through a single relay using a physical-layer network coding (PNC) based protocol. The protocol comprises two phases of communication. In the multiple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-06 Ronald Y. Chang , Sian-Jheng Lin , Wei-Ho Chung

In this paper we analyze and investigate the bit error rate (BER) performance of multiple-input multiple-output underwater wireless optical communication (MIMO-UWOC) systems. In addition to exact BER expressions, we also obtain an upper…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-10-30 Mohammad Vahid Jamali , Jawad A. Salehi

We revisit the Gaussian broadcast channel (GBC) and explore the rate region achieved by purely discrete inputs with treating interference as noise (TIN) decoding. Specifically, we introduce a simple scheme based on superposition coding with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Yujie Shao , Min Qiu

This letter investigates performance enhancement by the concept of multi-carrier index keying in orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems. For the performance evaluation, a tight closed-form approximation of the bit error…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-17 Youngwook Ko

A new polar coding scheme for higher order modulation is presented. The proposed scheme is based on multi-level coding (MLC) with natural labeling, where the bit-level corresponding to the sign-bit is generated in dependence on the previous…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-30 Onurcan İşcan , Ronald Böhnke , Wen Xu

This paper presents a puncturing technique to design length-compatible polar codes. The punctured bits are identified with the help of differential evolution (DE). A DE-based optimization framework is developed where the sum of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-13 Kuntal Deka , Sanjeev Sharma

We measure linearly polarized beam patterns for a multi-moded concentrator and compare the results to a simple model based on geometric optics. We convolve the measured co-polar and cross-polar beams with simulated maps of CMB polarization…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-30 A. Kogut , D. J. Fixsen

A channel with continuous phase modulation and 1-bit ADC with oversampling is considered. Due to oversampling, higher-order modulations yield a higher achievable rate and this work presents a method to approach this with sophisticated…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-12-06 Rodrigo R. M. de Alencar , Lukas T. N. Landau , Rodrigo C. de Lamare

The optimal decoder achieving the outage capacity under imperfect channel estimation is investigated. First, by searching into the family of nearest neighbor decoders, which can be easily implemented on most practical coded modulation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Pablo Piantanida , Sajad Sadough , Pierre Duhamel

Atmospheric attenuation, atmospheric turbulence, geometric spread, and pointing errors, degrade the performance of free-space optical transmission. In the weak turbulence regime, the probability density function describing the distribution…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-25 Carmen Álvarez Roa , Yunus Can Gültekin , Kaiquan Wu , Cornelis Willem Korevaar , Alex Alvarado

We study the theoretical performance of a combined approach to demodulation and decoding of binary continuous-phase modulated signals under repetition-like codes. This technique is motivated by a need to transmit packetized or framed data…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-04-28 Gaurav Thakur