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Probabilistic amplitude shaping (PAS) combines an outer shaping layer with an inner, systematic forward error correction (FEC) layer to close the shaping gap. Proposed for PAS, constant composition distribution matching (CCDM) produces…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-13 Yunus Can Gültekin , Wim J. van Houtum , Arie Koppelaar , Frans M. J. Willems

A simple geometric shaping method is proposed for optical wireless communication systems based on intensity modulation and direct detection (IM/DD) from an information-theoretic perspective. Constellations consisting of equiprobable levels…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Suhua Zhou , Tianqi Li , Zhaoxi Fang , Jing Zhou , Wenyi Zhang

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

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…

We optimize modulation formats for the additive white Gaussian noise channel with nonnegative input, also known as the intensity-modulated direct-detection channel, with and without confining them to a lattice structure. Our optimization…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-01-07 Johnny Karout , Erik Agrell , Krzysztof Szczerba , Magnus Karlsson

Energy detection (ED) is an attractive technique for symbol detection at receivers equipped with a large number of antennas, for example in millimeter wave communication systems. This paper investigates the performance bounds of ED with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-12-01 Lishuai Jing , Zoran Utkovski , Elisabeth de Carvalho , Petar Popovski

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

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…

Probabilistic Amplitude Shaping (PAS) is a coded-modulation scheme in which the encoder is a concatenation of a distribution matcher with a systematic Forward Error Correction (FEC) code. For reduced computational complexity the decoder can…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-05 Rana Ali Amjad

A scheme is proposed that combines probabilistic signal shaping with bit-metric decoding. The transmitter generates symbols according to a distribution on the channel input alphabet. The symbols are labeled by bit strings. At the receiver,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-04-22 Georg Böcherer

We consider a nonlinear Fourier transform (NFT)-based transmission scheme, where data is embedded into the imaginary part of the nonlinear discrete spectrum. Inspired by probabilistic amplitude shaping, we propose a probabilistic eigenvalue…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-08-07 Andreas Buchberger , Alexandre Graell i Amat , Vahid Aref , Laurent Schmalen

Probabilistic shaping is a pragmatic approach to improve the performance of coherent optical fiber communication systems. In the nonlinear regime, the advantages offered by probabilistic shaping might increase thanks to the opportunity to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-19 Stella Civelli , Enrico Forestieri , Marco Secondini

In this paper, we investigate the signal shaping in a two-user discrete time memoryless Gaussian multiple-access channel (MAC) with computation. It is shown that by optimizing input probability distribution, the transmission rate per…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-26 Zhiyong Chen , Hui Liu

Photonic network-on-chip (PNoC) architectures employ photonic links with dense wavelength-division multiplexing (DWDM) to enable high throughput on-chip transfers. Unfortunately, increasing the DWDM degree (i.e., using a larger number of…

Achievable information rates (AIRs) of wideband optical communication systems using ~40 nm (~5 THz) EDFA and ~100 nm (~12.5 THz) distributed Raman amplification are estimated based on a first-order perturbation analysis. The AIRs of each…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-08 Daniel Semrau , Tianhua Xu , Nikita A. Shevchenko , Milen Paskov , Alex Alvarado , Robert I. Killey , Polina Bayvel

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

We consider probabilistic amplitude shaping (PAS) as a means of increasing the spectral efficiency of fiber-optic communication systems. In contrast to previous works in the literature, we consider probabilistic shaping with hard decision…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-04-04 Alireza Sheikh , Alexandre Graell i Amat , Gianluigi Liva

Quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM), deployed in billions of communication devises, exhibits a shaping-loss of $\pi \mathrm{e}/6$ ($\approx 1.53$ dB) compared to the Shannon-Hartley theorem. With inspiration gained from special (leaf,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-25 Peter Larsson

High peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) is one of the main factors limiting cell coverage for cellular systems, especially in the uplink direction. Discrete Fourier transform spread orthogonal frequency-domain multiplexing (DFT-s-OFDM) with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Fabrizio Carpi , Soheil Rostami , Joonyoung Cho , Siddharth Garg , Elza Erkip , Charlie Jianzhong Zhang

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