AC	Arithmetic coding
AIR	Achievable information rate
ASK	Amplitude-shift keying
AWGN	Additive white Gaussian noise
BC	Binomial coefficient
BL-DM	Bit-level distribution matching
BMD	Bit-metric decoding
BP	Bounded-precision
BRGC	Binary reflected Gray code
CCDM	Constant composition distribution matching
CM	Coded modulation
D&C	Divide and conquer
DEMUX	Demultiplexer
DM	Distribution matching
ESS	Enumerative sphere shaping
FEC	Forward error correction
FER	Frame error rate
FP	Full-precision
GMI	Generalized mutual information
GS	Geometric shaping
LDPC	Low-density parity-check
LLR	Log-likelihood ratio
LUT	Lookup table
MB	Maxwell-Boltzmann
MC	Multinomial coefficient
MI	Mutual information
MLC	Multilevel coding
MPDM	Multiset-partition distribution matching
MUX	Multiplexer
PA	Parallel-amplitude
PAS	Probabilistic amplitude shaping
PDM	Product distribution matching
PMF	Probability mass function
PS	Probabilistic shaping
QAM	Quadrature amplitude modulation
SM	Shell mapping
SNR	Signal-to-noise ratio
SpSh	Sphere shaping
SR	Subset ranking