1 code implementation • 19 Dec 2023 • Clement Ruah, Osvaldo Simeone, Jakob Hoydis, Bashir Al-Hashimi
This paper proposes a novel channel response-based scheme that, unlike the state of the art, estimates and compensates for the phase errors in the RT-generated channel responses.
no code implementations • 30 Nov 2023 • Jakob Hoydis, Fayçal Aït Aoudia, Sebastian Cammerer, Florian Euchner, Merlin Nimier-David, Stephan ten Brink, Alexander Keller
Ray tracing (RT) is instrumental in 6G research in order to generate spatially-consistent and environment-specific channel impulse responses (CIRs).
1 code implementation • 20 Mar 2023 • Jakob Hoydis, Fayçal Aït Aoudia, Sebastian Cammerer, Merlin Nimier-David, Nikolaus Binder, Guillermo Marcus, Alexander Keller
Sionna is a GPU-accelerated open-source library for link-level simulations based on TensorFlow.
1 code implementation • 15 Dec 2022 • Reinhard Wiesmayr, Chris Dick, Jakob Hoydis, Christoph Studer
We demonstrate the efficacy of DUIDD using NVIDIA's Sionna link-level simulator in a 5G-near multi-user MIMO-OFDM wireless system with a novel low-complexity soft-input soft-output data detector, an optimized low-density parity-check decoder, and channel vectors from a commercial ray-tracer.
no code implementations • 15 Nov 2022 • Pengzhi Huang, Emre Gönültaş, Maximilian Arnold, K. Pavan Srinath, Jakob Hoydis, Christoph Studer
Localization services for wireless devices play an increasingly important role in our daily lives and a plethora of emerging services and applications already rely on precise position information.
1 code implementation • 29 Jul 2022 • Sebastian Cammerer, Jakob Hoydis, Fayçal Aït Aoudia, Alexander Keller
In this work, we propose a fully differentiable graph neural network (GNN)-based architecture for channel decoding and showcase a competitive decoding performance for various coding schemes, such as low-density parity-check (LDPC) and BCH codes.
1 code implementation • 22 May 2022 • Fayçal Aït Aoudia, Jakob Hoydis, Sebastian Cammerer, Matthijs Van Keirsbilck, Alexander Keller
We propose a neural network (NN)-based algorithm for device detection and time of arrival (ToA) and carrier frequency offset (CFO) estimation for the narrowband physical random-access channel (NPRACH) of narrowband internet of things (NB-IoT).
2 code implementations • 22 Mar 2022 • Jakob Hoydis, Sebastian Cammerer, Fayçal Ait Aoudia, Avinash Vem, Nikolaus Binder, Guillermo Marcus, Alexander Keller
Sionna is a GPU-accelerated open-source library for link-level simulations based on TensorFlow.
no code implementations • 11 Mar 2022 • K. Pavan Srinath, Jakob Hoydis
Another important use of post-equalization SINR is for physical layer (PHY) abstraction, where several PHY blocks like the channel encoder, the detector, and the channel decoder are replaced by an abstraction model in order to speed up system-level simulations.
no code implementations • 11 Mar 2022 • K. Pavan Srinath, Jakob Hoydis
This is the second part of a two-part paper that focuses on link-adaptation (LA) and physical layer (PHY) abstraction for multi-user MIMO (MU-MIMO) systems with non-linear receivers.
no code implementations • 14 Jan 2022 • Dani Korpi, Mikko Honkala, Janne M. J. Huttunen, Fayçal Ait Aoudia, Jakob Hoydis
In particular, we consider a scenario where the transmitter power amplifier is operating in a nonlinear manner, and ML is used to optimize the waveform to minimize the out-of-band emissions.
1 code implementation • 22 Oct 2021 • Qiyu Hu, Yunlong Cai, Kai Kang, Guanding Yu, Jakob Hoydis, Yonina C. Eldar
To reduce the signaling overhead and channel state information (CSI) mismatch caused by the transmission delay, a two-timescale DNN composed of a long-term DNN and a short-term DNN is developed.
no code implementations • 21 Oct 2021 • Brian Rappaport, Emre Gönültaş, Jakob Hoydis, Maximilian Arnold, Pavan Koteshwar Srinath, Christoph Studer
Channel charting is an emerging technology that enables self-supervised pseudo-localization of user equipments by performing dimensionality reduction on large channel-state information (CSI) databases that are passively collected at infrastructure base stations or access points.
no code implementations • 21 Oct 2021 • Mathieu Goutay, Fayçal Ait Aoudia, Jakob Hoydis, Jean-Marie Gorce
An attractive research direction for future communication systems is the design of new waveforms that can both support high throughputs and present advantageous signal characteristics.
no code implementations • 2 Sep 2021 • Fayçal Ait Aoudia, Jakob Hoydis
We propose a learning-based method for the joint design of a transmit and receive filter, the constellation geometry and associated bit labeling, as well as a neural network (NN)-based detector.
no code implementations • 16 Aug 2021 • Mateus P. Mota, Alvaro Valcarce, Jean-Marie Gorce, Jakob Hoydis
In this paper, we propose a new framework, exploiting the multi-agent deep deterministic policy gradient (MADDPG) algorithm, to enable a base station (BS) and user equipment (UE) to come up with a medium access control (MAC) protocol in a multiple access scenario.
Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning reinforcement-learning +1
no code implementations • 30 Jun 2021 • Mathieu Goutay, Fayçal Ait Aoudia, Jakob Hoydis, Jean-Marie Gorce
Machine learning (ML) can be used in various ways to improve multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) receive processing.
no code implementations • 30 Jun 2021 • Mathieu Goutay, Fayçal Ait Aoudia, Jakob Hoydis, Jean-Marie Gorce
Orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) is widely used in modern wireless networks thanks to its efficient handling of multipath environment.
no code implementations • 29 Jun 2021 • Fayçal Ait Aoudia, Jakob Hoydis
As communication systems are foreseen to enable new services such as joint communication and sensing and utilize parts of the sub-THz spectrum, the design of novel waveforms that can support these emerging applications becomes increasingly challenging.
no code implementations • 20 Jan 2021 • Fayçal Ait Aoudia, Jakob Hoydis
Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) is one of the dominant waveforms in wireless communication systems due to its efficient implementation.
no code implementations • 15 Dec 2020 • Lorenzo Maggi, Alvaro Valcarce Rial, Jakob Hoydis
We provide the reader with an accessible yet rigorous introduction to Bayesian optimisation with Gaussian processes (BOGP) for the purpose of solving a wide variety of radio resource management (RRM) problems.
Bayesian Optimisation Gaussian Processes +1 Information Theory Information Theory
no code implementations • 15 Dec 2020 • Jakob Hoydis, Fayçal Ait Aoudia, Alvaro Valcarce, Harish Viswanathan
Each generation of cellular communication systems is marked by a defining disruptive technology of its time, such as orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) for 4G or Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) for 5G.
no code implementations • 15 Dec 2020 • Mathieu Goutay, Fayçal Ait Aoudia, Jakob Hoydis, Jean-Marie Gorce
Machine learning (ML) starts to be widely used to enhance the performance of multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) receivers.
no code implementations • 11 Sep 2020 • Fayçal Ait Aoudia, Jakob Hoydis
The first comes from a neural network (NN)-based receiver operating over a large number of subcarriers and OFDM symbols which allows to significantly reduce the number of orthogonal pilots without loss of bit error rate (BER).
no code implementations • 10 Apr 2020 • Fayçal Ait Aoudia, Jakob Hoydis
We introduce a trainable coded modulation scheme that enables joint optimization of the bit-wise mutual information (BMI) through probabilistic shaping, geometric shaping, bit labeling, and demapping for a specific channel model and for a wide range of signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs).
no code implementations • 7 Feb 2020 • Mathieu Goutay, Fayçal Ait Aoudia, Jakob Hoydis
Optimal symbol detection for multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems is known to be an NP-hard problem.
no code implementations • 29 Nov 2019 • Sebastian Cammerer, Fayçal Ait Aoudia, Sebastian Dörner, Maximilian Stark, Jakob Hoydis, Stephan ten Brink
We consider a trainable point-to-point communication system, where both transmitter and receiver are implemented as neural networks (NNs), and demonstrate that training on the bit-wise mutual information (BMI) allows seamless integration with practical bit-metric decoding (BMD) receivers, as well as joint optimization of constellation shaping and labeling.
Information Theory Signal Processing Information Theory
no code implementations • 14 Sep 2019 • Morteza Varasteh, Jakob Hoydis, Bruno Clerckx
Relying on the proposed model, the learning problem of modulation design for Simultaneous Wireless Information-Power Transmission (SWIPT) over a point-to-point link is studied.
Information Theory Signal Processing Information Theory
no code implementations • 2 Jul 2019 • Ori Shental, Jakob Hoydis
Soft demodulation, or demapping, of received symbols back into their conveyed soft bits, or bit log-likelihood ratios (LLRs), is at the very heart of any modern receiver.
no code implementations • 18 Jun 2019 • Maximilian Stark, Fayçal Ait Aoudia, Jakob Hoydis
In this work, we show how autoencoders can be leveraged to perform probabilistic shaping of constellations.
1 code implementation • 11 Jun 2019 • Mehrdad Khani, Mohammad Alizadeh, Jakob Hoydis, Phil Fleming
We propose MMNet, a deep learning MIMO detection scheme that significantly outperforms existing approaches on realistic channels with the same or lower computational complexity.
no code implementations • 20 May 2019 • Cyrille Morin, Leonardo Cardoso, Jakob Hoydis, Jean-Marie Gorce, Thibaud Vial
Hardware imperfections in RF transmitters introduce features that can be used to identify a specific transmitter amongst others.
no code implementations • 19 Feb 2019 • Fayçal Ait Aoudia, Jakob Hoydis
There is a recent interest in neural network (NN)-based communication algorithms which have shown to achieve (beyond) state-of-the-art performance for a variety of problems or lead to reduced implementation complexity.
no code implementations • 8 Jan 2019 • Maximilian Arnold, Sebastian Dörner, Sebastian Cammerer, Sarah Yan, Jakob Hoydis, Stephan ten Brink
A major obstacle for widespread deployment of frequency division duplex (FDD)-based Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communications is the large signaling overhead for reporting full downlink (DL) channel state information (CSI) back to the basestation (BS), in order to enable closed-loop precoding.
no code implementations • 14 Dec 2018 • Fayçal Ait Aoudia, Jakob Hoydis
The idea of end-to-end learning of communication systems through neural network-based autoencoders has the shortcoming that it requires a differentiable channel model.
1 code implementation • 5 Nov 2018 • Emil Björnson, Luca Sanguinetti, Jakob Hoydis
To determine when this approximation is accurate, basic properties of distortion correlation are first uncovered.
Information Theory Information Theory
1 code implementation • 12 Oct 2018 • Mathieu Goutay, Fayçal Ait Aoudia, Jakob Hoydis
However, this approach requires feedback of real-valued losses from the receiver to the transmitter during training.
Information Theory Information Theory
1 code implementation • 6 Apr 2018 • Fayçal Ait Aoudia, Jakob Hoydis
The idea of end-to-end learning of communications systems through neural network -based autoencoders has the shortcoming that it requires a differentiable channel model.
no code implementations • 11 Jul 2017 • Sebastian Dörner, Sebastian Cammerer, Jakob Hoydis, Stephan ten Brink
End-to-end learning of communications systems is a fascinating novel concept that has so far only been validated by simulations for block-based transmissions.
1 code implementation • 1 May 2017 • Emil Björnson, Jakob Hoydis, Luca Sanguinetti
The capacity of cellular networks can be improved by the unprecedented array gain and spatial multiplexing offered by Massive MIMO.
Information Theory Information Theory
1 code implementation • 2 Feb 2017 • Timothy J. O'Shea, Jakob Hoydis
We present and discuss several novel applications of deep learning for the physical layer.
2 code implementations • 26 Jan 2017 • Tobias Gruber, Sebastian Cammerer, Jakob Hoydis, Stephan ten Brink
We revisit the idea of using deep neural networks for one-shot decoding of random and structured codes, such as polar codes.
Information Theory Information Theory
1 code implementation • 24 Mar 2014 • Emil Björnson, Luca Sanguinetti, Jakob Hoydis, Mérouane Debbah
Numerical and analytical results show that the maximal EE is achieved by a massive MIMO setup wherein hundreds of antennas are deployed to serve a relatively large number of users using ZF processing.
Information Theory Networking and Internet Architecture Information Theory
1 code implementation • 9 Jul 2013 • Emil Björnson, Jakob Hoydis, Marios Kountouris, Mérouane Debbah
The use of large-scale antenna arrays can bring substantial improvements in energy and/or spectral efficiency to wireless systems due to the greatly improved spatial resolution and array gain.
Information Theory Information Theory