2009 IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW 2009) October 11-16, 2009, Taormina, Italy

Day	Time	Plenary
Monday	08:30-09:30	Mo Plenary: Plenary Speaker: Steve McLaughlin
	09:30-10:45	MoInvited: Information Theoretic
	11:05-12:45	MoPoster: Poster Session Monday
	14:50-16:30	Mo1A: Secure Communications - (Plenary Room) Mo1B: Coding Theory & Applications - (Belvedere Room)
	16:50-18:00	Panel: Panel Session
Tuesday	08:30-09:30	Tu Plenary: Plenary Speaker: Pascal Vontobel
	09:30-10:45	TuInvited: Graph-Based Codes and Iterative Decoding
	11:05-12:45	TuPoster: Poster Session Tuesday
	14:50-16:30	Tu1A: LDPC Codes - (Plenary Room) Tu1B: Multiaccess Communications - (Belvedere Room)
	16:50-18:30	Tu2A: Channels with Feedback - (Plenary Room) Tu2B: Source-Channel Coding - (Belvedere Room)
Wednesday	08:30-09:30	We Plenary: Plenary Speaker: Helmut Boelcskei
	09:30-10:45	WeInvited: Compressed Sensing
	11:05-12:45	We1A: Sequences & Coding - (Belvedere Room) We1B: Shannon Theory - (Plenary Room)
Thursday	08:30-09:30	Th Plenary: Plenary Speaker: Muriel Medard
	09:30-10:45	ThInvited: Cooperative Wireless Networks
	11:05-12:45	ThPost: Poster Session Thursday
	14:50-16:30	Th1A: Cognitive Radio - (Plenary Room) Th1B: Multiantenna Systems - (Belvedere Room)
	16:50-18:30	Th2A: Network Coding - (Belvedere Room) Th2B: Interference Channels - (Plenary Room)
Friday	08:30-09:30	Fr Plenary: Plenary Speaker: Joachim Hagenauer
	09:30-10:45	FrInvited: Bioinformatics
	11:05-12:45	Fr1A: Wireless Networks - (Plenary Room)

Monday, Oct 12

08:30 - 09:30

Mo Plenary: Plenary Speaker: Steve McLaughlin

Coding for Reliability and Security on the Wiretap Channel

Presenter: Daniel J. Costello, Jr. (University of Notre Dame - USA)

09:30 - 10:45

MoInvited: Information Theoretic Security

Chair: H. Vincent Poor (Princeton University, USA)

The Broadcast Approach over Fading Gaussian Wiretap Channels: Yingbin Liang (The University of Hawaii); Lifeng Lai (Princeton University); H. Vincent Poor (Princeton University); Shlomo Shamai (The Technion, Israel)
ARQ Secrecy: From Theory to Practice: Yara Omar (Nile University, Cairo, Egypt); Moustafa Youssef (Nile University, Cairo, Egypt); Hesham El Gamal (Ohio State University, USA)
A Multiple Access Approach for the Compound Wiretap Channel: Etienne Perron (EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland); Suhas Diggavi (EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland); Emre Telatar (EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland)

11:05 - 12:45

MoPoster: Poster Session Monday

Chair: Daniela Tuninetti (Univ. Illinois, Chicago)

Asymptotic Capacity of Multi-User MIMO Correlated Channels: Romain Couillet (Supelec, France); Merouane Debbah (Supelec, France); Jack Silverstein (North Carolina State University, USA)
On Upper Bounds for the Achievable Rates of LDPC Codes: Noam Presman (Tel-Aviv University, Israel); Simon Litsyn (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
RQ Precoding for the Cooperative Broadcast Channel: Valeria Loscrì (University of Calabria, Italy); Yi Hong (University of Calabria, Italy); Emanuele Viterbo (University of Calabria, Italy)
Ascending-Bid Auction for Unequal-Erasure-Protected Network Coding: Apirath Limmanee (Jacobs University, Germany); Werner Henkel (Jacobs University Bremen, Germany)
A Static Protocol to Achieve Optimal Diversity-Multiplexing Tradeoff for High Diversity Gains in Half-Duplex Relay Channels: Nassar Ksairi (Supélec, France); Pascal Bianchi (Telecom Paristech, France); Philippe Ciblat (ENST, France); Walid Hachem (CNRS, France)
Randomly Select and Forward: Erasure Probability Analysis of a Probabilistic Relay Channel Model: Alberto Tarable (Politecnico di Torino, Italy, Italy); Ioannis Chatzigeorgiou (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom); Ian Wassell (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom)
Bounding the minimal Euclidean distance for any PSK block codes of alphabet size 8: Håkan Lennerstad (Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden); Efraim Laksman (Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden); Magnus Nilsson (Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden)
Outage Behavior of Bidirectional Half-Duplex Relaying Schemes: Abdallah Bou Saleh (Technische Universität München, Germany); Christoph Hausl (Technische Universität München, Germany); Ralf Koetter (Technical University of Munich, Germany, Germany)
Exposing Pseudoweight Layers in Regular LDPC Code Ensembles: Mark F. Flanagan (University College Dublin, Ireland)
On Random Construction of Bipolar Sensing Matrix with Compact Representation: Tadashi Wadayama (Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan)
An Application of the Relative Network Generalized Hamming Weight to Erroneous Wiretap Networks: Zhixue Zhang (Beijing Unversity of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, China); Bojin Zhuang (Beijing Unversity of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, China)
Reconstruction of Punctured Convolutional Codes: Mathieu Cluzeau (ENSTA, France); Matthieu Finiasz (ENSTA, France)
MIMO Downlink Scheduling with Non-Perfect Channel State Knowledge: Hooman Shirani-Mehr (USC, USA); Giuseppe Caire (USC, USA)
Multiple description coding based on LDGM codes: Ying Zhang (Mcmaster University, Canada); Sorina Dumitrescu (McMaster University, Canada); Jun Chen (McMaster University, Canada); Zhibin Sun (McMaster University, Canada)
On the Channel Statistics in Hybrid ARQ Systems for Correlated Channels: Marco Levorato (University of Padova, Italy); Leonardo Badia (IMT Lucca Institute for Advanced Studies, Italy); Michele Zorzi (University of Padova, Italy)
Linear Analog Coding of General Multivariate Gaussian Sources: Inaki Esnaola (University of Delaware, USA); Javier Garcia-Frias (University of Delaware, USA)

14:50 - 16:30

Mo1A: Secure Communications - (Plenary Room)

Chair: Shlomo Shamai (Technion)

LDPC Codes for the Gaussian Wiretap Channel: Demijan Klinc (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA); Jeongseok Ha (Information and Communications University (ICU), Korea); Steven McLaughlin (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA); Joao Barros (University of Porto, Portugal); Byung-Jae Kwak (Electronics and Telecommuncations Research Institute, USA)
A Unified Framework for Key Agreement over Wireless Fading Channels: Lifeng Lai (Princeton University, USA); H. Vincent Poor (Princeton University, USA)
Construction of Wiretap Channel Codes by Using Sparse Matrices: Jun Muramatsu (NTT Corporation, Japan); Shigeki Miyake (NTT, Japan)
A Secure Communication Game with a Relay Helping the Eavesdropper: Melda A. Yuksel (TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Turkey); Xi Liu (Polytechnic Institute of NYU, USA); Elza Erkip (Polytechnic Institute of NYU, USA)
Finite-State Wiretap Channels: Secrecy Under Memory Constraints: Yogesh Sankarasubramaniam (HP Labs India, India); Andrew Thangaraj (IIT Madras, India); Kapali Viswanathan (HP Labs India, India)

Mo1B: Coding Theory & Applications - (Belvedere Room)

Chair: Jean-Claude Belfiore (ENST Paris)

MacWilliams identities for codes on graphs: David Forney (MIT, USA)
IR-HARQ Schemes with Finite-Length Punctured LDPC Codes over the BEC: Iryna Andriyanova (ENSEA, France); Emina Soljanin (Bell Labs, Alcatel - Lucent, USA)
Efficient List-Decoding of Reed-Solomon codes with the Fundamental Iterative Algorithm: Alexander Zeh (University of Ulm, Germany); Christian Gentner (University of Ulm, Germany); Martin Bossert (University of Ulm, Germany)
A Comparison Between Single Asymmetric and Single Insertion/Deletion Correcting Codes Using Group-Theory: Filip Paluncic (University of Johannesburg, South Africa); Hendrik C. Ferreira (University of Johannesburg, South Africa); Willem A. Clarke (University of Johannesburg, South Africa)
Continuous-Time Matched Filtering and Decoding without Synchronization: Murthy V.R.S. Devarakonda (ETH Zurich, Switzerland); Hans-Andrea Loeliger (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)

16:50 - 18:00

Panel: Panel Session

Chair: Andrea Goldsmith (Stanford)

The Impact of Information Theory on Technology Development

Panelists:

Meir Feder (Tel Aviv/Amimon)

Ari Hottinen (Nokia)

Helmut Boelcskei (ETH Zurich)

Gottfried Ungerboeck (Broadcom)

Andrew Viterbi (Viterbi Group)

Chair: Andrea Goldsmith (Stanford University, USA)

Tuesday, Oct 13

08:30 - 09:30

Tu Plenary: Plenary Speaker: Pascal Vontobel

Graph-Based Codes and Iterative Decoding

Presenter: Emanuele Viterbo (Univ. della Calabria)

09:30 - 10:45

TuInvited: Graph-Based Codes and Iterative Decoding

Chair: G. David Forney, Jr. (MIT)

Polarization for Arbitrary Discrete Memoryless Channels: Eren Sasoglu (EPFL, Switzerland); Emre Telatar (EPFL, Switzerland); Erdal Arikan (Bilkent University, Turkey)
Polar Codes are Optimal for Lossy Source Coding: Satish Babu Korada (EPFL, Switzerland); Rüdiger Urbanke (EPFL, Switzerland)
Generating Random Tanner-graphs with Large Girth: Moshen Bayati (Stanford University, USA); Raghunandan Keshavan (Stanford University, USA); Andrea Montanari (Stanford University, USA); Sewoong Oh (Stanford University, USA); Amin Saberi (Stanford University, USA)

11:05 - 12:45

TuPoster: Poster Session Tuesday

Chair: Daniela Tuninetti (Univ. Illinois, Chicago)

Generalized quasi-cyclic low-density parity-check codes based on finite geometries: Vo Tam Van (Toyota Technological Institute, Japan); Hajime Matsui (Toyota Technological Institute, Japan); Seiichi Mita (Central Research Laboratory, Hitachi, Ltd.,, Japan)
Performance of Bilayer-Lengthened LDPC Codes Under Joint Decoding: Marwan H. Azmi (University of New South Wales, Australia); Jinhong Yuan (University of New South Wales, Australia)
Outage Regions and Optimal Power Allocation for Wireless Relay Networks: Tobias Renk (University of Karlsruhe (TH), Germany); Holger Jaekel (University of Karlsruhe (TH), Germany); Friedrich Jondral (University of Karlsruhe (TH), Germany)
EXIT Charts Applied to Tandem Coding and Cryptography in a Wiretap Scenario: Willie K. Harrison (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA); Steven McLaughlin (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
Information on an elastic rubber string: Oliver Nagy (Australian National University, Australia); Leif W. Hanlen (National ICT Australia, ANU, Australia)
Statistical Restricted Isometry Property of Orthogonal Symmetric Toeplitz Matrices: Kezhi Li (Imperial College London, United Kingdom); Cong Ling (Imperial College London, United Kingdom); Lu Gan (Brunel University, United Kingdom)
Coding theorems for a (2,2)-threshold scheme secure against impersonation by an opponent: Hiroki Koga (University of Tsukuba, Japan); Mitsugu Iwamoto (University of Electro-Communications, Japan); Hirosuke Yamamoto (University of Tokyo, Japan)
Distributed Source Coding System for Correlated Gaussian Observations: Yasutada Oohama (University of Tokushima, Japan)
Performance and Complexity of psi-unitary QC-LDGM Codes: Marco Baldi (Università Politecnica delle Marche, Italy); Franco Chiaraluce (Università Politecnica delle Marche, Italy)
Encoding Efficiency of Digital Number Representations under Deviation Constraints: Phillip Stanley-Marbell (IBM Zurich Research Lab, Switzerland)
On Distributed LDGM and LDPC Code Design for Networked Systems: Cedomir Stefanovic (University of Novi Sad, Serbia); Dejan Vukobratovic (University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom); Vladimir Stankovic (University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom)
Termination and tailbiting of direct product convolutional codes: Francesca Vatta (University of Trieste, Italy); Andrea Schiavi (University of Trieste, Italy); Vladimir Sidorenko (University of Ulm, Germany); Martin Bossert (University of Ulm, Germany)
Classification Tree Sources: Edgar Binder (University of Stuttgart, Germany); Manfred Kufleitner (University of Stuttgart, Germany)
Some Simple Observations on Lattice Codes: Roope Vehkalahti (University of Turku, Finland)
Estimating the Partition Function of 2-D Fields and the Capacity of Constrained Noiseless 2-D Channels Using Tree-Based Gibbs Sampling: Hans-Andrea Loeliger (ETH Zurich, Switzerland); Mehdi Molkaraie (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
DMT Analysis of Asynchronous OFDM Amplify-and-Forward Cooperative Networks: Mehdi Torbatian (University of Waterloo, Canada); Mohamed Oussama Damen (University of Waterloo, Canada)

14:50 - 16:30

Tu1A: LDPC Codes - (Plenary Room)

Chair: Hans-Andrea Loeliger (ETH Zurich)

Shaping Methods for Low-Density Lattice Codes: Naftali Sommer (Tel Aviv University, Israel); Meir Feder (Tel-Aviv University, Israel); Ofir Shalvi (Texas Instruments, Israel)
On the Dynamics of the Error Floor Behavior in (Regular) LDPC Codes: Christian Schlegel (University of Alberta, Canada); Shuai Zhang (University of Alberta, Canada)
Low-Density Parity-Check Coding for block fading Relay Channels: Dieter Duyck (Ghent University, Belgium); Joseph Jean Boutros (Texas A&M University at Qatar, Qatar); Marc Moeneclaey (Ghent University, Belgium)
Two Efficient and Low-Complexity Iterative Reliability-Based Majority-Logic Decoding Algorithms for LDPC Codes: Qin Huang (University of California, Davis, USA); Jingyu Kang (University of California, Davis, USA); Li Zhang (University of California, Davis, USA); Shu Lin (University of California, Davis, USA); Khaled Abdel-Ghaffar (University of California, Davis, USA)
Binary Linear-Time Erasure Decoding for Non-Binary LDPC codes: Valentin Savin (CEA LETI, France)

Tu1B: Multiaccess Communications - (Belvedere Room)

Chair: Giuseppe Caire (USC)

Robust Communications against Femtocells Access Failure: Osvaldo Simeone (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA); Elza Erkip (Polytechnic Institute of NYU, USA); Shlomo Shamai (The Technion, Israel)
The Fading Number of a Multiple-Access Rician Fading Channel: Gu-Rong Lin (National Chiao Tung University (NCTU), Taiwan); Stefan Moser (National Chiao Tung University (NCTU), Taiwan)
The Capacity Region of the Binary Dirty MAC: Tal Philosof (Tel Aviv University, Israel); Ram Zamir (Tel Aviv University, Israel); Uri Erez (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
Multiuser capacity for heterogeneous QoS constraints in uncorrelated Rayleigh channels: Beatriz Soret (University of Málaga, Spain); Mari Carmen Aguayo-Torres (University of Malaga, Spain); J. Tomás Entrambasaguas (Universidad de Málaga, Spain)
High-SNR Analysis of Optimum Multiuser Detection with an Unknown Number of Users: Adrià Tauste (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom); Albert Guillen i Fabregas (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom); Ezio Biglieri (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain)

16:50 - 18:30

Tu2A: Channels with Feedback - (Plenary Room)

Chair: Christian Schlegel (Univ. Alberta)

Rate Regions for Multiple Access Relay Channels with Relay-Source Feedback: Jie Hou (Technische Universität München, Germany); Ralf Kötter (Technische Universität München, Germany) Gerhard Kramer (University of Southern California, USA)
Distortion Exponent in MIMO Channels with Feedback: Deniz Gunduz (Princeton University, USA); Andrea Goldsmith (Stanford University, USA); H. Vincent Poor (Princeton University, USA)
On Channel Output Feedback in Deterministic Interference Channels: Achaleshwar Sahai (Rice University, USA); Vaneet Aggarwal (Princeton University, USA); Melda A. Yuksel (TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Turkey); Ashutosh Sabharwal (Rice University, USA)
Performance Bounds for Erasure, List and Feedback Schemes with Linear Block Codes: Eran Hof (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel); Igal Sason (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel); Shlomo Shamai (The Technion, Israel)
Coding with Frame Synchronization for Finite-State Channels with Feedback: Ron Dabora (Ben-Gurion University, Israel); Andrea Goldsmith (Stanford University, USA)

Tu2B: Source-Channel Coding - (Belvedere Room)

Chair: Joseph Jean Boutros (Texas A. & M. Qatar)

Broadcasting Correlated Gaussian Sources with Bandwidth Expansion: Hamid Behroozi (Queen's University, Canada); Fady Alajaji (Queen's University, Canada); Tamas Linder (Queen's University, Canada)
Non-Linear Graph-Based Codes for Source Coding: David Matas (Technical University of Catalonia (UPC), Spain); Meritxell Lamarca (Technical University of Catalonia (UPC), Spain); Javier Garcia-Frias (University of Delaware, USA)
Sum Rate Characterization for the Gaussian Many-Help-One Problem: Yasutada Oohama (University of Tokushima, Japan)
Bounds on the Rates of Joint Source-Channel Codes for General Sources and Channels: Siu-Wai Ho (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Fat Struts: Constructions and a Bound: Neil Sloane (AT&T Labs-research, USA); Vinay Vaishampayan (AT&T Labs-research, USA); Sueli Costa (Mathematics Department, University of Campinas, Brazil)

Wednesday, Oct 14

08:30 - 09:30

We Plenary: Plenary Speaker: Helmut Boelcskei

Mathematical Roots of Compressed Sensing

Presenter: Ezio Biglieri (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona)

09:30 - 10:45

WeInvited: Compressed Sensing

Session Chair: Volkan Cevher (Rice Univ.)

Expected RIP: Conditioning of The Modulated Wideband Converter: Moshe Mishali (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel); Yonina C. Eldar (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel)
Channel Protection: Random Coding Meets Sparse Channels: M. Salman Asif (Georgia Tech, USA), William Mantzel (Georgia Tech, USA), Justin Romberg (Georgia Tech, USA)
Approximate Distributions for Compressible Signals: Volkan Cevher (Rice University, USA)

11:05 - 12:45

We1A: Sequences & Coding - (Belvedere Room)

Chair: Cong Ling (Imperial College London)

A statistical mechanical interpretation of algorithmic information theory III: Composite systems and fixed points: Kohtaro Tadaki (Chuo University, Japan)
Folding, Tiling, and Multidimensional Coding: Tuvi Etzion (Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Israel)
A New Method to Construct Double Periodic Arrays with Optimal Correlation: Oscar Moreno (Gauss Research Laboratory Inc. San Juan, Puerto Rico); Jose Ortiz-Ubarri (University of Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico)
A Graph Theoretic Approach for Spectral Null Codes: Khmaies Ouahada (University of Johannesburg, South Africa); Hendrik C. Ferreira (University of Johannesburg, South Africa)
On a construction of quadratic APN functions: Lilya Budaghyan (University of Bergen, Norway); Claude Carlet (University of Paris 8, France); Gregor Leander (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark)

We1B: Shannon Theory - (Plenary Room)

Chair: Amos Lapidoth (ETH Zurich)

Achievable Rates for Queue-Based Timing Stegocodes: Ibtissam Ezzeddine (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA); Pierre Moulin (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
Physics of the Shannon limits: Neri Merhav (Technion, Israel)
Training-Based Schemes are Suboptimal for High Rate Asynchronous Communication: Venkat Chandar (MIT, USA); Aslan Tchamkerten (Telecom ParisTech, France); Gregory Wornell (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
Arimoto-Blahut Algorithm for the Bidirectional Broadcast Channel with Side Information: Tobias J. Oechtering (Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden); Mattias Andersson (Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden); Mikael Skoglund (Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)
Mutual information and posterior estimates in channels of exponential family type: Maxim Raginsky (Duke University, USA); Todd P. Coleman (University of Illinois, USA)

Thursday, Oct 15

08:30 - 09:30

Th Plenary: Plenary Speaker: Muriel Medard

Network Coding as Cooperation in Wireless Networks

Presenter: Elza Erkip (Polytechnic Inst. of New York)

09:30 - 10:45

ThInvited: Cooperative Wireless Networks

Chair: J. Nicholas Laneman (University of Notre Dame, USA)

Communication on Line Networks with Deterministic or Erasure Broadcast Channels: Gerhard Kramer (University of Southern California, USA)
On degraded two message set broadcasting: Shirin Saeedi Bidokhti (EPFL, Switzerland); Suhas Diggavi (EPFL, Switzerland); Christina Fragouli (EPFL, Switzerland); Vinod Prabhakaran (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA)
Cooperative Communications with Feedback via Stochastic Approximation: Utsaw Kumar (University of Notre Dame, USA); J. Nicholas Laneman (University of Notre Dame, USA); Vijay Gupta (University of Notre Dame, USA)

11:05 - 12:45

ThPost: Poster Session Thursday

Chair: Daniela Tuninetti (Univ. Illinois, Chicago)

Full Rate Space Time Codes for Large Number of Transmitting Antennas with Linear Complexity Decoding and High Performance: Amir Laufer (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA); Yeheskel Bar-Ness (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA)
Relaying for Pair-wise Information Exchange: Chin Keong Ho (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore); Kiran Gowda (Institut Eurecom, France); Sumei Sun (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore);
Compress-and-Forward Strategy for The Relay Channel With Causal State Information: Mahtab Mirmohseni (Sharif University of Technology, Iran); Bahareh Akhbari (Sharif University of Technology, Iran); Mohammad Reza Aref (Sharif University of Tech., Iran)
Higher Dimensional Perfect Space-Time Coded Modulation: Frederique Oggier (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore); Patrick Sole (CNRS-I3S, France)
The Wideband Slope Region of BPSK and QPSK for Broadcast Channels in the Low-Power Regime: Frederic Knabe (Ulm University, Germany); Moritz Wiese (Technische Universität Berlin, Germany); Carolin Huppert (Ulm University, Germany); Johannes G. Klotz (Ulm University, Germany)
A Novel Cross Coding Scheme for OFDM Systems: Xiaoying Shao (University of Twente, The Netherlands); Cornelis H. Slump (University of Twente, The Netherlands)
Computing Along the Routes via Gossiping: Mehmet Yildiz (Cornell University, USA); Anna Scaglione (UC Davis, USA); Tuncer Aysal (Cornell University, USA)
Diophantine Approximation Approach for Incomplete Decoding at Relays: Charlotte Hucher (TELECOM ParisTech (formerly ENST), France); Ghaya Rekaya (ENST Paris, France); Ahmed Saadani (Orange labs, France)
Optimized Analog Network Coding Strategies for the White Gaussian Multiple-Access Relay Channel: Ali Abbas Zaidi (Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden, Sweden); Majid Nasiri Khormuji (Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden); Sha Yao (Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden); Mikael Skoglund (Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)
On Learning Boolean Functions and Punctured Reed-Muller-Codes: Steffen Schober (University of Ulm, Germany); Martin Bossert (University of Ulm, Germany)
Nearest Neighbour Decoding in Block-Fading Channels with Imperfect CSIR: Taufiq Asyhari (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom); Albert Guillen i Fabregas (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom)
Challenging Restricted Isometry Constants with Greedy Pursuit: Charles Dossal (Université Bordeaux 1, France); Gabriel Peyré (CNRS and Université Paris-Dauphine, France); Jalal Fadili (GREYC CNRS UMR 6072, ensicaen, France)
On the Decoder Error Probability of Bounded Rank Distance Decoders for Rank Metric Codes: Maximilien Gadouleau (Lehigh University, USA); Zhiyuan Yan (Lehigh University, USA)
Sphere Detectors For Robust Iterative Detection and Decoding Under Channel Estimation Errors: Michael Samuel (University of California, Los Angeles, USA); Michael Fitz (Univ. of California Los Angeles, USA)
Achievable Rates for the Noncoherent Frequency Selective Fading Channel: Jing Huang (University of Notre Dame, USA); Sundeep Venkatraman (University of Notre Dame, USA); Krishnan Padmanabhan (University of Notre Dame, USA); Oliver Collins (University of Notre Dame, USA)
On optimal constellations for BICM at low SNR: Erik Agrell (Chalmers, Sweden); Alex Alvarado (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)

14:50 - 16:30

Th1A: Cognitive Radio - (Plenary Room)

Chair: Mohamed Damen (Univ. Waterloo)

Cooperation and Coordination in Cognitive Networks with Packet Retransmission: Marco Levorato (University of Padova, Italy); Osvaldo Simeone (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA); Urbashi Mitra (University of Southern California, USA); Michele Zorzi (Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy)
Achievable Rate Regions for Broadcast Channels With Cognitive Relays: Jinhua Jiang (Stanford University, USA); Ivana Maric (Stanford University, USA); Andrea Goldsmith (Stanford University, USA); Shuguang Cui (Texas A&M University, USA)
The Capacity Region of Gaussian Cognitive Radio Channels at High SNR: Stefano Rini (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA); Daniela Tuninetti (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA); Natasha Devroye (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA)
Capacity of cognitive channel and power allocation: Alister Burr (University of York, United Kingdom)
Asymptotics of eigenbased collaborative sensing: Pascal Bianchi (Telecom Paristech, France); Jamal Najim (CNRS, France); Giuseppa Alfano (Supelec, France); Merouane Debbah (Supelec, France)

Th1B: Multiantenna Systems - (Belvedere Room)

Chair: Helmut Boelcskei (ETH Zurich)

Effective Beamforming and Efficient Scheduling for Multi-User MIMO Broadcast Channels: Alessandro Tomasoni (Politecnico di Milano, Italy); Marco Ferrari (CNR-IEIIT - Politecnico di Milano, Italy); Sandro Bellini (Politecnico di Milano, Italy); Giuseppe Caire (USC, USA)
Statistical MIMO radar under non-Gaussian target scattering: Augusto Aubry (Università di Napoli Federico II, Italy); Marco Lops (University of Cassino, Italy); Antonia Tulino (Università di Napoli, Italy); Luca Venturino (University of Cassino, Italy)
A Unified View of Sorting in Lattice Reduction: From V-BLAST to LLL and Beyond: Cong Ling (Imperial College London, United Kingdom); Wai Ho Mow (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)
Transmission Capacity Scaling of SDMA in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks: Marios Kountouris (SUPELEC, France); Jeffrey Andrews (The University of Texas at Austin, USA)
Information Rates for Non-Coherent Multiantenna Systems in the Wideband Regime: Sundeep Venkatraman (University of Notre Dame, USA); Krishnan Padmanabhan (University of Notre Dame, USA); Oliver Collins (University of Notre Dame, USA)

16:50 - 18:30

Th2A: Network Coding - (Belvedere Room)

Chair: Johannes Huber (Univ. Erlangen)

Enumerative Encoding in the Grassmannian Space: Natalia Silberstein (Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Israel); Tuvi Etzion (Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Israel)
Linearly Representable Entropy Vectors and their Relation to Network Coding Solutions: Asaf Cohen (Ben-Gurion University, Israel); Michelle Effros (California Institute of Technology, USA); Amir Avestimehr (Cornell University, USA); Ralf Koetter (Technical University of Munich, Germany)
Achievable Rate Regions of the Butterfly Network with Noisy Links and End-to-End Error Correction: Lawrence Ong (The University of Newcastle, Australia); Sarah Johnson (University of Newcastle, Australia); Christopher Kellett (University of Newcastle, Australia)
Random Linear Intersession Network Coding With Selective Canceling: Chih-Chun Wang (Purdue University, USA); Ness B. Shroff (The Ohio State University, USA)
Time Extended Block Network Erasure Control Code: A Path-Time Network-Channel Code: Hossein Bahramgiri (University of Tehran, Iran); Farshad Lahouti (University of Tehran, Iran)

Th2B: Interference Channels - (Plenary Room)

Chair: Antonia Tulino (Bell Labs Alcatel-Lucent, USA)

An Outer Bound for the Gaussian Interference Channel with a Relay: Ivana Maric (Stanford University, USA); Ron Dabora (Electrical Engineering, Israel); Andrea Goldsmith (Stanford University, USA)
Ergodic Layered Erasure One-Sided Interference Channels: Vaneet Aggarwal (Princeton University, USA); Lalitha Sankar (Princeton University, USA); Robert Calderbank (Princeton University, USA); H. Vincent Poor (Princeton University, USA)
Interference Mitigation Through Limited Receiver Cooperation: Symmetric Case: I-Hsiang Wang (University of California at Berkeley, USA); David Tse (University of California at Berkeley, USA)
Coding Along Hermite Polynomials for Interference Channels: Emmanuel A. Abbe (EPFL, Switzerland); Lizhong Zheng (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)

A Geometrical Analysis of Obstructed Wireless Networks: Mohammad Nekoui (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA); Hossein Pishro-Nik (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA)

Friday, Oct 16

08:30 - 09:30

Fr Plenary: Plenary Speaker: Joachim Hagenauer

An Information Theorist's Contribution to Genetics

Presenter: Gottfried Ungerboeck (Broadcom)

09:30 - 10:45

FrInvited: Bioinformatics

Chair: Desmond Lun (University of South Australia, Australia)

Propagation through Dynamic Networks: Degree Distribution and the Spread of Disease: Caroline Colijn (University of Bristol, United Kingdom)
[Non]-deterministic dynamics in cells: From multistability to stochastic switching: Adam Halasz (West Virginia University, USA)
Network Design in Cells: Optimization of Metabolic Networks

11:05 - 12:45

Fr1A: Wireless Networks - (Plenary Room)

Chair: Emina Soljanin (Bell Labs, Alcatel - Lucent, USA)

Uplink Capacity of Self-Organizing Clustered Orthogonal CDMA Networks in Flat Fading Channels: Romain Couillet (Supelec, France); Merouane Debbah (Supelec, France)
Throughput of Cellular Uplink with Dynamic User Activity and Cooperative Base-Stations: Oren Somekh (Princeton University, USA); Osvaldo Simeone (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA); H. Vincent Poor (Princeton University, USA); Shlomo Shamai (The Technion, Israel)
A Broadcast Approach to Random Access: Paolo Minero (Univ. of California at San Diego, USA); David Tse (University of California at Berkeley, USA); Massimo Franceschetti (University of California at San Diego, USA)
On the Stability Region of Amplify-and-Forward Cooperative Relay Networks: Jubin Jose (The University of Texas at Austin, USA); Lei Ying (Iowa State University, USA); Sriram Vishwanath (University of Texas at Austin, USA)
On approximating Gaussian relay networks with deterministic networks: M. Anand (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA); P. R. Kumar (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)

IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW 2009) - October 11-16, 2009, Taormina - Italy