Voronoi constellations for high-dimensional lattice codes

This paper proposes a low-complexity scheme to construct Voronoi constellations for the shaping of high-dimensional lattice codes. The Voronoi region of a low-dimensional lattice is used as a prototype for the shaping region for a high-dimensional lattice codebook. The proposed scheme retains the shaping and coding gains of the respective lattices. Further, the proposed scheme provides a general approach for shaping popular high-dimensional lattices, including LDA lattices, for which no practical shaping algorithm exists to our knowledge. Finally, the proposed scheme preserves the algebraic properties of nested lattice codes, making it suitable for compute-and-forward applications. Using E8 and BW16 as prototype shaping lattices, we numerically show that the proposed scheme results in 0:65 dB and 0:86 dB shaping gains.