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
Presented under the auspices of the Special Year on Computational Information Theory and Coding.

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, Tel Aviv University, Israel The Rate Loss in Writing on Dirty Paper 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 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, UC Berkeley) 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), Technion, Haifa, Israel) 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 Elmina Soljanin, Lucent Hybrid ARQ in Wireless Networks 5:30 - 5:35 Closing

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