Multidimensional Voronoi Constellations vs. Short Blocklength Probabilistic Shaping: A Comparison for Multilevel Coding Approach
Yajie Sheng, Bin Chen, Yi Lei, Jianan Deng, Jiwei Xu, Mengfan Fu, Qunbi Zhuge, Li Shen · 2024
Performance of concatenated multilevel coding with probabilistic shaping (PS) and Voronoi constellations (VCs) is analysed over AWGN channel. Numerical results show that VCs provide up to 1.3 dB SNR gains over PS-QAM with CCDM blocklength of 200.