M. Sc. Florian Wäckerle

Research

Research Interests

  • Fiber-Optic Communications

Publications

Book Chapter

  • Florian Wäckerle and Robert F.H. Fischer, "Soft-Decision Decoding for Nonlinear Fiber-Optic Channels: Parametric vs. Non-Parametric Models", In 1st International IEEE Conference on Advances in Wireless and Optical Communications, A. Aboltins, Ed., RTU Press, pp. 75-90, 2015.

Conferences

  • Werner G. Teich, Mennatallah A. Ibrahim, Florian Wäckerle, and Robert F.H. Fischer, "Equalization for Fiber-Optic Transmission Systems: Low-Complexity Iterative Implementations", In 17th ITG-Fachtagung Photonische Netze, Leipzig, Germany, 2016 (accepted).
  • Florian Wäckerle, Robert F.H. Fischer, Dennis Clausen, and Roi Rath, "Decoding Metrics for Multistage Bit-Wise Coded Modulation in Optical Communications", In Proc. Advances in Wireless and Optical Communications (RTUWO), Riga, Latvia, 2015 PDF
  • Florian Wäckerle and Robert F.H. Fischer, "Multistage Bit-Wise Receivers for 4D Modulation Formats in Optical Communications", In Proc. 10th International ITG Conference on Systems, Communications, and Coding (SCC), Hamburg, Germany, 2015 PDF
  • Florian Wäckerle, Sebastian Stern, and Robert F.H. Fischer, "Iterative Bit and Power Loading for Coherent Optical OFDM to Account for Fiber Nonlinearities", In Proc. 39th European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC), London, UK, 2013 PDF
  • Robert F.H. Fischer and Florian Wäckerle, "Peak-to-Average Power Ratio Reduction in OFDM via Sparse Signals: Transmitter-Side Tone Reservation vs. Receiver-Side Compressed Sensing", In Proceedings of 17th International OFDM Workshop (InOWo), Essen, Germany, 2012 PDF

Master Thesis

  • Compressed Sensing for Peak-to-Average Power Ratio Reduction in OFDM

Awards

  • 2012: Best Paper Award for "Peak-to-Average Power Ratio Reduction in OFDM via Sparse Signals: Transmitter-Side Tone Reservation vs. Receiver-Side Compressed Sensing" at 17th International OFDM Workshop
  • 2012: The "ARGUS" research award for outstanding Master thesis

Communications Engineering

Statistical Signal Processing

Iterative Methods for Wireless Communications

Open Topics

  • Upon request

Completed

  • Joint Optimization of Labeling and Partitioning in Multi-Stage Bit-Wise Coded Modulation
  • Adaptive diskrete Mehrtonübertragung für nichtlineare optische Kanäle mit Direktempfang
  • Cycle-Slip-Robust Fiber-Optic Communications Using Rotationally Invariant Codes
  • Efficient implementation of the split-step Fourier method using graphics processors
  • Assessment of Peak-to-Average Power Ratio Reduction Schemes Utilizing Receiver-Side Reconstruction via Compressed Sensing

Research Assistant

M.Sc. Florian Wäckerle

Florian Wäckerle
M.Sc. Florian Wäckerle
Ulm University
Institute of Communications Engineering
Albert-Einstein-Allee 43
89081 Ulm
DE