Boris Karanov, Ph.D.

Boris Karanov, Ph.D.

  • Hertzstr. 16
    76187 Karlsruhe

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Full List of Publications

Journal papers

  1. B. Karanov, "Towards robust end-to-end neural network-based transceivers for short reach fiber links," Optical Fiber Technology, vol. 90, no. 104069, Mar. 2025, invited paper
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  2. L. V. Fiorio, B. Karanov, B. Defraene, J. David, F. Widdershoven, W. van Houtum and R. M. Aarts, "Spectral masking with explicit time-context windowing for neural network-based monaural speech enhancement," IEEE Access, 2024, early access
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  3. F. Ferreira, E. Sillekens, B. Karanov and R. Killey, "Digital back propagation via sub-band processing in spatial multiplexing systems," J. Lightw. Technol., vol. 39, no. 4, pp. 1020-1026, Feb. 2021
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  4. B. Karanov, D. Lavery, P. Bayvel and L. Schmalen, "End-to-end optimized transmission over dispersive intensity-modulated channels using bidirectional recurrent neural networks," Optics Express, vol. 27, no. 14, pp. 19650–19663, Jul. 2019, https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.08570
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  5. Z. Liu, B. Karanov, L. Galdino, J. R. Hayes, D. Lavery, K. Clark, B. C. Thomsen, K. Shi, D. Elson, M. Petrovich, D. J. Richardson, F. Poletti, R. Slavik and P. Bayvel, "Nonlinearity-free coherent transmission in hollow-core antiresonant fiber," J. Lightw. Technol., vol. 37, no. 3, pp. 909-916, Feb. 2019
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  6. B. Karanov, M. Chagnon, F. Thouin, T. Eriksson, H. Bülow, D. Lavery, P. Bayvel and L. Schmalen, "End-to-end deep learning of optical fiber communications," J. Lightw. Technol., vol. 36, no. 20, pp. 4843–4855, Oct. 2018, https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.04097
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  7. T. Xu, B. Karanov, N. A. Shevchenko, D. Lavery, G. Liga, R. Killey and P. Bayvel, "igital nonlinearity compensation in high-capacity optical communication systems considering signal spectral broadening effect," Scientific Reports, vol. 7, no. 1, Oct. 2017
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  8. B. Karanov, T. Xu, N. A. Shevchenko, D. Lavery, R. Killey and P. Bayvel, "Span length and information rate optimisation in optical communication systems using single-channel digital backpropagation," Optics Express, vol. 25, no. 21, pp. 25353-25362, 2017
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Book chapters

  1. B. Karanov, P. Bayvel and L. Schmalen, "Machine learning for short reach optical fiber systems," in A. P. T. Lau and F. N. Khan (eds.), Machine Learning for Future Fiber-optic Communication Systems, pp. 65-90, Academic Press, Mar. 2022
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Conference papers

  1. C.-H. Chen, B. Karanov, I. Nikoloska, W. van Houtum, Y. Wu and A. Alvarado, "Modified Baum-Welch algorithm for joint blind channel estimation and turbo equalization," Proc. Intl. ITG Conf. on Systems, Communications, and Coding (SCC), Karlsruhe, Germany, Mar. 2025
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  2. C.-H. Chen, W.-H. Huang, B. Karanov, A. Young, Y. Wu and W. van Houtum, "Analysis of impulsive interference in digital audio broadcasting systems in electric vehicles," Proc. 44th Symposium on Information Theory and Signal Processing in the Benelux, 2024
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  3. C.-H. Chen, B. Karanov, W. van Houtum, W. Yan, A. Young and A. Alvarado, "On the robustness of deep learning-aided symbol detectors to varying conditions and imperfect channel knowledge," Proc. IEEE Wireless Commun. and Networking Conf. (WCNC), 2024
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  4. L. V. Fiorio, B. Karanov, J. David, W. van Houtum, F. Widdershoven and R. M. Aarts, "Semi-supervised learning with per-class adaptive confidence scores for acoustic environment classification with imbalanced data," Proc. Int. Conf. Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Process. (ICASSP), Rhodes, Greence, Jun. 2023
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  5. V. Oliari, B. Karanov, S. Goossens, G. Liga, O. Vassilieva, I. Kim, P. Palacharla, C. Okonkwo and A. Alvarado, "Hybrid geometric and probabilistic shaping; is it really necessary?," Proc. Advanced Photonic Congress: Signal Processing in Photonic Communications (SPPCom), pp. SpTu1J.4, Jul. 2022
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  6. E. Sillekens, W. Yi, D. Semrau, A. Ottino, B. Karanov, D. Lavery, L. Galdino, P. Bayvel, R. I. Killey, S. Zhou, K. Law and J. Chen, "Time-domain learned digital back-propagation," Proc. IEEE Workshop Signal Process. Syst. (SiPS), Coimbra, Portugal, Oct. 2021
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  7. B. Karanov, L. Schmalen and A. Alvarado, "Distance-Agnostic Auto-Encoders for Short Reach Fiber Communications," Proc. Opt. Fiber Commun. Conf. (OFC), pp. Tu5D.1, San Francisco, CA, USA, Jun. 2021
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  8. B. Karanov, P. Bayvel and L. Schmalen, "End-to-end learning in optical fiber communications: concept and transceiver design," Proc. Eur. Conf. Opt. Commun. (ECOC), Brussels, Belgium, Dec. 2020
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  9. B. Karanov, V. Oliari, M. Chagnon, G. Liga, A. Alvarado, V. Aref, D. Lavery, P. Bayvel and L. Schmalen, "End-to-end learning in optical fiber communications: experimental demonstration and future trends," Proc. Eur. Conf. Opt. Commun. (ECOC), Brussels, Belgium, Dec. 2020
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  10. B. Karanov, M. Chagnon, V. Aref, F. Ferreira, D. Lavery, P. Bayvel and L. Schmalen, "Experimental Investigation of Deep Learning for Digital Signal Processing in Short Reach Optical Fiber Communications," Proc. IEEE Workshop Signal Process. Syst. (SiPS), Coimbra, Portugal, Oct. 2020, https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.08790
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  11. T. Xu, J. Ding, Y. Liu, W. Hu, B. Karanov, N. A. Shevchenko, Z. Li and T. Liu, "Influence of spectral broadening on nonlinearity compensation in ultra-wideband optical fiber communications," Proc. International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), Oct. 2020
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  12. B. Karanov, M. Chagnon, V. Aref, D. Lavery, P. Bayvel and L. Schmalen, "Optical Fiber Communication Systems Based on End-to-End Deep Learning," IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC), Vancouver, Canada, Sep. 2020, https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.08785
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  13. B. Karanov, M. Chagnon, V. Aref, D. Lavery, P. Bayvel and L. Schmalen, "Concept and experimental demonstration of optical IM/DD end-to-end system optimization using a generative model," Proc. Opt. Fiber Commun. Conf. (OFC), pp. Th2A.48, San Diego, CA, USA, Mar. 2020, https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.05146
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  14. B. Karanov, G. Liga, V. Aref, D. Lavery, P. Bayvel and L. Schmalen, "Deep learning for communication over dispersive nonlinear channels: performance and comparison with classical digital signal processing," Proc. Allerton Annu. Conf. Commun. Control Comp., pp. 192–199, Monticello, IL, USA, Nov. 2019, https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.01028
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  15. M. Chagnon, B. Karanov and L. Schmalen, "Experimental demonstration of a dispersion tolerant end-to-end deep learning-based IM-DD transmission system," Proc. Eur. Conf. Opt. Commun. (ECOC), pp. Tu4F.6, Rome, Italy, Sep. 2018
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  16. T. Xu, B. Karanov, N. A. Shevchenko, D. Lavery, G. Liga, Z. Li, D. Jia, L. Li, L. Kanthan, R. I. Killey and P. Bayvel, "Spectral broadening effects in optical communication networks: impact and security issue," Proc. International Conference on Advanced Infocomm Technology (ICAIT), Stockholm, Sweden, Aug. 2018
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  17. B. Karanov, T. Xu, N. A. Shevchenko, D. Lavery, G. Liga, R. Killey and P. Bayvel, "Digital nonlinearity compensation considering signal spectral broadening effects in dispersion-managed systems," Proc. Opt. Fiber Commun. Conf. (OFC), pp. W2A.58, San Diego, CA, USA, Mar. 2018
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  18. T. Xu, B. Karanov, N. A. Shevchenko, D. Lavery, G. Liga, R. Killey and P. Bayvel, "Digital nonlinearity compensation in high-capacity optical fibre communication systems: performance and optimisation," Proc. Advances in Wireless and Optical Communications (RTUWO), Riga, Latvia, Nov. 2017
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  19. T. Xu, N. A. Shevchenko, B. Karanov, D. Lavery, L.Galdino, A. Alvarado, R. Killey and P. Bayvel, "Nonlinearity compensation and information rates in fully-loaded C-band optical fibre transmission systems," Proc. Eur. Conf. Opt. Commun. (ECOC), pp. We4F.1, Gothenburg, Sweden, Sep. 2017
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  20. Z. Liu, L. Galdino, J. R. Hayes, D. Lavery, B. Karanov, K. Shi, D. Elson, B. C. Thomsen, M. Petrovich, D. J. Richardson, F. Poletti, R. Slavik and P. Bayvel, "Record high capacity (6.8 Tbit/s) WDM coherent transmission in hollow-core antiresonant fiber," Proc. Opt. Fiber Commun. Conf. (OFC), pp. Th5B.8, Los Angeles, CA, USA, Mar. 2017
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  21. M. Hiraoka, T. Nagashima, B. Karanov, G. Cincotti, S. Shimizu, T. Murakawa, M. Hasegawa, K. Hattori, M. Okuno, S. Mino, A. Himeno, N. Wada, H. Uenohara and . T. Konishi}, "Optical serial-to-parallel conversion based on fractional OFDM scheme," Proc. Opto-Electron. Commun. Conf. (OECC), Niigata, Japan, 2016
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