Below a selected list of publications. For a more complete list, see google scholar. I provide slides of selected talks on a separate page.

Preprints

G. Böcherer, Achievable Rates for Probabilistic Shaping.

Thesis

Habilitation thesis, 2018, Principles of Coded Modulation.
PhD thesis, 2012, Capacity Achieving Probabilistic Shaping for Noisy and Noiseless Channels.
Master’s thesis, 2007, Analytic Asymptotics of Discrete Noiseless Channels.

Selected Papers

G Böcherer, P Schulte, F Steiner, Probabilistic Shaping and Forward Error Correction for Fiber-Optic Communication Systems, J. Lightw. Technol., vol. 37, no. 2, pp. 230–244, Jan. 2019.
F Steiner, P Schulte, G Böcherer, Approaching waterfilling capacity of parallel channels by higher order modulation and probabilistic amplitude shaping, 52nd Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS), 2018.
G. Böcherer, Tobias Prinz, Peihong Yuan, Fabian Steiner, Efficient Polar Code Construction for Higher-Order Modulation, presented at WCNC 2017.
F. Steiner, G. Böcherer, Comparison of Geometric and Probabilistic Shaping with Application to ATSC 3.0, presented at SCC 2017.
F. Buchali, F. Steiner, G. Böcherer, L. Schmalen, P. Schulte, W. Idler, Rate Adaptation and Reach Increase by Probabilistically Shaped 64-QAM: An Experimental Demonstration, J. Lightw. Technol., vol. 34, no. 7, 2016.
G. Böcherer, B. C. Geiger, Optimal Quantization for Distribution Synthesis, IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, vol. 62, no. 11, pp. 6162-6172, 2016.
F. Steiner, G. Böcherer, G. Liva, Protograph-Based LDPC Code Design for Shaped Bit-Metric Decoding, IEEE J. Sel. Areas Commun., vol. 34, no. 2, pp. 397-407, 2016.
P. Schulte, G. Böcherer, Constant Composition Distribution Matching, IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, vol. 62, no. 1, 2016.
G. Böcherer, F. Steiner, P. Schulte, Bandwidth Efficient and Rate-Matched Low-Density Parity-Check Coded Modulation, IEEE Trans. Commun., vol. 63, no. 12, pp. 4651-4665, 2015.
G. Böcherer, Labeling Non-Square QAM Constellations for One-Dimensional Bit-Metric Decoding, IEEE Commun. Lett., vol. 18, no. 9, pp. 1515-1518, 2014.
G. Böcherer and R. A. Amjad, Informational Divergence and Entropy Rate on Rooted Trees with Probabilities, presented at ISIT 2014.
R. A. Amjad and G. Böcherer, Fixed-to-Variable Length Distribution Matching, presented at ISIT 2013.
G. Böcherer and R. Mathar, Operating LDPC Codes with Zero Shaping Gap, presented at ITW 2011, Paraty
G. Böcherer and R. Mathar, Matching Dyadic Distributions to Channels, presented at DCC 2011, Snowbird.
G. Böcherer, V.C. da Rocha Jr., C. Pimentel, and R. Mathar, On the Capacity of Constrained Systems, presented at SCC 2010, Siegen.