Information Outage Probability and Constrained Capacity of Moderate-Length Codes over AWGN Channels

Abstract

We study the information outage probability (IOP) and constrained capacity of moderate-length codes overAWGN channels based on M-ary phase-shift keying signals. The IOP provides an important benchmarkfor performance evaluation of moderate-length codes. We analytically compute the IOP and compare itwith numerical simulations using the DVB-S2 error-correcting code with numerous code rates employed in Protected Tactical Waveform (PTW). Numerical results confirm the tightness of the analytical results.

Keywords

• moderate-length codes
• mutual information
• outage capacity
• dvb-s2
• satcom