Achievable Rates for Shaped Bit-Metric Decoding
arXiv:1410.8075
Abstract
A new achievable rate for bit-metric decoding (BMD) is derived using random coding arguments. The rate expression can be evaluated for any input distribution, and in particular the bit-levels of binary input labels can be stochastically dependent. Probabilistic shaping with dependent bit-levels (shaped BMD), shaping of independent bit-levels (bit-shaped BMD) and uniformly distributed independent bit-levels (uniform BMD) are evaluated on the additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channel with Gray labeled bipolar amplitude shift keying (ASK). For 32-ASK at a rate of 3.8 bits/channel use, the gap to 32-ASK capacity is 0.008 dB for shaped BMD, 0.46 dB for bit-shaped BMD, and 1.42 dB for uniform BMD. These numerical results illustrate that dependence between the bit-levels is beneficial on the AWGN channel. The relation to the LM rate and the generalized mutual information (GMI) is discussed.
Revised version. Compared to version v5, the LM rate is now discussed