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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 12, 2015
Filed:
Apr. 21, 2014
Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation, Falls Church, VA (US);
Daniel N. Liu, Torrance, CA (US);
Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation, Falls Church, VA (US);
Abstract
A method for optimizing a constellation for M-ary amplitude phase shift keying (M-APSK) that provides signal modulation for transmitting a series of digital bits in an analog signal by a transmitter to be received by a receiver over a communications channel. The method includes identifying symbol-wise mutual information of a transmitted constellation, where the symbol-wise mutual information includes a conditional probability density function. The method identifies an unconstrained capacity that defines an ultimate performance limit of the constellation, and minimizes a difference between a rate of the symbol-wise mutual information and a rate of the unconstrained capacity to determine the number of rings, the number of symbols in each ring and the ring ratio in the constellation.