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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

Energy-efficient communication using a class of spatial modulation (SM) that encodes the source information entirely in the antenna indices is considered in this paper. The energy-efficient modulation design is formulated as a convex…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Ronald Y. Chang , Sian-Jheng Lin , Wei-Ho Chung

In this work, a coding technique called cost constrained Geometric Huffman coding (ccGhc) is developed. ccGhc minimizes the Kullback-Leibler distance between a dyadic probability mass function (pmf) and a target pmf subject to an affine…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-06-29 Georg Böcherer , Fabian Altenbach , Martina Malsbender , Rudolf Mathar

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 propose two novel techniques to implement sequence selection (SS) for fiber nonlinearity mitigation, demonstrating a nonlinear shaping gain of 0.24 bits/s/Hz, just 0.1 bits/s/Hz below the SS capacity lower bound.

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Stella Civelli , Enrico Forestieri , Marco Secondini

Zero-error single-channel source coding has been studied extensively over the past decades. Its natural multi-channel generalization is however not well investigated. While the special case with multiple symmetric-alphabet channels was…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Hoover H. F. Yin , Xishi Wang , Ka Hei Ng , Russell W. F. Lai , Lucien K. L. Ng , Jack P. K. Ma

Probabilistic shaping for intensity modulation and direct detection (IM/DD) links is discussed and a peak power constraint determined by the limited modulation extinction ratio (ER) of optical modulators is introduced. The input…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-03 Thomas Wiegart , Francesco Da Ros , Metodi Plamenov Yankov , Fabian Steiner , Simone Gaiarin , Richard Wesel

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

To address the fundamental limitations imposed by chromatic dispersion and environmental susceptibility in standard single-mode fiber (SMF) for long-haul high-precision time transfer, we systematically explore the application potential of…

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

Four dimensional geometric shell shaping (4D-GSS) is introduced as an approach for closing the nonlinearity-caused shaping gap. This format is designed at the spectral efficiency of 8 b/4D-sym and is compared against…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-08 Sebastiaan Goossens , Yunus Can Gültekin , Olga Vassilieva , Inwoong Kim , Paparao Palacharla , Chigo Okonkwo , Alex Alvarado

Hardware distortions (HWD) render drastic effects on the performance of communication systems. They are recently proven to bear asymmetric signatures; and hence can be efficiently mitigated using improper Gaussian signaling (IGS), thanks to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-14 Sidrah Javed , Ahmed Elzanaty , Osama Amin , Basem Shihada , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

In this paper, we introduce Holographic Spectral Multiplexing (HSM) as a novel technique to enable multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication in optical networks. HSM uses the spectral space of ultrashort laser pulses to create…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-02-03 Alireza Khodaei , Jitender Deogun

The integration of multicarrier modulation and multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) is critical for reliable transmission of wireless signals in complex environments, which significantly improve spectrum efficiency. Existing studies have…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Yuhao Chi , Zhiyuan Peng , Lei Liu , Ying Li , Yao Ge , Chau Yuen

Hypergraphs provide a natural representation for many-to-many relationships in data-intensive applications, yet their scalability is often hindered by high memory consumption. While prior work has improved computational efficiency, reducing…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Tianyu Zhao , Dongfang Zhao , Luanzheng Guo , Nathan Tallent

Probabilistic shaping (PS) has attracted significant attention in intensity-modulation and direct-detection (IM-DD) systems. However, due to the unique system model and inherent constraints, the effective application of the PS technique is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-25 Dongdong Zou , Wei Wang , Jiawen Yao , Zhongxing Tian , Zeyu Feng , Huan Huang , Fan Li , Gordon Ning Liu , Gangxiang Shen , Yi Cai

In this paper, source coding or data compression is viewed as a measurement problem. Given a measurement device with fewer states than the observable of a stochastic source, how can one capture the essential information? We propose modeling…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-13 Nithin Nagaraj

We consider probabilistic shaping to maximize the achievable information rate of coded modulation (CM) with hard decision decoding. The proposed scheme using binary staircase codes outperforms its uniform CM counterpart by more than 1.3 dB…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-08 Alireza Sheikh , Alexandre Graell i Amat , Gianluigi Liva

In this paper, a new four-dimensional 64-ary polarization ring switching (4D-64PRS) modulation format with a spectral efficiency of 6 bit/4D-sym is introduced. The format is designed by maximizing the generalized mutual information (GMI)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-07 Bin Chen , Chigo Okonkwo , Hartmut Hafermann , Alex Alvarado

Different aspects of probabilistic shaping for a multi-span optical communication system are studied. First, a numerical analysis of the additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channel investigates the effect of using a small number of input…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-07-29 Tobias Fehenberger , Alex Alvarado , Georg Böcherer , Norbert Hanik