41 research outputs found

    Protograph-Based LDPC Code Design for Shaped Bit-Metric Decoding

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    A protograph-based low-density parity-check (LDPC) code design technique for bandwidth-efficient coded modulation is presented. The approach jointly optimizes the LDPC code node degrees and the mapping of the coded bits to the bit-interleaved coded modulation (BICM) bit-channels. For BICM with uniform input and for BICM with probabilistic shaping, binary-input symmetric-output surrogate channels for the code design are used. The constructed codes for uniform inputs perform as good as the multi-edge type codes of Zhang and Kschischang (2013). For 8-ASK and 64-ASK with probabilistic shaping, codes of rates 2/3 and 5/6 with blocklength 64800 are designed, which operate within 0.63dB and 0.69dB of continuous AWGN capacity for a target frame error rate of 1e-3 at spectral efficiencies of 1.38 and 4.25 bits/channel use, respectively.Comment: 9 pages, 10 figures. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1501.0559

    Protograph-Based LDPC Code Design for Probabilistic Shaping with On-Off Keying

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    This work investigates protograph-based LDPC codes for the AWGN channel with OOK modulation. A non-uniform distribution of the OOK modulation symbols is considered to improve the power efficiency especially for low SNRs. To this end, a specific transmitter architecture based on time sharing is proposed that allows probabilistic shaping of (some) OOK modulation symbols. Tailored protograph-based LDPC code designs outperform standard schemes with uniform signaling and off-the-shelf codes by 1.1 dB for a transmission rate of 0.25 bits/channel use.Comment: Invited Paper for CISS 201

    Ultra-Sparse Non-Binary LDPC Codes for Probabilistic Amplitude Shaping

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    This work shows how non-binary low-density parity-check codes over GF(2p2^p) can be combined with probabilistic amplitude shaping (PAS) (B\"ocherer, et al., 2015), which combines forward-error correction with non-uniform signaling for power-efficient communication. Ultra-sparse low-density parity-check codes over GF(64) and GF(256) gain 0.6 dB in power efficiency over state-of-the-art binary LDPC codes at a spectral efficiency of 1.5 bits per channel use and a blocklength of 576 bits. The simulation results are compared to finite length coding bounds and complemented by density evolution analysis.Comment: Accepted for Globecom 201

    Protograph LDPC Code Design For LS-MIMO 1-bit ADC Systems

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    Recently, two emerging research topics are protograph low-density parity-check (P-LDPC) and large-scale multi-input multi-output (LS-MIMO) with low-resolution analog-to-digital (ADC) converters (LS-MIMO-LOW-ADC). In these directions, many research works have proposed 1-bit ADC as a good candidate for LS-MIMO systems in order to save both transmission power and circuit energy dissipation. However, we observed that previously reported P-LDPC codes might not have good performance for LS-MIMO systems with 1-bit ADC. Hence, we perform a re-design of the P-LDPC codes for the above systems in this paper. The new codes demonstrate a good coding gain from 0:3 dB at rate 1/2 to 0:5 dB at rate 2/3 in different LS-MIMO configurations with 1-bit ADC

    Coherent Communications for Free Space Optical Low-Earth Orbit Downlinks

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    This work addresses physical layer design aspects of coherent free-space optical downlinks from low-earth orbit satellites to ground. Achievable information rates are derived and assessed that include the availability of diversity, shaping, bitmetric decoding, repetition coding and automatic repeat request with maximum-ratio combining. A channel coding scheme is presented that approaches the theoretic limits within 1 dB. Extrinsic information transfer analysis for the free-space optical fading channel shows that a code design tailored to the additive white Gaussian noise channel is robust for fading channels with various parameters
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