Publications of Michele Franceschini

Dissertation

• M. Franceschini, “On LDPC-Coded Modulations,” Ph.D. thesis, advisor: Prof. Riccardo Raheli, 2006.

Master’s Thesis

• M. Franceschini, “Analisi delle Prestazioni di Codici a Bassa Densità Mediante Il Metodo dell’Evoluzione della Probabilità” (“LDPC codes performance analysis using the density evolution method”), master thesis, advisor: Prof. Riccardo Raheli, in Italian, 2002.

Refereed Journal Papers

• M. Franceschini, G. Ferrari, R. Raheli, F. Meli and A. Castoldi, “State-complexity reduction in MLSD receivers for optical communications with direct-detection,” IEEE J. Lightwave Tech.. Submitted, September 2007; Revised, November 2007.
• R. Pighi, M. Franceschini, G. Ferrari, and R. Raheli, “Fundamental performance limits of communications systems impaired by impulse noise,” IEEE Trans. Commun., Submitted, July 2006; Revised, May 2007.
• M. Franceschini, G. Ferrari, and R. Raheli, “Detection by multiple trellises,” Accepted for pubblication in IEEE Trans. Commun..
• M. Franceschini, G. Ferrari, R. Raheli, F. Meli, and A. Castoldi, “Post-detection nonlinear distortion for efficient MLSD in optical links,” Optics Express, vol. 15, no. 18, pp. 11750–11755, September 3, 2007.
• M. Franceschini, G. Bongiorni, G. Ferrari, R. Raheli, F. Meli, and A. Castoldi, “Fundamental limits of electronic signal processing in direct-detection optical communications,” IEEE J. Lightwave Tech., vol. 25, no. 7, pp. 1742–1753, July 2007.
• M. Franceschini, G. Ferrari, and R. Raheli, “Does the performance of LDPC codes depend on the channel?,” IEEE Trans. Commun., vol. 54, no. 12, pp. 2129–2132, December 2006.
• M. Franceschini, G. Ferrari, R. Raheli, and G. Bongiorni, “Fundamental limits of electronic dispersion compensation in optical communications with direct photodetection,” IEE Electronics Letters, vol. 42, no. 15, pp. 55–56, 20th July 2006.
• M. Franceschini, G. Ferrari, R. Raheli and A. Curtoni, “Serial concatenation of LDPC codes and differential modulations,” IEEE Journal on Sel. Areas Commun., vol. 23, no. 9, pp. 1758-1768, September 2005.

Refereed Conference Papers

• M. Franceschini, G. Bongiorni, G. Ferrari, and R. Raheli, “Theoretical performance limits of optical DPSK under severe chromatic dispersion,” European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC 2007), Berlin, Germany, September 2007.
• M. Franceschini, G. Ferrari, and R. Raheli, F. Meli and A. Castoldi, “State-complexity reduction in MLSD receivers for direct-detection optical communications,” European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC 2007), Berlin, Germany, September 2007.
• M. Franceschini, R. Pighi, G. Ferrari, and R. Raheli, “From information rate computation to communication system design,” Invited, InformationTheory and Applications Workshop (ITA 2007), UCSD, San Diego, CA, USA, January 2007.
• M. Franceschini, G. Ferrari, and R. Raheli, “LDPC-coded modulations: performance bounds and a novel design criterion,” Proc. 4th InternationalSymposium on Turbo Codes in connection with the 6th International ITG-Conference on Source and Channel Coding, Munich, Germany, April 2006.
• M. Franceschini, G. Ferrari, and R. Raheli, “Design of LDPC-coded modulations for fast iterative decoding,” Proc. 2nd International Symposium on Communications, Control, and Signal Processing (ISCCSP-2006), Marrakech, Morocco, March 2006. Invited paper to Special Session on “Iterative Techniques for Signal Processing.”
• R. Pighi, M. Franceschini, G. Ferrari and R. Raheli, “Fundamental performance limits for PLC systems impaired by impulse noise,” Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Powerline Communications and Its Applications (ISPLC 2006), Orlando, FL, USA, March 2006, pp. 277-282.
• M. Franceschini, G. Ferrari, and R. Raheli, “High-SNR mutual information of dense constellations,” Proc. IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM’05), St. Louis, Missouri, USA, November 2005, pp. 132-136.
• M. Franceschini, G. Ferrari, R. Raheli and A. Curtoni, “A novel class of low-complexity SISO algorithms for phase-uncertain communications,” Proc. IEEE Intern. Symp. Inform. Theory (ISIT’05), Adelaide, Australia, September 2005, pp. 363-367.
• G. Ferrari, M. Franceschini, M. Bellini and R. Raheli, “A low-complexity DQPSK detection algorithm for fading channel,” Proc. Second International Symposium of Wireless Communication Systems 2005 (ISWCS 2005), Main Symposium, Siena, Italy, September 2005.
• M. Franceschini, G. Ferrari, R. Raheli and A. Curtoni, “DMT: an effective approach to phase-uncertain communications,” Proc. IST Mobile andWireless Communications Summit, Dresden, Germany, June 2005.
• M. Franceschini, G. Ferrari, and R. Raheli, “EXIT chart-based design of LDPC codes for inter-symbol interference Channels,” Proc. IST Mobile and Wireless Communications Summit, Dresden, Germany, June 2005.
• M. Franceschini, G. Ferrari, R. Raheli and A. Curtoni, "Serial Concatenation of LDPC Codes and Differentially Encoded Modulations," in Proc. Intern. Symp. on Inform. Theory and its Applications (ISITA’04), Parma, Italy, October 2004, pp. 696–701.
• M. Franceschini, G. Ferrari and R. Raheli, “Does the Performance of LDPC Codes depend on the Channel?,” in Proc. Intern. Symp. on Inform.Theory and its Applications (ISITA’04), Parma, Italy, October 2004, pp. 55–59.

Invited Talks

• M. Franceschini, G. Ferrari, and R. Raheli, “On decoding turbo-like codes under channel uncertainty,” in IEEE Communication Theory Workshop 2004, Capri, Italy, May 2004.