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R. David Koilpillai

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Selective Interference Suppression of Siamese-Net in Heterogeneous Interference Channels

We study an end-to-end learnt short-block codes for a $N$-user real Gaussian interference channel with heterogeneous pairwise interference strengths, while keeping single-user decoding at every receiver. In this paper, we study the case wherein only a few dominant interferers exist and investigate whether Siamese-style coupled training can adapt selectively to encode (\& decode) to ensure optimal performance corresponding to best tradeoff between orthogonality and coding gain or it enforces unnecessary global orthogonality oblivious of the reality. Our work focuses on a 4-user unequal-interference configuration with one dominant pair $(1,2)$ (of strength $Λ$) and a weak pair (with weak background coupling ($λ$)), through which we demonstrate a selective interference suppression phenomenon where the learned codebooks become near-orthogonal primarily for the dominant pair, while weakly coupled pairs retain alignment needed for coding gain. We quantify this behaviour using latent-space cross-user similarity statistics (worst-case coherence measure, average similarity measure, etc) and connect these geometric signatures to the observed BLER robustness under unequal interference. It seems that the SiameseNet selectively suppresses the interferences from various interferring user pairs to yield optimal tradeoff between coding gain and BLER dictated by orthogonality.

cs.IT↗

Learning Robust Representations for Communications over Noisy Channels

We explore the use of FCNNs (Fully Connected Neural Networks) for designing end-to-end communication systems without taking any inspiration from existing classical communications models or error control coding. This work relies solely on the tools of information theory and machine learning. We investigate the impact of using various cost functions based on mutual information and pairwise distances between codewords to generate robust representations for transmission under strict power constraints. Additionally, we introduce a novel encoder structure inspired by the Barlow Twins framework. Our results show that iterative training with randomly chosen noise power levels while minimizing block error rate provides the best error performance.

cs.LG↗

A Nano-satellite Mission to Study Charged Particle Precipitation from the Van Allen Radiation Belts caused due to Seismo-Electromagnetic Emissions

In the past decade, several attempts have been made to study the effects of seismo-electromagnetic emissions - an earthquake precursor, on the ionosphere and the radiation belts. The IIT Madras nano-satellite (IITMSAT) mission is designed to make sensitive measurements of charged particle fluxes in a Low Earth Orbit to study the nature of charged particle precipitation from the Van Allen radiation belts caused due to such emissions. With the Space-based Proton Electron Energy Detector on-board a single nano-satellite, the mission will attempt to gather statistically significant data to verify possible correlations with seismo-electromagnetic emissions before major earthquakes.

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