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A Maximum-Likelihood-Based Two-User Receiver for LoRa Chirp Spread-Spectrum Modulation

Andreas Peter Burg, Alexios Konstantinos Balatsoukas Stimming, Orion Afisiadis, Joachim Tobias Tapparel

Long Range (LoRa) is an emerging low-power wide-area network technology offering long-range wireless connectivity to Internet of Things (IoT) devices. For energy efficiency reasons, LoRa end nodes implement a nonslotted ALOHA multiple access scheme to tran ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2022

Hardware implementation aspects of polar decoders and ultra high-speed LDPC decoders

Alexios Konstantinos Balatsoukas Stimming

The goal of channel coding is to detect and correct errors that appear during the transmission of information. In the past few decades, channel coding has become an integral part of most communications standards as it improves the energy-efficiency of tran ...

EPFL2016

Dynamic SCL Decoder With Path-Flipping for 5G Polar Codes

Andreas Peter Burg, Alexios Konstantinos Balatsoukas Stimming, Yifei Shen

Since polar were ratified as part of the 5G standard, low-complexity polar decoders with close-to-optimum error-rate performance have received significant attention. Compared to successive cancellation (SC) decoding, both SC list and SC flip decoding can i ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2022

Non-Linear Digital Self-Interference Cancellation for In-Band Full-Duplex Radios Using Neural Networks

Alexios Konstantinos Balatsoukas Stimming

Full-duplex systems require very strong self-interference cancellation in order to operate correctly and a significant part of the self-interference signal is due to non-linear effects created by various transceiver impairments. As such, linear cancellatio ...

IEEE2018

A Standalone FPGA-Based Miner for Lyra2REv2 Cryptocurrencies

Alexios Konstantinos Balatsoukas Stimming, Pascal Giard

Lyra2REv2 is a hashing algorithm that consists of a chain of individual hashing algorithms, and it is used as a proof-of-work function in several cryptocurrencies. The most crucial and exotic hashing algorithm in the Lyra2REv2 chain is a specific instance ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2020

PolarBear: A 28-nm FD-SOI ASIC for Decoding of Polar Codes

Andreas Peter Burg, Alexios Konstantinos Balatsoukas Stimming, Andrea Bonetti, Pascal Giard, Thomas Christoph Müller

Polar codes are a recently proposed class of block codes that provably achieve the capacity of various communication channels. They received a lot of attention as they can do so with low-complexity encoding and decoding algorithms, and they have an explici ...

2017

Baseband and RF hardware impairments in full-duplex wireless systems: experimental characterisation and suppression

Andreas Peter Burg, Alexios Konstantinos Balatsoukas Stimming, Andrew Charles Mallory Austin, Pavle Belanovic

Hardware imperfections can significantly reduce the performance of full-duplex wireless systems by introducing non-idealities and random effects that make it challenging to fully suppress self-interference. Previous research has mostly focused on analysing ...

Hindawi Publishing Corporation2015

Design and Implementation of a Neural Network Aided Self Interference Cancellation Scheme for Full-Duplex Radios

Andreas Peter Burg, Alexios Konstantinos Balatsoukas Stimming, Yann Kurzo

In-band full-duplex systems are able to transmit and receive information simultaneously on the same frequency band. Due to the strong self-interference caused by the transmitter to its own receiver, the use of non-linear digital self interference cancellat ...

IEEE2018

Training Channel Selection for Learning-based 1-bit Precoding in Massive MU-MIMO

Andreas Peter Burg, Alexios Konstantinos Balatsoukas Stimming, Sitian Li

Learning-based algorithms have gained great popularity in communications since they often outperform even carefully engineered solutions by learning from training samples. In this paper, we show that the selection of appropriate training examples can be im ...

IEEE2020

Blind detection of polar codes

Andreas Peter Burg, Alexios Konstantinos Balatsoukas Stimming, Pascal Giard

Polar codes were recently chosen to protect the control channel information in the next-generation mobile communication standard (5G) defined by the 3GPP. As a result, receivers will have to implement blind detection of polar coded frames in order to keep ...

2017

Deep Unfolding for Communications Systems: A Survey and Some New Directions

Alexios Konstantinos Balatsoukas Stimming, Christoph Studer

Deep unfolding is a method of growing popularity that fuses iterative optimization algorithms with tools from neural networks to efficiently solve a range of tasks in machine learning, signal and image processing, and communication systems. This survey sum ...

IEEE2019

Design of LDPC Codes for the Unequal Power Two-User Gaussian Multiple Access Channel

Alexios Konstantinos Balatsoukas Stimming

In this letter, we describe an LDPC code design framework for the unequal power two-user Gaussian multiple access channel using EXIT charts. We show that the sumrate of the LDPC codes designed using our approach can get close to the maximal sum-rate of the ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2018

An Open-Source LoRa Physical Layer Prototype on GNU Radio

Andreas Peter Burg, Alexios Konstantinos Balatsoukas Stimming, Orion Afisiadis, Joachim Tobias Tapparel

LoRa is the proprietary physical layer (PHY) of LoRaWAN, which is a popular Internet-of-Things (IoT) protocol enabling low-power devices to communicate over long ranges. A number of reverse engineering attempts have been published in the last few years tha ...

IEEE2020

ComplexBeat: Breathing Rate Estimation from Complex CSI

Andreas Peter Burg, Alexios Konstantinos Balatsoukas Stimming, Andreas Toftegaard Kristensen, Sitian Li

In this paper, we explore the use of channel state information (CSI) from a WiFi system to estimate the breathing rate of a person in a room. In order to extract WiFi CSI components that are sensitive to breathing, we propose to consider the delay domain c ...

IEEE, ELECTRON DEVICES SOC & RELIABILITY GROUP2021

A Generalized Adjusted Min-Sum Decoder for 5G LDPC Codes: Algorithm and Implementation

Andreas Peter Burg, Alexios Konstantinos Balatsoukas Stimming, Yifei Shen, Yuqing Ren, Hassan Harb

5G New Radio (NR) has stringent demands on both performance and complexity for the design of low-density parity-check (LDPC) decoding algorithms and corresponding VLSI implementations. Furthermore, decoders must fully support the wide range of all 5G NR bl ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2024

On the Advantage of Coherent LoRa Detection in the Presence of Interference

Andreas Peter Burg, Alexios Konstantinos Balatsoukas Stimming, Orion Afisiadis, Joachim Tobias Tapparel, Sitian Li

It has been shown that the coherent detection of long range (LoRa) signals only provides marginal gains of around 0.7 dB on the additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channel. However, ALOHA-based massive Internet-of-Things systems, including LoRa, often ope ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2021

Enabling Complexity-Performance Trade-Offs for Successive Cancellation Decoding of Polar Codes

Andreas Peter Burg, Alexios Konstantinos Balatsoukas Stimming, Georgios Karakonstantis

Polar codes are one of the most recent advancements in coding theory and they have attracted significant interest. While they are provably capacity achieving over various channels, they have seen limited practical applications. Unfortunately, the successiv ...

2014

High-Throughput and Flexible Belief Propagation List Decoder for Polar Codes

Andreas Peter Burg, Alexios Konstantinos Balatsoukas Stimming, Yifei Shen, Yuqing Ren, Andreas Toftegaard Kristensen, Leyu Zhang

Due to its high parallelism, belief propagation (BP)decoding is amenable to high-throughput applications and thusrepresents a promising solution for the ultra-high peak datarate required by future communication systems. To bridge theperformance gap compare ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2024

Fast Low-Complexity Decoders for Low-Rate Polar Codes

Alexios Konstantinos Balatsoukas Stimming, Pascal Giard

Polar codes are capacity-achieving error-correcting codes with an explicit construction that can be decoded with low-complexity algorithms. In this work, we show how the state-of-the-art low-complexity decoding algorithm can be improved to better accommoda ...

2018

LLR-Based Successive Cancellation List Decoding of Polar Codes

Andreas Peter Burg, Alexios Konstantinos Balatsoukas Stimming

We show that successive cancellation list decoding can be formulated exclusively using log-likelihood ratios. In addition to numerical stability, the log-likelihood ratio based formulation has useful properties that simplify the sorting step involved in su ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2015