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PAM-6 Coded Modulation for IM/DD Channels with a Peak-Power Constraint

Information Theory 2021-04-30 v1 math.IT

Abstract

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 PAM-8 for rates up to around 2.3 bits per channel use. PAM-6 with PAS also outperforms a cross-shaped QAM-32 constellation by up to 1 dB and 0.65 dB after bit-metric soft- and hard decoding, respectively. An alternative PAM-6 scheme based on a framed cross-shaped QAM-32 constellation is proposed that shows similar gains.

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@article{arxiv.2104.14304,
  title  = {PAM-6 Coded Modulation for IM/DD Channels with a Peak-Power Constraint},
  author = {Tobias Prinz and Thomas Wiegart and Daniel Plabst and Stefano Calabrò and Georg Böcherer and Nebojsa Stojanovic and Talha Rahman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.14304},
  year   = {2021}
}

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submitted to 11th International Symposium on Topics in Coding

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