DIMACS Workshop on Signal Processing for Wireless Transmission: Program

October 7-9, 2002
DIMACS Center, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ

Organizers:

Sergio Verdu, Princeton University, verdu@princeton.edu

Jerry Foschini, Bell Labs, gjf@research.bell-labs.com

Workshop Program:

Monday October 7, 2002

 8:00 -  9:00     Registration & Breakfast

 9:00 -  9:10     Welcome: Fred Roberts, Jerry Foschini, Sergio Verdu

WIRELESS NETWORKS

 9:10 -  9:45     Challenges in UltraWideband (UWB) Signaling 
                    for Adhoc Networking
                  Raymond Knopp, Eurecom

 9:45 - 10:20     Multiple antennas: A Network View
                  David Tse, Berkeley

10:20 - 10:40     Discussion Break

10:40 - 11:15     Opportunistic Beamforming --- Dumb Antennas, 
                    Smart Scheduling 
                  Rajiv Laroia, Flarion
  
11:15 - 11:50     Approaches to Reliable High Data-Rate Wireless Network
                  Suhas Diggavi, Naofal Al-Dhahir and 
                    A. R. Calderbank, AT&T Labs

11:50 - 12:25     Pilot Assisted MIMO Channel Estimation and
                    Achievable Rates
                  Dragan Smardzija and Narayan Mandayam, Rutgers 

12:25 -  1:30     Lunch

MISCELLANEOUS TOPICS

 1:30 -  2:10     On the Expected Complexity of Integer-Least-Squares
                    Problems
                  Babak Hassibi, Caltech

 2:10 -  2:50     Information-theoretic Issues Concerning Broadcasting
                  Gerhard Kramer, Bell Labs

 2:50 -  3:20     Discussion Break

SPACETIME CODING

 3:20 -  4:00     Coding for multiple antennas with linear and 
                    nonlinear (BLAST) interfaces
                  Ezio Biglieri, Politecnico di Torino

 4:00 -  4:40     Optimal Space-Time Codes for CDMA with Multiple
                    Antennas
                  Brian L. Hughes, North Carolina

 4:40 -  5:20     Variable rate Space-Time Block Codes
                  Vahid Tarokh and  IL Min Kim, Harvard


Tuesday October 8, 2002

CAPACITY IN MULTIPLE  ANTENNA SYSTEMS

 8:00 -  9:00     Registration & Breakfast

 9:00 -  9:35     Sum Capacity of the Multiantenna Gaussian 
                  Broadcast Channel
                  Pramod Viswanath, Illinois

 9:35 - 10:10     Capacity of multi-antenna systems when partial
                    knowledge of the channel and interference are 
                    available at the transmitter
                  Aris Moustakas, Bell Labs

10:10 - 10:40     Discussion Break

10:40 - 11:15     Broadband MIMO Spacetime Propagation Model For 
                    Realistic Capacity Evaluation
                  Reinaldo  Valenzuela, H. Xu, D. Chizhik and 
                    Howard. C. Huang, Bell Labs

11:15 - 11:50     Multi-Antenna Capacity in the Low-power Regime
                  Angel Lozano, Bell Labs,  Antonia Tulino and 
                    Sergio Verdu, Princeton

11:50 - 12:25     Efficient Multihop Broadcast for Wireband Systems
                  Roy Yates and Ivana Maric, Rutgers 
       
12:25 -  1:30     Lunch

INFORMATION THEORY OF MULTIANTENNA CHANNELS

 1:30 -  2:10     Computational Information Theory of Multiple-Antenna
                  Wireless When Nobody Knows the Channel
                  Thomas L Marzetta, Bell Labs

 2:10 -  2:50     Random Matrices and Multiple Antenna problems: 
                    Saddle Point Integration Methods
                  Partha Mitra, Bell Labs and Anirvan Sengupta, Rutgers

 2:50 -  3:10     Discussion Break

 3:10 -  3:50     A Stratified Diagonal Layered Space-time
                    Architecture: Information Theoretic and
                    Communications Aspects
                  Mathini Sellathurai, CRC Canada and 
                    Gerard J. Foschini, Bell Labs


 3:50 -  4:30     Multi-Antenna Channel Hardening and its Implications
                    for Rate Feedback and Scheduling
                  Bertram Hochwald, Thomas Marzetta and Vahid Tarokh, Harvard

 4:30 -  5:10     Interference Avoidance in Wireless Systems
                  Chris Rose, Rutgers


Wednesday October 9, 2002

DIRTY PAPER CODING

 8:00 -  9:00     Registration & Breakfast

 9:00 -  9:35     Duality, Dirty Paper Coding, and Capacity for 
                    Multiuser Wireless Channels
                  Andrea Goldsmith, Stanford

 9:35 - 10:10     Downlink Capacity Evaluation of Cellular Networks
                    with Known Interference Cancellation
                  Howard C. Huang, S. Venkatesan and 
                    H. Viswanathan, Bell Labs

10:10 - 10:30     Discussion Break

10:30 - 11:05     Writing on Dirty Paper with LDPC Codes
                  Giuseppe Caire, Eurecom and Shlomo Shamai, Technion

11:05 - 11:40     Dirty Paper Coding: Neighborhood of the Infinite 
                    Dimensional Limit
                  Gerard J. Foschini and Alvaro H. Diaz, Bell Labs

11:40 - 12:15     Capacity and Coding for Feedback Channels
                  Sekhar Tatikonda, Berkeley

12:15 - 12:50     Optimality of Beamforming in MIMO Systems and Other
                    Exact Results
                  Steve Simon and Aris Moustakas, Bell Labs 

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