TR2015-007

Han-Kobayashi and Dirty-Paper Coding for Superchannel Optical Communications

    •  Koike-Akino, T., Kojima, K., Millar, D.S., Parsons, K., Kametani, S., Sugihara, T., Yoshida, T., Ishida, K., Miyata, Y., Matsumoto, W., Mizuochi, T., "Han-Kobayashi and Dirty-Paper Coding for Superchannel Optical Communications", Journal of Lightwave Technology, DOI: 10.1109/​JLT.2015.2397435, Vol. 33, No. 7, pp. 1292-1299, February 2015.
      BibTeX TR2015-007 PDF
      • @article{Koike-Akino2015feb,
      • author = {Koike-Akino, T. and Kojima, K. and Millar, D.S. and Parsons, K. and Kametani, S. and Sugihara, T. and Yoshida, T. and Ishida, K. and Miyata, Y. and Matsumoto, W. and Mizuochi, T.},
      • title = {Han-Kobayashi and Dirty-Paper Coding for Superchannel Optical Communications},
      • journal = {Journal of Lightwave Technology},
      • year = 2015,
      • volume = 33,
      • number = 7,
      • pages = {1292--1299},
      • month = feb,
      • publisher = {IEEE},
      • doi = {10.1109/JLT.2015.2397435},
      • issn = {0733-8724},
      • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2015-007}
      • }
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Abstract:

Superchannel transmission is a candidate to realize Tb/s-class high-speed optical communications. In order to achieve higher spectrum efficiency, the channel spacing shall be as narrow as possible. However, densely allocated channels can cause nonnegligible inter-channel interference (ICI) especially when the channel spacing is close to or below the Nyquist bandwidth. In this paper, we consider joint decoding to cancel the ICI in dense superchannel transmission. To further improve the spectrum efficiency, we propose the use of Han-Kobayashi (HK) superposition coding. In addition, for the case when neighboring subchannel transmitters can share data, we introduce dirty-paper coding (DPC) for pre-cancellation of the ICI. We analytically evaluate the potential gains of these methods when ICI is present for sub-Nyquist channel spacing.