DIMACS Working Group on Network Coding

January 26 - 28, 2005
DIMACS Center, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ

Organizers:

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

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

Emina Soljanin, Bell Laboratories, emina@lucent.com

Workshop Program:

Wednesday, January 26, 2005

 8:30 -  9:20  Breakfast and Registration

 9:20 -  9:25  Welcome and Greeting:
               Brenda Latka, DIMACS Associate Director

 9:25 -  9:30  Welcome and Greeting:
               Piyush Gupta, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies
               Gerhard Kramer, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies
               Emina Soljanin, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies

 9:30 - 10:30  Network Coding Theory: Consolidation and Extensions
               Raymond Yeung, Chinese University of Hong Kong
              
10:30 - 11:00  Break

11:00 - 12:00  Network Routing Capacity / Insufficiency of Linear
               Network Codes
               Ken Zeger, UCSD and Randall Dougherty, IDA Center for  
               Communications Research
               
12:00 -  2:00  Lunch

 2:00 -  3:00  Overview of the Use of Distributed Mechanisms in Network Coding
               Muriel Medard, MIT

 3:00 -  3:30  Break

 3:30 -  4:30  Network Coding from a Source Coding Perspective 
               Michelle Effros, Caltech
           
 4:45 -  6:00  Wine and Cheese Reception

Thursday, January 27, 2005

 8:30 -  9:30  Breakfast

 9:30 - 10:30  Overcoming Delay, Synchronization and Cyclic Paths Problems in Network Codes
               Meir Feder, Tel-Aviv University

10:30 - 11:00  Break

11:00 - 12:00  On the Capacity of Multiple Sessions in the Presence of Network Coding
               Kamal Jain, Microsoft

12:00 -  2:00  Lunch

 2:00 -  3:00  Processing Along the Way: Forwarding vs. Coding
               Christina Fragouli, EPFL

 3:00 -  3:30  Break

 3:30 -  4:30  Network Coding for the Non-Multicast Case   
               Ralf Koetter, Tracey Ho, and Niranjan Ratnakar, UIUC
              
 4:45 -  6:00  Wine and Cheese Reception

Friday, January 28, 2005

 8:30 -  9:30  Breakfast

 9:30 - 10:30  On the Capacity of Information Networks
               April Rasala Lehman, MIT
              
10:30 - 11:00  Break

11:00 - 12:00  Optimizing Throughput with Network Coding
               Baochun Li, University of Toronto
              
12:00 -  2:00  Lunch

 2:00 -  3:00  On the Advantage of Network Coding for Improving Network
               Throughput
               Moses Charikar, Princeton
             
 3:00 -  3:30  Break

 3:30 -  4:30  Secure Network Coding via Filtered Secret Sharing
               Jon Feldman, Columbia
              
 4:30 -  4:35  Closing Remarks

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