DIMACS Workshop on Network Information Theory

March 17-19, 2003
DIMACS Center, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ

Organizers:

Piyush Gupta, Bell Laboratories, pgupta@research.bell-labs.com

Gerhard Kramer, Bell Laboratories, gkr@research.bell-labs.com

Adriaan J. van Wijngaarden, Bell Laboratories, alw@research.bell-labs.com

Workshop Program:

Monday March 17, 2003

 8:15 - 8:45   Registration and Breakfast

 8:45 - 9:00   Welcome and Greetings:
               Alexander Barg, DIMACS Acting Associate Director
               Piyush Gupta, Gerhard Kramer, Adriaan van Wijngaarden, workshop organizers

 9:00 - 9:50   James L. Massey, University of Lund, Sweden, ETH Zurich (emeritus), Switzerland
               Network Information Theory - Some Tentative Definitions

 9:50 - 10:30  Prakash Narayan, University of Maryland, College Park
               Common Randomness and Secret Key Capacities
               (joint work with Imre Csiszar)

10:30 - 11:00  Break

11:00 - 11:40  Michael Gastpar, University of California, Berkeley
               On Source-Channel Communication in Networks

11:40 - 12:20  Ralf Koetter, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
               Code Realizations for Networks

12:20 - 1:30   Lunch

 1:30 - 2:20   P.R. Kumar, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
               Wireless Network Information Theory
               (joint work with L-L. Xie)  

 2:20 - 3:00   Leandros Tassiulas, University of Maryland, College Park
               Fundamental Limits and Quality of Service Provisioning in
                 Wireless Networks

 3:00 - 3:30   Break

 3:30 - 4:10   Suhas Diggavi, AT&T Research, Florham Park
               Diversity Embedding: A multi-terminal approach to
                 multiple-antenna communications
               (joint work with Naofal Al-Dhahir and A R. Calderbank)

 4:10 - 4:50   R. Srikant, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
               The Timing Capacity of Single-server Queues with
                 Multiple Input and Output Terminals
               (joint work with Xin Liu)

 4:50 - 5:30   Sergio Servetto, Cornell University
               The Reachback Channel in Wireless Sensor Networks

 5:30 - 6:30   Wine and Cheese


Tuesday March 18, 2003

 8:15 - 9:00   Registration and Breakfast

 9:00 - 9:50   Jack Wolf, University of California, San Diego
               An Information Theoretic Approach to Bit Stuffing for
                  Network Protocols

 9:50 - 10:30  Ram Zamir, MIT/Tel Aviv University, Israel
               The Rate Loss in Writing on Dirty Paper
               (joint work with Aaron Cohen)

10:30 - 11:00  Break

11:00 - 11:40  Michelle Effros, California Institute of Technology
               Network Coding: A Unified Framework for Source Coding,
                 Channel Coding, and Routing in Networks
               (joint work with Muriel Medard, Tracey Ho, David Karger, Ralf Koetter)

11:40 - 12:20  Sandeep Pradhan, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
               A Comprehensive View of Duality in Multi-user
                 Source and Channel Coding

12:20 -  1:30  Lunch

 1:30 -  2:20  Venkat Anantharam, University of California, Berkeley
               A Game Theoretic Look at the Gaussian Multiaccess Channel
               (joint work with Richard J. La)

 2:20 -  3:00  Elza Erkip, Brooklyn Polytechnic University
               Cooperative Communications in Wireless Systems
               (joint work with Behnaam Aazhang, Andrew Sendonaris and Andrej Stefanov)

 3:00 -  3:30  Break

 3:30 -  4:10  Edmund Yeh, Yale University
               Throughput and Delay Optimal Resource Allocation in Multiple
                Access Fading Channels

 4:10 -  4:50  Serap Savari, Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies
               Compressing a Representation of Events in a Concurrent System

 4:50 -  5:30  Raman Venkataramani, Harvard University, Cambridge
               Multiple Description Coding with Many Channels

 5:30 -  6:30  Wine and Cheese


Wednesday March 19, 2003

 8:15 -  9:00  Registration and Breakfast

 9:00 -  9:50  Sergio Verdú, Princeton University
               Large Random Matrices and Wireless Channels

 9:50 - 10:30  Pramod Viswanath, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
               Sum Rate of Gaussian Multiterminal Source Coding

10:30 - 11:00  Break

11:00 - 11:40  Daniela Tuninetti, EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland
               On Two-user Fading Gaussian Broadcast Channels with Perfect
               Channel State Information at the Receivers
               (joint work with Shlomo Shamai (Shitz))

11:40 - 12:20  Wei Yu, University of Toronto, Canada
               The Structure of the Worst Noise in Gaussian Vector Broadcast Channels

12:20 -  1:30  Lunch

 1:30 -  2:20  Anthony Ephremides, University of Maryland, College Park
               Source Coding and Parallel Routing
            
 2:20 -  3:00  Frans Willems, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
               Coding Theorems for Reversible Embedding

 3:00 -  3:30  Break

 3:30 -  4:10  Emre Telatar, EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland
               Job Scheduling and Multiple Access

 4:10 -  4:50  Sekhar Tatikonda, Yale University
               Feedback Capacity for Markov Channels

 4:50 -  5:30  Emina Soljanin, Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies
               Hybrid ARQ in Wireless Networks

 5:30 -  5:35  Closing
            

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