A Novel Constellation Shaping Technique for Bit-Interleaved Coded Modulation

Bouazza Boubakar (1) , Legoff Stéphane Y. (2) , Garadi Ahmed (3) , Clency Perrine (4) , Rodolphe Vauzelle (4)

1 LTC - Laboratory Technology of Communications
2 EECE - School of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering [Crawley]
3 LTC - Laboratory Technology of Communications
4 XLIM-SIC - SIC

We present a new and simple method which consists to apply constellation shaping to bit-interleaved turbo-coded modulation (BICTM) over additive white Gaussian noise channels. By assuming the example of a 3-bit/dim 16-PAM BITCM, it is shown that this technique can provide shaping gain of 0.79 dB.

Mots clés: Constellation Shaping Bit-interleaved coded modulation (BICM)

Domaines: Traitement du signal et de l'image [eess.SP]; Traitement du signal et de l'image [eess.SP]

Bouazza Boubakar, Legoff Stéphane Y., Garadi Ahmed, Clency Perrine, Rodolphe Vauzelle. A Novel Constellation Shaping Technique for Bit-Interleaved Coded Modulation. Wireless Personal Communications, 2013, 71 (2), 10 p. ⟨10.1007/s11277-013-1303-9⟩. ⟨hal-00909755⟩