Four-dimensional non-binary LDPC-coded modulation schemes for ultra high-speed optical fiber communication
View Patent ↗Systems and methods are disclosed for communicating signals, by receiving a K-symbol-long input block from a 2 m -ary source channel; encoding the input block into a 2 m -ary non-binary low-density parity-check (LDPC) codeword of length N; and mapping each 2 m -ary symbol to a point in a signal constellation comprised of 2 m points, wherein a non-binary LDPC code is used as the component code for forward error correction in a coded modulation scheme capable of achieving optical fiber communication at rates beyond 100 Gb/s.
1. A method for communicating signals, comprising:
receiving a K-symbol-long input block from a 2 m -ary source channel;
encoding the input block into a 2 m -ary non-binary low-density parity-check (LDPC) codeword of length N; and
mapping each 2 m -ary symbol to a point in a signal constellation comprised of 2 m points, wherein the non-binary LDPC code is used as the component code for forward error correction in a coded four-dimensional modulation scheme capable of achieving optical fiber communication at rates beyond 100 Gb/s; and
determining a log-likelihood ratio (LLR) matrix, wherein each row k, 0≦k<N, of the LLR matrix is comprised of 2 m entries each corresponding to:
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2. The method of claim 1 , comprising matching a size of a field over which the non-binary LDPC code is designed to a size of an underlying signal constellation.
3. The method of claim 1 , comprising providing an adaptive solution to coded modulation.
4. The method of claim 1 , comprising providing error correction performance using non-binary LDPC codes.
5. The method of claim 4 , comprising increasing the error correction performance gap with respect to the corresponding bit-interleaved LDPC-coded modulation as the underlying constellation size increases.
6. The method of claim 1 , comprising operating detection and decoding units at the same symbol level to eliminate iterative detection and decoding processes.
7. The method of claim 6 , comprising reducing latency and computational complexity at receivers.
8. The method of claim 1 , comprising modulating mapped outputs using an optical modulator.
9. The method of claim 8 , wherein the optical modulator enables four-dimensional (4D) modulations to improve power-efficiency.
10. The method of claim 8 , wherein the optical modulator enables 2D or 3D modulations.
11. The method of claim 1 , comprising receiving the modulated outputs.
12. The method of claim 11 , comprising passing coherent detector outputs on two quadratures of two polarizations to a maximum a posteriori (MAP) detector.
13. The method of claim 12 , wherein the MAP detector produces a log-likelihood ratio (LLR) matrix of size N×2 m .
14. The method of claim 13 , wherein each row k, 0≦k<N, of the LLR matrix is comprised of 2 m entries each corresponding to:
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15. The method of claim 13 , wherein the logarithm of the ratio of the conditional probability that the k-th symbol sent by a transmitter being the 4D constellation point s k (a) corresponds to the 2 m -ary symbol aεGF(2 m )={0, 1, . . . , 2 m −1} over the probability that it is being s k (0) given the received noisy vector r.
16. The method of claim 11 , comprising generating reliability estimates on each received symbol and processing the reliability estimates to determine the codeword sent by the transmitter.
17. A communication system, comprising: a transmitter to encode signals using non-binary low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes used as component codes for forward error correction in a coded four-dimensional modulation scheme capable of achieving optical fiber communication at rates beyond i00 Gb/s; and
Determining a log-likelihood ration (LLR) matrix, wherein each row k, 0≦k<N, of the LLR matrix is comprised of 2 m entries each corresponding to:
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and a receiver to decode the non-binary low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes.
18. The system of claim 1 , wherein the transmitter comprises:
a 2 m -ary non-binary low-density parity-check (LDPC) encoder;
a mapper coupled to the encoder; and
a modulator coupled to the mapper.
19. The system of claim 1 , wherein the receiver comprises:
a coherent detector;
a maximum a posteriori (MAP) detector coupled to the coherent detector;
a 2 m -ary non-binary low-density parity-check (LDPC) decoder coupled to the MAP detector.
20. The system of claim 19 , wherein the MAP detector produces a log-likelihood ratio (LLR) matrix of size N×2 m , where each row k, 0≦k<N, of the LLR matrix is comprised of 2 m entries.