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cs.IT2017★ 13 cited

Probabilistic Eigenvalue Shaping for Nonlinear Fourier Transform Transmission

Andreas Buchberger, Alexandre Graell i Amat, Vahid Aref +1

We consider a nonlinear Fourier transform (NFT)-based transmission scheme, where data is embedded into the imaginary part of the nonlinear discrete spectrum. Inspired by probabilis…

cs.IT2017★ 1 cited

Achieving Maximum Distance Separable Private Information Retrieval Capacity With Linear Codes

Siddhartha Kumar, Hsuan-Yin Lin, Eirik Rosnes +1

We propose three private information retrieval (PIR) protocols for distributed storage systems (DSSs) where data is stored using an arbitrary linear code. The first two protocols,…

cs.IT2017★ 1 cited

Nonlinear Interference Mitigation via Deep Neural Networks

Christian Häger, Henry D. Pfister

A neural-network-based approach is presented to efficiently implement digital backpropagation (DBP). For a 32x100 km fiber-optic link, the resulting "learned" DBP significantly red…

cs.IT2017★ 5 cited

Demodulation and Detection Schemes for a Memoryless Optical WDM Channel

Kamran Keykhosravi, Morteza Tavana, Erik Agrell +1

It is well known that matched filtering and sampling (MFS) demodulation together with minimum Euclidean distance (MD) detection constitute the optimal receiver for the additive whi…

cs.IT2017★ 9 cited

Bounds on the Per-Sample Capacity of Zero-Dispersion Simplified Fiber-Optical Channel Models

Kamran Keykhosravi, Giuseppe Durisi, Erik Agrell

A number of simplified models, based on perturbation theory, have been proposed for the fiber-optical channel and have been extensively used in the literature. Although these model…

cs.IT2017

Scheduling and Power Control for V2V Broadcast Communications with Co-Channel and Adjacent Channel Interference

Anver Hisham, Erik G. Ström, Fredrik Brännström +1

This paper investigates how to mitigate the impact of both co-channel interference and adjacent channel interference (ACI) on vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) broadcast communication by sc…

cs.IT2017★ 29 cited

Joint Sum Rate And Error Probability Optimization: Finite Blocklength Analysis

Mahdi Haghifam, Mohammad Robat Mili, Behrooz Makki +2

We study the tradeoff between the sum rate and the error probability in downlink of wireless networks. Using the recent results on the achievable rates of finite-length codewords,…

cs.IT2017★ 2 cited

Fine-Grained vs. Average Reliability for V2V Communications around Intersections

Mouhamed Abdulla, Henk Wymeersch

Intersections are critical areas of the transportation infrastructure associated with 47% of all road accidents. Vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication has the potential of prevent…

cs.IT2017

Successive Cancellation Decoding of Single Parity-Check Product Codes

Mustafa Cemil Coşkun, Gianluigi Liva, Alexandre Graell i Amat +1

We introduce successive cancellation (SC) decoding of product codes (PCs) with single parity-check (SPC) component codes. Recursive formulas are derived, which resemble the SC deco…

cs.IT2017★ 30 cited

On Single-Antenna Rayleigh Block-Fading Channels at Finite Blocklength

Alejandro Lancho, Tobias Koch, Giuseppe Durisi

This paper concerns the maximum coding rate at which data can be transmitted over a noncoherent, single-antenna, Rayleigh block-fading channel using an error-correcting code of a g…

cs.IT2017★ 33 cited

Probabilistic Amplitude Shaping with Hard Decision Decoding and Staircase Codes

Alireza Sheikh, Alexandre Graell i Amat, Gianluigi Liva

We consider probabilistic amplitude shaping (PAS) as a means of increasing the spectral efficiency of fiber-optic communication systems. In contrast to previous works in the litera…

cs.IT2017

Finite-Blocklength Bounds on the Maximum Coding Rate of Rician Fading Channels with Applications to Pilot-Assisted Transmission

Johan Östman, Giuseppe Durisi, Erik G. Ström

We present nonasymptotic bounds on the maximum coding rate achievable over a Rician block-fading channel for a fixed packet size and a fixed packet error probability. Our bounds, w…

cs.IT2017★ 3 cited

Transmitter Beam Selection in Millimeter-wave MIMO with In-Band Position-Aiding

Gabriel E. Garcia, Gonzalo Seco-Granados, Eleftherios Karipidis +1

Emerging wireless communication systems will be characterized by a tight coupling between communication and positioning. This is particularly apparent in millimeter-wave (mm-wave)…

cs.IT2017★ 3 cited

Short Codes with Mismatched Channel State Information: A Case Study

Gianluigi Liva, Giuseppe Durisi, Marco Chiani +2

The rising interest in applications requiring the transmission of small amounts of data has recently lead to the development of accurate performance bounds and of powerful channel…

cs.IT2017

Probabilistically-Shaped Coded Modulation with Hard Decision Decoding for Coherent Optical Systems

Alireza Sheikh, Alexandre Graell i Amat, Gianluigi Liva

We consider probabilistic shaping to maximize the achievable information rate of coded modulation (CM) with hard decision decoding. The proposed scheme using binary staircase codes…

cs.IT2017★ 17 cited

Achievable Information Rates for Coded Modulation with Hard Decision Decoding for Coherent Fiber-Optic Systems

Alireza Sheikh, Alexandre Graell i Amat, Gianluigi Liva

We analyze the achievable information rates (AIRs) for coded modulation schemes with QAM constellations with both bit-wise and symbol-wise decoders, corresponding to the case where…

cs.IT2017★ 31 cited

Performance Metrics for Systems with Soft-Decision FEC and Probabilistic Shaping

Tsuyoshi Yoshida, Magnus Karlsson, Erik Agrell

High-throughput optical communication systems utilize binary soft-decision forward error correction (SD-FEC) with bit interleaving over the bit channels. The generalized mutual inf…

cs.IT2017★ 8 cited

Robust Location-Aided Beam Alignment in Millimeter Wave Massive MIMO

Flavio Maschietti, David Gesbert, Paul de Kerret +1

Location-aided beam alignment has been proposed recently as a potential approach for fast link establishment in millimeter wave (mmWave) massive MIMO (mMIMO) communications. Howeve…

cs.IT2017★ 222 cited

Error Bounds for Uplink and Downlink 3D Localization in 5G mmWave Systems

Zohair Abu-Shaban, Xiangyun Zhou, Thushara Abhayapala +2

Location-aware communication systems are expected to play a pivotal part in the next generation of mobile communication networks. Therefore, there is a need to understand the local…

cs.IT2017

On the Performance of Millimeter Wave-based RF-FSO Multi-hop and Mesh Networks

Behrooz Makki, Tommy Svensson, Maite Brandt-Pearce +1

This paper studies the performance of multi-hop and mesh networks composed of millimeter wave (MMW)-based radio frequency (RF) and free-space optical (FSO) links. The results are o…

cs.IT2017

A Unified Ensemble of Concatenated Convolutional Codes

Saeedeh Moloudi, Michael Lentmaier, Alexandre Graell i Amat

We introduce a unified ensemble for turbo-like codes (TCs) that contains the four main classes of TCs: parallel concatenated codes, serially concatenated codes, hybrid concatenated…

cs.IT2017

Performance analysis of RF-FSO multi-hop networks

Behrooz Makki, Tommy Svensson, Maite Brandt-Pearce +1

We study the performance of multi-hop networks composed of millimeter wave (MMW)-based radio frequency (RF) and free-space optical (FSO) links. The results are obtained in the case…

cs.IT2017★ 77 cited

Optimal Precoders for Tracking the AoD and AoA of a mm-Wave Path

Nil Garcia, Henk Wymeersch, Dirk Slock

In millimeter-wave channels, most of the received energy is carried by a few paths. Traditional precoders sweep the angle-of-departure (AoD) and angle-of-arrival (AoA) space with d…

cs.IT2017★ 3 cited

Multidimensional Sampling of Isotropically Bandlimited Signals

Erik Agrell, Balázs Csébfalvi

A new lower bound on the average reconstruction error variance of multidimensional sampling and reconstruction is presented. It applies to sampling on arbitrary lattices in arbitra…