• DocumentCode
    1480401
  • Title

    Designing Good Multi-Dimensional Constellations

  • Author

    Beko, Marko ; Dinis, Rui

  • Volume
    1
  • Issue
    3
  • fYear
    2012
  • fDate
    6/1/2012 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    221
  • Lastpage
    224
  • Abstract
    In this letter we consider the design of multi-dimensional compact constellations that minimize the average symbol energy for a given minimum Euclidian distance between constellation points. We formulate the constellation design as a non-convex quadratically constrained quadratic programming. We propose a simple and efficient optimization method, which offers good solutions for small to medium sized constellations.
  • Keywords
    concave programming; quadratic programming; quadrature amplitude modulation; QAM constellation; average symbol energy minimization; constellation point; minimum Euclidian distance; multidimensional compact constellation design; nonconvex quadratically constrained quadratic programming; optimization method; small to medium sized constellation; Constellation diagram; Gain; Lattices; Quadratic programming; Quadrature amplitude modulation; Signal to noise ratio; M-ary constellations; optimization;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Wireless Communications Letters, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    2162-2337
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/WCL.2012.032312.120203
  • Filename
    6176012