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[TuC2-4]Algorithm Finding GMI-Optimal Binary Labelings for BICM

○Domaniç Lavery1, Alex Alvarado2 (1.Infinera Inc., 2.Eindhoven University of Technology)

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Coding and forward error correction for optical communications

An algorithm is presented which finds a GMI-maximizing binary labeling for a given constellation. For 16-ary constellations, the algorithm is five orders of magnitude faster than a brute force search and, therefore, computationally tractable.