IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT)

Achievable rates of soliton communication systems

Qun Zhang, Terence Chan

Published Jul 1, 2016• 12 citations

Abstract

An achievable rate of soliton communication system is derived based on the noise model we studied. Compared to existing results, ours is derived for the system where both eigenvalues and spectral amplitudes are modulated. In addition, we also show an increment of the communication rate by modulating the spectral amplitude of a soliton.

DOI: 10.1109/isit.2016.7541370

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