End-to-End DAE–LDPC–OFDM Transceiver with Learned Belief Propagation Decoder for Robust and Power-Efficient Wireless Communication

TL;DR

This paper introduces a new wireless communication system that uses a learned decoder to improve performance, efficiency, and adaptability in various channel conditions.

Contribution

The novelty lies in integrating a learned belief propagation decoder with an end-to-end optimized transceiver for robust and power-efficient communication.

Findings

The system achieves a BER of 1.72% and BLER of 2.95% at 10 dB SNR, outperforming existing models by 25–42%.

It reduces PAPR by 26.6%, improving power amplifier efficiency and maintaining low inference latency of 3.9 ms per frame.

The design performs reliably in time-varying, interference-rich, and multipath fading channels.

Abstract

This paper presents a Deep Autoencoder–LDPC–OFDM (DAE–LDPC–OFDM) transceiver architecture that integrates a learned belief propagation (BP) decoder to achieve robust, energy-efficient, and adaptive wireless communication. Unlike conventional modular systems that treat encoding, modulation, and decoding as independent stages, the proposed framework performs end-to-end joint optimization of all components, enabling dynamic adaptation to varying channel and noise conditions. The learned BP decoder introduces trainable parameters into the iterative message-passing process, allowing adaptive refinement of log-likelihood ratio (LLR) statistics and enhancing decoding accuracy across diverse SNR regimes. Extensive experimental results across multiple datasets and channel scenarios demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed design. At 10 dB SNR, the DAE–LDPC–OFDM achieves a BER of 1.72% and BLER of 2.95%, outperforming state-of-the-art models such as Transformer–OFDM, CNN–OFDM, and GRU–OFDM by 25–30%, and surpassing traditional LDPC–OFDM systems by 38–42% across all tested datasets. The system also achieves a PAPR reduction of 26.6%, improving transmitter power amplifier efficiency, and maintains a low inference latency of 3.9 ms per frame, validating its suitability for real-time applications. Moreover, it maintains reliable performance under time-varying, interference-rich, and multipath fading channels, confirming its robustness in realistic wireless environments. The results establish the DAE–LDPC–OFDM as a high-performance, power-efficient, and scalable architecture capable of supporting the demands of 6G and beyond, delivering superior reliability, low-latency performance, and energy-efficient communication in next-generation intelligent networks.

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