BACM — Calculate BICM Capacity

last update 2012-04-16 — Georg Böcherer, F. Altenbach, A. Alvarado, S. Corroy

The algorithm Bit Alternating Convex-Concave Method (BACM) allows to calculate the Bit-Interleaved Coded-Modulation (BICM) capacity of a discrete memoryless channel that is specified by a matrix $Hinmathbb{R}^{ntimes 2^m}$ of transition probabilities from 2^m channel inputs to channel outputs.

References

An Efficient Algorithm to Calculate BICM Capacity: G. Böcherer, F. Altenbach, A. Alvarado, S. Corroy, and R. Mathar, to be presented at ISIT 2012, Boston.

Downloads

bacm-v1.zip — An implementation of BACM in Matlab.