Bit-interleaved coded modulation in the wideband regime

The wideband regime of bit-interleaved coded modulation (BICM) in Gaussian channels is studied. The Taylor expansion of the coded modulation capacity for generic signal constellations at low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) is derived and used to determine the corresponding expansion for the BICM capacity. Simple formulas for the minimum energy per bit and the wideband slope are given. BICM is found to be suboptimal in the sense that its minimum energy per bit can be larger than the corresponding value for coded modulation schemes. The minimum energy per bit using standard Gray mapping on M-PAM or M^2-QAM is given by a simple formula and shown to approach -0.34 dB as M increases. Using the low SNR expansion, a general trade-off between power and bandwidth in the wideband regime is used to show how a power loss can be traded off against a bandwidth gain.Comment: Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Information Theor

Classification of 8PSK Mappings for BICM

The performance of bit-interleaved coded modulation with iterative decoding is significantly influenced by the mapping of bits to the symbol constellation. A range of mappers have been suggested in the literature, however, no attempt has been made to systematically enumerate all unique mappers for a given signal constellation. In this paper, we classify 8PSK mappers based on bit-wise distance spectra for no prior information, and full prior information, respectively

Classification of 8PSK Mappings for BICM

Abstract — The performance of bit-interleaved coded modulation with iterative decoding is significantly influenced by the mapping of bits to the symbol constellation. A range of mappers have been suggested in the literature, however, no attempt has been made to systematically enumerate all unique mappers for a given signal constellation. In this paper, we classify 8PSK mappers based on bit-wise distance spectra for no prior information, and full prior information, respectively. I