Performance Metrics for Systems with Soft-Decision FEC and Probabilistic Shaping

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Main Authors: Yoshida, Tsuyoshi, Karlsson, Magnus, Agrell, Erik
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author Yoshida, Tsuyoshi
Karlsson, Magnus
Agrell, Erik
author_facet Yoshida, Tsuyoshi
Karlsson, Magnus
Agrell, Erik
contents High-throughput optical communication systems utilize binary soft-decision forward error correction (SD-FEC) with bit interleaving over the bit channels. The generalized mutual information (GMI) is an achievable information rate (AIR) in such systems and is known to be a good predictor of the bit error rate after SD-FEC decoding (post-FEC BER) for uniform signaling. However, for probabilistically shaped (nonuniform) signaling, we find that the normalized AIR, defined as the AIR divided by the signal entropy, is less correlated with the post-FEC BER. We show that the information quantity based on the distribution of the single bit signal, and its asymmetric loglikelihood ratio, are better predictors of the post-FEC BER. In simulations over the Gaussian channel, we find that the prediction accuracy, quantified as the peak-to-peak deviation of the post-FEC BER within a set of different modulation formats and distributions, can be improved more than 10 times compared with the normalized AIR.
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spellingShingle Performance Metrics for Systems with Soft-Decision FEC and Probabilistic Shaping
Yoshida, Tsuyoshi
Karlsson, Magnus
Agrell, Erik
Information Theory
Optics
High-throughput optical communication systems utilize binary soft-decision forward error correction (SD-FEC) with bit interleaving over the bit channels. The generalized mutual information (GMI) is an achievable information rate (AIR) in such systems and is known to be a good predictor of the bit error rate after SD-FEC decoding (post-FEC BER) for uniform signaling. However, for probabilistically shaped (nonuniform) signaling, we find that the normalized AIR, defined as the AIR divided by the signal entropy, is less correlated with the post-FEC BER. We show that the information quantity based on the distribution of the single bit signal, and its asymmetric loglikelihood ratio, are better predictors of the post-FEC BER. In simulations over the Gaussian channel, we find that the prediction accuracy, quantified as the peak-to-peak deviation of the post-FEC BER within a set of different modulation formats and distributions, can be improved more than 10 times compared with the normalized AIR.
title Performance Metrics for Systems with Soft-Decision FEC and Probabilistic Shaping
topic Information Theory
Optics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.03736