Abstract
We compare the BICM mutual information of different 8QAM constellations and we show that Circular-8QAM is attractive for high coding rates while quadrature optimized Rect-8QAM provides best performance for low coding rates, both outperforming Star-8QAM.
© 2015 Optical Society of America
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