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We consider the special case of index coding over the Gaussian broadcast channel where each receiver has prior knowledge of a subset of messages at the transmitter and demands all the messages from the source. We propose a concatenated…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-07-02 Lakshmi Natarajan , Yi Hong , Emanuele Viterbo

Future beyond-5G and 6G systems demand ultra-reliable, low-latency communication with short blocklengths, motivating the development of universal decoding algorithms. Guessing decoding, which infers the noise or codeword candidate in order…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Qianfan Wang , Jifan Liang , Peihong Yuan , Ken R. Duffy , Muriel Médard , Xiao Ma

There have been significant advances in recent years in the development of forward error correction decoders that can decode codes of any structure, including practical realizations in synthesized circuits and taped out chips. While…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-11 Jiewei Feng , Ken R. Duffy , Muriel Médard

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

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Johnny Karout , Erik Agrell , Krzysztof Szczerba , Magnus Karlsson

In recent years, many attempts have been made to enhance Orthogonal Frequency Multiplexing with Index Modulation (OFDM-IM) in terms of spectral efficiency and error performance. Two challenges typically erupt when using OFDM-IM. First, the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-28 A. Atef Ibrahim , Amr A. Nagy , Ashraf Mahran , Amr Abdelaziz

Parallelism has become a central concern in modern decoding frameworks aiming to meet stringent throughput and latency requirements. Guessing Random Additive Noise Decoding (GRAND) is a recently proposed decoding paradigm that tests…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Li Wan , Huarui Yin , Wenyi Zhang

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

This paper investigates generic signal shaping methods for multiple-data-stream generalized spatial modulation (GenSM) and generalized quadrature spatial modulation (GenQSM) based on the maximizing the minimum Euclidean distance (MMED)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-01-29 Shuaishuai Guo , Haixia Zhang , Peng Zhang , Shuping Dang , Liang Cong , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

Bit-interleaved coded modulation with iterative decoding (BICM-ID) offers very good error performance over additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) and fading channels if it uses a wisely designed signal mapping. Further, error performance of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-06 Hassan M. Navazi , Md. Jahangir Hossain

Within the family of guessing-based decoding algorithms, ordered reliability bits GRAND (ORBGRAND) has attracted considerable attention due to its efficient use of soft information and suitability for hardware implementation. It has also…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Zhuang Li , Wenyi Zhang

The common approach of designing a communication device is to maximize a well-defined objective function, e.g., the channel capacity and the cut-off rate. We propose easy-to-implement solutions for Gaussian channels that approximate the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-03-24 Qian Yu

In this paper, we propose an efficient ordered-statistics decoding (OSD) algorithm with an adaptive Gaussian elimination (GE) reduction technique. The proposed decoder utilizes two decoding conditions to adaptively remove GE in OSD. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-26 Chentao Yue , Mahyar Shirvanimoghaddam , Branka Vucetic , Yonghui Li

In this work, targeting, e.g., future generation cellular, microwave-links, or optical fiber systems, we propose a new geometric shaping design for golden angle modulation (GAM) based on a (double) truncated Gaussian input distribution. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-28 Peter Larsson , Lars K. Rasmussen , Mikael Skoglund

The problem of modulation classification for a multiple-antenna (MIMO) system employing orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) is investigated under the assumption of unknown frequency-selective fading channels and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-04-11 Yu Liu , Osvaldo Simeone , Alexander M. Haimovich , Wei Su

Coded modulation with probabilistic amplitude shaping (PAS) is considered for intensity modulation/direct detection channels with a transmitter peak-power constraint. PAS is used to map bits to a uniform PAM-6 distribution and outperforms…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-30 Tobias Prinz , Thomas Wiegart , Daniel Plabst , Stefano Calabrò , Georg Böcherer , Nebojsa Stojanovic , Talha Rahman

A distributed detection scheme where the sensors transmit with constant modulus signals over a Gaussian multiple access channel is considered. The deflection coefficient of the proposed scheme is shown to depend on the characteristic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-05 Cihan Tepedelenlioglu , Sivaraman Dasarathan

Sampling and quantization are crucial in digital signal processing, but quantization introduces errors, particularly due to distribution mismatch between input signals and quantizers. Existing methods to reduce this error require precise…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-09 Aman Rishal Chemmala , Satish Mulleti

Probabilistic shaping of quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) is used to enhance the sensitivity of an optical communication system. Sensitivity gains of 0.43 dB and 0.8 dB are demonstrated in back-to-back experiments by shaping of 16QAM…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-01-19 Tobias Fehenberger , Domaniç Lavery , Robert Maher , Alex Alvarado , Polina Bayvel , Norbert Hanik

We propose index codes, based on multidimensional QAM constellations, for the Gaussian broadcast channel, where every receiver demands all the messages from the source. The efficiency with which an index code exploits receiver side…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Lakshmi Natarajan , Yi Hong , Emanuele Viterbo

Hierarchical modulation (HM) is able to provide different levels of protection for data streams and achieve a rate region that cannot be realized by traditional orthogonal schemes, such as time division (TD). Nevertheless, criterions and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-10-19 Baicen Xiao , Kexin Xiao , Zhiyong Chen , Hui Liu