Polar-Coded Modulation

Author

Seidl, Martina ; Schenk, Andreas ; Stierstorfer, Clemens ; Huber, Johannes B.

Author_Institution

Inst. for Inf. Transm., Friedrich-Alexander-Univ. Erlangen-Nurnberg, Erlangen, Germany

Volume

61

Issue

10

fYear

2013

fDate

Oct-13

Firstpage

4108

Lastpage

4119

Abstract

A framework is proposed that allows for a joint description and optimization of both binary polar coding and 2^m-ary digital pulse-amplitude modulation (PAM) schemes. For the latter, the multilevel coding (MLC) approach as well as bit-interleaved coded modulation (BICM) are considered. The conceptual equivalence of polar coding and multilevel coding is covered in detail. Based on an alternative characterization of the channel polarization phenomenon, rules for the optimum choice of the labeling in coded modulation schemes employing polar codes are developed. Simulation results regarding the error performance of the proposed schemes on the AWGN channel are included.

Keywords

AWGN channels; binary codes; optimisation; pulse amplitude modulation; 2^m-ary digital pulse-amplitude modulation; AWGN channel; BICM; MLC approach; PAM schemes; binary polar coding; bit-interleaved coded modulation; channel polarization phenomenon; coded modulation schemes; joint description; multilevel coding approach; optimization; polar codes; polar-coded modulation; Channel capacity; Decoding; Encoding; Labeling; Modulation; Transforms; Vectors; Digital modulation; modulation coding; multilevel coding; polar codes;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Communications, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0090-6778

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TCOMM.2013.090513.130433

Filename

6600713