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We show that a 0.9 dB SNR improvement can be obtained via short-blocklength enumerative sphere shaping for single-span transmission at 56 GBd. This gain vanishes for higher symbol rates and a larger number of spans.
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For improving coarsely quantized decoding of LDPC codes, we propose a check node aware design of the variable node update. In contrast to previous works, we optimize the variable node to explicitly maximize the mutual information preserved…
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The Viterbi & Viterbi (V&V) algorithm is well understood for QPSK and 16-QAM, but modifications are required for higher-order modulation formats. We present an approach to extend the standard V&V algorithm for higher-order modulation…
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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,…
The ground state pairing correlations in finite fermionic systems are described with a high degree of accuracy within a variational approach based on a combined coupled-cluster and particle-number-projected BCS ansatz. The flexibility of…
A practical $2^m$-ary polar coded modulation (PCM) scheme with optimal constellation labeling is proposed. To efficiently find the optimal labeling rule, the search space is reduced by exploiting the symmetry properties of the channels.…
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Protograph low-density-parity-check (LDPC) are considered to design near-capacity low-rate codes over the binary erasure channel (BEC) and binary additive white Gaussian noise (BIAWGN) channel. For protographs with degree-one variable nodes…
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