IZS 2016 Conference Program

Tuesday, March 1

Wednesday, March 2

Thursday, March 3

Friday, March 4

All talks are 20 min.

Keynote Lecture (Wednesday 08:30 – 09:30)

• On Decoding Reed-Solomon Codes Beyond Half the Minimum Distance
  Martin Bossert (Universität Ulm)

Session 1: Topics in Shannon Theory (Wednesday 10:00 – 12:00)
Chaired by Yuval Kochman (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

• Channel Detection in Coded Communication
  N. Weinberger, N. Merhav
• A Converse for Lossy Source Coding in the Finite Blocklength Regime
  L. Palzer, R. Timo
• Frequency Hopping does not Increase Anti-Jamming Resilience of Wireless Channels
  M. Wiese, P. Papadimitratos
• Tracking Unstable Autoregressive Sources over Discrete Memoryless Channels
  R. Timo, B. N. Vellambi, A. Grant, K. D. Nguyen
• Strong Converse for General Compound Channels
  S. Loyka, C. D. Charalambous
• Refined Error Probability Approximations in Quasi-Static Erasure Channels
  J. Font-Segura, A. Martinez, A. Guillén i Fàbregas

Session 2: Codes on Graphs and Lattices (Wednesday 13:20 – 15:00)
Invited Session by Joseph J. Boutros (Texas A & M University at Qatar)

• A Deterministic Construction and Density Evolution Analysis for Generalized Product Codes
  C. Häger, H. D. Pfister, A. Graell i Amat, F. Brännström, E. Agrell
• Locally Repairable Codes with Availability and Hierarchy: Matroid Theory via Examples
  R. Freij-Hollanti, T. Westerbäck, C. Hollanti
• Reed-Muller Codes: Thresholds and Weight Distribution
  M. Mondelli, S. Kudekar, S. Kumar, H. D. Pfister, E. Şaşoğlu, R. Urbanke
• From LDPC Codes to LDA Lattices: A Capacity Result
  N. di Pietro, G. Zémor, J. J. Boutros
• Multilevel Coded Modulation and Lattice Construction D
  R. Zamir

Session 3: Wireless Communication (with emphasis on Finite Blocklength Information Theory) (Wednesday 15:30 – 16:50)
Invited Session by Giuseppe Durisi (Chalmers University of Technology)

• Design Considerations for Downlink Broadcast Frame with Short Data Packets
  K. F. Trillingsgaard, P. Popovski
• The Dispersion of Nearest-Neighbor Decoding for Additive Non-Gaussian Channels
  J. Scarlett, V. Y. F. Tan, G. Durisi
• Resource-Aware Incremental Redundancy in Feedback and Broadcast
  R. D. Wesel, K. Vakilinia, S. V. S. Ranganathan, T. Mu, D. Divsalar
• A Beta-Beta Achievability Bound with Applications
  W. Yang, A. Collins, G. Durisi, Y. Polyanskiy, H. V. Poor

Session 4: Privacy and Secrecy (Wednesday 17:00 – 18:00)
Chaired by Roy Timo (Technische Universität München)

• Pairwise Secret Key Agreement based on Location-derived Common Randomness
  S. Salimi, P. Papadimitratos
• Strong Secrecy for Cooperative Broadcast Channels
  Z. Goldfeld, G. Kramer, H. H. Permuter, P. Cuff
• Context Trees for Privacy-Preserving Modeling of Genetic Data
  L. Kusters, T. Ignatenko

Keynote Lecture (Thursday 08:30 – 09:30)

• An Information Theoretic View of Fronthaul-Constrained Cloud Radio Access Networks
  Shlomo Shamai (Shitz) (Technion – Israel Institute of Technology)

Session 5: Communication Techniques (Thursday 10:00 – 12:00)
Chaired by Richard Wesel (University of California, Los Angeles)

• Hybrid DF-CF-DT for Buffer-Aided Relaying
  M. Shaqfeh, A. Zafar, H. Alnuweiri, M.-S. Alouini
• Extended Delivery Time Analysis for Opportunistic Secondary Packet Transmission without Work-preserving
  M. Usman, H.-C. Yang, M.-S. Alouini
• Beamforming towards Regions of Interest for Multi-Site Mobile Networks
  P. Hurley, M. Simeoni
• EXIT Chart Analysis of the UMTS Turbo Code in VLF Channels
  A. Hamilton
• Channel Vector Subspace Estimation from Sample Covariance of Low-Dimensional Projections
  S. Haghighatshoar, G. Caire
• Factorization Approaches in Lattice-Reduction-Aided and Integer-Forcing Equalization
  R. F. H. Fischer, M. Cyran, S. Stern

Session 6: Information Theoretic Security (Thursday 13:20 – 15:00)
Invited Session by Ashish Khisti (University of Toronto)

• Recent Results on Broadcast Networks with Layered Decoding and Secrecy: An Overview
  S. Zou, Y. Liang, L. Lai, H. V. Poor, S. Shamai
• Semantic Security using a Stronger Soft-Covering Lemma
  P. Cuff, Z. Goldfeld, H. H. Permuter
• The Gap to Practical MIMO Wiretap Codes
  A. Khina, Y. Kochman, A. Khisti
• On Secure Broadcasting Over Parallel Channels with Independent Secret Keys
  R. F. Schaefer, A. Khisti, H. V. Poor
• Privacy Preserving Rechargeable Battery Policies for Smart Metering Systems
  S. Li, A. Khisti, A. Mahajan

Session 7: Network Information Theory (Thursday 15:30 – 17:30)
Chaired by Elza Erkip (New York University)

• A Rate-Distortion Approach to Caching
  R. Timo, S. Saeedi Bidokhti, M. Wigger, B. C. Geiger
• Improving on the Cut-Set Bound via a Geometric Analysis of Typical Sets
  X. Wu, A. Özgür
• The Capacity of the State-Dependent Semideterministic Relay Channel
  R. Kolte, A. Özgür, H. H. Permuter
• Random Coding Error Exponents for the Two-User Interference Channel
  W. Huleihel, N. Merhav
• A Necessary and Sufficient Condition for the Asymptotic Tightness of the Shannon Lower Bound
  T. Koch
• Rate-Distortion of a Heegard-Berger Problem with Common Reconstruction Constraint
  M. Benammar, A. Zaidi

Keynote Lecture (Friday 08:30 – 09:30)

• Common Randomness, Querying and Large Probability Sets
  Prakash Narayan (University of Maryland)

Session 8: Coding Techniques (Friday 10:00 – 12:00)
Chaired by Erik Agrell (Chalmers University of Technology)

• On the Burst Erasure Correctability of Spatially Coupled LDPC Ensembles
  N. Rengaswamy, L. Schmalen, V. Aref
• The Fractality of Polar Codes
  B. C. Geiger
• Sampling Algorithms for Lattice Gaussian Codes
  A. Campello, J.-C. Belfiore
• Fixed-Energy Random Coding with Rescaled Codewords at the Transmitter
  D. Fehr, J. Scarlett, A. Martinez
• Quantization and LLR Computation for Physical Layer Security
  O. Graur, N. Islam, A. Filip, W. Henkel
• An Importance Sampling Algorithm for the Ising Model with Strong Couplings
  M. Molkaraie

Session 9: Shannon Theory (Friday 13:20 – 15:00)
Invited Session by Anelia Somekh-Baruch (Bar-Ilan University)

• Capacity Scaling Bounds in Wideband Cellular Networks
  F. Gómez-Cuba, S. Rangan, E. Erkip, F. J. González-Castaño
• On the Secrecy Capacity of the Z-Interference Channel
  R. Bustin, M. Vaezi, R. F. Schaefer, H. V. Poor
• Two Applications of the Gaussian Poincaré Inequality in the Shannon Theory
  S. L. Fong, V. Y. F. Tan
• Cooperation Strategies for the Broadcast and Multiple Access Channels
  Y. Steinberg
• Mismatched Decoding: DMC and General Channels
  A. Somekh-Baruch

Session 10: Hypothesis Testing and Converse Bounds (Friday 15:30 – 16:50)
Invited Session by Albert Guillén i Fàbregas (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona)

• Classical and Classical-Quantum Sphere Packing Bounds: Rényi vs Kullback and Leibler
  M. Dalai
• Converses from Non-Signalling Codes and their Relationship to Converses from Hypothesis Testing
  W. Matthews
• Combining Detection with Other Tasks of Information Processing
  N. Merhav
• Hypothesis Testing and Quasi-Perfect Codes
  G. Vazquez-Vilar, A. Guillén i Fàbregas, S. Verdú

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