Probabilistic shaping based on block codes

Abstract

Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A transmitting device may support shaping of bits in block encoding schemes and a probabilistic shaping framework to generate shaped bits that include both information bits and shaping bits, without conveying extra information (e.g., in addition to the shaped bits) to a receiving device. The transmitter may use a decoder such as a polar decoder (e.g., a modem configured for both coding and decoding) to determine a set of shaping bits based on the information bits. The transmitting deice may also map information bits to frozen bit locations of the polar code, and the shaping bits to information bit locations of the polar, such that the encoded (e. g., shaped) bits from the polar encoder satisfy a target probability distribution.

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