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 over AWGN channels based on M-ary phase-shift keying signals. The IOP provides an important benchmark for performance evaluation of moderate-length codes. We analytically compute the IOP and compare it with 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. Received on 03 October 2021; accepted on 01 November 2021; published on 03 November 2021