Spiral Constellations for Nonlinear Channels
Journal article, 2024

In this letter, we propose a novel constellation design, specifically tailored to contrast the effect of nonlinear channels. The proposed constellations are based on a spiral expression, which, unlike other unstructured designs, makes them easy to build and optimize. Our design approach allows to optimize the distance between symbols in the angular and radial directions, resulting in a constellation that is robust to the nonlinearities, which affect more severely symbols with higher magnitude. Simulation results show that the proposed constellations outperform the solutions usually adopted for nonlinear channels, especially when the constellation size increases.

Receivers

Pragmatics

Spirals

Complexity theory

spiral constellations

Optimization

Nonlinear channels

constellation design

Phase noise

Symbols

Author

Amina Piemontese

University of Parma

Alessandro Ugolini

University of Parma

Marco Morini

University of Parma

Giulio Colavolpe

University of Parma

Thomas Eriksson

Chalmers, Electrical Engineering, Communication, Antennas and Optical Networks

IEEE Communications Letters

1089-7798 (ISSN) 15582558 (eISSN)

Vol. 28 9 2016-2020

Areas of Advance

Information and Communication Technology

Subject Categories (SSIF 2011)

Telecommunications

Communication Systems

Signal Processing

DOI

10.1109/LCOMM.2024.3438830

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