IZS 2010 Conference Program

Tuesday, March 2

Wednesday, March 3

Thursday, March 4

Friday, March 5

All talks in invited sessions are 25 min. All other talks are 20 min.

Keynote Lecture (Wednesday 09:00 - 10:00)

• Frans Willems
Source Codes, Semantic Codes, and Search Codes

Session 1 (Wednesday 10:30 - 13:00)
Invited Session by Yossi Steinberg

• C. Nair, V. Jog, and Z. Wang
A Note on Outer Bounds for Two-Receiver Broadcast Channels via the BSSC Channel
• P. Narayan, S. Nitinawarat, C. Ye, A. Barg, and A. Reznik
Secrecy Generation and Tree Packing
• E. Perron, S. Diggavi, and E. Telatar
On Information-Theoretic Secrecy for Wireless Networks
• Y.-H. Kim
Directed Information: Old and New
• G. Kramer, S. T. Yazdi, and S. A. Savari
Refined Edge-Cut Bounds for Network Coding
• A. Lapidoth and Y. Steinberg
The Multiple Access Channel with Causal and Strictly Causal Side Information at the Encoders

Session 2 (Wednesday 14:30 - 15:50): Shannon Theory
Chaired by Young-Han Kim

• Y. Chen and A. J. Han Vinck
On the Binary Symmetric Wiretap Channel
• B. N. Vellambi and R. Timo
Multi-Terminal Source Coding: Can Zero-Rate Encoders Enlarge the Rate Region?
• C. Hucher and P. Sadeghi
Mismatched Decoding for the Relay Channel
• E. Abbe and E. Telatar
Polar Codes for the m-User MAC and Matroids

Session 3 (Wednesday 16:20 - 17:40): Information Transfer
Chaired by Joseph Boutros

• Y. T. Sagar, H. M. Kwon, and Y. Ding
Capacity of a Modulo-Sum Simple Relay Network
• H. Soleimany, A. Sharifi, M. Aref
Improved Related-Key Impossible Differential Attacks on 8-Round AES-256
• S. Loyka, V. Kostina, and F. Gagnon
Bit Error Rate is Convex at High SNR
• D. Truhachev
Multi-Stream Information Transmission Over Interference Channels

Keynote Lecture (Thursday 09:00 - 10:00)

• Frank Kschischang
An Algebraic Approach to Physical Layer Network Coding

Session 4 (Thursday 10:30 - 12:35)
Invited Session by Elza Erkip

• G. Middleton and B. Aazhang
Polynomial-Time Resource Allocation in Large Multiflow Wireless Networks with Cooperative Links
• S. I. Bross, Y. Steinberg, and S. Tinguely
The Causal Cognitive Interference Channel
• S. Rini, D. Tuninetti, and N. Devroye
State of the Cognitive Interference Channel: A New Unified Inner Bound
• O. Simeone, E. Erkip, and S. Shamai (Shitz)
Oblivious Relaying for Primitive Interference Relay Channels
• A. Lozano and N. Jindal
Are Yesterday's Fading Models and Performance Metrics Adequate for Today's Wireless Systems?

Session 5 (Thursday 14:00 - 15:40): Wireless Communication
Chaired by Angel Lozano

• V. Gardašević, R. R. Müller, and G. E. Øien
Hopfield Neural Networks for Vector Precoding
• A. Schenk and R. F. H. Fischer
Multiple-Symbol-Detection-Based Noncoherent Receivers for Impulse-Radio Ultra-Wideband
• M. Dörpinghaus, A. Ispas, G. Ascheid, and H. Meyr
On the Gain of Joint Processing of Pilot and Data Symbols in Stationary Rayleigh Fading Channels
• M. Torbatian and M. O. Damen
Outage Analysis of Asynchronous OFDM Non-orthogonal DF Cooperative Networks
• A. Steiner, S. Shamai (Shitz), V. Lupu, and U. Katz
Multi-Layer Coded Direct Sequence CDMA

Session 6 (Thursday 16:10 - 17:50): Coding
Chaired by Emanuele Viterbo

• M. Huber
Constructing Optimal Authentication Codes with Perfect Multi-fold Secrecy
• U. Sorger and A. Heim
Generalizing the Transfer in Iterative Error Correction: Dissection Decoding
• I. Andriyanova, J. J. Boutros, E. Biglieri, and D. Declercq
Block Error Performance of Root-LDPC Codes
• J. G. Knudsen, C. Riera, L. E. Danielsen, M. G. Parker, and E. Rosnes
On Iterative Decoding of HDPC Codes Using Weight-Bounding Graph Operations
• V. R. Sidorenko, M. Bossert, and E. M. Gabidulin
Generalized Minimum Distance Decoding for Correcting Array Errors

Keynote Lecture (Friday 09:00 - 10:00)

• Gregory Wornell
On the Sufficiency of Ignorance: Recent Lessons in Communication System Architecture

Session 7 (Friday 10:30 - 12:35)
Invited Session by Pascal Vontobel

• J. J. Boutros
Low Density Lattices for Fading Channels
• C. Stierstorfer, R. F. H. Fischer, and J. B. Huber
Optimizing BICM with Convolutional Codes for Transmission over the AWGN Channel
• R. Urbanke
TBA
• S. K. Mohammed, E. Viterbo, Yi Hong, and A. Chockalingam
X-Codes
• A. G. Dimakis, R. Smarandache, and P. O. Vontobel
Channel Coding LP Decoding and Compressed Sensing LP Decoding: Further Connections

Session 8 (Friday 14:00 - 16:05)
Invited Session by David Gesbert

• O. Simeone, E. Erkip, and S. Shamai (Shitz)
Achievable Rates for Multicell Systems with Femtocells and Network MIMO
• R. Zakhour and D. Gesbert
On the Value of Data Sharing in Constrained-Backhaul Network MIMO
• S. W. Peters and R. W. Heath Jr.
Orthogonalization to Reduce Overhead in MIMO Interference Channels
• E. A. Jorswieck
Beamforming in Interference Networks: Multicast, MISO IFC and Secrecy Capacity
• J. Brehmer and W. Utschick
Optimal Interference Management in Multi-Antenna, Multi-Cell Systems