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last update 2012-05-10 —  Georg Böcherer (geborg@gmail.com)

Talk at Bell Labs of Alcatel-Lucent in Stuttgart

I gave a talk on probabilistic shaping at the Bell Labs of Alcatel-Lucent in Stuttgart. The slides are available here.

Paper at ISIT 2012

The paper An Efficient Algorithm to Calculate BICM Capacity is accepted for presentation at ISIT 2012. This is joint work with F. Altenbach, A. Alvarado, S. Corroy, and R. Mathar. See also BACM for an implementation of the proposed algorithm in Matlab.

Postdoc

April 1, I joined as a postdoc Prof. Kramer's group at the Institute for Communications Engineering at TU Munich.

Talk at the Institute for Communications Engineering, TU München

December 15, 2011 I gave a talk entitled Capacity-Achieving Probabilistic Shaping in Prof. Kramer's group at TU Munich. The first three parts of my slides are available here.

Best Paper Award at ISWCS 2011

My paper Writing on the Facade of RWTH ICT Cubes: Cost Constrained Geometric Huffman Coding won the best paper award at ISWCS 2011. This was a joint work with Fabian Altenbach, Martina Malsbender, and Rudolf Mathar.