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A technique is presented for producing synthetic images from numerical simulations whereby the image resolution is adapted around prominent features. In so doing, adaptive image ray-tracing (AIR) improves the efficiency of a calculation by…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 E. R. Parkin

We implemented a flexible transmission system operating at adjustable data rate and fixed bandwidth, baudrate, constellation and overhead using probabilistic shaping. We demonstrated in a transmission experiment up to 15% capacity and 43%…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-09-30 Fred Buchali , Georg Böcherer , Wilfried Idler , Laurent Schmalen , Patrick Schulte , Fabian Steiner

Mixed noise, composed of white Gaussian noise (WGN) and impulsive noise (IN), appears in numerous communication scenarios and can severely degrade system performance. In this paper, we optimize the transmitted constellation under mixed…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-09 Tianfu Qi , Jun Wang

This paper proposes a novel location information aided multiple intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) systems. Assuming imperfect user location information, the effective angles from the IRS to the users are estimated, which is then used to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-24 Xiaoling Hu , Caijun Zhong , Yu Zhang , Xiaoming Chen , Zhaoyang Zhang

This paper studies the impact of probabilistic shaping on effective signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs) and achievable information rates (AIRs) in a back-to-back configuration and in unrepeated nonlinear fiber transmissions. For back-to-back,…

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

By integrating feedback with Radio Frequency (RF) mirrors, we develop a closed-loop media-based modulation system for efficient utilization of the signal space. Specifically, this closed-loop construction optimizes the inherited signal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Majid Nasiri Khormuji

Photometric light curves suffer from fundamental degeneracies that limit surface information recovery. We demonstrate that astrometry enables access to complementary information through photocentre variations induced by rotating surface…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-06 Conaire Deagan , Benjamin T. Montet

Constellation shaping is reviewed and revised for a WDM unrepeated system with high spectral efficiency. It is shown that for a constellation size-constrained system, previous optimization techniques can be highly sub-optimal, and a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-11-06 Metodi P. Yankov

Recently, a metric called energy dispersion index (EDI) was proposed to indicate the nonlinear interference (NLI) induced by correlated symbols during optical transmission. In this paper, we propose a new shaper architecture to decrease the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-23 Kaiquan Wu , Gabriele Liga , Alireza Sheikh , Yunus Can Gültekin , Frans M. J. Willems , Alex Alvarado

The performance of next generation wireless systems (5G/6G and beyond) at the physical layer is primarily driven by the choice of digital modulation techniques that are bandwidth and power efficient, while maintaining high data rates.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Shifa Showkat , Zahid Bashir Dar , Shahid Mehraj Shah

Utilizing the multi-dimensional (MD) space for constellation shaping has been proven to be an effective approach for achieving shaping gains. Despite there exists a variety of MD modulation formats tailored for specific optical transmission…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-23 Bin Chen , Zhiwei Liang , Yi Lei , JingXin Deng , Shen Li , Gabriele Liga

Spatial modulation (SM) transmits additional information bits by the selection of antennas. Generalized spatial modulation (GSM), as an advanced type of SM, can be divided into diversity and multiplexing (MUX) schemes according to the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Xinghao Guo , Yin Xu , Hanjiang Hong , De Mi , Ruiqi Liu , Dazhi He , Wenjun Zhang , Yi-yan Wu

We study achievable rates for four-dimensional (4D) constellations for spectrally efficient optical systems based on a (suboptimal) bit-wise receiver. We show that PM-QPSK outperforms the best 4D constellation designed for uncoded…

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

Band-trellis enumerative sphere shaping is proposed to decrease the energy variations in channel input sequences. Against sphere shaping, 0.74 dB SNR gain and up to 9% increase in data rates are demonstrated for single-span systems.

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-11 Yunus Can Gültekin , Alex Alvarado , Olga Vassilieva , Inwoong Kim , Paparao Palacharla , Chigo Okonkwo , Frans M. J. Willems

In this paper we carry out a joint optimization of probabilistic (PS) and geometric shaping (GS) for four-dimensional (4D) modulation formats in long-haul coherent wavelength division multiplexed (WDM) optical fiber communications using an…

Modulation constellation design is a core challenge in digital communications, especially under stringent demands on spectral efficiency, robustness, and energy consumption. Classical schemes like PSK and QAM, while analytically tractable,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-22 Nipun Agarwal

In this paper, we present three new signal designs for Enhanced Spatial Modulation (ESM), which was recently introduced by the present authors. The basic idea of ESM is to convey information bits not only by the index(es) of the active…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-05-31 Chien-Chun Cheng , Hikmet Sari , Serdar Sezginer , Yu T. Su

A geometrically-shaped 256-QAM constellation, tailored to the nonlinear optical fibre channel, is experimentally demonstrated. The proposed constellation outperforms both uniform and AWGN-tailored 256-QAM, as it is designed to optimise the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-21 E. Sillekens , D. Semrau , D. Lavery , P. Bayvel , R. I. Killey

A new geometric shaping technique, referred to as coset shaping, is proposed and analyzed for coded QAM and PAM signaling. This method can be applied to both information and parity bits without introducing additional complexity. It is shown…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Irina Bocharova , Maiara F. Bollauf , Boris Kudryashov