Publications

Journal Papers

  1. R. Rafie, Susanna E. Rumsey, Stark C. Draper, and F. R. Kschischang, "Soft Demapping of Spherical Codes from Cartesian Powers of PAM Constellations," IEEE JSAC Special Issue on Next‑Generation Optical Communications and Networking, 2025.

  2. R. Rafie and F. R. Kschischang, "Why Constant-Composition Codes Reduce Nonlinear Interference Noise," Journal of Lightwave Technology, 2023.

  3. R. Rafie and F. R. Kschischang, "A Signal-Space Distance Measure for Nondispersive Optical Fiber," IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 67, no. 9, pp. 5903-5921, Sep. 2021.

  4. R. Rafie, M. Noori, and M. Ardakani, "Maximizing Data Rate for Multiway Relay Channels with Pairwise Transmission Strategy," IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 16, no. 3, pp. 1609-1618, Mar 2017.

  5. R. Rafie and M. Ardakani, "A New Class of Rateless Codes Based on Reed-Solomon Codes," IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 64, no. 1, pp. 49-58, Nov. 2015.

  6. P. Karimian, R. Rafie, and M. Ardakani, "On Network Coding for Funnel Networks" IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 19, no. 11, pp. 1897-1900, Nov. 2015.

  7. R. Rafie and M. Ardakani, "Fountain Code Design for the Y-network," IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 19, no. 5, pp. 703–706, May 2015.

Conference Papers

  1. R. Rafie and F. R. Kschischang, "Nonlinear Interference Noise of Constant-Composition Codes," in Proc. European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC), Basel, Switzerland, 2022.

  2. R. Rafie and F. R. Kschischang, "Channel Matching: An Adaptive Technique to Increase the Accuracy of Soft Decisions," in Proc. Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC), San Francisco, CA, USA, 2021.

  3. R. Rafie and F. R. Kschischang, "A Variational Signal-Space Distance Measure for Nondispersive Optical Fiber," in Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Paris, France, 2019.

  4. R. Rafie and F. R. Kschischang, "A Bounded-Noise Model for Nondispersive Optical Fiber," in Proc. 16th Canadian Workshop on Information Theory (CWIT), Hamilton, ON, Canada, 2019.

  5. R. Rafie, M. Noori, and M. Ardakani, "On the Achievable Rates of Pairwise Multiway Relay Channels," in Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Honolulu, HI, USA, 2014, pp. 2719–2723.