In this paper, we consider an infinite-dimensional phase retrieval problem to reconstruct real-valued signals living in a shift-invariant space from their phaseless samples taken either on the whole line or on a discrete set with finite sampling density. We characterize all phase retrievable signals in a real-valued shift-invariant space using their nonseparability. For nonseparable signals generated by some function with support length L, we show that they can be well approximated, up to a sign, from their noisy phaseless samples taken on a discrete set with sampling density 2L-1 . In this paper, we also propose an algorithm with linear computational complexity to reconstruct nonseparable signals in a shift-invariant space from their phaseless samples corrupted by bounded noises.
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A Simple Family of Non-Linear Analog Codes
We propose novel non-linear graph-based analog codes that directly encode k real-valued source samples into n real-valued samples by using (non-linear) sample-by-sample soft quantization of the input samples followed by a linear transformation on the soft-quantized values. Different from existing analog coding schemes, the proposed analog codes are able to produce additional output symbols in a rateless manner and can be decoded utilizing message passing algorithms dealing with real-valued nodes, achieving a performance close to the theoretical limits.
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- Award ID(s):
- 2007754
- PAR ID:
- 10518959
- Publisher / Repository:
- IEEE
- Date Published:
- Journal Name:
- IEEE Communications Letters
- Volume:
- 27
- Issue:
- 11
- ISSN:
- 1089-7798
- Page Range / eLocation ID:
- 2889 to 2893
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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