Technical Program
2002 Communication Theory Workshop



Technical Program

Sunday May 19
6-7pm
    Welcome Reception
7-8:30
    Welcome Dinner
Monday May 20
8-9am
    Breakfast

Time
Speaker
Affiliation
Topic
9-9:25 Kevin W. Sowerby
Adrian V. Pais
Michael J. Neve
University of Auckland Correlated Shadowing at 2 GHz and its Effects on the Performance of Mixed Indoor-Outdoor Wireless Systems
9:25-9:50 Robert Heath University of Texas at Austin Characterization of Narrowband Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) Channels
9:50-10:15 Claude Oestges
Arogyaswami J. Paulraj
Stanford University A Physical Model for Broadband MIMO Macrocell Channels
10:15-10:45
    coffee break
10:45-11:10 Reinaldo Valenzuela Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies Wideband MIMO Channel Modeling for System Simulations
11:10-11:35 Joseph C. Liberti Telecordia Dynamic Hybrid MLJD-Based MIMO Systems, Experiments and Results
11:35-12:00 John McCorkle XtremeSpectrum So What's So Special About UWB Propagation?
12-2pm
    Lunch

    Session 2:  Security
    Chair: Ian F. Blake, University of Toronto, Ontario

Time
Speaker
Affiliation
Topic
2-2:15 Ian Blake University of Toronto A Security Overview
2:15-3 Bart Preneel Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Block and Stream Ciphers
3-3:30
    coffee break
3:30-4:15 Christof Paar Ruhr University Bochum Hardware Aspects of Cryptography
4:15-5 Alfred Menezes University of Waterloo Public Key Cryptography
5:30-6:30
    Reception
6:30-8
    Dinner

Start Time
Speaker
Affiliation
Topic
8 pm A. Sayeed and V. Veeravalli University of Wisconsin, University of Illinois Essential Degrees of Freedom in Space-Time MIMO Channels
  A. Anastasopoulos University of Michigan Polynomial-Complexity Symbol-by-Symbol Detection in the Presence of Unknown Parameters with Application to Non-Coherent Decoding of LDPC Codes
  Z. Wang and G. Giannakis University of Minnesota What Determines Average and Outage Performance in Fading Channels?
  S. Ghassemzadeh , R. Jana, C. Rice, W. Turin, V. Tarokh AT&T, MIT Measurement and Modeling of an Ultra-Wide Bandwidth Indoor Channel
  P. Nanan and Masao Nakagawa Keio University Performance of Multi-Carrier CDMA in a Multicell Environment
  M. Fozunbal, S. McLaughlin, R. Schafer Georgia Tech Error Probability Bounds in MIMO Channels
  J.Hagenauer, M.Tuechler, and A. Schaefer Technische Universität München EXIT Charts: New Analytical Results and Simulation Results for Irregular Convolutional Codes
  J. Li, K. R. Narayanan, and C. Georghiades Texas A&M Computing the Euclidean Distance Spectrum of a General ISI Channel
Tuesday May 21
8-9am
    Breakfast

Time
Speaker
Affiliation
Topic
9-9:30 Joachim Hagenauer Technische Universität München, Lucent A Multi-Gb/s Tail-Biting Decoder Chip in Analog VLSI for Optical Fiber
9:30-10 Chris Heegard Texas Instruments Alantro Turbo Code Chip for Local Wireless Access
10-10:30 Steve McLaughlin Calimetrics / Georgia Tech Calimetrics 2nd-Generation M-ary DVD Chip with Turbo Code
10:30-11
    coffee break
11-11:30 Tom Richardson Flarion LDPC Codes for Wireless Data
11:30-12 Amin Shokrollahi Digital Fountain Luby Transform Codes for Internet Content Delivery
12-2pm
    Lunch

    Session 5:  Coding and Signal Processing for Storage
    Chair: William E. Ryan, University of Arizona, Tuscon, AZ

Time
Speaker
Affiliation
Topic
2-2:30 Evangelos Eleftheriou IBM Research, Zurich The Role of Signal Processing and Coding in Data Storage: State of the Art and Future Trends
2:30-3 Jae Moon University of Minnesota Signal Processing Challenges in Data Storage
3-3:30 Alek Kavcic Harvard University The Feedback Capacity of Finite-State Machine Channels
3:30-4
    coffee break
4-4:30 Sergio Benedetto Politecnico di Torino, Italy Design and Low-Complexity Decoding of High-Rate Convolutional Codes with Application to Magnetic Recording
4:30-5 Bane Vasic University of Arizona Resolvable Balanced Incomplete Block Designs and Low-Density Parity Check Codes
5:30-6:30
    Reception
6:30-8pm
    Dinner
8-10pm
    Committee Meeting
Wednesday May 22
8-9am
    Breakfast

    Session 6:  OFDM and MIMO Communications
    Chair: Vahid Tarokh, MIT, Cambridge, MA

Time
Speaker
Affiliation
Topic
9-9:30 S. Diggavi, N. Al-Dhahir,
A. Stamoulis, A. Calderbank
AT&T Labs Research Space-Time OFDM Scheme for Fast-Varying Channels
9:30-10 Ayman Naguid Morphics Inc. Frequency-Domain Interference Suppression and Equalization for Space-Time Block-Coded OFDM
10-10:30 Stefan Kaiser German Aerospace Center (DLR) Diversity in OFDM Systems
10:30-11
    coffee break
11-11:30 Fred Daneshgaran California State University LA Symbol Timing Recovery for Multichannel Modulation: Theory and Implementation
11:30-12 Chan Vee Chong
Vahid Tarokh
Government of Singapore
MIT
Two Constructions of 16-QAM Golay Complementary Sequences