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Circularly pulse-shaped orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (CPS-OFDM) is one of the most promising 5G waveforms that addresses two physical layer signal requirements of low out-of-subband emission (OSBE) and low peak-to-average…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Yenming Huang , Rueibin Yang , Borching Su

A novel design procedure for practical hierarchical distribution matchers (HiDMs) in probabilistically shaped constellation systems is presented. The proposed approach enables the determination of optimal parameters for any target…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-26 Pantea Nadimi Goki , Luca Potì

Product distribution matching (PDM) is proposed to generate target distributions over large alphabets by combining the output of several parallel distribution matchers (DMs) with smaller output alphabets. The parallel architecture of PDM…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-27 Georg Böcherer , Patrick Schulte , Fabian Steiner

The choice of constellations largely affects the performance of communication systems. When designing constellations, both the locations and probability of occurrence of the points can be optimized. These approaches are referred to as…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-30 Maximilian Stark , Fayçal Ait Aoudia , Jakob Hoydis

To achieve the maximum information transfer and face a possible eavesdropper, the samples transmitted in continuous-variable quantum key distribution (CV-QKD) protocols are to be drawn from a continuous Gaussian distribution. As a matter of…

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

We transmit probabilistic enumerative sphere shaped dual-polarization 64-QAM at 350Gbit/s/channel over 1610km SSMF using a short blocklength of 200. A reach increase of 15% over constant composition distribution matching with identical…

In this paper, we investigate the optimal probabilistic constellation shaping design for covert communication systems from a practical view. Different from conventional covert communications with equiprobable constellations modulation, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-31 Shuai Ma , Yunqi Zhang , Haihong Sheng , Hang Li , Jia Shi , Long Yang , Youlong Wu , Naofal Al-Dhahir , Shiyin Li

With the incredible results achieved from generative pre-trained transformers (GPT) and diffusion models, generative AI (GenAI) is envisioned to yield remarkable breakthroughs in various industrial and academic domains. In this paper, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Mehdi Letafati , Samad Ali , Matti Latva-aho

Integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) promises new use cases for mobile communication systems by reusing the communication signal for radar-like sensing. However, sensing and communications (S&C) impose conflicting requirements on…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-23 Benedikt Geiger , Fan Liu , Shihang Lu , Andrej Rode , Daniel Gil Gaviria , Charlotte Muth , Laurent Schmalen

In this paper, we propose a practical adaptive coding modulation scheme to approach the capacity of free-space optical (FSO) channels with intensity modulation/direct detection based on probabilistic shaping. The encoder efficiently adapts…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Ahmed Elzanaty , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

Diffusion models are at the vanguard of generative AI research with renowned solutions such as ImageGen by Google Brain and DALL.E 3 by OpenAI. Nevertheless, the potential merits of diffusion models for communication engineering…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Mehdi Letafati , Samad Ali , Matti Latva-aho

A new probabilistic shaping distribution that outperforms Maxwell-Boltzmann is studied for the nonlinear fiber channel. Additional gains of 0.1 bit/symbol MI or 0.2 dB SNR for both DP-256QAM and DP-1024QAM are reported after 200 km…

We present an autoregressive end-to-end learning approach for probabilistic shaping on nonlinear fiber channels. Our proposed scheme learns the joint symbol distribution and provides a 0.3-bits/2D achievable information rate gain over an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Mohammad Taha Askari , Lutz Lampe , Amirhossein Ghazisaeidi

The majority of modern communication systems adopts quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) constellations as transmission schemes. Due to their square structure, however, QAM do not provide satisfying protection to phase noise effects as the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-12-07 Paul Ferrand , Marco Maso , Valerio Bioglio

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

Optimizing the input probability distribution of a discrete-time channel is a standard step in the information-theoretic analysis of digital communication systems. Nevertheless, many practical communication systems transmit uniformly and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-13 Mohammad Taha Askari , Lutz Lampe

This letter describes how to improve performance of cellular systems by combining non-equiprobable signaling (shaping) with low-density parity check (LDPC) coding for an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing system. We focus on…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-03 Sandesh Rao Mattu , Nishant Mehrotra , Robert Calderbank

By tailoring probabilistic constellation shaping (PCS) for nonlinearity tolerance, we experimentally demonstrate up to 1.1 dB increase in signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and 6.4% increase in total net data rate (NDR) compared to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-10 Junho Cho , Xi Chen , Greg Raybon , Di Che , Ellsworth Burrows , Robert Tkach

We introduce neural probabilistic amplitude shaping, a joint-distribution learning framework for coherent fiber systems. The proposed scheme provides a 0.5 dB signal-to-noise ratio gain over sequence selection for dual-polarized 64-QAM…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Mohammad Taha Askari , Lutz Lampe , Amirhossein Ghazisaeidi