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most citedEnd-to-end Optimization of Constellation Shaping for Wiener Phase Noise Channels with a Differentiable Blind Phase Search

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eess.SP2026

Joint Probabilistic and Geometric Constellation Shaping for Complexity-Constrained Direct Detection Optical Systems

Rodrigo Fischer, Shrinivas Chimmalgi, Andrej Rode +1

We evaluate joint probabilistic and geometric constellation shaping via reinforcement learning for complexity-constrained joint equalization and demodulation of direct detection op…

cs.IT2025

An Extension of Enumerative Sphere Shaping for Arbitrary Channel Input Distributions

Frederik Ritter, Andrej Rode, Laurent Schmalen

A non-uniform channel input distribution is key for achieving the capacity of arbitrary channels. However, message bits are generally assumed to follow a uniform distribution which…

eess.SP2025

Novel Phase-Noise-Tolerant Variational-Autoencoder-Based Equalization Suitable for Space-Division-Multiplexed Transmission

Vincent Lauinger, Lennart Schmitz, Patrick Matalla +3

We demonstrate the effectiveness of a novel phase-noise-tolerant, variational-autoencoder-based equalization scheme for space-division-multiplexed (SDM) transmission in an experime…

eess.SP2025

Constellation Shaping for OFDM-ISAC Systems: From Theoretical Bounds to Practical Implementation

Benedikt Geiger, Fan Liu, Shihang Lu +4

Integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) promises new use cases for mobile communication systems by reusing the communication signal for radar-like sensing. However, sensing an…

eess.SP2025

Joint Optimization of Geometric and Probabilistic Constellation Shaping for OFDM-ISAC Systems

Benedikt Geiger, Fan Liu, Shihang Lu +2

6G communications systems are expected to integrate radar-like sensing capabilities enabling novel use cases. However, integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) introduces a tra…

cs.IT2024

Introducing RSESS: An Open Source Enumerative Sphere Shaping Implementation Coded in Rust

Frederik Ritter, Andrej Rode, Laurent Schmalen

In this work, we present an open-source implementation of the enumerative sphere shaping (ESS) algorithm used for probabilistic constellation shaping (PCS). PCS aims at closing the…

cs.IT2023★ 1 cited

Approximate Maximum a Posteriori Carrier Phase Estimator for Wiener Phase Noise Channels using Belief Propagation

Shrinivas Chimmalgi, Andrej Rode, Luca Schmid +1

The blind phase search (BPS) algorithm for carrier phase estimation is known to have sub-optimal performance for probabilistically shaped constellations. We present a belief propag…

cs.IT2023

Optimized Geometric Constellation Shaping for Wiener Phase Noise Channels with Viterbi-Viterbi Carrier Phase Estimation

Andrej Rode, Wintana Araya Gebrehiwot, Shrinivas Chimmalgi +1

The Viterbi & Viterbi (V&V) algorithm is well understood for QPSK and 16-QAM, but modifications are required for higher-order modulation formats. We present an approach to extend t…

eess.SP2022

Geometric Constellation Shaping with Low-complexity Demappers for Wiener Phase-noise Channels

Andrej Rode, Laurent Schmalen

We show that separating the in-phase and quadrature component in optimized, machine-learning based demappers of optical communications systems with geometric constellation shaping…

eess.SP2022★ 28 cited

End-to-end Optimization of Constellation Shaping for Wiener Phase Noise Channels with a Differentiable Blind Phase Search

Andrej Rode, Benedikt Geiger, Shrinivas Chimmalgi +1

As the demand for higher data throughput in coherent optical communication systems increases, we need to find ways to increase capacity in existing and future optical communication…

cs.IT2022★ 1 cited

Structural Optimization of Factor Graphs for Symbol Detection via Continuous Clustering and Machine Learning

Lukas Rapp, Luca Schmid, Andrej Rode +1

We propose a novel method to optimize the structure of factor graphs for graph-based inference. As an example inference task, we consider symbol detection on linear inter-symbol in…

eess.SP2022★ 2 cited

Optimization of Geometric Constellation Shaping for Wiener Phase Noise Channels with Varying Channel Parameters

Andrej Rode, Laurent Schmalen

We present a novel method to investigate the effects of varying channel parameters on geometrically shaped constellations for communication systems employing the blind phase search…

eess.SP2021★ 19 cited

Geometric Constellation Shaping for Phase-noise Channels Using a Differentiable Blind Phase Search

Andrej Rode, Benedikt Geiger, Laurent Schmalen

We perform geometric constellation shaping with optimized bit labeling using a binary autoencoder including a differential blind phase search (BPS). Our approach enables full end-t…