Wednesday, June 10
9:15-10:00
Keynote Talk 1: “Distributed consensus and averaging”
John N. Tsitsiklis, Massachusetts Inst. of Technology, USA
10:15-11:15
Invited session 1: Networks and Security
Session Chair: J. Barros
“On Oblivious Transfer Capacity”
R. Ahlswede, Bielefeld Univ., Germany, I. Csiszar, Renyi Instit. of Math., Hungary
“Multiterminal Secrecy Generation”
I. Csiszar, Renyi Instit of Math., Hungary, P. Narayan, Univ. of Maryland, USA
“Trust and Reputation in Communication, Social and Biological Autonomic Networks”
J. S. Baras, Univ. of Maryland, USA
11:15-11:30 Coffee break
11:30-12:30
Invited session 2: Capacity of Wireless Networks
Organizer and Session Chair: M. Franceschetti
“Wireless Network Information Theory: A Brief Account Since 2000”
P.R. Kumar, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA
“A Deterministic Approach to Wireless Network Error Correction”
S. Mohajer, S. Diggavi, EPFL, Switzerland
“The Transmission Capacity of Uncoordinate Wireless Access Networks”
S. Weber, Drexel Univ., USA
12:30-14:30 Lunch break
14:30-15:30
Invited session 3: Information Theory and Statistics in Networking
Organizer and Session Chair: M. Madiman
“Clustering Phenomena in Message-Passing Schemes”
S. Tatikonda, Yale Univ., USA
“Harnessing Bursty Interference”
N. Khude, V. Prabhakaran, P. Viswanath, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA
“Testing Goodness-of-fit via Rate Distortion”
P. Harremöes, CWI, Netherlands
15:45-17:05
Contributed Session 1: Channel Coding 1
Session Chair: A. Yener
Room A
“Coding Efficiency and Reliability in Probe-based Storage Devices”
M. Varsamou, T. Antonakopoulos, Univ. of Patras, Greece
“Constructing Optimal Whole-Bit Recycling Codes”
D. Dubé, V. Beaudoin, Univ. Laval, Canada
“On the Random Coding Exponent of Nonlinear Gaussian Channels”
K. Xenoulis, N. Kalouptsidis, Univ. of Athens, Greece
“Secret Bits Through Queues”
B. Dunn, M. Bloch, J. N. Laneman, Univ. of Notre Dame, USA
15:45-17:05
Contributed Session 2: Relaying/Routing 1
Session Chair: N. Jindal
Room B
“Instantaneous Forwarding Strategies for Relay Channels with Known Interference”
M. Nasiri Khormuji, M. Skoglund, Royal Inst. of Techn, Sweden
“Relaying Simultaneous Multicast Messages”
D. Gunduz, Princeton Univ, USA, O. Simeone, N.J. Inst. of Tech., USA, A. Goldsmith, Stanford Univ, USA, H. V. Poor, Princeton Univ, USA, S. Shamai, The Technion, Israel
“Multirelay Channel with Non-Ergodic Link Failures”
O. Simeone, N.J. Inst. of Tech, USA, O. Somekh, Princeton Univ., USA, E. Erkip, Polytech Inst. of NYU, USA, H. V. Poor, Princeton Univ, USA, S. Shamai, The Technion, Israel
“Capacity Region of the Deterministic Multi-pair Bi-directional Relay Network”
A. Avestimehr, A. Khajehnejad, Caltech, USA, A. Sezgin, Univ of California Irvine, USA, B. Hassibi, Caltech, USA
15:45-17:05
Contributed Session 3: Information/Computation/Statistics
Session Chair: S. Meyn
Room C
“Statistical SVMs for Robust Detection, Supervised Learning, and Universal Classification”
D. Huang, J. Unnikrishnan, S. Meyn, V. Veeravalli, Univ of Illinois Urbana Champaign, USA, A. Surana, United Techn. Research Center, USA
“Estimating the Residual Waiting Time for Binary Stationary Time Series”
G. Morvai, MTA-BME Stochastics Research Group, Hungary, B. Weiss, Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem, Israel
“An MSE-tunable Linear Estimator with Conditional Dominance over Least-squares Estimation”
V. Prabhu, Indian Inst. of Techn, Madras, India, D. Toumpakaris, Univ. of Patras, Greece
“Distributed Computation of Symmetric Functions with Binary Inputs”
N. Karamchandani, R. Appuswamy, M. Franceshetti, Univ. of California San Diego, USA
17:05-17:20 Coffee break
17:20-18:20
Contributed Session 4: Channel Coding 2
Session Chair: S. Ulukus
Room A
“Limited Feedback for Multicarrier Block Fading Channels: A Rate Distortion Approach”
M. Agarwal, D. Guo, M. Honig, Northwestern Univ., USA
“On LDPC Codes over Symmetric Channels”
H. Saeedi, H. Pishro-Nik, Univ. of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
“Efficient Iterative Sphere Detectors Based On the Schnorr-Euchner Enumeration”
M. Samuel, M. Fitz, Univ. of California L.A., USA
17:20-18:20
Contributed Session 5: Shannon Theory
Session Chair: P. Viswanath
Room B
“On Minimization of Multivariate Entropy Functionals”
I. Csiszar, Renyi Inst, Hungarian Academy of Science, Hungary, F. Matus, Academy of Sciences of the Chech Republic, Chech Republic
“A Simple Memoryless Proof of the Capacity of the Exponential Server Timing Channel”
T. Coleman, Univ. of Illinois, USA
“A Model for Pricing Data Bundles Based on Minimax Risks for Estimation of a Location Parameter”
M. Madiman, A. Barron, Yale Univ., USA, A. Kagan, T. Yu, Univ. of Maryland, USA
17:20-18:20
Contributed Session 6: Communication Networks 1
Session Chair: S. Toumpis
Room C
“A Cross-layer View of Wireless Multicasting under Uncertainty”
A. Pantelidou, A. Ephremides, Univ. of Maryland College Park, USA
“Cross Layer Optimization of Static Lightpath Demands in Transparent WDM Optical Networks”
K. Christodoulopoulos, K. Manousakis, E. Varvarigos, Univ. of Patras, Greece
“Finite-State Broadcast Channels with Feedback and Receiver Cooperation”
R. Dabora, A. Goldsmith, Stanford Univ., USA
Thursday, June 11
9:15-10:00
Keynote Talk 2: “Towards a Network Measurement Science”
Don Towsley, Univ. of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
10:15-11:15
Invited session 4: Network Coding
Organizer and Session chair: M. Medard
“Towards Secure Multiresolution Networks Coding”
L. Lima, J. Barros, University of Porto, Portugal, M. Medard, MIT, US, A. Toledo, Telefonica Research, Spain
“On the Capacity of Multi-source Non-Coherent Network Coding”
S. Mohajer, M. Jafari Siavoshani, S. Diggavi, Ch. Fragouli, EPFL, Switzerland
“Queueing Performance under Network Coding”
O. Abdelrahman, E. Gelenbe, Imperial College London, UK
11:15-11:30 Coffee break
11:30-12:30
Invited session 5: Network Game Theory
Organizer and Session Chair: A. Ozdaglar
“Information Theory Meets Game Theory on the Interference Channel”
R. A. Berry, Northwestern Univ., USA, D. N. C. Tse, Univ. of California Berkeley, USA
“Comparing Multilateral and Bilateral Exchange Models for Content Distribution”
Ch. Aperjis, M. J. Freedman, R. Johari, Stanford Univ., USA
“A Game Theoretic Approach to Network Coding”
J. R. Marden, M. Effros, Caltech, USA
12:30-14:30 Lunch Break
14:30-15:30
Invited session 6: Coding and Information Theory in Life Sciences
Organizer and Session Chair: O. Milenkovic
“Information Theory of the Perception-Action Cycle”
N. Tishby, The Hebrew Univ., Jerusalem, Israel
“Anthropic Correction of Information Estimates”
M. C. Gastpar, Univ. of California Berkeley, USA, P. R. Gill, Cornell Univ., USA, F. E. Theunissen, Univ. of California Berkeley, USA
“On modeling Gene Regulatory Networks using Markov Random Fields”
N. P. Santhanam, Univ. of Hawaii Manoa, USA, J. Dingel, Munich Uni.v of Technology, O. Milenkovic, Univ. of Illinois Urbana Champaign
15:45-17:05
Contributed Session 7: Source Coding 1
Session Chair: M. Effros
Room A
“Coding for Noisy Quadratic-Gaussian Wyner-Ziv Problem: A Successive Quantization Approach”
S. J. Lin, S. C. Lin, K. S. Chen, H. J. Su, National Taiwan Univ., Taiwan
“Binary Erasure Multiple Descriptions: Average-case Distortion”
E. Ahmed, A. Wagner, Cornell Univ., USA
“Distortion-Rate Functions for Quantized Compressive Sensing”
W. Dai, H. V. Pham, O. Milenkovic, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA
“Rate-Distortion Optimized Network Communication Using Generalized MDC”
M. Shao, S. Dumitresku, X. Wu, McMaster Univ., Canada
15:45-17:05
Contributed Session 8: Relaying/Routing 2
Session Chair: R. Berry
Room B
“Optimal Amplify and Forward Strategy for Two-Way Relay Channel with Multiple Relays”
R. Vaze, R. W. Heath, Univ. of Texas at Austin, USA
“Analysis of Contention-based Relay Selection Mechanisms in Autonomous Multi-hop Networks”
C. Morais de Lima, G. T. F. de Abrey, Univ. of Oulu, Finland
“On the Capacity of the Erasure Multiple Relay Channel”
S. Puducheri, T. E. Fuja, Univ. of Notre Dame, USA
“Mutual Information of Amplify-and-Forward DSTBCs over the Random Set Relay Channel”
Q. Xue, G. Abreu, Univ. of Oulu, Finland, B. Aazhang, Rice Univ.
15:45-17:05
Contributed Session 9: Computer Networks 2
Session Chair: V. Subramanian
Room C
“Downlink Scheduling using Compressed Sensing”
S. Bhaskaran, Univ. of Melbourne, Australia, L. Davis, A. Grant, Univ. of S. Australia, Australia, S. Hanly, P. Tune, Univ. of Melbourne, Australia
“Approximately Optimal Utility Maximization”
A. Nedic, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA, V. G. Subramanian, National Univ. of Irelans, Maynooth, Ireland
“A Mechanism for Pricing Service Guarantees”
B. Hajek, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA, S. Yang, Qualcomm Flarion Techn., USA
20:00 Gala Dinner
Friday, June 12
9:15-10:00
Keynote Talk 3: “Algorithmic Game Theory”
Christos Papadimitriou, Univ. of California – Berkeley, USA
10:15-11:15
Invited session 7: MIMO Wireless Communications
Organizer and Session Chair: Y. Steinberg
“A Channel-Enhancement Approach to the Secrecy Capacity of the Multiantenna Wiretap Channel”
T. Liu, Texas A&M Univ., USA, S. Shamai, Technion, Israel
“Three-User MIMO MACs with Cooperation”
M. A. Wigger, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, G. Kramer, Univ. of S. California, USA
“Optimized Training and Feedback for MIMO Downlink Channels”
M. Kobayashi, SUPELEC, France, N. Jindal, Univ. of Minnesota, USA, G. Caire, Univ. of S. California, USA
11:15-11:30 Coffee break
11:30-12:30
Invited session 8: Approaching the rate distortion function
Organizer and Session Chair: S. Verdu
“Low-density Constructions and Message-Passing for Lossy Compression of Continuous Sources”
M. J. Wainright, Univ. of California Berkeley, USA
“An Iterative Scheme for Near Optimal and Universal Lossy Compression”
S. Jalali, A. Montanari, T. Weissman, Stanford Univ., USA
“Efficient Random Codebooks and Databases for Lossy Compression in Near-Linear Time”
I. Kontoyiannis, Ch. Gioran, Athens Univ. of Economics and Business, Greece
12:30-14:30 Lunch Break
14:30-15:30
Invited session 9: Statistical Inference for Large Data Sets
Organizer and Session chair: M. Wainwright
“Sparse Markov Source Estimation via Transformed Lasso”
T. Roos, Helsinki Inst. for Information Techn., Finland, B. Yu, Univ. of California at Berkeley, USA
“High Dimensional Principal Component Analysis with Contaminated Data”
H. Xu, McGill Univ. / UT Austin, Canada/USA, C. Caramanis, Univ. of Texas Austin, Canada, S. Mannor, McGill Univ./Technion, Canada/Israel
“Recent Results on Pattern Maximum Likelihood”
J. Acharya, Alon Orlitsky, S. Pan, Univ. of California, San Diego, USA
15:45-17:05
Contributed Session 10: Source Coding 2
Session Chair: S. Tatikonda
Room A
“Quantization Splitting For Symmetric K-Channel Multiple Descriptions”
C. Tian, AT&T Labs – Research, USA, J. Chen, McMaster Univ., Canada
“AND-OR Tree Analysis of Distributed LT Codes”
D. Sejdinovic, R. Piechocki, A. Doufexi, Univ. of Bristol, UK
“Problems We Can Solve With a Helper”
H. Permuter, Ben-Gurion Univ., Israel, Y. Steinberg, Technion, Israel, T. Weissman, Stanford Univ., USA
15:45-17:05
Contributed Session 11: Network Coding 1
Session Chair: M. Gastpar
Room A
“Menger's Paths with Minimum Mergings”
G. Han, Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
“Analog Network Coding Mappings in Gaussian Multiple-Access Two-Hop Channels”
S. Yao, M. Skoglund, Royal Inst. of Techn., Sweden
“Universal Weakly Secure Network Coding”
D. Silva, F. R. Kschischang, Univ. of Toronto, Canada
15:45-17:05
Contributed Session 12: Cognitive Radio Networks
Session Chair: I. Krikidis
Room C
“Stability Analysis for Cognitive Radio with Cooperative Enhancements”
I. Krikidis, Univ. of Edimburgh, UK, J. N. Laneman, Univ. of Notre Dame, USA, J. Thomson, S. McLaughlin, Univ. of Edimburgh, UK
“Three-User Cognitive Channels with Cumulative Message Sharing: An Achievable Rate Region”
K. Nagananda, C. R. Murthy, Indian Inst. of Science, India
“Rate Region and Power Considerations in a simple 2x2 Interference Channel”
E. Spanakis, A. Traganitis, Inst. of Computer Science, FORTH, Greece, A. Ephremides, Univ. of Maryland College Park, USA
17:20-18:20
Contributed Session 13: Channel Capacity
Session Chair: C. Georghiades
Room A
“Capacity Bounds for the Gaussian Interference Channel with Transmitter Cooperation”
R. Tandon, S. Ulukus, Univ. of Maryland College Park, USA
“Distribution of MIMO Mutual Information: A Large Deviations Approach”
P. Kazakopoulos, P. Mertikopoulos, A. Moustakas, Univ. of Athens, Greece, G. Caire, USC, USA
“Approximate Capacity of the Symmetric Half-duplex Gaussian Butterfly Network”
A. Avestimehr, T. Ho, Caltech, USA
17:20-18:20
Contributed Session 14: Network Coding 2
Session Chair: L. Georgiadis
Room B
“M-user Cooperative Wireless Communications Based on Nonbinary Network Codes”
M. Xiao, M. Skoglund, Royal Inst. of Techn., Sweden
“Reciprocity in Linear Deterministic Networks under Linear Coding”
A. Raja, V. M. Prabhakaran, P. Viswanath, Univ. of Illinois Urbana - Champaign, USA
“On a Theory of Network Equivalence”
R. Koetter, Technical Univ. of Munich, Germany, M. Effros, Caltech, USA, M. Medard, MIT, USA
17:20-18:20
Contributed Session 15: Interference Networks
Session Chair: S. Diggavi
Room C
“Capacity of Deterministic Z-Chain Relay-Interference Network”
S. Mohajer, S. N. Diggavi, C. Fragouli, EPFL, Switzerland, D. Tse, Univ. of California Berkeley, USA
“K-user Interference Channels: Achievable Secrecy Rate and Degrees of Freedom”
H. Xiang, A. Yener, Pennsylvania State Univ., USA
“Partial Cognitive Relay Channels”
M. Nilchian, V. Aref, M. R. Aref, Sharif Univ. of Techn., Iran |
