no code implementations • 23 Jan 2024 • Chin-Hung Chen, Boris Karanov, Wim van Houtum, Wu Yan, Alex Young, Alex Alvarado
An underestimation of the memory largely degrades the performance of both BCJR and BCJRNet, especially in a slow-decaying channel.
no code implementations • 17 Aug 2023 • Bin Chen, Zhiwei Liang, Shen Li, Yi Lei, Gabriele Liga, Alex Alvarado
Multidimensional constellation shaping of up to 32 dimensions with different spectral efficiencies are compared through AWGN and fiber-optic simulations.
no code implementations • 13 Jun 2023 • Kaiquan Wu, Gabriele Liga, Jamal Riani, Alex Alvarado
The proposed structure enables a tradeoff between complexity and performance: (i) the complexity of MLM or SOVA is reduced and (ii) the decoding penalty due to error propagation is mitigated.
no code implementations • 10 Jun 2023 • Musa Furkan Keskin, Carina Marcus, Olof Eriksson, Alex Alvarado, Joerg Widmer, Henk Wymeersch
For the search mode, we introduce the concept of delay-Doppler (DD) multiplexing, enabling omnidirectional probing of the environment and large virtual array at the OTFS radar receiver.
no code implementations • 14 Feb 2023 • Zhiwei Liang, Bin Chen, Yi Lei, Gabriele Liga, Alex Alvarado
As an application of our model, we further study the effects of signal-noise interactions in long-haul transmission via the proposed model.
no code implementations • 11 Oct 2022 • Astrid Barreiro, Gabriele Liga, Alex Alvarado
A normalized batch gradient descent optimizer is proposed to improve the first-order regular perturbation coefficients of the Manakov equation, often referred to as kernels.
no code implementations • 8 Jul 2022 • Yunus Can Gültekin, Kaiquan Wu, Alex Alvarado
We study the effective SNR behavior of various enumerative amplitude shaping algorithms.
no code implementations • 22 Jun 2022 • Youssef Jaffal, Alex Alvarado
Furthermore, we show that the transmission rate of the proposed system increases as the number of used energy levels increases, which is not the case for fundamental solitons due to their effective time-amplitude constraint.
no code implementations • 7 Jun 2022 • Sebastiaan Goossens, Yunus Can Gültekin, Olga Vassilieva, Inwoong Kim, Paparao Palacharla, Chigo Okonkwo, Alex Alvarado
Reach increase and nonlinearity tolerance are evaluated in terms of achievable information rates and post-FEC bit-error rate.
no code implementations • 7 Jun 2022 • Sebastiaan Goossens, Yunus Can Gültekin, Olga Vassilieva, Inwoong Kim, Paparao Palacharla, Chigo Okonkwo, Alex Alvarado
Geometric shell shaping is introduced and evaluated for reach increase and nonlinearity tolerance in terms of MI against PM-16QAM and PS-PM-16QAM in a 400ZR compatible transmission setup.
no code implementations • 2 Jun 2022 • Zhiwei Liang, Bin Chen, Yi Lei, Gabriele Liga, Alex Alvarado
Nonlinear interference models for dual-polarization 4D (DP-4D) modulation have only been used so far to predict signal-signal nonlinear interference.
no code implementations • 14 Mar 2022 • Youssef Jaffal, Alex Alvarado
Compared to root raised cosine pulses, the new pulses decrease the residual interference by an order of magnitude, for example, a decrease by 32 dB is achieved for an equalizer that considers four interfering symbols at 57% faster transmissions.
no code implementations • 3 Jan 2022 • Yunus Can Gültekin, Alex Alvarado, Olga Vassilieva, Inwoong Kim, Paparao Palacharla, Chigo Okonkwo, Frans M. J. Willems
Band-trellis enumerative sphere shaping is proposed to decrease the energy variations in channel input sequences.
no code implementations • 23 Dec 2021 • Bin Chen, Gabriele Liga, Yi Lei, Wei Ling, Zhengyan Huan, Xuwei Xue, Alex Alvarado
We review the design of multidimensional modulations by maximizing generalized mutual information and compare the maximum transmission reach of recently introduced 4D formats.
no code implementations • 20 Dec 2021 • Vinícius Oliari, Boris Karanov, Sebastiaan Goossens, Gabriele Liga, Olga Vassilieva, Inwoong Kim, Paparao Palacharla, Chigo Okonkwo, Alex Alvarado
In this paper we carry out a joint optimization of probabilistic (PS) and geometric shaping (GS) for four-dimensional (4D) modulation formats in long-haul coherent wavelength division multiplexed (WDM) optical fiber communications using an auto-encoder framework.
no code implementations • 29 Oct 2021 • Bin Chen, Wei Ling, Yunus Can Gültekin, Yi Lei, Chigo Okonkwo, Alex Alvarado
Signal shaping is vital to approach Shannon's capacity, yet it is challenging to implement at very high speeds.
no code implementations • 22 Oct 2021 • Gabriele Liga, Bin Chen, Alex Alvarado
The geometry of dual-polarization four-dimensional constellations is optimized in the optical fiber channel using a recent nonlinear interference model.
no code implementations • 13 Sep 2021 • Kaiquan Wu, Gabriele Liga, Alireza Sheikh, Yunus Can Gültekin, Frans M. J. Willems, Alex Alvarado
Recently, a metric called energy dispersion index (EDI) was proposed to indicate the nonlinear interference (NLI) induced by correlated symbols during optical transmission.
no code implementations • 16 Aug 2021 • Sjoerd van der Heide, Ruben S. Luis, Sebastiaan Goossens, Benjamin J. Puttnam, Georg Rademacher, Ton Koonen, Satoshi Shinada, Yoshinari Awaji, Alex Alvarado, Hideaki Furukawa, Chigo Okonkwo
A software-defined optical receiver is implemented on an off-the-shelf commercial graphics processing unit (GPU).
no code implementations • 24 Jun 2021 • Franz Lampel, Alex Alvarado, Frans M. J. Willems
The time-invariance of the channel in the DD domain enables efficient equalizers for time-frequency dispersive channels.
no code implementations • 9 Jun 2021 • Astrid Barreiro, Gabriele Liga, Alex Alvarado
We study the performance of gradient-descent optimization to estimate the coefficients of the discrete-time first-order regular perturbation (FRP).
no code implementations • 8 Jun 2021 • Kaiquan Wu, Gabriele Liga, Yunus Can Gültekin, Alex Alvarado
A metric called exponentially-weighted energy dispersion index (EEDI) is proposed to explain the blocklength-dependent effective signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) in probabilistically shaped fiber-optic systems.
no code implementations • 31 May 2021 • Yunus Can Gültekin, Alex Alvarado, Olga Vassilieva, Inwoong Kim, Paparao Palacharla, Chigo Okonkwo, Frans M. J. Willems
Nonlinear interference (NLI) generated during the propagation of an optical waveform through the fiber depends on the fourth order standardized moment of the channel input distribution, also known as kurtosis.
no code implementations • 30 Mar 2021 • Musa Furkan Keskin, Henk Wymeersch, Alex Alvarado
Orthogonal time frequency space (OTFS) is a promising alternative to orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) in high-mobility beyond 5G communications.
1 code implementation • 10 Mar 2021 • Vinícius Oliari, Erik Agrell, Gabriele Liga, Alex Alvarado
The model can be seen as an improvement of the recently proposed regular perturbation (RP) on the GVD parameter.
no code implementations • 24 Feb 2021 • Kaiquan Wu, Gabriele Liga, Alireza Sheikh, Frans M. J. Willems, Alex Alvarado
This blocklength dependency of SNR has been attributed to time-varying statistical properties of the symbol sequences, in particular, to variation of the symbol energies.
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no code implementations • 27 Jan 2021 • Gabriele Liga, Bin Chen, Astrid Barreiro, Alex Alvarado
We assess the accuracy of a recently introduced nonlinear interference model for general dual-polarization 4D formats.~ Unlike previous models for polarization-multiplexed 2D formats, an average gap from split-step Fourier simulations within 0. 1 dB is demonstrated.
no code implementations • 23 Oct 2020 • Rick M. Bütler, Christian Häger, Henry D. Pfister, Gabriele Liga, Alex Alvarado
In this paper, we propose a model-based machine-learning approach for dual-polarization systems by parameterizing the split-step Fourier method for the Manakov-PMD equation.
no code implementations • 22 Sep 2020 • Hami Rabbani, Mostafa Ayaz, Lotfollah Beygi, Gabriele Liga, Alex Alvarado, Erik Agrell, Magnus Karlsson
This nonlinear interference discrepancy between the results of the proposed model and the EGN model could be up to 2. 8 dB for a system with 80 WDM channels.
no code implementations • 25 Aug 2020 • Gabriele Liga, Astrid Barreiro, Hami Rabbani, Alex Alvarado
In optical communications, four-dimensional (4D) modulation formats encode information onto the quadrature components of two arbitrary orthogonal states of polarisation of the optical field.
no code implementations • 20 Jul 2020 • Vinícius Oliari, Sebastiaan Goossens, Christian Häger, Gabriele Liga, Rick M. Bütler, Menno van den Hout, Sjoerd van der Heide, Henry D. Pfister, Chigo Okonkwo, Alex Alvarado
One guiding principle for previous work on the design of practical nonlinearity compensation schemes is that fewer steps lead to better systems.
no code implementations • 28 Mar 2020 • Bin Chen, Alex Alvarado, Sjoerd van der Heide, Menno van den Hout, Hartmut Hafermann, Chigo Okonkwo
We propose a new four-dimensional orthant-symmetric 128-ary modulation format (4D-OS128) with a spectral efficiency of 7bit/4D-sym.
no code implementations • 25 Jan 2020 • Christian Häger, Henry D. Pfister, Rick M. Bütler, Gabriele Liga, Alex Alvarado
We propose a model-based machine-learning approach for polarization-multiplexed systems by parameterizing the split-step method for the Manakov-PMD equation.
no code implementations • 11 Dec 2019 • Kadir Gümüs, Alex Alvarado, Bin Chen, Christian Häger, Erik Agrell
GMI-based end-to-end learning is shown to be highly nonconvex.
no code implementations • 17 Sep 2019 • Abdelkerim Amari, Xiang Lin, Octavia A. Dobre, Ramachandran Venkatesan, Alex Alvarado
Machine learning techniques have recently received significant attention as promising approaches to deal with the optical channel impairments, and in particular, the nonlinear effects.
no code implementations • 22 Apr 2019 • Christian Häger, Henry D. Pfister, Rick M. Bütler, Gabriele Liga, Alex Alvarado
For the efficient compensation of fiber nonlinearity, one of the guiding principles appears to be: fewer steps are better and more efficient.
no code implementations • 27 Feb 2019 • Abdelkerim Amari, Xiang Lin, Octavia A. Dobre, Ramachandran Venkatesan, Alex Alvarado
In this case, digital back propagation compensates for the deterministic nonlinearity and the Parzen window deals with the stochastic nonlinear signal-noise interactions, which are not taken into account by digital back propagation.