Publications related to Precoding

Topological MIMO Optical Signal Processing

Romain Christophe Rémy Fleury, Farzad Zangeneh Nejad

An important advantage of optical signal processing is the possibility of performing various operations in parallel. Among the techniques proposed for parallel optical signal processing, frequency division multiplexing (FDM) is a well-known approach, in wh ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2023

On the (Im)possibility of Commitment over Gaussian Unfair Noisy Channels

Commitment is a key primitive which resides at the heart of several cryptographic protocols. Noisy channels can help realize information-theoretically secure commitment schemes; however, their imprecise statistical characterization can severely impair such ...

2023

Enhancing the Reliability of Dense LoRaWAN Networks With Multi-User Receivers

Andreas Peter Burg, Joachim Tobias Tapparel, Mathieu Pierre Xhonneux

LoRaWAN is a low-power wireless technology that provides long-range connectivity to battery-powered Internet of Things (IoT) devices. To minimize the energy consumption of the IoT nodes, LoRaWAN networks use for the uplink a pure non-slotted ALOHA multiple ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2021

On the relaxed maximum-likelihood blind MIMO channel estimation for orthogonal space-time block codes

Kamran Kalbasi

This paper concerns the maximum-likelihood channel estimation for MIMO systems with orthogonal space-time block codes when the finite alphabet constraint of the signal constellation is relaxed. We study the channel coefficients estimation subspace generate ...

ELSEVIER2020

Multi-User Precoder Designs for RGB Visible Light Communication Systems

Roser Vinals Terres

In this paper, we design linear precoders for the downlink of a visible light communication (VLC) system that simultaneously serves multiple users. Instead of using phosphor-coated white light-emitting diodes (PWLEDs), we focus on Red-Green-Blue light-emit ...

2020

Feedback-Aware Precoding for Millimeter Wave Massive MIMO Systems

Andreas Peter Burg, Reza Ghanaatian Jahromi

Millimeter wave (mmWave) communication is a promising solution for coping with the ever-increasing mobile data traffic because of its large bandwidth. To enable a sufficient link margin, a large antenna array employing directional beamforming, which is ena ...

IEEE2019

Neural-Network Optimized 1-bit Precoding for Massive MU-MIMO

Alexios Konstantinos Balatsoukas Stimming, Christoph Studer

Base station (BS) architectures for massive multi-user (MU) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) wireless systems are equipped with hundreds of antennas to serve tens of users on the same time-frequency channel. The immense number of BS antennas incurs hi ...

IEEE2019

Recurrent Neural Network based MPC for Process Industries

Colin Neil Jones

Autonomous operation of industrial plants requires a cheap and efficient way of creating dynamic process models, which can then be used to either be part of the autonomous systems or to serve as simulators for reinforcement learning. The trends of digitali ...

IEEE2019

Four-Port Broadband Orthomode Transducer Enabling Arbitrary Interelement Spacing

Juan Ramon Mosig, Anja Skrivervik, Emile Jacques de Rijk, Tomislav Debogovic, Maria Garcia Vigueras, Santiago Capdevila Cascante, Esteban Menargues Gomez

This paper reports a novel methodology to design broadband orthomode transducers with two arbitrarily spaced ports carrying orthogonal linear polarizations. The component is based on a combination of two Boifot junctions through a series of power dividers ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2018

Compact Orthomode Transducer with Broadband Beamforming Capability

Juan Ramon Mosig, Anja Skrivervik, Emile Jacques de Rijk

A compact and broadband orthomode transducer (OMT) with two dual linearly polarized ports is reported here for the first time. The component is based on a combination of two ridged Boifot junctions through a series of power dividers that act as an embedded ...

IEEE2018

Design rules for optimizing unipolar coded Brillouin optical time-domain analyzers

Luc Thévenaz, Zhisheng Yang, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez, Simon Adrien Zaslawski, Zonglei Li

The performance of unipolar unicolor coded Brillouin optical time-domain analysis (BOTDA) is evaluated based on both Simplex and Golay codes. Four major detrimental factors that limit the system performance, including decoded-gain trace distortion, coding ...

2018

Throughput Analysis of Large Networks : Spatial Diversity, Beamforming Gain, and Transmission Modes

Serj Haddad

While wired infrastructure constitutes the backbone of most wireless networks, wireless systems appeal the most to the dynamic and rapidly evolving requirements of today's communication systems because of their ease of deployment and mobility, not to menti ...

EPFL2017

Gaussian Multiple Access via Compute-and-Forward

Michael Christoph Gastpar, Jingge Zhu

Lattice codes used under the compute-and-forward paradigm suggest an alternative strategy for the standard Gaussian multiple-access channel (MAC): the receiver succes- sively decodes the integer linear combinations of the messages until it can invert and r ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2017

Carrier Tracking using Extended Kalman Filters for GNSS Synthetic Aperture Processing with a Rotating Antenna

Pierre-André Farine, Joaquin Cabeza de Pablo, Cyril Botteron, Miguel Angel Ribot Sanfelix

A single GNSS antenna moving along a known trajectory can be used to synthesize a virtual array in order to apply spatial diversity techniques, e.g. beamforming. With these techniques, referred as synthetic aperture (SA) techniques, the receiver can mitiga ...

2017

GNSS Multipath Estimation and Mitigation Using a Rotating Antenna

Pierre-André Farine, Joaquin Cabeza de Pablo, Cyril Botteron, Miguel Angel Ribot Sanfelix

We describe the experimental framework that we have developed to study the use of synthetic aperture in GNSS receivers to estimate and mitigate multipath interference. By combining the signal received by a single moving antenna during different time instan ...

2017

Optimal acoustic rake receiver

Martin Vetterli, Ivan Dokmanic, Robin Scheibler

An acoustic processing method for M acoustic receivers comprising the steps of: Determining a beamforming weight vector with M weights for the M acoustic receivers based on at least one the steering vector of at least one real acoustic source, on steering ...

2016

Optical Signal Processing and Pulse Shaping for Wavelength Multiplexed High Speed Communication Systems

Mohammad Amin Shoaie

The steady growth of capacity demand in telecommunication networks has sparked the development of various photonic devices for ultrafast optical signal processing functions to meet the requirements of future flexible fiber networks in general and backbone ...

EPFL2016

Spatial Multiplexing of QPSK Signals With a Single Radio: Antenna Design and Over-the-Air Experiments

Juan Ramon Mosig, Andreas Peter Burg, Julien Perruisseau-Carrier, Mohsen Yousefbeiki, Andrew Charles Mallory Austin

This paper describes the implementation and performance analysis of the first fully operational beam-space multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) antenna for the spatial multiplexing of two QPSK streams. The antenna is composed of a planar three-port radiat ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2016

On the Complexity of Scheduling in Half-Duplex Diamond Networks

Christina Fragouli, Ayfer Özgür Aydin, Siddhartha Brahma

We consider an n-relay Gaussian diamond network where a source communicates to a destination with the help of n half-duplex relays. Achieving rates close to the capacity of this network requires to employ all the n relays under an optimal transmit/receive ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2016

Hybrid NRZ/Multi-Tone Signaling for High-Speed Low-Power Wireline Transceivers

Kiarash Gharibdoust

Over the past few decades, incessant growth of Internet networking traffic and High-Performance Computing (HPC) has led to a tremendous demand for data bandwidth. Digital communication technologies combined with advanced integrated circuit scaling trends h ...

EPFL2016