Conference program can be can be found here. A detailed description of the technical sessions is included next.
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Sessions
Mo-AM-1-1: Lossless Source Coding
Session Chair: Gadiel Seroussi
Monday 10:20-11:40
Room: 40.002
Almost Lossless Variable-Length Source Coding on Countably Infinite Alphabets
Jorge Silva (University of Chile, Chile)
Pablo Piantanida (CentraleSupélec-CNRS-Université Paris-Sud, France)
Tight Upper Bounds on the Redundancy of Optimal Binary AIFV Codes
Weihua Hu (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
Hirosuke Yamamoto (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
Junya Honda (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
On the Stationary Distribution of Asymmetric Binary Systems
Hidetoshi Yokoo (Gunma University, Japan)
A Survey of Bratteli Information Source Theory
John C Kieffer (University of Minnesota, USA)
Mo-AM-1-2: Change-Point Detection
Session Chair: George Moustakides
Monday 10:20-11:40
Room: 40.144
Data Driven Quickest Change Detection: An Algorithmic Complexity Approach
Husheng Li (University of Tennessee, USA)
Sequentially Detecting Transitory Changes
George V. Moustakides (Rutgers University, USA and University of Patras, Greece)
Venugopal Veeravalli (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
Non-Bayesian Multiple Change-Point Detection Controlling False Discovery Rate
Jie Chen (University of Science and Technology of China, P.R. China)
Wenyi Zhang (University of Science and Technology of China, P.R. China)
H. Vincent Poor (Princeton University, USA)
Decentralized Sequential Change Detection with Ordered CUSUM
Sourabh Banerjee (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
Georgios Fellouris (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
Mo-AM-1-3: Polar Codes 1
Session Chair: Emre Telatar
Monday 10:20-11:40
Room: 40.146
Capacity-Achieving Rate-Compatible Polar Codes
SongNam Hong (Ajou University, USA)
Dennis Hui (Ericsson Research, USA)
Ivana Marić (Ericsson Research, USA)
Capacity-Achieving Rateless Polar Codes
Bin Li (Huawei Technologies, P.R. China)
David Tse (Stanford University, USA)
Kai Chen (Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., P.R. China)
Hui Shen (Huawei, USA)
Construction of Polar Codes for Arbitrary Discrete Memoryless Channels
Talha Cihad Gulcu (University of Maryland, USA)
Min Ye (UMD, USA)
Alexander Barg (University of Maryland, USA)
Channel polarization and Blackwell measures
Maxim Raginsky (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
Mo-AM-1-4: Distributed Storage 1
Session Chair: Alexandros Dimakis
Monday 10:20-11:40
Room: 40.148
Constructions of High-Rate Minimum Storage Regenerating Codes over Small Fields
Netanel Raviv (Technion, Israel)
Natalia Silberstein (Technion, Israel)
Tuvi Etzion (Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Israel)
An outer bound on the storage-bandwidth tradeoff of exact-repair cooperative regenerating codes
Hyuk Lee (Seoul National University, Korea)
Jungwoo Lee (Seoul National University, Korea)
On MBR codes with replication
Nikhil Krishnan Muralee Krishnan (Indian Institute of Science, India)
P. Vijay Kumar (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India)
Minimum Storage Regenerating Codes For All Parameters
Arman Fazeli (University of California, San Diego, USA)
Sreechakra Goparaju (University of California, San Diego, USA)
Alexander Vardy (University of California San Diego, USA)
Mo-AM-1-5: Matrix Completion
Session Chair: Bruce Hajek
Monday 10:20-11:40
Room: 40.004
Optimal Sample Complexity for Stable Matrix Recovery
Yanjun Li (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
Kiryung Lee (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
Yoram Bresler (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
Simple algorithms and guarantees for low rank matrix completion over $F_2$
James Saunderson (University of Washington, USA)
Maryam Fazel (University of Washington, USA)
Babak Hassibi (California Institute of Technology, USA)
Similarity Clustering in the Presence of Outliers: Exact Recovery via Convex Program
Ramya Korlakai Vinayak (California Institute of Technology, USA)
Babak Hassibi (California Institute of Technology, USA)
A Converse to Low-Rank Matrix Completion
Daniel L Pimentel-Alarcon (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)
Rob Nowak (University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA)
Mo-AM-1-6: Sequences 1
Session Chair: Tara Javidi
Monday 10:20-11:40
Room: 40.006
New Ternary Binomial Bent Functions
Tor Helleseth (University of Bergen, Norway)
Alexander Kholosha (University of Bergen, Norway)
Correlation properties of sequences from the 2-D array structure of Sidelnikov sequences of different lengths and their union
Min Kyu Song (Yonsei University, Korea)
Hong-Yeop Song (Yonsei University, Korea)
Dae San Kim (Sogang University, Korea)
Jang Yong Lee (The Agency for Defense Development, Korea)
On constructions of bent functions from involutions
Sihem Mesnager (University of Paris VIII & LAGA and Telcom Paristech, France)
Perfect Gaussian Integer Sequences from Cyclic Difference Sets
Xinjiao Chen (Wuhan University, P.R. China)
Chunlei Li (University of Stavanger, Norway)
Chunming Rong (University of Stavanger, Norway)
Mo-AM-1-7: Index Coding 1
Session Chair: Aaron Wagner
Monday 10:20-11:40
Room: 40.008
A Polynomial-Time Algorithm for Pliable Index Coding
Linqi Song (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
Christina Fragouli (UCLA, USA)
Optimal Vector Linear Index Codes for Some Symmetric Side Information Problems
Mahesh Vaddi (Indian Institute of Science, India)
B. Sundar Rajan (Indian Institute of Science, India)
A class of index coding problems with rate 1/3
Prasad Krishnan (IIIT Hyderabad, India)
Lalitha Vadlamani (International Institute of Information Technology, India)
On Caching with More Users than Files
Kai Wan (L2S – CNRS – Supelec – Univ Paris-Sud, France)
Daniela Tuninetti (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA)
Pablo Piantanida (CentraleSupélec-CNRS-Université Paris-Sud, France)
Mo-AM-1-8: Multi-Terminal Source Coding 1
Session Chair: Michael Gastpar
Monday 10:20-11:40
Room: 40.010
Coding for Lossy Function Computation: Analyzing Sequential Function Computation with Distortion Accumulation
Yaoqing Yang (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Pulkit Grover (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Soummya Kar (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Structural results for two-user interactive communication
Jhelum Chakravorty (McGill University, Canada)
Aditya Mahajan (McGill University, Canada)
Two-way Lossy Compression via a Relay with Self Source
Ebrahim MolavianJazi (Penn State University, USA)
Aylin Yener (Pennsylvania State University, USA)
Integer-Forcing Source Coding: Successive Cancellation and Source-Channel Duality
Wenbo He (Boston University, USA)
Bobak Nazer (Boston University, USA)
Mo-AM-1-9: Broadcast Channels
Session Chair: Michele Wigger
Monday 10:20-11:40
Room: 40.150
Single-User CSIT Can be Quite Useful for State-Dependent Broadcast Channels
Shih-Chun Lin (National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan)
I-Hsiang Wang (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
Bit-Additive Superposition Coding for the Bandwidth Limited Broadcast Channel
Ahmed Abotabl (University of Texas at Dallas, USA)
Aria Nosratinia (University of Texas, Dallas, USA)
A Proof of the Strong Converse Theorem for Gaussian Broadcast Channels via the Gaussian Poincaré Inequality
Silas L. Fong (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Vincent Y. F. Tan (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
A Unified Inner Bound for the Two-Receiver Memoryless Broadcast Channel with Channel State and Message Side Information
Behzad Asadi (The University of Newcastle, Australia)
Lawrence Ong (The University of Newcastle, Australia)
Sarah J Johnson (University of Newcastle, Australia)
Mo-AM-2-1: Approximate Message Passing
Session Chair: Tolga Duman
Monday 12:00-13:00
Room: 40.002
On the Performance of Mismatched Data Detection in Large MIMO Systems
Charles Jeon (Cornell University, USA)
Arian Maleki (Columbia University, USA)
Christoph Studer (Cornell University, USA)
Asymptotic Mutual Information for the Binary Stochastic Block Model
Yash Deshpande (Stanford University, USA)
Emmanuel Abbe (Princeton University, USA)
Andrea Montanari (Stanford University, USA)
Expectation Consistent Approximate Inference: Generalizations and Convergence
Alyson Fletcher (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
Mojtaba Sahraee-Ardakan (UCSC, USA)
Sundeep Rangan (New York University, USA)
Philip Schniter (The Ohio State University, USA)
Mo-AM-2-2: Constrained Coding 1
Session Chair: Iñaki Esnaola
Monday 12:00-13:20
Room: 40.144
Minimum Pearson Distance Detection in the Presence of Unknown Slowly Varying Offset
Vitaly Skachek (University of Tartu, Estonia)
Kees A. Schouhamer Immink (Turing Machines Inc., The Netherlands)
Rates of Constant-Composition Codes that Mitigate Intercell Interference
Yeow Meng Chee (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Johan Chrisnata (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Han Mao Kiah (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
San Ling (NTU, Singapore)
Tuan Thanh Nguyen (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Van Khu Vu (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Efficient Encoding/Decoding of Capacity-Achieving Constant-Composition ICI-Free Codes
Yeow Meng Chee (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Johan Chrisnata (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Han Mao Kiah (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
San Ling (NTU, Singapore)
Tuan Thanh Nguyen (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Van Khu Vu (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Generalized Belief Propagation Based TDMR Detector and Decoder
Chaitanya K Matcha (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India)
Mohsen Bahrami (University of Arizona, USA)
Shounak Roy (Indian Institute of Science, India)
Shayan Garani (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India)
Bane Vasić (University of Arizona, USA)
Mo-AM-2-3: Polar Codes 2
Session Chair: Cong Ling
Monday 12:00-13:20
Room: 40.146
Near-Optimal Finite-Length Scaling for Polar Codes over Large Alphabets
Henry D Pfister (Duke University, USA)
Ruediger L Urbanke (EPFL, Switzerland)
A Partial Order For the Synthesized Channels of a Polar Code
Christian Schuerch (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
Polar Coding for Processes with Memory
Eren Şaşoğlu (Intel Corporation, USA)
Ido Tal (Technion, Israel)
Algebraic Properties of Polar Codes From a New Polynomial Formalism
Magali Bardet (University of Rouen, France)
Vlad Dragoi (University of Rouen, Romania)
Ayoub Otmani (University of Rouen, France)
Jean-Pierre Tillich (INRIA, France)
Mo-AM-2-4: Distributed Storage 2
Session Chair: Natalia Silberstein
Monday 12:00-13:20
Room: 40.148
Bandwidth Adaptive & Error Resilient Regenerating Codes with Minimum Repair Bandwidth
Kaveh Mahdaviani (University of Toronto, Canada)
Ashish Khisti (University of Toronto, Canada)
Soheil Mohajer (University of Minnesota, USA)
On Storage Allocation for Maximum Service Rate in Distributed Storage Systems
Moslem Noori (University of Alberta, Canada)
Emina Soljanin (Rutgers University, USA)
Masoud Ardakani (University of Alberta, Canada)
Double Regenerating Codes for Hierarchical Data Centers
Yuchong Hu (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, P.R. China)
Patrick Pak-Ching Lee (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Xiaoyang Zhang (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, P.R. China)
Placement and Read Algorithms for High Throughput in Coded Network Switches
Rami Cohen (Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Israel)
Yuval Cassuto (Technion, Israel)
Mo-AM-2-5: Information Theory in Biology 1
Session Chair: Negar Kiyavash
Monday 12:00-13:20
Room: 40.004
The Boltzmann Sequence-Structure Channel
Abram Magner (UIUC, USA)
Daisuke Kihara (Purdue University, USA)
Wojciech Szpankowski (Purdue University, USA)
On the Duplication Distance of Binary Strings
Noga Alon (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
Jehoshua Bruck (California Institute of Technology, USA)
Farzad Farnoud (Hassanzadeh) (California Institute of Technology, USA)
Siddharth Jain (California Institute of Technology, USA)
Sequence assembly from corrupted shotgun reads
Shirshendu Ganguly (University of Washington, USA)
Elchanan Mossel (University of Pennsylvania and University of California, Berkeley)
Miklos Racz (Microsoft Research, USA)
The Capacity of Some Pólya String Models
Ohad Elishco (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel)
Farzad Farnoud (Hassanzadeh) (California Institute of Technology, USA)
Moshe Schwartz (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel)
Jehoshua Bruck (California Institute of Technology, USA)
Mo-AM-2-6: Wireless Communications 1
Session Chair: Mehul Motani
Monday 12:00-13:20
Room: 40.006
Broadcast Channel under Unequal Coherence Intervals
Mohamed Fadel (University of Texas at Dallas, USA)
Aria Nosratinia (University of Texas, Dallas, USA)
Optimizing The Spatial Content Caching Distribution for Device-to-Device Communications
Derya Malak (The University of Texas at Austin, USA)
Mazin Al-Shalash (Huawei, USA)
Jeffrey Andrews (The University of Texas at Austin, USA)
Edge Caching for Coverage and Capacity-aided Heterogeneous Networks
Ejder Baştuğ (CentraleSupélec, France)
Mehdi Bennis (Centre of Wireless Communications, University of Oulu, Finland)
Marios Kountouris (Huawei Technologies, France)
Mérouane Debbah (Huawei, France)
To Feedback or Not to Feedback
Changho Suh (KAIST, Korea)
David Tse (Stanford University, USA)
Jaewoong Cho (KAIST, Korea)
Mo-AM-2-7: Feedback 1
Session Chair: Shraga Bross
Monday 12:00-13:20
Room: 40.008
On the capacity of the chemical channel with feedback
Jui Wu (University of Michigan, USA)
Achilleas Anastasopoulos (University of Michigan, USA)
Sequential Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for Optimal Channel Input Distributions of Channels with Memory and Feedback
Photios A. Stavrou (University of Cyprus, Cyprus)
Charalambos D Charalambous (University of Cyprus, Cyprus)
Christos K Kourtellaris (University of Cyprus, Cyprus)
Analysis on LT codes for Unequal Recovery Time with Complete and Partial Feedback
Rana Abbas (The University of Sydney, Australia)
Mahyar Shirvanimoghaddam (University of Newcastle, Australia)
Yonghui Li (University of Sydney, Australia)
Branka Vucetic (University of Sydney, Australia)
A Single-Letter Upper Bound on the Feedback Capacity of Unifilar Finite-State Channels
Oron Sabag (Ben-Gurion University, Israel)
Haim H Permuter (Ben-Gurion University, Israel)
Henry D Pfister (Duke University, USA)
Mo-AM-2-8: Multiple Antennas 1
Session Chair: Daniela Tuninetti
Monday 12:00-13:20
Room: 40.010
Joint Optimization of Cloud and Edge Processing for Fog Radio Access Networks
Seok-Hwan Park (Chonbuk National University, Korea)
Osvaldo Simeone (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA)
Shlomo (Shitz) Shamai (The Technion, Israel)
Sum Capacity of Massive MIMO Systems with Quantized Hybrid Beamforming
An Liu (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)
Vincent Lau (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)
The Capacity of Gaussian MISO Channels Under Total and Per-Antenna Power Constraints
Sergey Loyka (University of Ottawa, Canada)
SNR Gap Between MIMO Linear Receivers: Characterization and Applications
Giuseppa Alfano (Politecnico di Torino, Italy)
Carla-Fabiana Chiasserini (Politecnico di Torino, Italy)
Alessandro Nordio (IEIIT-CNR, Italy)
Mo-AM-2-9: Multiple Access Channels 1
Session Chair: Yingbin Liang
Monday 12:00-13:20
Room: 40.150
Sharper Upper Bounds for Unbalanced Uniquely Decodable Code Pairs
Per Austrin (School of Computer Science and Communication, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)
Petteri Kaski (Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT, Aalto University, Finland)
Mikko Koivisto (Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT, University of Helsinki, Finland)
Jesper Nederlof (Technical University of Eindhoven, The Netherlands)
The Unbounded Benefit of Encoder Cooperation for the k-User MAC
Parham Noorzad (California Institute of Technology, USA)
Michelle Effros (California Institute of Technology, USA)
Michael Langberg (State University of New York at Buffalo, USA)
On the Design of Universal Schemes for Massive Uncoordinated Multiple Access
Austin Taghavi (Texas A&M University, USA)
Avinash Vem (Texas A&M University, USA)
Jean-Francois Chamberland (Texas A&M University, USA)
Krishna Narayanan (Texas A&M University, USA)
Uncoordinated Multiple Access Schemes for Visible Light Communications and Positioning
Siu-Wai Ho (University of South Australia, Australia)
Chi Wan Sung (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Mo-PM-1-1: Point Process Channels
Session Chair: Anthony Ephremides
Monday 15:10-16:50
Room: 40.002
On the Continuous-Time Poisson Channel with Varying Dark Current Known to the Transmitter
Ligong Wang (ETIS & CNRS, France)
The Stochastic-Calculus Approach to Multi-Receiver Poisson Channels
Nirmal V Shende (Cornell University, USA)
Aaron Wagner (Cornell University, USA)
An Achievable Rate Region for Superposed Timing Channels
Guido C. Ferrante (Singapore University of Technology and Design, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Singapore)
Tony Q. S. Quek (Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore)
Moe Win (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
Timing Capacity of Queues with Random Arrival and Modified Service Times
Guido C. Ferrante (Singapore University of Technology and Design, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Singapore)
Tony Q. S. Quek (Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore)
Moe Win (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
On the Sum-Rate Capacity of Non-Symmetric Poisson Multiple Access Channel
Ain Ul Aisha (Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA)
Yingbin Liang (Syracuse University, USA)
Lifeng Lai (Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA)
Shlomo (Shitz) Shamai (The Technion, Israel)
Mo-PM-1-2: Constrained Coding 2
Session Chair: Wojciech Szpankowski
Monday 15:10-16:50
Room: 40.144
Encoding and Decoding of Balanced q-ary Sequences Using a Gray Code Prefix
Elie Mambou (University of Johannesburg, South Africa)
Theo G. Swart (University of Johannesburg, South Africa)
Simple Systematic Pearson Coding
Jos H. Weber (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)
Theo G. Swart (University of Johannesburg, South Africa)
Kees A. Schouhamer Immink (Turing Machines Inc., The Netherlands)
Balanced Permutation Codes
Ryan Gabrys (UIUC, USA)
Olgica Milenkovic (UIUC, USA)
Encoding Semiconstrained Systems
Ohad Elishco (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel)
Tom Meyerovitch (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel)
Moshe Schwartz (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel)
Bounds on Asymptotic Rate of Capacitive Crosstalk Avoidance Codes for On-chip Buses
Tadashi Wadayama (Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan)
Taizuke Izumi (Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan)
Mo-PM-1-3: Coded Caching
Session Chair: Chung Chan
Monday 15:10-16:50
Room: 40.146
Centralized Coded Caching for Heterogeneous Lossy Requests
Qianqian Yang (Imperial College London, United Kingdom)
Deniz Gündüz (Imperial College London, United Kingdom)
Simplifying Wireless Social Caching
Mohammed Karmoose (UCLA, USA)
Martina Cardone (University of Califonia, Los Angeles, USA)
Christina Fragouli (UCLA, USA)
A Layered Caching Architecture for the Interference Channel
Jad Hachem (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
Urs Niesen (Qualcomm Research, USA)
Suhas Diggavi (University of California Los Angeles, USA)
Coded Caching for Networks with the Resolvability Property
Li Tang (Iowa State University, USA)
Aditya Ramamoorthy (Iowa State University, USA)
Fundamental Limits of Secretive Coded Caching
Vaishakh Ravindrakumar (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India)
Parthasarathi Panda (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India)
Nikhil Karamchandani (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India)
Vinod M Prabhakaran (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India)
Mo-PM-1-4: Distributed Storage 3
Session Chair: P Vijay Kumar
Monday 15:10-16:50
Room: 40.148
Optimal Systematic Distributed Storage Codes with Fast Encoding
Preetum Nakkiran (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
K. v. Rashmi (University of California at Berkeley, USA)
Kannan Ramchandran (University of California at Berkeley, USA)
Codes with Unequal Locality
Swanand Kadhe (Texas A&M University, USA)
Alex Sprintson (Texas A&M University, USA)
Some Results on Optimal Locally Repairable Codes
Jie Hao (Tsinghua University, P.R. China)
Shutao Xia (Tsinghua University, P.R. China)
Bin Chen (South China Normal University, P.R. China)
Two Classes of (r,t)-Locally Repairable Codes
Anyu Wang (Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China)
Zhifang Zhang (Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China)
Coding for Locality in Reconstructing Permutations
Netanel Raviv (Technion, Israel)
Eitan Yaakobi (Technion, Israel)
Muriel Médard (MIT, USA)
Mo-PM-1-5: Energy Harvesting 1
Session Chair: Ayfer Ozgur
Monday 15:10-16:50
Room: 40.004
A Non-Asymptotic Achievable Rate for the AWGN Energy-Harvesting Channel using Save-and-Transmit
Silas L. Fong (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Vincent Y. F. Tan (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Jing Yang (University of Arkansas, USA)
Performance Bounds for Remote Estimation with an Energy Harvesting Sensor
Ayca Ozcelikkale (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)
Tomas McKelvey (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)
Mats Viberg (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)
Finite Blocklength Achievable Rates for Energy Harvesting AWGN Channels with Infinite Buffer
Konchady Gautam Shenoy (Indian Institute of Science (IISC), India)
Vinod Sharma (Indian Institute of Science, India)
Optimizing Energy Efficiency over Energy-Harvesting LTE Cellular Networks
Hajar Mahdavi-Doost (Rutgers University, USA)
Narayan Prasad (NEC Labs America, Princeton, USA)
Sampath Rangarajan (NEC Labs America, USA)
Optimal Energy Management for Energy Harvesting Transmitters under Battery Usage Constraint
Xianwen Wu (University of Arkansas, USA)
Jing Yang (University of Arkansas, USA)
Jingxian Wu (University of Arkansas, USA)
Mo-PM-1-6: Sequences 2
Session Chair: Alexander Kholosha
Monday 15:10-16:50
Room: 40.006
On the (non-)existence of APN (n,n)-functions of algebraic degree n
Lilya Budaghyan (University of Bergen, Norway)
Claude Carlet (University of Paris 8, France)
Tor Helleseth (University of Bergen, Norway)
Nian Li (University of Bergen, Norway)
New results about Tu-Deng’s conjecture
Soukayna Qarboua (IMT Telecom Bretagne and Lab-STICC, France & Mohammed V University in Rabat, LabMiA, FSR, Morocco)
Julien Schrek (IMT Telecom Bretagne and Lab-STICC, France)
Caroline Fontaine (CNRS Lab-STICC & Telecom Bretagne ITI, France)
On Vectorial Bent Functions with Dillon-type Exponents
Lucien Lapierre (Simon Fraser University, Canada)
Petr Lisonek (Simon Fraser University, Canada)
On the Optimal Boolean Function for Prediction Under Quadratic Loss
Nir Weinberger (Technion, Israel)
Ofer Shayevitz (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
An Improved Upper Bound for the Most Informative Boolean Function Conjecture
Or Ordentlich (MIT, USA)
Ofer Shayevitz (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
Omri Weinstein (NYU, USA)
Mo-PM-1-7: Secrecy
Session Chair: Ashish Khisti
Monday 15:10-16:30
Room: 40.008
Strong Secrecy Capacity of the Wiretap Channel II with DMC Main Channel
Dan He (Xidian University, P.R. China)
Yuan Luo (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, P.R. China)
Ning Cai (Xidian University, P.R. China)
Secret Key Generation over Noisy Channels with Common Randomness
Germán Bassi (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)
Pablo Piantanida (CentraleSupélec-CNRS-Université Paris-Sud, France)
Shlomo (Shitz) Shamai (The Technion, Israel)
A Lattice Coding Scheme for Secret Key Generation from Gaussian Markov Tree Sources
Shashank Vatedka (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India)
Navin Kashyap (Indian Institute of Science, India)
Maximal Leakage Minimization for The Shannon Cipher System
Ibrahim Issa (Cornell University, USA)
Sudeep Kamath (Princeton University, USA)
Aaron Wagner (Cornell University, USA)
Mo-PM-1-8: Lossy Compression 1
Session Chair: Ertem Tuncel
Monday 15:10-16:30
Room: 40.010
Information Theoretic Caching: The Multi-User Case
Sung Hoon Lim (EPFL, Switzerland)
Chien-Yi Wang (Télécom ParisTech, France)
Michael Gastpar (EPFL & University of California, Berkeley, Switzerland)
Lossy Compression with Near-uniform Encoder Outputs
Badri N Vellambi (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA)
Joerg Kliewer (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA)
Matthieu Bloch (Georgia Institute of Technology & Georgia Tech Lorraine, France)
An LP Lower Bound for Rate Distortion with Variable Side Information
Sinem Unal (Cornell University, USA)
Aaron Wagner (Cornell University, USA)
Multiterminal Compress-and-Estimate Source Coding
Alon Kipnis (Stanford University, USA)
Stefano Rini (National Chiao Tung University, USA)
Andrea Goldsmith (Stanford University, USA)
Mo-PM-1-9: JKW Award Finalists / Interference
Session Chair: Amos Lapidoth
Monday 15:10-16:50
Room: 40.S02
Guiding Blind Transmitters for K-user MISO Interference Relay Channels with Imperfect Channel Knowledge
Wonjae Shin (Seoul National University, Korea)
Namyoon Lee (POSTECH, Korea)
Jungwoo Lee (Seoul National University, Korea)
H. Vincent Poor (Princeton University, USA)
Topological Interference Management with Decoded Message Passing
Xinping Yi (Technische Universität Berlin, Germany)
Giuseppe Caire (Technische Universität Berlin, Germany)
Topological Interference Management with Reconfigurable Antennas
Heecheol Yang (Seoul National University, Korea)
Navid NaderiAlizadeh (University of Southern California, USA)
Salman Avestimehr (University of Southern California, USA)
Jungwoo Lee (Seoul National University, Korea)
Blind Interference Alignment for Private Information Retrieval [JKW Award Finalist]
Hua Sun (University of California, Irvine, USA)
Syed Ali Jafar (University of California Irvine, USA)
Distributed Simulation of Continuous Random Variables [JKW Award Finalist]
Cheuk Ting Li (Stanford University, USA)
Abbas El Gamal (Stanford University, USA)
Mo-PM-2-1: Information Measures 1
Session Chair: Mokshay Madiman
Monday 17:10-18:30
Room: 40.002
Evaluating hypercontractivity parameters using information measures
Chandra Nair (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Yan Nan Wang (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Information Decomposition on Structured Space
Mahito Sugiyama (Osaka University, Japan)
Hiroyuki Nakahara (RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Japan)
Koji Tsuda (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
Chained Kullback-Leibler Divergences
Dmitri Pavlichin (Stanford University, USA)
Tsachy Weissman (Stanford University, USA)
Operational Interpretation of Rényi Conditional Mutual Information via Composite Hypothesis Testing Against Markov Distributions
Marco Tomamichel (The University of Sydney, Australia)
Masahito Hayashi (Nagoya University, Japan)
Mo-PM-2-2: Communications
Session Chair: Angel Lozano
Monday 17:10-18:50
Room: 40.144
Lower Bounds on Joint Modulation-Estimation Performance for the Gaussian MAC
Ayşe Ünsal (INSA Lyon, France)
Raymond Knopp (Institut Eurecom, France)
Neri Merhav (Technion, Israel)
Adaptive Protocols for Interactive Communication
Shweta Agrawal (I. I. T Delhi, India)
Ran Gelles (Princeton University, USA)
Amit Sahai (UCLA, USA)
Caching-Aided Multicast for Partial Information
Tetsunao Matsuta (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)
Tomohiko Uyematsu (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)
Achievable Rates of Soliton Communication Systems
Qun Zhang (University of South Australia, Australia)
Terence H. Chan (University of South Australia, Australia)
On the Soliton Spectral Efficiency in Non-linear Optical fibers
Pavlos Kazakopoulos (University of Athens, Greece)
Aris L. Moustakas (University of Athens, Greece)
Mo-PM-2-3: Coding for Insertion and Deletion Channels
Session Chair: Lara Dolecek
Monday 17:10-18:50
Room: 40.146
Exact Sequence Reconstruction for Insertion-Correcting Codes
Frederic Sala (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
Ryan Gabrys (Spawar Systems Center San Diego)
Clayton Schoeny (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
Kayvon Mazooji (UCLA, USA)
Lara Dolecek (UCLA, USA)
Efficiently decodable insertion/deletion codes for high-noise and high-rate regimes
Venkatesan Guruswami (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Ray Li (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
On Ordered Syndromes for Multi Insertion/Deletion Error-Correcting Codes
Manabu Hagiwara (Chiba University, Japan)
Codes Correcting a Burst of Deletions or Insertions
Clayton Schoeny (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
Antonia Wachter-Zeh (Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Israel)
Ryan Gabrys (UIUC, USA)
Eitan Yaakobi (Technion, Israel)
Coding of Insertion-Deletion-Substitution Channels without Markers
Rhyohei Goto (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)
Kenta Kasai (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)
Haruhiko Kaneko (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)
Mo-PM-2-4: Distributed Storage 4
Session Chair: Soheil Mohajer
Monday 17:10-18:50
Room: 40.148
Bounds and Constructions of Codes with Multiple Localities
Alexander Zeh (Technion, Israel)
Eitan Yaakobi (Technion, Israel)
Recursive Bounds for Locally Repairable Codes with Multiple Repair Groups
Jie Hao (Tsinghua University, P.R. China)
Shutao Xia (Tsinghua University, P.R. China)
Bin Chen (South China Normal University, P.R. China)
A Connection Between Locally Repairable Codes and Exact Regenerating Codes
Toni Ernvall (University of Turku, Finland)
Thomas Westerbäck (Aalto University, Finland)
Ragnar Freij-Hollanti (Aalto University, Finland)
Camilla Hollanti (Aalto University, Finland)
Binary Codes with Locality for Multiple Erasures Having Short Block Length
Balaji Srinivasan Babu (IISc, India)
K P Prasanth (Indian Institute of Science, India)
P. Vijay Kumar (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India)
Consecutive Switch Codes
Sarit Buzaglo (UCSD, USA)
Eitan Yaakobi (Technion, Israel)
Yuval Cassuto (Technion, Israel)
Paul H. Siegel (University of California, San Diego, USA)
Mo-PM-2-5: Compressed Sensing 1
Session Chair: Urbashi Mitra
Monday 17:10-18:30
Room: 40.004
The Replica-Symmetric Prediction for Compressed Sensing with Gaussian Matrices is Exact
Galen Reeves (Duke University, USA)
Henry D Pfister (Duke University, USA)
On the Design of Linear Projections for Compressive Sensing with Side Information
Meng-Yang Chen (University College London, United Kingdom)
Francesco Renna (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom)
Miguel Rodrigues (University College London, United Kingdom)
Phase transition and noise sensitivity of $\ell_p$-minimization for $0 \leq p \leq 1$
Haolei Weng (Columbia University, USA)
Le Zheng (Columbia University, USA)
Arian Maleki (Columbia University, USA)
Xiaodong Wang (Columbia University, USA)
Performance Trade-Offs in Multi-Processor Approximate Message Passing
Junan Zhu (NCSU, USA)
Ahmad Beirami (Duke University, MIT, USA)
Dror Baron (North Carolina State University, USA)
Mo-PM-2-6: Entropy
Session Chair: Imre Csiszar
Monday 17:10-18:50
Room: 40.006
Estimation of entropy rate and Rényi entropy rate for Markov chains
Sudeep Kamath (Princeton University, USA)
Sergio Verdú (Princeton University, USA)
Novel Lower Bounds on the Entropy Rate of Binary Hidden Markov Processes
Or Ordentlich (MIT, USA)
On the Entropy and Mutual Information of Point Processes
Francois Baccelli (UT Austin & The University of Texas at Austin, USA)
Jae Oh Woo (The University of Texas at Austin, USA)
Highly Sensitive Universal Statistical Test
Hirosuke Yamamoto (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
Qiqiang Liu (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
Thinning, photonic beamsplitting, and a general discrete entropy power inequality
Saikat Guha (Raytheon BBN Technologies, USA)
Jeffrey H Shapiro (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
Raul Garcia-Patron (Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)
Mo-PM-2-7: Interference in Wireless Networks 1
Session Chair: Pablo Piantanida
Monday 17:10-18:30
Room: 40.008
On Layered Erasure Interference Channels without CSI at Transmitters
Yan Zhu (Northwestern University, USA)
Cong Shen (University of Science and Technology of China, P.R. China)
Approximately achieving the feedback interference channel capacity with point-to-point codes
Joyson Sebastian (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
Can Karakus (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
Suhas Diggavi (University of California Los Angeles, USA)
On the Two-User MISO Interference Channel with Single User Decoding and Partial CSIT
Yair Noam (Bar Ilan University, Israel)
Naama Kimelfeld (Bar Ilan University, Israel)
Benjamin Zaidel (Bar Ilan University)
GDoF region characterization of the weak MIMO IC with No CSIT
Sanjay Karmakar (North Dakota State University, USA)
Mo-PM-2-8: Lossy Compression 2
Session Chair: Stefano Rini
Monday 17:10-18:30
Room: 40.010
Quasi Linear Codes: Application to Point-to-Point and Multi-Terminal Source Coding
Farhad Shirani Chaharsooghi (University of Michigan, USA)
Mohsen Heidari Khoozani (University of Michigan, USA)
Sandeep Pradhan (University Michigan, USA)
A General Rate-Distortion Converse Bound for Entropy-Constrained Scalar Quantization
Tobias Koch (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid & Gregorio Marañón Health Research Institute, Spain)
Gonzalo Vazquez-Vilar (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain)
Information Rates of Sampled Wiener Processes
Alon Kipnis (Stanford University, USA)
Yonina C. Eldar (Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Israel)
Andrea Goldsmith (Stanford University, USA)
On the Smooth Rényi Entropy and Variable-Length Source Coding Allowing Errors
Shigeaki Kuzuoka (Wakayama University, Japan)
Mo-PM-2-9: JKW Award Finalists 2
Session Chair: Elza Erkip
Monday 17:10-18:30
Room: 40.S02
Minimax Estimation of the $L_1$ Distance [JKW Award Finalist]
Jiantao Jiao (Stanford University, USA)
Yanjun Han (Stanford University, USA)
Tsachy Weissman (Stanford University, USA)
Finite-Sample Analysis of Approximate Message Passing [JKW Award Finalist]
Cynthia Rush (Yale University, USA)
Ramji Venkataramanan (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom)
Strengthened Monotonicity of Relative Entropy via Pinched Petz Recovery Map [JKW Award Finalist]
David Sutter (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
Marco Tomamichel (The University of Sydney, Australia)
Aram W Harrow (MIT)
A Large Deviations Approach to Secure Lossy Compression [JKW Award Finalist]
Nir Weinberger (Technion, Israel)
Neri Merhav (Technion, Israel)
Tu-AM-1-1: Belief Propagation
Session Chair: Ruediger Urbanke
Tuesday 10:20-11:40
Room: 40.002
Effects of the approximations from BP to AMP for small-sized problems
Arise Kuriya (Kyoto University, Japan)
Toshiyuki Tanaka (Kyoto University, Japan)
EXIT Analysis for Belief Propagation in Degree-Correlated Stochastic Block Models
Hussein Saad (University of Texas at Dallas, USA)
Ahmed Abotabl (University of Texas at Dallas, USA)
Aria Nosratinia (University of Texas, Dallas, USA)
Clustering from Sparse Pairwise Measurements
Alaa Saade (Ecole Normale Supérieure, France)
Florent Krzakala (Ecole Normale Superieure, France)
Marc Lelarge (INRIA and ENS, France)
Lenka Zdeborova (Institut de Physique Theorique IPhT, CEA Saclay and CNRS, France)
Low-Complexity Stochastic Generalized Belief Propagation
Farzin Haddadpour (Sharif University of Technology, Iran)
Mahdi Jafari Siavoshani (Sharif University of Technology, Iran)
Morteza Noshad (University of Michigan, USA)
Tu-AM-1-2: Cryptography and Security 1
Session Chair: Paul Cuff
Tuesday 10:20-11:40
Room: 40.144
New Perspectives on Weak Oblivious Transfer
Ueli Maurer (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
João Ribeiro (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
Soft McEliece: MDPC code-based McEliece cryptosystems with very compact keys through real-valued intentional errors
Marco Baldi (Università Politecnica delle Marche, Italy)
Paolo Santini (Università Politecnica delle Marche, Italy)
Franco Chiaraluce (Università Politecnica delle Marche, Italy)
An Encryption Scheme based on Random Split of St-Gen Codes
Simona Samardjiska (Ss Cyril and Methodius” University, Skopje, Macedonia & Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering, Macedonia, the former Yugoslav Republic of)
Danilo Gligoroski (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway)
Inter-Class vs. Mutual Information as Side-Channel Distinguishers
Olivier Rioul (Telecom ParisTech & Ecole Polytechnique, France)
Annelie Heuser (Telecom ParisTech, France)
Sylvain Guilley (Telecom ParisTech & Secure IC, France)
Jean-Luc Danger (Telecom ParisTech & Secure IC, France)
Tu-AM-1-3: Polar Codes 3
Session Chair: Ivana Maric
Tuesday 10:20-11:20
Room: 40.146
Energy Complexity of Polar Codes
Christopher Blake (University of Toronto, Canada)
Frank R. Kschischang (University of Toronto, Canada)
Simplified Successive-Cancellation List Decoding of Polar Codes
Seyyed Ali Hashemi (McGill University, Canada)
Carlo Condo (McGill University, Canada)
Warren Gross (McGill University, Canada)
Erasure Schemes Using Generalized Polar Codes: Zero-Undetected-Error Capacity and Performance Trade-offs
Rajai Nasser (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland)
Tu-AM-1-4: Distributed Storage 5
Session Chair: Urs Niesen
Tuesday 10:20-11:20
Room: 40.148
Symmetry, Demand Types and Outer Bounds in Caching Systems
Chao Tian (The University of Tennessee Knoxville, USA)
Caching and Delivery via Interference Elimination
Chao Tian (The University of Tennessee Knoxville, USA)
Jun Chen (McMaster University, Canada)
Content Delivery in Erasure Broadcast Channels with Cache and Feedback
Asma Ghorbel (CentraleSupelec, France)
Mari Kobayashi (Supelec, France)
Sheng Yang (Supélec, France)
Tu-AM-1-5: Clustering
Session Chair: Yihong Wu
Tuesday 10:20-11:40
Room: 40.004
Crossing the KS threshold in the stochastic block model with information theory
Emmanuel Abbe (Princeton University, USA)
Colin Sandon (Princeton University, USA)
Cluster-Seeking Shrinkage Estimators
Pavan Srinath (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom)
Ramji Venkataramanan (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom)
On deterministic conditions for subspace clustering under missing data
Wenqi Wang (Purdue University, USA)
Shuchin Aeron (Tufts University, USA)
Vaneet Aggarwal (Purdue University, USA)
An Unconventional Clustering Problem: User Service Profile Optimization
Fabio D’Andreagiovanni (ECMath MATHEON and ZIB Berlin, Germany)
Giuseppe Caire (Technische Universität Berlin, Germany)
Tu-AM-1-6: Wireless Communications 2
Session Chair: Changho Suh
Tuesday 10:20-11:40
Room: 40.006
Two-Stage Compressed Sensing for Millimeter Wave Channel Estimation
Yonghee Han (Seoul National University, Korea)
Jungwoo Lee (Seoul National University, Korea)
Ginibre Sampling and Signal Reconstruction
Flavio Zabini (University of Bologna, Italy)
Andrea Conti (ENDIF University of Ferrara, WiLAB University of Bologna, Italy)
Statistical Group Sparse Beamforming for Green Cloud-RAN via Large System Analysis
Yuanming Shi (ShanghaiTech University, P.R. China)
Jun Zhang (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)
Khaled B. Letaief (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)
Efficient Optimal Joint Channel Estimation and Data Detection for Massive MIMO Systems
Haider Alshamary (University of Iowa, USA)
Weiyu Xu (University of Iowa, USA)
Tu-AM-1-7: Channel Uncertainty and CSI
Session Chair: Haim Permuter
Tuesday 10:20-11:40
Room: 40.008
A bit of delay is sufficient and stochastic encoding is necessary to overcome online adversarial erasures
Bikash K Dey (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India)
Sidharth Jaggi (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Michael Langberg (State University of New York at Buffalo, USA)
Anand D. Sarwate (Rutgers University, USA)
On the Capacity of the Dirty Paper Channel with Fast Fading and Discrete Channel States
Stefano Rini (National Chiao Tung University, USA)
Shlomo (Shitz) Shamai (The Technion, Israel)
When is Noisy State Information at the Encoder as Useless as No Information or as Good as Noise-Free State?
Rui Xu (McMaster University, Canada)
Jun Chen (McMaster University, Canada)
Tsachy Weissman (Stanford University, USA)
Jian-Kang Zhang (McMaster University, Canada)
Empirical Coordination, State Masking and State Amplification: Core of the Decoder’s Knowledge
Mael Le Treust (ETIS / ENSEA, Université Cergy-Pontoise, CNRS, France)
Matthieu Bloch (Georgia Institute of Technology & Georgia Tech Lorraine, France)
Tu-AM-1-8: Channel Capacity 1
Session Chair: Anatoly Khina
Tuesday 10:20-11:40
Room: 40.010
Capacity and Degree-of-Freedom of OFDM Channels with Amplitude Constraint
Saeid Haghighatshoar (Technische Universität Berlin, Germany)
Peter Jung (TU-Berlin, Communications and Information Theory Group & Fraunhofer HHI – Heinrich Hertz Institute, Germany)
Giuseppe Caire (Technische Universität Berlin, Germany)
Algorithmic Aspects of Optimal Channel Coding
Siddharth Barman (Indian Institute of Science, India)
Omar Fawzi (ENS de Lyon, France)
Algebraic Lattice Codes Achieve the Capacity of the Compound Block-Fading Channel
Antonio Campello (Télécom Paristech, France)
Cong Ling (Imperial College London, United Kingdom)
Jean-Claude Belfiore (Telecom Paristech & Huawei Technologies, France)
The Capacity of Online (Causal) $q$-ary Error-Erasure Channels
Zitan Chen (University of Maryland, USA)
Sidharth Jaggi (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Michael Langberg (State University of New York at Buffalo, USA)
Tu-AM-1-9: Reed-Solomon Codes
Session Chair: Ron Roth
Tuesday 10:20-11:40
Room: 40.150
On (Partial) Unit Memory Codes based on Reed-Solomon Codes for Streaming
Margreta Kuijper (University of Melbourne, Australia)
Martin Bossert (Ulm University, Germany)
On Deep Holes of Projective Reed-Solomon Codes
Jun Zhang (Capital Normal University, P.R. China)
Daqing Wan (University of California, Irvine, USA)
Using Reed-Solomon codes in the $(U|U+V)$ construction and an application to cryptography
Irene Márquez-Corbella (Inria Paris)
Jean-Pierre Tillich (INRIA, France)
Balanced Reed-Solomon Codes
Wael Halbawi (California Institute of Technology, USA)
Zihan Liu (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Babak Hassibi (California Institute of Technology, USA)
Tu-AM-2-1: Constrained Coding 3
Session Chair: Osvaldo Simeone
Tuesday 12:00-13:20
Room: 40.002
d-imbalance WOM Codes for Reduced Inter-Cell Interference in Multi-Level NVMs
Evyatar Hemo (Technion – Institute of Technology, Israel)
Yuval Cassuto (Technion, Israel)
On the Capacity of Non-Binary Write-Once Memory
Michal Horovitz (Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Israel)
Eitan Yaakobi (Technion, Israel)
Write Sneak-Path Constraints Avoiding Disturbs in Memristor Crossbar Arrays
Yuval Cassuto (Technion, Israel)
Shahar Kvatinsky (Technion, Israel)
Eitan Yaakobi (Technion, Israel)
Performance of Flash Memories with Different Binary Labelings: A Multi-User Perspective
Pengfei Huang (University of California, San Diego, USA)
Paul H. Siegel (University of California, San Diego, USA)
Eitan Yaakobi (Technion, Israel)
Tu-AM-2-2: Statistical Inference 1
Session Chair: Ofer Shayevitz
Tuesday 12:00-13:20
Room: 40.144
Minimax Structured Normal Means Inference
Akshay Krishnamurthy (Microsoft Research, USA)
Minimax Lower Bounds for Linear Independence Testing
David Isenberg (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Aaditya Ramdas (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
Aarti Singh (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Larry Wasserman (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Chernoff Information of Bottleneck Gaussian Trees
Binglin Li (Tsinghua University, Beijing, P.R. China)
Shuangqing Wei (Louisiana State University, USA)
Yue Wang (Tsinghua University, P.R. China)
Jian Yuan (Tsinghua University, P.R. China)
The rates of convergence of neural network estimates of hierarchical interaction regression models
Michael Kohler (Technische Universitat Darmstad, Germany)
Adam Krzyżak (Concordia University, Canada)
Tu-AM-2-3: Polar Codes 4
Session Chair: Ido Tal
Tuesday 12:00-13:20
Room: 40.146
Polar Codes and Polar Lattices for Independent Fading Channels
Ling Liu (Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering Imperial College London, United Kingdom)
Cong Ling (Imperial College London, United Kingdom)
Polar Coding for the Multiple Access Wiretap Channel via Rate-Splitting and Cooperative Jamming
Remi A Chou (Pennsylvania State University, USA)
Aylin Yener (Pennsylvania State University, USA)
Polar Coded Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access
Jincheng Dai (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China)
Kai Niu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China)
Zhongwei Si (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China)
Jiaru Lin (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China)
Polar Codes for Broadcast Channels with Receiver Message Side Information and Noncausal State Available at the Encoder
Jin Sima (Tsinghua University, P.R. China)
Wei Chen (Tsinghua University, P.R. China)
Tu-AM-2-4: Distributed Storage 6
Session Chair: Kenneth Shum
Tuesday 12:00-13:20
Room: 40.148
Design of Membership Matrices for (r, t)-Availability in Distributed Storage
Yi-Sheng Su (Chang Jung Christian University, Taiwan)
Centralized Repair of Multiple Node Failures
Ankit Singh Rawat (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Onur Ozan Koyluoglu (The University of Arizona, USA)
Sriram Vishwanath (University of Texas Austin, USA)
Combinatorial and LP bounds for LRC codes
Sihuang Hu (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
Itzhak Tamo (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
Alexander Barg (University of Maryland, USA)
Reliability-Bandwidth Tradeoffs for Distributed Storage Allocations
Siddhartha Brahma (University of Neuchatel, Switzerland)
Hugues Mercier (Université de Neuchâtel, Switzerland)
Tu-AM-2-5: Information Theory in Biology 2
Session Chair: Manoj Gopalkrishnan
Tuesday 12:00-13:20
Room: 40.004
Overlap-Based Genome Assembly from Variable-Length Reads
Joseph Hui (UC Berkeley, USA)
Ilan Shomorony (UC Berkeley, USA)
Kannan Ramchandran (University of California at Berkeley, USA)
Thomas Courtade (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
On the Capacity of Diffusion-Based Molecular Timing Channels
Nariman Farsad (Stanford University, USA)
Yonathan Murin (Stanford University, USA)
Andrew Eckford (York University, Canada)
Andrea Goldsmith (Stanford University, USA)
Duplication-Correcting Codes for Data Storage in the DNA of Living Organisms
Siddharth Jain (California Institute of Technology, USA)
Farzad Farnoud (Hassanzadeh) (California Institute of Technology, USA)
Moshe Schwartz (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel)
Jehoshua Bruck (California Institute of Technology, USA)
Distribution of First Arrival Position in Molecular Communication
Yen-Chi Lee (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
Chiun-Chuan Chen (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
Ping-Cheng Yeh (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
Chia-Han Lee (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
Tu-AM-2-6: Inequalities 1
Session Chair: Sudeep Kamath
Tuesday 12:00-13:20
Room: 40.006
Equivalent characterization of reverse Brascamp-Lieb-type inequalities using information measures
Salman Beigi (Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences, Iran)
Chandra Nair (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Smoothing Brascamp-Lieb Inequalities and Strong Converses for Common Randomness Generation
Jingbo Liu (Princeton University, USA)
Thomas Courtade (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
Paul Cuff (Princeton University, USA)
Sergio Verdú (Princeton University, USA)
Brascamp-Lieb Inequality and Its Reverse: An Information Theoretic View
Jingbo Liu (Princeton University, USA)
Thomas Courtade (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
Paul Cuff (Princeton University, USA)
Sergio Verdú (Princeton University, USA)
On additive-combinatorial affine inequalities for Shannon entropy and differential entropy
Ashok Makkuva (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
Yihong Wu (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA)
Tu-AM-2-7: Multiple Antennas 2
Session Chair: Dongning Guo
Tuesday 12:00-13:20
Room: 40.008
The Capacity of Discrete-Time Gaussian MIMO Channels with Periodic Characteristics
Nir Shlezinger (Ben Gurion University, Israel)
Ron Dabora (Ben-Gurion University, Israel)
Universal Outage Behavior of Randomly Precoded Integer Forcing Over MIMO Channels
Elad Domanovitz (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
Uri Erez (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
Dispersion of the Coherent MIMO Block-Fading Channel
Austin Collins (MIT, USA)
Yury Polyanskiy (MIT, USA)
On the Symmetries and the Capacity Achieving Input Covariance Matrices of Multiantenna Channels
Mario Diaz (Queen’s University, Canada)
Tu-AM-2-8: Multi-Terminal Source Coding 2
Session Chair: Bobak Nazer
Tuesday 12:00-13:20
Room: 40.010
Privacy-Constrained Remote Source Coding
Kittipong Kittichokechai (Technische Universität Berlin, Germany)
Giuseppe Caire (Technische Universität Berlin, Germany)
Distributed Information-Theoretic Biclustering
Georg Pichler (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)
Pablo Piantanida (CentraleSupélec-CNRS-Université Paris-Sud, France)
Gerald Matz (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)
Practical Interactive Scheme for Extremum Computation in Distributed Networks
Solmaz Torabi (Drexel University, USA)
Jie Ren (Drexel University, USA)
John M. Walsh (Drexel University, USA)
Universal decoding for source-channel coding with side information
Neri Merhav (Technion, Israel)
Tu-AM-2-9: BCH Codes / Quasi-Cyclic Codes
Session Chair: Margreta Kuijper
Tuesday 12:00-13:20
Room: 40.150
Generalized Integrated Interleaving BCH Codes
Yingquan Wu (Micron Technology, USA)
Long Cyclic Codes over GF(4) and GF(8) Better Than BCH Codes in the High-Rate Region
Ron M. Roth (Technion, Israel)
Alexander Zeh (Technion, Israel)
On Spectral Design Methods for Quasi-Cyclic Codes
Ron M. Roth (Technion, Israel)
Alexander Zeh (Technion, Israel)
Spectral Analysis of Quasi-Cyclic Product Codes
Alexander Zeh (Technion, Israel)
San Ling (NTU, Singapore)
Tu-PM-1-1: Information Measures 2
Session Chair: Babak Hassibi
Tuesday 15:10-16:50
Room: 40.002
Estimation of KL Divergence Between Large-Alphabet Distributions
Yuheng Bu (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA)
Shaofeng Zou (Syracuse University, USA)
Yingbin Liang (Syracuse University, USA)
Venugopal Veeravalli (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
On Projections of the Rényi Divergence on Generalized Convex Sets
M. Ashok Kumar (Indian Insitute of Technology, India)
Igal Sason (Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Israel)
Information concentration for convex measures
Jiange Li (University of Delaware, USA)
Matthieu Fradelizi (Université Paris-Est, France)
Mokshay Madiman (University of Delaware, USA)
Improving Convergence of Divergence Functional Ensemble Estimators
Kevin Moon (University of Michigan, USA)
Kumar Sricharan (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA)
Kristjan Greenewald (University of Michigan, USA)
Alfred Hero III (University of Michigan, USA)
Approximating probability distributions with short vectors, via information theoretic distance measures
Ferdinando Cicalese (Università di Verona)
Luisa Gargano (University of Salerno, Italy)
Ugo Vaccaro (University of Salerno, Italy)
Tu-PM-1-2: Learning 1
Session Chair: Robert Calderbank
Tuesday 15:10-16:50
Room: 40.144
Speeding Up Distributed Machine Learning Using Codes
Kangwook Lee (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
Maximilian Lam (UC Berkeley, USA)
Ramtin Pedarsani (UC Berkeley, USA)
Dimitris Papailiopoulos (UC Berkeley, USA)
Kannan Ramchandran (University of California at Berkeley, USA)
Minimax Lower Bounds for Kronecker-Structured Dictionary Learning
Zahra Shakeri (Rutgers University, USA)
Waheed U. Bajwa (Rutgers University, USA)
Anand D. Sarwate (Rutgers University, USA)
Feeling the Bern: Adaptive Estimators for Bernoulli Probabilities of Pairwise Comparisons
Nihar B Shah (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
Sivaraman Balakrishnan (CMU, USA)
Martin Wainwright (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
Interventional Dependency Graphs: an Approach for Discovering Influence Structure
Jalal Etesami (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
Negar Kiyavash (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
Deep Convolutional Neural Networks on Cartoon Functions
Philipp Grohs (ETH Zuerich, Switzerland)
Thomas Wiatowski (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
Helmut Bölcskei (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
Tu-PM-1-3: Superposition Codes / Group Testing 1
Session Chair: Andrew Barron
Tuesday 15:10-16:50
Room: 40.146
An Improved Upper Bound on Block Error Probability of Least Squares Superposition Codes with Unbiased Bernoulli Dictionary
Yoshinari Takeishi (Mitsubishi Electric Information Network Corporation, Japan)
Junichi Takeuchi (Kyushu University, Japan)
Proof of Threshold Saturation for Spatially Coupled Sparse Superposition Codes
Jean Barbier (EPFL, Switzerland)
Mohamad Dia (EPFL & American University of Beirut, Switzerland)
Nicolas Macris (EPFL, Switzerland)
On Multistage Learning a Hidden Hypergraph
Arkadii Dyachkov (Moscow State University, Russia)
Ilya Vorobyev (Moscow State University, Russia)
Nikita Polyanskii (Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia)
Vladislav Shchukin (Moscow State University, Russia)
On a Hypergraph Approach to Multistage Group Testing Problems
Arkadii Dyachkov (Moscow State University, Russia)
Ilya Vorobyev (Moscow State University, Russia)
Nikita Polyanskii (Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia)
Vladislav Shchukin (Moscow State University, Russia)
Polar Coding for Group Testing
Sreechakra Goparaju (University of California, San Diego, USA)
Yonatan Kaspi (UCSD, USA)
Alexander Vardy (University of California San Diego, USA)
Lele Wang (Tel Aviv University & Stanford University, Israel)
Tu-PM-1-4: Distributed Storage 7
Session Chair: Salim El Rouayheb
Tuesday 15:10-16:50
Room: 40.148
Bounds for Batch Codes with Restricted Query Size
Hui Zhang (Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Israel)
Vitaly Skachek (University of Tartu, Estonia)
Constructions of Batch Codes with Near-Optimal Redundancy
Alexander Vardy (University of California San Diego, USA)
Eitan Yaakobi (Technion, Israel)
Explicit constructions of MDS array codes and RS codes with optimal repair bandwidth
Min Ye (UMD, USA)
Alexander Barg (University of Maryland, USA)
Spider Codes: Practical Erasure Codes for Distributed Storage Systems
Lluis Pamies-Juarez (WD Research, USA)
Cyril Guyot (WD Research, USA)
Robert Mateescu (WD Research, USA)
New Exact-Repair Codes for Distributed Storage Systems Using Matrix Determinant
Mehran Elyasi (University of Minnesota, USA)
Soheil Mohajer (University of Minnesota, USA)
Tu-PM-1-5: Data Compression
Session Chair: David Neuhoff
Tuesday 15:10-16:50
Room: 40.004
Lossless Compression of Binary Trees with Correlated Vertex Names
Abram Magner (UIUC, USA)
Krzysztof Turowski (Gdansk University of Technology, Poland)
Wojciech Szpankowski (Purdue University, USA)
Context Set Weighting Method
Zsolt Talata (University of Kansas, USA)
Hee Sun Kim (University of Kansas, USA)
A New Type Size Code for Universal One-to-One Compression of Parametric Sources
Nematollah Iri (Arizona State University, USA)
Oliver Kosut (Arizona State University, USA)
Cutset Width and Spacing for Reduced Cutset Coding of Markov Random Fields
Matthew G. Reyes (self-employed)
David L Neuhoff (University of Michigan, USA)
Generalisation of Kraft inequality for source coding into permutations
Kristo Visk (University of Tartu, Estonia)
Ago-Erik Riet (University of Tartu, Estonia)
Tu-PM-1-6: Heterogeneous Networks
Session Chair: Andrew Thangaraj
Tuesday 15:10-16:50
Room: 40.006
Throughput Maximization in Uncooperative Spectrum Sharing Networks
Thomas Stahlbuhk (Massachusetts Institute of Technology & MIT Lincoln Laboratory, USA)
Brooke Shrader (MIT Lincoln Laboratory, USA)
Eytan Modiano (MIT, USA)
Caching in Mobile HetNets: A Throughput-Delay Trade-off Perspective
Trung-Anh Do (Dankook University, Korea)
Sang-Woon Jeon (Andong National University, Korea)
Won-Yong Shin (Dankook University, Korea)
Cognitive Hierarchy Theory for Heterogeneous Uplink Multiple Access in the Internet of Things
Nof Abuzainab (Virginia Tech, USA)
Walid Saad (Virginia Tech, USA)
H. Vincent Poor (Princeton University, USA)
Bandlimited Field Estimation from Samples Recorded by a Location-Unaware Mobile Sensor
Animesh Kumar (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India)
Simultaneous Connectivity in Heterogeneous Cognitive Radio Networks
Michal Yemini (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)
Anelia Somekh-Baruch (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)
Reuven Cohen (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)
Amir Leshem (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)
Tu-PM-1-7: Feedback 2
Session Chair: Aylin Yener
Tuesday 15:10-16:50
Room: 40.008
Feedback Does Not Increase the Capacity of Compound Channels with Additive Noise
Sergey Loyka (University of Ottawa, Canada)
Charalambos D Charalambous (University of Cyprus, Cyprus)
The Zero-Error Capacity of the Gelfand-Pinsker Channel with a Feedback Link
Annina Bracher (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
Amos Lapidoth (ETHZ, Switzerland)
Conveying Data and State with Feedback
Shraga Bross (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)
Amos Lapidoth (ETHZ, Switzerland)
On Optimal Transmission Strategies for Channels with Noiseless Feedback
Marat V Burnashev (Institute for Information Transmission Problems, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia)
Hirosuke Yamamoto (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
Information Structures of Capacity Achieving Distribution for Channels with Memory and Feedback
Christos K Kourtellaris (University of Cyprus, Cyprus)
Charalambos D Charalambous (University of Cyprus, Cyprus)
Tu-PM-1-8: DoF in Wireless Networks
Session Chair: Natasha Devroye
Tuesday 15:10-16:50
Room: 40.010
Canonical Conditions for K/2 Degrees of Freedom
David Stotz (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
Syed Ali Jafar (University of California Irvine, USA)
Helmut Bölcskei (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
Shlomo (Shitz) Shamai (The Technion, Israel)
GDoF of the MISO BC: Bridging the Gap between Finite Precision CSIT and Perfect CSIT
Arash Gholami Davoodi (University of California, Irvine, USA)
Syed Ali Jafar (University of California Irvine, USA)
Degrees of Freedom of MIMO Y Channel with Multiple Relays
Tian Ding (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Xiaojun Yuan (ShanghaiTech University, P.R. China)
Soung Chang Liew (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Generalized DoF of the Symmetric K-User Interference Channel under Finite Precision CSIT
Arash Gholami Davoodi (University of California, Irvine, USA)
Syed Ali Jafar (University of California Irvine, USA)
Degrees of Freedom of the Bursty MIMO X Channel without Feedback
Shih-Yi Yeh (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
I-Hsiang Wang (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
Tu-PM-1-9: Combinatorial Coding Theory
Session Chair: Tuvi Etzion
Tuesday 15:10-16:50
Room: 40.150
PD-sets for Z4-linear codes: Hadamard and Kerdock codes
Roland Barrolleta (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain)
Merce Villanueva (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain)
Revisiting the Sanders-Bogolyubov-Ruzsa Theorem in $F_p^n$ and its Application to Non-malleable Codes
Divesh Aggarwal (EPFL, Switzerland)
Jop Briet (CWI, Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Two Classes of Zero Difference Balanced Functions and Their Optimal Constant Composition Codes
Yang Yang (Southwest Jiaotong University, P.R. China)
Zhengchun Zhou (Southwest Jiaotong University, P.R. China)
Xiaohu Tang (SWJTU, P.R. China)
Rate-distance tradeoff for codes above graph capacity
Daniel F Cullina (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
Marco Dalai (University of Brescia, Italy)
Yury Polyanskiy (MIT, USA)
Metrics based on Finite Directed Graphs
Marcelo Firer (State University of Campinas – UNICAMP, Brazil)
Tuvi Etzion (Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Israel)
Tu-PM-2-1: Network Structures
Session Chair: Chandra Nair
Tuesday 17:10-18:10
Room: 40.002
Quickest Detection of Markov Networks
Javad Heydari (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA)
Ali Tajer (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA)
H. Vincent Poor (Princeton University, USA)
Information-Theoretic Lower Bounds for Recovery of Diffusion Network Structures
Keehwan Park (Purdue University, USA)
Jean Honorio (Purdue University, USA)
Inference of latent network features via co-intersection representations of graphs
Hoang Dau (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
Olgica Milenkovic (UIUC, USA)
Tu-PM-2-2: Cryptography and Security 2
Session Chair: Gilles Zemor
Tuesday 17:10-18:30
Room: 40.144
A p -ary MDPC scheme
Qian Guo (Lund University & Lund University, Sweden)
Thomas Johansson (Lund University, Sweden)
Lower Bounds and Optimal Protocols for Three-Party Secure Computation
Sundara Rajan S (IIT Madras, India)
Shijin Rajakrishnan (IIT Madras, India)
Andrew Thangaraj (IIT Madras, India)
Vinod M Prabhakaran (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India)
Worst case QC-MDPC decoder for McEliece cryptosystem
Julia Chaulet (Inria & Thales Communication and Security, France)
Nicolas Sendrier (INRIA, France)
Message Partitioning and Limited Auxiliary Randomness: Alternatives to Honey Encryption
AmirEmad Ghassami (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
Daniel F Cullina (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
Negar Kiyavash (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
Tu-PM-2-3: Group Testing 2
Session Chair: Arya Mazumdar
Tuesday 17:10-18:30
Room: 40.146
Estimating the Number of Defectives with Group Testing
Moein Falahatgar (University of California San Diego, USA)
Ashkan Jafarpour (University of California, San Diego, USA)
Alon Orlitsky (University of California, San Diego, USA)
Venkatadheeraj Pichapati (UCSD, India)
Ananda Theertha Suresh (University of California, San Diego, USA)
Improved group testing rates with constant column weight designs
Matthew Aldridge (University of Bath & Heilbronn Institute for Mathematical Research, United Kingdom)
Oliver Johnson (University of Bristol, United Kingdom)
Jonathan Scarlett (EPFL, Switzerland)
Data Extraction via Histogram and Arithmetic Mean Queries: Fundamental Limits and Algorithms
I-Hsiang Wang (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
Shao-Lun Huang (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
Kuan-Yun Lee (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
Kwang-Cheng Chen (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
Secure Group Testing
Alejandro Cohen (Ben-Gurion University, Israel)
Asaf Cohen (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel)
Omer Gurewitz (Ben-Gurion University Of The Negev, Israel)
Tu-PM-2-4: Distributed Storage 8
Session Chair: Sriram Vishwanath
Tuesday 17:10-18:30
Room: 40.148
Staircase Codes for Secret Sharing with Optimal Communication and Read Overheads
Rawad Bitar (Illinois Institute of Technology, USA)
Salim El Rouayheb (Illinois Institute of Technology, USA)
Secure RAID Schemes for Distributed Storage
Wentao Huang (California Institute of Technology, USA)
Jehoshua Bruck (California Institute of Technology, USA)
The Rate Region of Secure Exact-Repair Regenerating Codes for 5 Nodes
Fangwei Ye (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Kenneth W. Shum (Institute of Network Coding, Hong Kong)
Raymond W. Yeung (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Private Information Retrieval from MDS Coded Data in Distributed Storage Systems
Razane Tajeddine (Illinois Institute of Technology, USA)
Salim El Rouayheb (Illinois Institute of Technology, USA)
Tu-PM-2-5: Compressed Sensing 2
Session Chair: Galen Reeves
Tuesday 17:10-18:30
Room: 40.004
Super-resolution MIMO radar
Reinhard Heckel (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
Variational Bayesian Dynamic Compressive Sensing
Hongwei Wang (Northwestern Polytechnical University, P.R. China)
Hang Yu (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Micheal Hoy (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Justin Dauwels (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Heping Wang (Northwestern Polytechnical University, P.R. China)
Support Recovery from Noisy Random Measurements via Weighted L1 Minimization
Jun Zhang (University of Southern California, USA)
Urbashi Mitra (University of Southern California, USA)
Kuan-Wen Huang (University of Southern California, USA)
Nicolò Michelusi (Purdue University, USA)
Adaptivity provably helps: information-theoretic limits on l-0 cost of non-adaptive sensing
Sanghamitra Dutta (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Pulkit Grover (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Tu-PM-2-6: Scheduling
Session Chair: Eytan Modiano
Tuesday 17:10-18:30
Room: 40.006
Routing with Blinkers: Online Throughput Maximization without Queue Length Information
Georgios S. Paschos (Huawei Technologies, France)
Mathieu Leconte (Huawei, France)
Apostolos Destounis (Huawei Technologies France Research Center, France)
Constructing Sub-exponentially Large Optical Priority Queues with Switches and Fiber Delay Lines
Bin Tang (Nanjing University, P.R. China)
Xiaoliang Wang (Nanjing University, P.R. China)
Cam-Tu Nguyen (Nanjing University, Vietnam)
Sanglu Lu (Nanjing University, P.R. China)
A General Optimality Condition of Link Scheduling for Emptying a Wireless Network
Qing He (Linköping University, Sweden)
Di Yuan (Linköping University, Sweden)
Anthony Ephremides (University of Maryland at College Park, USA)
Delay-optimal Computation Task Scheduling for Mobile-Edge Computing Systems
Juan Liu (HKUST, P.R. China)
Yuyi Mao (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)
Jun Zhang (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)
Khaled B. Letaief (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)
Tu-PM-2-7: Interference in Wireless Networks 2
Session Chair: Benjamin Zaidel
Tuesday 17:10-18:50
Room: 40.008
Collaboration Alignment in Distributed Interference Management in Uplink Cellular Systems
Borna Kananian (Sharif University of Technology, Iran)
Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali (Bell Labs, Alcatel Lucent, USA)
Seyed Pooya Shariatpanahi (Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM), Iran)
Babak Hossein Khalaj (Sharif University of Technology, Iran)
Cell Associations that Maximize the Average Uplink-Downlink Degrees of Freedom
Aly El Gamal (Purdue University, USA)
Network MIMO: Transmitters with no CSI Can Still be Very Useful
Paul de Kerret (EURECOM, France)
David Gesbert (Eurecom Institute, France)
Advanced Factorization Strategies for Lattice-Reduction-Aided Preequalization
Sebastian Stern (Ulm University, Germany)
Robert F.H. Fischer (Ulm University, Germany)
Real Interference Alignment for Vector Channels
Pritam Mukherjee (University of Maryland, USA)
Sennur Ulukus (University of Maryland, USA)
Tu-PM-2-8: Multiple Access Channels 2
Session Chair: Gregory Wornell
Tuesday 17:10-18:30
Room: 40.010
The Dirty MIMO Multiple-Access Channel
Anatoly Khina (California Institute of Technology, USA & Tel Aviv University, Israel)
Yuval Kochman (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)
Uri Erez (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
On the Capacity of Strong Asynchronous Multiple Access Channels with a Large Number of Users
Sara Shahi (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA)
Daniela Tuninetti (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA)
Natasha Devroye (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA)
Multiple Access Channel with Unreliable Cribbing
Wasim Huleihel (Technion & Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel)
Yossef Steinberg (Technion, Israel)
Helper-Assisted State Cancelation for Multiple Access Channels
Yunhao Sun (Syracuse University, USA)
Ruchen Duan (Samsung Semiconductor Inc., USA)
Yingbin Liang (Syracuse University, USA)
Ashish Khisti (University of Toronto, Canada)
Shlomo (Shitz) Shamai (The Technion, Israel)
Tu-PM-2-9: Lattice Codes
Session Chair: Hans-Andrea Loeliger
Tuesday 17:10-18:30
Room: 40.150
On LCD Codes and Lattices
Xiaolu Hou (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Frederique Oggier (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Voronoi Constellations for High-Dimensional Lattice Codes
Nuwan S. Ferdinand (University of Oulu, Finland)
Matthew Nokleby (Wayne State University, USA)
Behnaam Aazhang (Rice University, USA)
On The Construction of Capacity-Achieving Lattice Gaussian Codes
Wael Alghamdi (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia)
Walid Abediseid (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia)
Mohamed-Slim Alouini (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia)
Uniformity Properties of Construction C
Maiara Bollauf (University of Campinas, Brazil)
Ram Zamir (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
We-AM-1-1: Error Exponents 1
Session Chair: Tsachy Weissman
Wednesday 10:20-11:40
Room: 40.002
Exact Random Coding Secrecy Exponents for the Wiretap Channel
Mani Bastani Parizi (EPFL, Switzerland)
Emre Telatar (EPFL, Switzerland)
Neri Merhav (Technion, Israel)
Distributed Detection over Connected Networks via One-Bit Quantizer
Shengyu Zhu (Syracuse University, USA)
Biao Chen (Syracuse University, USA)
Computing the Optimal Exponent of Correct Decoding for Discrete Memoryless Sources
Yutaka Jitsumatsu (Kyushu University, Japan)
Yasutada Oohama (University of Electro-Communications, Japan)
Remaining Uncertainties and Exponents under Rényi Information Measures
Masahito Hayashi (Nagoya University, Japan)
Vincent Y. F. Tan (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
We-AM-1-2: Statistical Inference 2
Session Chair: Zsolt Talata
Wednesday 10:20-11:40
Room: 40.144
Asymptotically Achievable Error Probabilities for Multiple Hypothesis Testing
Pierre Moulin (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
Optimal Sequential Test with Finite Horizon and Constrained Sensor Selection
Shang Li (Columbia University, USA)
Xiaoou Li (Columbia University, USA)
Xiaodong Wang (Columbia University, USA)
Jingchen Liu (Columbia University, USA)
Deterministic Performance Analysis of Subspace Methods for Cisoid Parameter Estimation
Céline Aubel (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
Helmut Bölcskei (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
A statistical perspective of sampling scores for linear regression
Siheng Chen (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Rohan Varma (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Aarti Singh (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Jelena Kovacevic (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
We-AM-1-3: LDPC Codes 1
Session Chair: Henry Pfister
Wednesday 10:20-11:40
Room: 40.146
Guaranteed Error Correction of Faulty Bit-Flipping Decoders under Data-Dependent Gate Failures
Srdan Brkic (University of Belgrade, Serbia)
Predrag N. Ivanis (School of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade, Serbia)
Bane Vasić (University of Arizona, USA)
Performance Evaluation of Faulty Iterative Decoders using Absorbing Markov Chains
Predrag N. Ivanis (School of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade, Serbia)
Bane Vasić (University of Arizona, USA)
David Declercq (ETIS ENSEA/univ. of Cergy-Pontoise/CNRS, France)
Performance Analysis of Fault Erasure Belief Propagation Decoder based on Density Evolution
Hiroki Mori (Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan)
Tadashi Wadayama (Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan)
LDPC Decoders with Missing Connections
Linjia Chang (University of Illinois at Urbana-champaign, USA)
Avhishek Chatterjee (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
Lav R. Varshney (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
We-AM-1-4: Distributed Storage 9 / Deletion Channel
Session Chair: Alexander Vardy
Wednesday 10:20-11:40
Room: 40.148
Improved Erasure List Decoding Locally Repairable Codes Using Alphabet-Dependent List Recovery
Alexander Zeh (Technion, Israel)
Antonia Wachter-Zeh (Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Israel)
Bounds on the Maximal Minimum Distance of Linear Locally Repairable Codes
Antti Pöllänen (Aalto University, Finland)
Thomas Westerbäck (Aalto University, Finland)
Ragnar Freij-Hollanti (Aalto University, Finland)
Camilla Hollanti (Aalto University, Finland)
New Constructions of SD and MR Codes over Small Finite Fields
Guangda Hu (Princeton University, USA)
Sergey Yekhanin (Microsoft Research)
Sequence Reconstruction over the Deletion Channel
Ryan Gabrys (UIUC, USA)
Eitan Yaakobi (Technion, Israel)
We-AM-1-5: Wireless Communications 3
Session Chair: Salman Avestimehr
Wednesday 10:20-11:40
Room: 40.004
A Lower Bound on the Optimum Feedback Rate for Downlink Multi-Antenna Cellular Networks
Jeonghun Park (The University of Texas at Austin, USA)
Namyoon Lee (POSTECH, Korea)
Jeffrey Andrews (The University of Texas at Austin, USA)
Robert Heath (The University of Texas at Austin, USA)
An Uplink-Downlink Duality for Cloud Radio Access Network
Liang Liu (University of Toronto, Canada)
Pratik Patil (University of Toronto, Canada)
Wei Yu (University of Toronto, Canada)
Gaussian Approximation for the Downlink Interference in Heterogeneous Cellular Networks
Serkan Ak (Antalya International University, Turkey)
Hazer Inaltekin (Antalya International University, Turkey)
H. Vincent Poor (Princeton University, USA)
Downlink Outage Performance of Heterogeneous Cellular Networks
Serkan Ak (Antalya International University, Turkey)
Hazer Inaltekin (Antalya International University, Turkey)
H. Vincent Poor (Princeton University, USA)
We-AM-1-6: Game Theory
Session Chair: Gireeja Ranade
Wednesday 10:20-11:40
Room: 40.006
High Probability Guarantees in Repeated Games: Theory and Applications in Information Theory
Payam Delgosha (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
Amin Gohari (Sharif University of Technology, Iran)
Mohammad Akbarpour (Research Fellow, USA)
On the Role of Side Information In Strategic Communication
Emrah Akyol (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
Cédric Langbort (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
Tamer Başar (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
Dynamic Signaling Games under Nash and Stackelberg Equilibria
Serkan Sarıtaş (Bilkent University, Turkey)
Serdar Yüksel (Queen’s University, Canada)
Sinan Gezici (Bilkent University, Turkey)
Secondary Spectrum Market: To acquire or not to acquire side information?
Arnob Ghosh (University Of Pennsylvania, USA)
Saswati Sarkar (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
Randall A Berry (Northwestern University, USA)
We-AM-1-7: Information Measures 3
Session Chair: Victoria Kostina
Wednesday 10:20-11:40
Room: 40.008
Relations Between Conditional Shannon Entropy and Expectation of $\ell_{\alpha}$-Norm
Yuta Sakai (University of Fukui, Japan)
Ken-ichi Iwata (University of Fukui, Japan)
On the Minimum Mean p-th Error in Gaussian Noise Channels and its Applications
Alex Dytso (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA)
Ronit Bustin (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
Daniela Tuninetti (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA)
Natasha Devroye (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA)
H. Vincent Poor (Princeton University, USA)
Shlomo (Shitz) Shamai (The Technion, Israel)
Consistency of the Plug-In Estimator of the Entropy Rate for Ergodic Processes
Lukasz Jerzy Debowski (Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland)
A characterization of statistical manifolds on which the relative entropy is a Bregman divergence
Hiroshi Nagaoka (University of Electro-Communications, Japan)
We-AM-1-8: Relay Channels
Session Chair: Lalitha Sankar
Wednesday 10:20-11:40
Room: 40.010
Achievable Rate Regions for Cooperative Relay Broadcast Channels with Rate-limited Feedback
Youlong Wu (Technische Universität München, Germany)
Capacity of Two-Relay Diamond Networks with Rate-Limited Links to the Relays and a Binary Adder Multiple Access Channel
Shirin Saeedi Bidokhti (Stanford University, USA)
Gerhard Kramer (Technische Universität München, Germany)
An Achievable Rate Region for the Two-Way Multiple Relay Channel
Jonathan Ponniah (Texas A&M, USA)
Liang-Liang Xie (University of Waterloo, Canada)
Improving on The Cut-Set Bound for General Primitive Relay Channels
Xiugang Wu (Stanford University, USA)
Ayfer Özgür (Stanford University, USA)
We-AM-1-9: Quantum Capacity and Quantum Channels
Session Chair: Alexander Holevo
Wednesday 10:20-11:40
Room: 40.150
Entanglement Assisted Classical Capacity of Compound Quantum Channels
Stephan Kaltenstadler (Technical University of Munich, Germany)
Gisbert Janßen (Technische Universität München, Germany)
Holger Boche (Technical University Munich, Germany)
Quantum Capacities for Entanglement Networks
Shawn Cui (University of California Santa Barbara, USA)
Zhengfeng Ji (University of Technology Sydney, Australia)
Nengkun Yu (University of Waterloo, Canada)
Bei Zeng (University of Guelph, Canada)
A semidefinite programming upper bound of quantum capacity
Xin Wang (University of Technology Sydney, Australia)
Runyao Duan (University of Technology, Australia)
Operator Algebra Approach to Quantum Capacities
Marius Junge (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
Li Gao (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
Nicolas Laracuente (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
We-AM-P-1: Recent Results Poster Session (Wednesday 10:20-13:40)
A Permutation-based Model for Crowd Labeling: Optimal Estimation and Robustness
Nihar B. Shah (University of California at Berkeley, USA)
Sivaraman Balakrishnan (Carnegie Mellon, USA)
Martin J. Wainwright (University of California at Berkeley, USA)
Active Ranking from Pairwise Comparisons and the Futility of Parametric Assumptions
Reinhard Heckel (University of California at Berkeley, USA)
Nihar B. Shah (University of California at Berkeley, USA)
Kannan Ramchandran (University of California at Berkeley, USA)
Martin J. Wainwright (University of California at Berkeley, USA)
An Efficient Method to Recursively Encode Spatially Coupled LDPC Codes
Zhongwei Si (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
Sijie Wang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
Junyang Ma (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
Asymptotic Error Probability Expressions for the MAP Detector and Multidimensional Constellations
Alex Alvarado (University College London, United Kingdom)
Erik Agrell (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)
Fredrik Brännström (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)
Branching MERA Codes: Achieving Capacity
Andrew J. Ferris (ICFO, Spain)
Christoph Hirche (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain)
David Poulin (Université de Sherbrooke, Canada)
Catalytic Decoupling
Christian Majenz (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
Mario Berta (California Institute of Technology, USA)
Frédéric Dupuis (Masaryk University, Czech Republic)
Renato Renner (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
Matthias Christandl (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
Cooperative Data Exchange with Adversarial Clients
Anoosheh Heidarzadeh (Texas A&M University, USA)
Alex Sprintson (Texas A&M University, USA)
Degrees of Freedom of Full-Duplex Multicell Networks
Sung Ho Chae (Samsung Electronics, South Korea)
Sang-Woon Jeon (Andong National University, South Korea)
Sung Hoon Lim (EPFL, Switzerland)
Feedback Capacity of ARMA(1,2) Gaussian Channels
Tao Liu (The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Guangyue Han (The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Forward Secret-Key Distillation from Compound Memoryless Classical-Quantum-Quantum Sources
Holger Boche (Technische Universität München, Germany)
Gisbert Janßen (Technische Universität München, Germany)
Fundamental Limits of Cache-Aided Wireless BC: Interplay of Coded-Caching and CSIT Feedback
Jingjing Zhang (EURECOM, France)
Petros Elia (EURECOM, France)
Improving the Secrecy of Distributed Storage Systems using Interference Alignment
Natasa Paunkoska (University of Information Science and Technology, Republic of Macedonia)
Ninoslav Marina (University of Information Science and Technology, Republic of Macedonia)
Info-Clustering: A Mathematical Theory of Data Clustering
Chung Chan (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Network Coding for Extended Multiple Descriptions
Tao Guo (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Raymond W. Yeung (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
On Information Spreading in Multiplex Networks with Gossip Mechanism
Yufan Huang (North Carolina State University, USA)
Huaiyu Dai (North Carolina State University, USA)
Optimal Beamforming with Partial CSIT for Massive MISO Interfering Broadcast Channels and Large System Analysis
Wassim Tabikh (EURECOM, and Orange Labs, France)
Dirk Slock (EURECOM, France)
Yi Yuan-Wu (Orange Labs, France)
Optimal Design of Interdependent Networks
Srinjoy Chattopadhyay (North Carolina University, USA)
Huaiyu Dai (North Carolina State University, USA)
Optimally Bridging the Gap from Delayed to Perfect CSIT in the K-user MISO BC
Paul de Kerret (EURECOM, France)
David Gesbert (EURECOM, France)
Jingjing Zhang (EURECOM, France)
Petros Elia (EURECOM, France)
Performance Analysis of Regenerating Codes
Katina Kralevska (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway)
Danilo Gligoroski (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway)
Harald Øverby (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway)
Polar Coded Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access
Jincheng Dai (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
Kai Niu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
Zhongwei Si (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
Jiaru Lin (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
Rate-Cost Tradeoffs in Control
Victoria Kostina (California Institute of Technology, USA)
Babak Hassibi (California Institute of Technology, USA)
Rayleigh Quotient Based Analysis of MIMO Linear Receivers
Giusi Alfano (Politecnico di Torino, Italy)
Carla-Fabiana Chiasserini (Politecnico di Torino, Italy)
Alessandro Nordio (IEIIT CNR, Italy)
Two-Dimensional Golay Complementary Array Pairs
Cheng-Ting Chang (Yuan Ze University, Taiwan)
Ying Li (Yuan Ze University, Taiwan)
Unifying Generalized Weights for Security on Wire-Tap Networks
Umberto Martínez-Peñas (Aalborg University, Denmark)
Ryutaroh Matsumoto (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)
Universal Random Access Error Exponent for Codebooks with Different Word-Lengths
Lóránt Farkas (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary)
Tamás Kói (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary)
Universal Remote Generation of Continuous Random Variables
Cheuk Ting Li (Stanford University, USA)
Abbas El Gamal (Stanford University, USA)
We-AM-2-1: Error Exponents 2
Session Chair: Pierre Moulin
Wednesday 12:00-13:20
Room: 40.002
Unequal Error Protection Coding Approaches to the Noisy 20 Questions Problem
Hye Won Chung (University of Michigan, USA)
Lizhong Zheng (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
Brian Sadler (Army Research Laboratory, USA)
Alfred Hero III (University of Michigan, USA)
Collaborative Distributed Hypothesis Testing with General Hypotheses
Gil Katz (Supélec, France)
Pablo Piantanida (CentraleSupélec-CNRS-Université Paris-Sud, France)
Mérouane Debbah (Huawei, France)
Reliability of Sequential Hypothesis Testing Can Be Achieved by an Almost-Fixed-Length Test
Anusha Lalitha (University of California San Diego, USA)
Tara Javidi (UCSD, USA)
Bounds on the reliability of a typewriter channel
Marco Dalai (University of Brescia, Italy)
Yury Polyanskiy (MIT, USA)
We-AM-2-2: Statistical Inference 3
Session Chair: Maxim Raginsky
Wednesday 12:00-13:20
Room: 40.144
Asymptotically tight bounds on the depth of estimated context trees
Álvaro Martín (Universidad de la República, Uruguay)
Gadiel Seroussi (DTS Inc., Los Gatos, CA, USA, and Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay)
Structure Learning and Universal Coding when Missing Values Exist
Joe Suzuki (Osaka University, Japan)
Latent Tree Ensemble of Pairwise Copulas for Spatial Extremes Analysis
Hang Yu (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Junwei Huang (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Justin Dauwels (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Sparse Approximations of Directed Information Graphs
Christopher J Quinn (Purdue University, USA)
Ali Pinar (Sandia National Laboratories, USA)
Jing Gao (University at Buffalo, USA)
Lu Su (State University of New York at Buffalo, USA)
We-AM-2-3: LDPC Codes 2 / RM Codes
Session Chair: Ilya Dumer
Wednesday 12:00-13:40
Room: 40.146
Stopping Sets for MDS-based Product Codes
Fanny Jardel (Télécom ParisTech, France)
Joseph Jean Boutros (Texas A&M University at Qatar, Qatar)
Mireille Sarkiss (CEA LIST, France)
Probabilistic bounds on the trapping redundancy of linear codes
Yuichiro Fujiwara (Chiba University, Japan)
Yu Tsunoda (Chiba University, Japan)
Reed-Muller Codes Achieve Capacity on the Quantum Erasure Channel
Santhosh Kumar (Texas A&M University, USA)
Robert Calderbank (Duke University, USA)
Henry D Pfister (Duke University, USA)
Comparing the Bit-MAP and Block-MAP Decoding Thresholds of Reed-Muller Codes on BMS Channels
Shrinivas Kudekar (Qualcomm Research, USA)
Santhosh Kumar (Texas A&M University, USA)
Marco Mondelli (EPFL, Switzerland)
Henry D Pfister (Duke University, USA)
Ruediger L Urbanke (EPFL, Switzerland)
Enhanced Recursive Reed-Muller Erasure Decoding
Alexandre Soro (ISAE, France)
Jerome Lacan (University of Toulouse, France)
Vincent Roca (INRIA Rhône-Alpes, France)
Valentin Savin (CEA LETI, France)
Mathieu Cunche (INSA-Lyon / INRIA, France)
We-AM-2-4: Network Coding 1
Session Chair: Mayank Bakshi
Wednesday 12:00-13:40
Room: 40.148
A Characterization of the Capacity Region for Network Coding with Dependent Sources
Woong Kim (University at Buffalo, USA)
Michael Langberg (State University of New York at Buffalo, USA)
Michelle Effros (California Institute of Technology, USA)
On Tightness of an Entropic Region Outer Bound for Network Coding and the Edge Removal Property
Ming Fai Wong (California Institute of Technology, USA)
Michelle Effros (California Institute of Technology, USA)
Michael Langberg (State University of New York at Buffalo, USA)
A Reduction Approach to the Multiple-Unicast Conjecture in Network Coding
Xunrui Yin (University of Calgary, Canada)
Zongpeng Li (University of Calgary, Canada)
Xin Wang (Fudan University, P.R. China)
On the Relationship Between Edge Removal and Strong Converses
Oliver Kosut (Arizona State University, USA)
Joerg Kliewer (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA)
Can Negligible Cooperation Increase Network Reliability?
Parham Noorzad (California Institute of Technology, USA)
Michelle Effros (California Institute of Technology, USA)
Michael Langberg (State University of New York at Buffalo, USA)
We-AM-2-5: Information Theory in Biology 3
Session Chair: I-Hsiang Wang
Wednesday 12:00-13:20
Room: 40.004
Design of Geometric Molecular Bonds
David Doty (University of California, Davis, USA)
Andrew Winslow (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)
Fundamental limits on source-localization accuracy of EEG-based neural sensing
Pulkit Grover (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Partial DNA Assembly: A Rate-Distortion Perspective
Ilan Shomorony (UC Berkeley, USA)
Govinda M Kamath (Stanford University, India)
Fei Xia (Tsinghua University, P.R. China)
Thomas Courtade (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
David Tse (Stanford University, USA)
Shannon Capacity of Signal Transduction for Multiple Independent Receptors
Peter J Thomas (Case Western Reserve University, USA)
Andrew Eckford (York University, Canada)
We-AM-2-6: Caching and Computation
Session Chair: Jeff Andrews
Wednesday 12:00-13:20
Room: 40.006
New Proofs of Retrievability using Locally Decodable Codes
Julien Lavauzelle (LIX and INRIA Saclay, France)
Francoise Levy-dit-Vehel (ENSTA, France)
Fundamental Tradeoff between Computation and Communication in Distributed Computing
Songze Li (University of Southern California, USA)
Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali (Bell Labs, Alcatel Lucent, USA)
Salman Avestimehr (University of Southern California, USA)
Erasure Broadcast Networks with Receiver Caching
Shirin Saeedi Bidokhti (Stanford University, USA)
Roy Timo (Technische Universität München, Germany)
Michele A Wigger (Telecom ParisTech, France)
How to Compute Modulo Prime-Power Sums
Mohsen Heidari Khoozani (University of Michigan, USA)
Sandeep Pradhan (University Michigan, USA)
We-AM-2-7: Source-Channel Coding over BC
Session Chair: Shlomo Shamai (Shitz)
Wednesday 12:00-13:20
Room: 40.008
Energy-Distortion Tradeoff for the Gaussian Broadcast Channel with Feedback
Yonathan Murin (Stanford University, USA)
Yonatan Kaspi (UCSD, USA)
Ron Dabora (Ben-Gurion University, Israel)
Deniz Gündüz (Imperial College London, United Kingdom)
Distortion Bounds for Source Broadcast over Degraded Channel
Lei Yu (University of Science and Technology of China, P.R. China)
Houqiang Li (University of Science and Technology of China, P.R. China)
Weiping Li (University of Science and Technology of China, P.R. China)
On the Energy-Distortion Tradeoff for the Gaussian Broadcast Problem
Erman Köken (UC Riverside, USA)
Ertem Tuncel (UC Riverside, USA)
Joint Source-Channel Coding for Broadcasting Correlated Sources
Erman Köken (UC Riverside, USA)
Ertem Tuncel (UC Riverside, USA)
We-AM-2-8: Relay and Two Way Channels
Session Chair: Patrick Mitran
Wednesday 12:00-13:20
Room: 40.010
The Capacity Gap Calculation for Multi-Pair Bidirectional Gaussian Relay Networks Based on Successive Compute-and-Forward Strategy
Leila Ghabeli (Sharif University of Technology, Iran)
Milan S. Derpich (Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria, Chile)
Adaptation is Useless for Two Discrete Additive-Noise Two-Way Channels
Lin Song (Queen’s University, Canada)
Fady Alajaji (Queen’s University, Canada)
Tamas Linder (Queen’s University, Canada)
Capacity and Power Scaling Laws for Finite Antenna Amplify-and-Forward Relay Networks
David Simmons (University of Oxford, United Kingdom)
Justin P Coon (University of Oxford, United Kingdom)
Naqueeb Warsi (University of Oxford)
On Full Duplex Gaussian Relay Channels with Self-Interference
Arash Behboodi (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)
Anas Chaaban (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia)
Rudolf Mathar (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)
Mohamed-Slim Alouini (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia)
We-AM-2-9: Channel Capacity 2
Session Chair: Anand Sarwate
Wednesday 12:00-13:20
Room: 40.150
On the Capacity of Multilevel NAND Flash Memory Channels
Yonglong Li (The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Aleksandar Kavcic (University of Hawaii, USA)
Guangyue Han (The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Achievable Rates for Additive Isotropic α-Stable Noise Channels
Malcolm Egan (Université Blaise Pascal, France)
Mauro de Freitas (Université de Lille 1 and IEMN/IRCICA in France)
Laurent Clavier (Institut Mines-Telecom, Telecom Lille & IEMN / IRCICA, France)
Alban Goupil (Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne, France)
Gareth Peters (University College London London, United Kingdom)
Nourddine Azzaoui (Université Blaise Pascal – Clermont-Ferrand II, France)
On the Capacity of Fading Channels with Amplitude-Limited Inputs
Ahmad A ElMoslimany (Arizona State University, USA)
Tolga M. Duman (Bilkent University, Turkey)
Capacity of Block Rayleigh Fading Channels Without CSI
Mainak Chowdhury (Stanford University, USA)
Andrea Goldsmith (Stanford University, USA)
Th-AM-1-1: Community Detection
Session Chair: Emmanuel Abbe
Thursday 10:20-11:40
Room: 40.002
Active Learning for Community Detection in Stochastic Block Models
Akshay Gadde (University of Southern California, USA)
Eyal En Gad (University of Southern California, USA)
Salman Avestimehr (University of Southern California, USA)
Antonio Ortega (University of Southern California, USA)
Information Limits for Recovering a Hidden Community
Bruce Hajek (University of Illinois, USA)
Yihong Wu (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA)
Jiaming Xu (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
Community Detection with Colored Edges
Narae Ryu (KAIST, Korea)
Sae-Young Chung (KAIST, Korea)
Partial Recovery Bounds for the Sparse Stochastic Block Model
Jonathan Scarlett (EPFL, Switzerland)
Volkan Cevher (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland)
Th-AM-1-2: Code Construction and Analysis
Session Chair: Amir Banihashemi
Thursday 10:20-11:40
Room: 40.144
Short Block Length Code Design for Interference Channels
Shahrouz Sharifi (Arizona State University)
Mehdi Dabirnia (Bilkent University, Turkey)
A. Korhan Tanc (Kirklareli University, Turkey)
Tolga M. Duman (Bilkent University, Turkey)
Approaching the Capacity of AWGN Channels using Multi-Layer Raptor Codes and Superposition Modulation
Mahyar Shirvanimoghaddam (University of Newcastle, Australia)
Sarah J Johnson (University of Newcastle, Australia)
Two-Way Spinal Codes
Weiqiang Yang (Xidian University, P.R. China)
Ying Li (University of Xidian, P.R. China)
Xiaopu Yu (Xidian University, P.R. China)
Yue Sun (Xidian University, P.R. China)
Further Results on Independent Metropolis-Hastings-Klein Sampling
Zheng Wang (Imperial College London, United Kingdom)
Cong Ling (Imperial College London, United Kingdom)
Th-AM-1-3: LDPC Codes 3
Session Chair: Tadashi Wadayama
Thursday 10:20-11:40
Room: 40.146
Systematic Block Markov Superposition Transmission of Repetition Codes
Kechao Huang (Sun Yat-sen University, P.R. China)
Xiao Ma (Sun Yat-sen University, P.R. China)
Baoming Bai (Xidian University, P.R. China)
Computing Linear Transforms with Unreliable Components
Yaoqing Yang (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Pulkit Grover (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Soummya Kar (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Constructing Valid Convex Hull Inequalities for Single Parity-Check Codes Over Prime Fields
Eirik Rosnes (University of Bergen, Norway)
Michael Helmling (Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics ITWM, Germany)
Linear Programming Decoding of Binary Linear Codes for Symbol-Pair Read Channels
Shunsuke Horii (Waseda University, Japan)
Toshiyasu Matsushima (Waseda University, Japan)
Shigeichi Hirasawa (Waseda University, Japan)
Th-AM-1-4: Network Coding 2
Session Chair: Michael Langberg
Thursday 10:20-11:40
Room: 40.148
Vector Network Coding Based on Subspace Codes Outperforms Scalar Linear Network Coding
Tuvi Etzion (Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Israel)
Antonia Wachter-Zeh (Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Israel)
On the Construction of Jointly Superregular Lower Triangular Toeplitz Matrices
Jonas Hansen (Aalborg University, Denmark)
Jan Østergaard (Aalborg University, Denmark)
Johnny Kudahl (Bang & Olufsen A/S, Denmark)
John Madsen (Bang & Olufsen A/S, Denmark)
Generalized rank weights of reducible codes, optimal cases and related properties
Umberto Martínez-Peñas (Aalborg University, Denmark)
A Class of Non-Linearly Solvable Networks
Joseph Connelly (University of California, San Diego, USA)
Ken Zeger (University of California, San Diego, USA)
Th-AM-1-5: Energy Harvesting 2
Session Chair: Vincent Tan
Thursday 10:20-11:40
Room: 40.004
Subblock Energy-Constrained Codes for Simultaneous Energy and Information Transfer
Anshoo Tandon (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Mehul Motani (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Lav R. Varshney (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
Feedback Enhances Simultaneous Energy and Information Transmission in Multiple Access Channels
Selma Belhadj Amor (Inria, France)
Samir M. Perlaza (INRIA, France)
Ioannis Krikidis (University of Cyprus, Cyprus)
H. Vincent Poor (Princeton University, USA)
Capacity of Remotely Powered Communication
Dor Shaviv (Stanford University, USA)
Ayfer Özgür (Stanford University, USA)
Haim H Permuter (Ben-Gurion University, Israel)
Online Scheduling for Energy Harvesting Broadcast Channels with Finite Battery
Abdulrahman Baknina (University of Maryland, College Park, USA)
Sennur Ulukus (University of Maryland, USA)
Th-AM-1-6: Estimation
Session Chair: Prakash Narayan
Thursday 10:20-11:40
Room: 40.006
Privacy-Aware MMSE Estimation
Shahab Asoodeh (Queen’s University, Canada)
Fady Alajaji (Queen’s University, Canada)
Tamas Linder (Queen’s University, Canada)
A tiger by the tail: when multiplicative noise stymies control
Jian Ding (University of Chicago, USA)
Yuval Peres (Microsoft Research, USA)
Gireeja Ranade (Microsoft Research, USA)
Continuity and Robustness to Incorrect Priors in Estimation and Control
Graeme Baker (Queen’s University, Canada)
Serdar Yüksel (Queen’s University, Canada)
Uncertain Wiretap Channels and Secure Estimation
Moritz Wiese (KTH Royal Institute of Stockholm, Sweden)
Karl H. Johansson (KTH, Sweden)
Tobias J. Oechtering (KTH Royal Institute of Technology & School of Electrical Engineering, EE, Sweden)
Panagiotis Papadimitratos (KTH, Sweden)
Henrik Sandberg (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)
Mikael Skoglund (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)
▲ Array view
Th-AM-1-7: Source-Channel Coding over MAC
Session Chair: Gerhard Kramer
Thursday 10:20-11:40
Room: 40.008
On Lossy Transmission of Correlated Sources over a Multiple Access Channel
Basak Guler (The Pennsylvania State University, USA)
Deniz Gündüz (Imperial College London, United Kingdom)
Aylin Yener (Pennsylvania State University, USA)
Communicating Correlated Sources Over a MAC in the absence of a Gács-Körner Common Part
Arun Padakandla (Purdue University, USA)
New Sufficient Conditions for Multiple-Access Channel with Correlated Sources
Mohsen Heidari Khoozani (University of Michigan, USA)
Farhad Shirani Chaharsooghi (University of Michigan, USA)
Sandeep Pradhan (University Michigan, USA)
A Necessary Condition for the Transmissibility of Correlated Sources over a MAC
Amos Lapidoth (ETHZ, Switzerland)
Michele A Wigger (Telecom ParisTech, France)
Th-AM-1-8: Caching in Wireless Networks
Session Chair: Ron Dabora
Thursday 10:20-11:40
Room: 40.010
Cloud-Aided Wireless Networks with Edge Caching: Fundamental Latency Trade-Offs in Fog Radio Access Networks
Ravi Tandon (University of Arizona, USA)
Osvaldo Simeone (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA)
Cooperative Tx/Rx Caching in Interference Channels: A Storage-Latency Tradeoff study
Fan Xu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, P.R. China)
Kangqi Liu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, P.R. China)
Meixia Tao (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, P.R. China)
Topological Coded Caching
Xinping Yi (Technische Universität Berlin, Germany)
Giuseppe Caire (Technische Universität Berlin, Germany)
Fundamental Limits of Cache-Aided Interference Management
Navid NaderiAlizadeh (University of Southern California, USA)
Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali (Bell Labs, Alcatel Lucent, USA)
Salman Avestimehr (University of Southern California, USA)
Th-AM-1-9: Classical-Quantum Channels
Session Chair: Andreas Winter
Thursday 10:20-11:40
Room: 40.150
Classical-quantum channels with causal and non-causal channel state information at the sender
Holger Boche (Technical University Munich, Germany)
Ning Cai (Xidian University, P.R. China)
Janis Noetzel (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain)
Coding for classical-quantum channels with rate limited side information at the encoder: An information-spectrum approach
Naqueeb Warsi (University of Oxford)
Justin P Coon (University of Oxford, United Kingdom)
Classical-Quantum Arbitrarily Varying Wiretap Channel: Common Randomness Assisted Code and Continuity
Minglai Cai (Technische Universität München, Germany)
Holger Boche (Technical University Munich, Germany)
Christian Deppe (Technical University of Munich, Germany)
Janis Nötzel (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain)
Covert Communication over Classical-Quantum Channels
Azadeh Sheikholeslami (University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA)
Boulat Bash (Raytheon BBN Technologies, USA)
Don Towsley (University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA)
Dennis Goeckel (University of Massachusetts, USA)
Saikat Guha (Raytheon BBN Technologies, USA)
Th-AM-2-1: Lossy Compression and Rate-Distortion
Session Chair: Ram Zamir
Thursday 12:00-13:20
Room: 40.002
Optimal Differential Privacy Mechanisms under Hamming Distortion for Structured Source Classes
Kousha Kalantari (Arizona State University, USA)
Lalitha Sankar (Arizona State University, USA)
Anand D. Sarwate (Rutgers University, USA)
Analog Coding of a Source with Erasures
Marina Haikin (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
Ram Zamir (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
Rate-distortion dimension of stochastic processes
Farideh Ebrahim Rezagah (NYU (Alumni), USA)
Shirin Jalali (Bell Labs, USA)
Elza Erkip (New York University, USA)
H. Vincent Poor (Princeton University, USA)
Windowed Encoding of Spatially Coupled LDGM Codes for Lossy Source Compression
Ahmad Golmohammadi (New Mexico State University, USA)
David G. M. Mitchell (New Mexico State University, USA)
Joerg Kliewer (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA)
Daniel J. Costello, Jr. (University of Notre Dame, USA)
Th-AM-2-2: Learning 2
Session Chair: Venugopal Veeravalli
Thursday 12:00-13:20
Room: 40.144
Are Imperfect Reviews Helpful in Social Learning?
Tho Ngoc Le (Northwestern University, USA)
Vijay Subramanian (University of Michigan, USA)
Randall A Berry (Northwestern University, USA)
Pattern Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Finite-State Discrete-Time Markov Chains
Shashank Vatedka (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India)
Pascal Vontobel (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Rate-Distortion Bounds on Bayes Risk in Supervised Learning
Matthew Nokleby (Wayne State University, USA)
Ahmad Beirami (Duke University, MIT, USA)
Robert Calderbank (Duke University, USA)
An Explicit Rate Bound for the Over-Relaxed ADMM
Guilherme Franca (Boston College, USA)
Jose Bento (Boston College, USA)
Th-AM-2-3: LDPC Codes 4
Session Chair: Daniel Costello, Jr.
Thursday 12:00-13:40
Room: 40.146
Finite-Length Scaling Based on Belief Propagation for Spatially Coupled LDPC Codes
Markus Stinner (Technische Universität München, Germany)
Luca Barletta (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Pablo M. Olmos (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain)
Deterministic and Ensemble-Based Spatially-Coupled Product Codes
Christian Häger (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)
Henry D Pfister (Duke University, USA)
Alexandre Graell i Amat (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)
Fredrik Brännström (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)
The Velocity of the Decoding Wave for Spatially Coupled Codes on BMS Channels
Rafah El-Khatib (EPFL, Switzerland)
Nicolas Macris (EPFL, Switzerland)
Decoding Analysis Accounting for Mis-Corrections for Spatially-Coupled Split-Component Codes
Dmitri Truhachev (Dalhousie University, Canada)
Alireza Karami (Dalhousie University, Canada)
Lei Zhang (University of Toronto, Canada)
Frank R. Kschischang (University of Toronto, Canada)
A Progressive Edge Growth Algorithm for Bit Mapping Design of LDPC Coded BICM Schemes
Junyi Du (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China & University of New South Wales, P.R. China)
Jinhong Yuan (University of New South Wales, Australia)
Liang Zhou (UESTC, P.R. China)
Xuan He (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, P.R. China)
Th-AM-2-4: Network Coding 3
Session Chair: Aditya Ramamoorthy
Thursday 12:00-13:40
Room: 40.148
Coding Across Unicast Sessions can Increase the Secure Message Capacity
Gaurav Kumar Agarwal (University of California Los Angeles, USA)
Martina Cardone (University of Califonia, Los Angeles, USA)
Christina Fragouli (UCLA, USA)
Arbitrarily varying networks: capacity-achieving computationally efficient codes
Peida Tian (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Sidharth Jaggi (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Mayank Bakshi (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Oliver Kosut (Arizona State University, USA)
Linear Network Coding Capacity Region of The Smart Repeater with Broadcast Erasure Channels
Jaemin Han (Purdue University, USA)
Chih-Chun Wang (Purdue University, USA)
Superposition coding in the combination network
Henry Romero (University of Colorado at Boulder & MIT Lincoln Laboratory, USA)
Mahesh Kumar Varanasi (University of Colorado, USA)
Approximate Capacity of Index Coding for Some Classes of Graphs
Fatemeh Arbabjolfaei (University of California, San Diego, USA)
Young-Han Kim (UCSD, USA)
Th-AM-2-5: Applications of Random Matrix Theory
Session Chair: Serdar Yuksel
Thursday 12:00-13:20
Room: 40.004
Time and frequency selective Ricean MIMO capacity: an ergodic operator approach
Walid Hachem (Telecom-paristech, France)
Aris L. Moustakas (University of Athens, Greece)
Leonid Pastur (Institute of Low Temperature Physics, Kharkiv, Ukraine)
Optical Fiber MIMO Channel Model and its Analysis
Apostolos Karadimitrakis (University of Athens, Greece)
Aris L. Moustakas (University of Athens, Greece)
Hartmut Hafermann (Huawei Technologies, France)
Axel Müller (Huawei Technologies, France)
Limiting eigenvalue distributions of block random matrices with one-dimensional coupling structure
Toshiyuki Tanaka (Kyoto University, Japan)
Exact Closed-Form Expression for the Inverse Moments of One-sided Correlated Gram Matrices
Khalil Elkhalil (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia)
Abla Kammoun (Kaust, Saudi Arabia)
Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, USA)
Mohamed-Slim Alouini (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia)
Th-AM-2-6: Wireless Communications 4
Session Chair: Yanina Shkel
Thursday 12:00-13:20
Room: 40.006
Outage-Optimized Distributed Quantizers for Multicast Beamforming
Erdem Koyuncu (University of California, Irvine, USA)
Christian Remling (University of Oklahoma, USA)
Xiaoyi Liu (University of California, Irvine, USA)
Hamid Jafarkhani (University of California, Irvine, USA)
The Impact of Independence Assumptions on Wireless Communication Analysis
Ezio Biglieri (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain)
I-Wei Lai (Chang Gung University, Taiwan)
On Utility Optimization in Distributed Multiple Access over a Multi-packet Reception Channel
Yanru Tang (Colorado State University, USA)
Faeze Heydaryan (Colorado State University, USA)
Jie Luo (Colorado State University, USA)
Robustness Of Cooperative Communication Schemes To Channel Models
Vasuki Narasimha Swamy (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
Gireeja Ranade (Microsoft Research, USA)
Anant Sahai (UC Berkeley, USA)
Th-AM-2-7: Interference Channels
Session Chair: Igal Sason
Thursday 12:00-13:20
Room: 40.008
Some Results on the Scalar Gaussian Interference Channel
Salman Beigi (Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences, Iran)
Sida Liu (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Chandra Nair (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Mehdi Yazdanpanah (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
The Maximum Han-Kobayashi Sum-Rate for Gaussian Interference Channels
Ali Haghi (University of Waterloo, Canada)
Amir K. Khandani (University of Waterloo, Canada)
Converse bounds for interference channels via coupling and proof of Costa’s conjecture
Yury Polyanskiy (MIT, USA)
Yihong Wu (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA)
Trade-off between Communication and Cooperation in the Interference Channel
Farhad Shirani Chaharsooghi (University of Michigan, USA)
Sandeep Pradhan (University Michigan, USA)
Th-AM-2-8: Covert Communications
Session Chair: Ziv Goldfeld
Thursday 12:00-13:20
Room: 40.010
Plausible Deniability over Broadcast Channels
Mayank Bakshi (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Vinod M Prabhakaran (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India)
Second-Order Asymptotics of Covert Communications over Noisy Channels
Mehrdad Tahmasbi (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
Matthieu Bloch (Georgia Institute of Technology & Georgia Tech Lorraine, France)
Keyless Covert Communication over Multiple-Access Channels
Keerthi Suria Kumar Arumugam (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
Matthieu Bloch (Georgia Institute of Technology & Georgia Tech Lorraine, France)
Computationally Efficient Deniable Communication
Qiaosheng Zhang (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Mayank Bakshi (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Sidharth Jaggi (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Th-AM-2-9: Quantum Information Theory
Session Chair: Ning Cai
Thursday 12:00-13:40
Room: 40.150
A Bayesian view of Single-Qubit Clocks, and an Energy versus Accuracy tradeoff
Manoj Gopalkrishnan (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India)
Varshith Kandula (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India)
Praveen Sriram (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India)
Abhishek Deshpande (Imperial College London and Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Mumbai, India)
Bhaskaran Muralidharan (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India)
On the quantum no-signalling assisted zero-error classical simulation cost of non-commutative bipartite graphs
Xin Wang (University of Technology Sydney, Australia)
Runyao Duan (University of Technology, Australia)
Comparison of quantum channels and statistical experiments
Anna Jencova (Mathematical Institute, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia)
Stronger Attacks on Causality-Based Key Agreement
Benno Salwey (Università della Svizzera Italiana (USI), Switzerland)
Stefan Wolf (USI Lugano, Switzerland)
Parallel distinguishability of quantum operations
Runyao Duan (University of Technology, Australia)
Cheng Guo (University of Technology Sydney, P.R. China)
Chi-Kwong Li (College of William and Mary, USA)
Yinan Li (University of Technology Sydney, Australia)
Th-PM-1-1: Quantum Codes 1
Session Chair: Alexei Ashikhmin
Thursday 15:10-16:30
Room: 40.002
Codeword Stabilized Quantum Codes for Asymmetric Channels
Tyler Jackson (University of Guelph & Institute for Quantum Computing, Canada)
Markus Grassl (Max-Plank-Institut für die Physik des Lichts, Germany)
Bei Zeng (University of Guelph, Canada)
Concatenated Codes for Amplitude Damping
Tyler Jackson (University of Guelph & Institute for Quantum Computing, Canada)
Markus Grassl (Max-Plank-Institut für die Physik des Lichts, Germany)
Bei Zeng (University of Guelph, Canada)
Correction of Data and Syndrome Errors by Stabilizer Codes
Alexei Ashikhmin (Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, USA)
Ching-Yi Lai (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
Todd A. Brun (University of Southern California, USA)
Generalized Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computation over Nice Rings
Sangjun Lee (Texas A&M University, USA)
Andreas Klappenecker (Texas A&M University, USA)
Th-PM-1-2: Inequalities 2
Session Chair: Deniz Gunduz
Thursday 15:10-16:50
Room: 40.144
Reverse entropy power inequalities for $s$-concave densities
Peng Xu (University of Delaware, USA)
James Melbourne (University of Delaware, USA)
Mokshay Madiman (University of Delaware, USA)
On Rényi Entropy Power Inequalities
Eshed Ram (Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Israel)
Igal Sason (Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Israel)
Strengthening the Entropy Power Inequality
Thomas Courtade (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
Cyclically Symmetric Entropy Inequalities
Jun Chen (McMaster University, Canada)
Hao Ye (The University of Tennessee Knoxville, USA)
Chao Tian (The University of Tennessee Knoxville, USA)
Tie Liu (Texas A&M University, USA)
Zhiqing Xiao (Tsinghua University, P.R. China)
Generalized Fisher Information and Upper Bounds on the Differential Entropy of Independent Sums
Jihad Fahs (American University of Beirut, Lebanon)
Ibrahim Abou-Faycal (American University of Beirut, Lebanon)
Th-PM-1-3: Data Exchange Problems
Session Chair: Joerg Kliewer
Thursday 15:10-16:50
Room: 40.146
Coding Advantage in Communications among Peers
Kai Cai (University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Guangyue Han (The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Fairness in Communication for Omniscience
Ni Ding (The Australian National University, Australia)
Chung Chan (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Qiaoqiao Zhou (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Rodney Andrew Kennedy (The Australian National University, Australia)
Parastoo Sadeghi (The Australian National University, Australia)
Further results on lower bounds for coded caching
Hooshang Ghasemi (Iowa State University, USA)
Aditya Ramamoorthy (Iowa State University, USA)
Cooperative Data Exchange with Priority Classes
Anoosheh Heidarzadeh (Texas A&M University)
Muxi Yan (Texas A&M University, USA)
Alex Sprintson (Texas A&M University, USA)
Universal Multiparty Data Exchange
Himanshu Tyagi (Indian Institute of Science, India)
Shun Watanabe (Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan)
Th-PM-1-4: Network Coding 4
Session Chair: Chih-Chun Wang
Thursday 15:10-16:50
Room: 40.148
On the Energy Benefit of Compute-and-forward for Multiple Unicasts
Zhijie Ren (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)
Jasper Goseling (University of Twente, The Netherlands)
Jos H. Weber (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)
Michael Gastpar (EPFL & University of California, Berkeley, Switzerland)
Universally Secure Network Coding with Feedback
Gabriele Spini (Universiteit Leiden & Université de Bordeaux, CWI Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Gilles Zémor (Université Bordeaux 1, France)
A Linearithmic Time Algorithm for a Shortest Vector Problem in Compute-and-Forward Design
Jinming Wen (Ecole Normal Sschool de Lyon Lab LIP, France)
Xiao-Wen Chang (McGill University, Canada)
Adaptive Recoding for BATS Codes
Hoover H.F. Yin (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Shenghao Yang (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, P.R. China)
Qiaoqiao Zhou (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Lily M.L. Yung (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
On Computation Rates for Arithmetic Sum
Ardhendu Tripathy (Iowa State University, USA)
Aditya Ramamoorthy (Iowa State University, USA)
Th-PM-1-5: Compressed Sensing 3
Session Chair: Gonzalo Vazquez
Thursday 15:10-16:50
Room: 40.004
Coded Compressive Sensing: A Compute-and-Recover Approach
Namyoon Lee (POSTECH, Korea)
SongNam Hong (Ajou University, USA)
A Sharp Condition for Exact Support Recovery of Sparse Signals With Orthogonal Matching Pursuit
Jinming Wen (Ecole Normal Sschool de Lyon Lab LIP, France)
Zhengchun Zhou (Southwest Jiaotong University, P.R. China)
Jian Wang (Seoul National University, Korea)
Xiaohu Tang (SWJTU, P.R. China)
Qun Mo (Zhejiang University, P.R. China)
Universal Compressed Sensing
Shirin Jalali (Bell Labs, USA)
H. Vincent Poor (Princeton University, USA)
Two-stage Orthogonal Subspace Matching Pursuit for Joint Sparse Recovery
Kyung Su Kim (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea)
Sae-Young Chung (KAIST, Korea)
A Geometric Analysis of Phase Retrieval
Ju Sun (Columbia University, USA)
Qing Qu (Columbia University, USA)
John Wright (Columbia University, USA)
Th-PM-1-6: Information Theory in Control
Session Chair: Anant Sahai
Thursday 15:10-16:50
Room: 40.006
Zero-rate achievability of posterior matching schemes for channels with memory
Jui Wu (University of Michigan, USA)
Achilleas Anastasopoulos (University of Michigan, USA)
State Estimation, Wireless Tropes, Demons and Uncertainty
Christopher Rose (Brown University, USA)
Stationarity and Ergodicity of Stochastic Non-Linear Systems Controlled over Communication Channels
Serdar Yüksel (Queen’s University, Canada)
Rate of Prefix-free Codes in LQG Control Systems
Takashi Tanaka (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)
Karl Henrik Johansson (Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)
Tobias J. Oechtering (KTH Royal Institute of Technology & School of Electrical Engineering, EE, Sweden)
Henrik Sandberg (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)
Mikael Skoglund (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)
(Almost) Practical Tree Codes
Anatoly Khina (California Institute of Technology)
Wael Halbawi (California Institute of Technology, USA)
Babak Hassibi (California Institute of Technology, USA)
Th-PM-1-7: Finite Blocklength Topics
Session Chair: Yury Polyanskiy
Thursday 15:10-16:50
Room: 40.008
Second-Order Coding Region for the Discrete Lossy Gray-Wyner Source Coding Problem
Lin Zhou (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Vincent Y. F. Tan (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Mehul Motani (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Second-Order Coding Region for the Discrete Successive Refinement Source Coding Problem
Lin Zhou (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Vincent Y. F. Tan (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Mehul Motani (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
On Second-Order Asymptotics of AWGN Channels with Feedback under the Expected Power Constraint
Lan V. Truong (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Silas L. Fong (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Vincent Y. F. Tan (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Fixed-Length Compression for Letter-Based Fidelity Measures in the Finite Blocklength Regime
Lars Palzer (Technische Universität München, Germany)
Roy Timo (Technische Universität München, Germany)
On channel dispersion per unit cost
Yücel Altuğ (Princeton University, USA)
H. Vincent Poor (Princeton University, USA)
Sergio Verdú (Princeton University, USA)
Th-PM-1-8: Physical Layer Security
Session Chair: Matthieu Bloch
Thursday 15:10-16:50
Room: 40.010
Security in The Gaussian Interference Channel: Weak and Moderately Weak Interference Regimes
Parisa Babaheidarian (Boston University, USA)
Somayeh Salimi (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)
Panagiotis Papadimitratos (KTH, Sweden)
Multiuser Authentication with Anonymity Constraints over Noisy Channels
Remi A Chou (Pennsylvania State University, USA)
Aylin Yener (Pennsylvania State University, USA)
Secrecy in Broadcast Channel with Combating Helpers and Interference Channel with Selfish Users
Karim A. Banawan (University of Maryland, College Park, USA)
Sennur Ulukus (University of Maryland, USA)
On Secrecy Rates and Outage in Multi-User Multi-Eavesdroppers MISO Systems
Joseph Kampeas (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel)
Asaf Cohen (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel)
Omer Gurewitz (Ben-Gurion University Of The Negev, Israel)
Secure Lossy Helper and Gray-Wyner Problems
Meryem Benammar (HUAWEI Technologies France, France)
Abdellatif Zaidi (Université Paris-Est Marne La Vallée, France)
Th-PM-1-9: Wireless Sensor Networks
Session Chair: Pulkit Grover
Thursday 15:10-16:50
Room: 40.150
Connectivity in inhomogeneous random key graphs
Osman Yağan (Carnegie Mellon University & CyLab, USA)
Minimum node degree in inhomogeneous random key graphs with unreliable links
Rashad Eletreby (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Osman Yağan (Carnegie Mellon University & CyLab, USA)
Improved Active Sensing Performance in Wireless Sensor Networks via Channel State Information
Alessandro Biason (University of Padova, Italy)
Urbashi Mitra (University of Southern California, USA)
Michele Zorzi (Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy)
Optimal Byzantine Attack for Distributed Inference with M-ary Quantized Data
Po-Ning Chen (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan)
Yunghsiang Sam Han (National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan)
Hsuan-Yin Lin (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan)
Pramod Varshney (Syracuse University, USA)
MMSE Estimation in a Sensor Network in the Presence of an Adversary
Craig Wilson (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
Venugopal Veeravalli (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
Fr-AM-1-1: Quantum Codes 2
Session Chair: Alexander Barg
Friday 10:20-11:40
Room: 40.002
Unconstrained distillation capacities of a pure-loss bosonic broadcast channel
Masahiro Takeoka (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology & Raytheon BBN Technologies, Japan)
Kaushik Seshadreesan (Max-Planck-Institute for the Science of Light, Germany)
Mark M Wilde (Louisiana State University, USA)
Asymptotic Analysis of a Three State Quantum Cryptographic Protocol
Walter Krawec (Iona College, USA)
Universal recoverability in quantum information
Marius Junge (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
Renato Renner (ETH Zuerich, Switzerland)
David Sutter (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
Mark M Wilde (Louisiana State University, USA)
Andreas Winter (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona & ICREA, Spain)
Coherent state constellations for Bosonic Gaussian channels
Felipe Lacerda (Aarhus University, Denmark)
Joseph M. Renes (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
Volkher Scholz (Ghent University)
Fr-AM-1-2: Secret Keys and Secret Sharing
Session Chair: Sandeep Pradhan
Friday 10:20-11:40
Room: 40.144
Bounds on the communication rate needed to achieve SK capacity in the hypergraphical source model
Manuj Mukherjee (Indian Institute of Science, India)
Chung Chan (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Navin Kashyap (Indian Institute of Science, India)
Qiaoqiao Zhou (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Nearly Optimal Robust Secret Sharing
Mahdi Cheraghchi (Imperial College London, United Kingdom)
Incremental and Decremental Secret Key Agreement
Chung Chan (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Ali Al-Bashabsheh (Institute of Network Coding & The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Qiaoqiao Zhou (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Quantum Resistant Random Linear Code Based Public Key Encryption Scheme RLCE
Yongge Wang (University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA)
Fr-AM-1-3: LDPC Codes 5
Session Chair: Bane Vasic
Friday 10:20-11:40
Room: 40.146
Minimal Characterization and Provably Efficient Exhaustive Search Algorithm for Elementary Trapping Sets of Variable-Regular LDPC Codes
Yoones Hashemi Toroghi (Carleton University, Canada)
Amir Banihashemi (Carleton University, Canada)
Distance verification for LDPC codes
Ilya Dumer (University of California at Riverside, USA)
Alexey Kovalev (University of Nebraska at Linkoln, USA)
Leonid P Pryadko (University of California, Riverside, USA)
Near-Capacity Protograph Doubly-Generalized LDPC Codes with Block Thresholds
Asit Kumar Pradhan (Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India)
Andrew Thangaraj (IIT Madras, India)
Performance Bounds for Quantized LDPC Decoders Based on Absorbing Sets
Homayoon Hatami (University of Notre Dame, USA)
David G. M. Mitchell (New Mexico State University, USA)
Daniel J. Costello, Jr. (University of Notre Dame, USA)
Thomas E Fuja (University of Notre Dame, USA)
Fr-AM-1-4: Gabidulin Codes
Session Chair: Frank Kschischang
Friday 10:20-11:40
Room: 40.148
Considerations for Rank-based Cryptosystems
Anna-Lena Horlemann-Trautmann (EPFL, Switzerland)
Kyle Marshall (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
Joachim Rosenthal (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
An Alternative Decoding Method for Gabidulin Codes in Characteristic Zero
Sven Müelich (Ulm University, Germany)
Sven Puchinger (Ulm University, Germany)
David Mödinger (Ulm University, Germany)
Martin Bossert (Ulm University, Germany)
Sub-Quadratic Decoding of Gabidulin Codes
Sven Puchinger (Ulm University, Germany)
Antonia Wachter-Zeh (Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Israel)
A quadratic Welch-Berlekamp algorithm to decode generalized Gabidulin codes, and some variants
Gwezheneg Robert (Université de Rennes1, France)
Fr-AM-1-5: Age of Information
Session Chair: Christopher Rose
Friday 10:20-11:40
Room: 40.004
Age of Information with a Packet Deadline
Clement Kam (Naval Research Laboratory, USA)
Sastry Kompella (Naval Research Laboratory, USA)
Gam Nguyen (Naval Research Laboratory, USA)
Jeffrey Wieselthier (Wieselthier Research, USA)
Anthony Ephremides (University of Maryland at College Park, USA)
Optimizing Data Freshness, Throughput, and Delay in Multi-Server Information-Update Systems
Ahmed M Bedewy (The Ohio State University, USA)
Yin Sun (The Ohio State University, USA)
Ness B. Shroff (The Ohio State University, USA)
Age of Information: The Gamma Awakening
Elie Najm (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland)
Rajai Nasser (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland)
Age-of-Information in the Presence of Error
Kun Chen (Tsinghua University, P.R. China)
Longbo Huang (Tsinghua University, P.R. China)
Fr-AM-1-6: Wireless Communications 5
Session Chair: Yasutada Oohama
Friday 10:20-11:40
Room: 40.006
Wireless Networks of Bounded Capacity
Grace Villacrés Estrada (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid & Gregorio Marañón Health Research Institute, Spain)
Tobias Koch (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid & Gregorio Marañón Health Research Institute, Spain)
On Network Simplification for Gaussian Half-Duplex Diamond Networks
Martina Cardone (University of Califonia, Los Angeles, USA)
Christina Fragouli (UCLA, USA)
Daniela Tuninetti (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA)
Wireless Network Simplification: Beyond Diamond Networks
Yahya H. Ezzeldin (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
Ayan Sengupta (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
Christina Fragouli (UCLA, USA)
Throughput of Two-Hop Wireless Channels with Queueing Constraints and Finite Blocklength Codes
Yi Li (Syracuse University, USA)
M. Cenk Gursoy (Syracuse University, USA)
Senem Velipasalar (Syracuse University, USA)
Fr-AM-1-7: Special Topics in Shannon Theory 1
Session Chair: Helmut Bolcskei
Friday 10:20-11:40
Room: 40.008
The $\rho$-Capacity of a Graph
Sihuang Hu (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
Ofer Shayevitz (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
Convergence of generalized entropy minimizers in sequences of convex problems
Imre Csiszár (Renyi Institute, Hungarian Academy of Science, Hungary)
František Matúš (Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic & Institute of Information Theory and Automation, Czech Republic)
Orbit-Entropy Cones and Extremal Pairwise Orbit-Entropy Inequalities
Jun Chen (McMaster University, Canada)
Amir Salimi (Texas A&M University, USA)
Tie Liu (Texas A&M University, USA)
Chao Tian (The University of Tennessee Knoxville, USA)
Information stabilization of images over discrete memoryless channels
Eric Graves (Army Research Lab, USA)
Tan Wong (University of Florida, USA)
Fr-AM-1-8: Interference in Wireless Networks 3
Session Chair: Giuseppe Caire
Friday 10:20-11:40
Room: 40.010
When Does Spatial Correlation Add Value to Delayed Channel State Information?
Alireza Vahid (Duke University, USA)
Robert Calderbank (Duke University, USA)
On the Optimality of Zero-Forcing and Treating Interference as Noise for K-user MIMO Interference Channels
Chunhua Geng (University of California, Irvine, USA)
Syed Ali Jafar (University of California Irvine, USA)
On the Impact of Sparsity on the Broadcast Capacity of Wireless Networks
Serj Haddad (EPFL, Switzerland)
Olivier Lévêque (EPFL, Switzerland)
Role of a Relay in Bursty Networks with Correlated Transmissions
Sunghyun Kim (ETRI, Korea)
Soheil Mohajer (University of Minnesota, USA)
Changho Suh (KAIST, Korea)
Fr-AM-1-9: DNA-based Storage
Session Chair: Moshe Schwartz
Friday 10:20-11:20
Room: 40.150
Codes in the Damerau Distance for DNA Storage
Ryan Gabrys (UIUC, USA)
Eitan Yaakobi (Technion, Israel)
Olgica Milenkovic (UIUC, USA)
Weakly Mutually Uncorrelated Codes
Seyed Mohammadhossein Tabatabaei Yazdi (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
Han Mao Kiah (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Olgica Milenkovic (UIUC, USA)
On the Number of DNA Sequence Profiles for Practical Values of Read Lengths
Zuling Chang (Zhengzhou University, P.R. China)
Johan Chrisnata (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Martianus Frederic Ezerman (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Han Mao Kiah (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Fr-AM-2-1: Random Coding Bounds
Session Chair: Neri Merhav
Friday 12:00-13:20
Room: 40.002
The generalized stochastic likelihood decoder: random coding and expurgated bounds
Neri Merhav (Technion, Israel)
The Dispersion of Nearest-Neighbor Decoding for Additive Non-Gaussian Channels
Jonathan Scarlett (EPFL, Switzerland)
Vincent Y. F. Tan (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Giuseppe Durisi (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)
A Beta-Beta Achievability Bound with Applications
Wei Yang (Princeton University, USA)
Austin Collins (MIT, USA)
Giuseppe Durisi (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)
Yury Polyanskiy (MIT, USA)
H. Vincent Poor (Princeton University, USA)
Variable-Length Coding with Stop-Feedback for the Common-Message Broadcast Channel
Kasper F Trillingsgaard (Aalborg University, Denmark)
Wei Yang (Princeton University, USA)
Giuseppe Durisi (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)
Petar Popovski (Aalborg University, Denmark)
Fr-AM-2-2: Distributions and Hypothesis Testing
Session Chair: Tobias Koch
Friday 12:00-13:40
Room: 40.144
Distributed Recursive Composite Hypothesis Testing: Imperfect Communication
Anit Kumar Sahu (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Soummya Kar (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Sharp minimax bounds for testing discrete monotone distributions
Yuting Wei (UC Berkeley, USA)
Martin Wainwright (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
Learning Markov Distributions: Does Estimation Trump Compression?
Moein Falahatgar (University of California San Diego, USA)
Alon Orlitsky (University of California, San Diego, USA)
Venkatadheeraj Pichapati (UCSD, India)
Ananda Theertha Suresh (University of California, San Diego, USA)
Locally Differentially-Private Distribution Estimation
Adriano Pastore (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland)
Michael Gastpar (EPFL & University of California, Berkeley, Switzerland)
Asynchronous Decentralized Algorithms for the Noisy 20 Questions Problem
Theodoros Tsiligkaridis (MIT Lincoln Laboratory, USA)
Fr-AM-2-3: LDPC Codes 6
Session Chair: Dmitri Truhachev
Friday 12:00-13:20
Room: 40.146
Low Complexity Algorithm Approaching the ML Decoding of Binary LDPC Codes
Irina Bocharova (St. Petersburg University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics, Russia)
Boris D. Kudryashov (St. Petersburg University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics, Russia)
Vitaly Skachek (University of Tartu, Estonia)
Yauhen Yakimenka (University of Tartu, Estonia)
The Weight Consistency Matrix Framework for General Non-Binary LDPC Code Optimization: Applications in Flash Memories
Ahmed Hareedy (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), USA)
Chinmayi Lanka (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), USA)
Clayton Schoeny (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
Lara Dolecek (UCLA, USA)
Construction of Full-Diversity 1-Level LDPC Lattices for Block-Fading Channels
Hassan Khodaiemehr (Amirkabir University of Technology, Iran)
Mohammad-Reza Sadeghi (Amirkabir University of Technology, Iran)
Daniel Panario (Carleton University, Canada)
Spatially-Coupled Codes Approach Symmetric Information Rate of Finite-State Markov Fading Channels
Hiroshi Abe (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)
Kenta Kasai (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)
Fr-AM-2-4: Network Coding 5
Session Chair: Sidharth Jaggi
Friday 12:00-13:00
Room: 40.148
Rate and Delay for Coded Caching with Carrier Aggregation
Nikhil Karamchandani (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India)
Suhas Diggavi (University of California Los Angeles, USA)
Giuseppe Caire (Technische Universität Berlin, Germany)
Shlomo (Shitz) Shamai (The Technion, Israel)
Sparse Random Linear Network Coding for Data Compression in WSNs
Wenjie Li (Laboratoire des Signaux et Systèmes & Université Paris-Sud, France)
Francesca Bassi (LSS-CNRS-Supelec, France)
Michel Kieffer (L2S – CNRS – SUPELEC – UniversityParis-Sud, France)
Energy Efficient Distributed Coding for Data Collection in a Noisy Sparse Network
Yaoqing Yang (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Soummya Kar (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Pulkit Grover (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Fr-AM-2-5: Energy Harvesting 3
Session Chair: Thomas Fuja
Friday 12:00-13:20
Room: 40.004
Online Policies for Multiple Access Channel with Common Energy Harvesting Source
Abdulrahman Baknina (University of Maryland, College Park, USA)
Sennur Ulukus (University of Maryland, USA)
Capacity of the Energy Harvesting Gaussian MAC
Huseyin A Inan (Stanford University, USA)
Dor Shaviv (Stanford University, USA)
Ayfer Özgür (Stanford University, USA)
Optimization of Time-Switching Energy Harvesting Receivers over Multiple Transmission Blocks
Zhengwei Ni (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Mehul Motani (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Optimal Aging-Aware Channel Access Control for Wireless Networks with Energy Harvesting
Roberto Valentini (University of L’Aquila, Italy)
Marco Levorato (University of California, Irvine, USA)
Fr-AM-2-6: Wireless Communications 6
Session Chair: Oron Sabag
Friday 12:00-13:20
Room: 40.006
On the Capacity of a Class of Dual-Band Interference Channels
Subhajit Majhi (University of Waterloo, Canada)
Patrick Mitran (University of Waterloo, Canada)
Multiuser Two-Way Ranging
Ryan Keating (Northwestern University, USA)
Dongning Guo (Northwestern University, USA)
QoS-Driven Energy-Efficient Power Control with Markov Arrivals and Finite-Alphabet Inputs
Gozde Ozcan (Syracuse University, USA)
Mustafa Ozmen (Syracuse University, USA)
M. Cenk Gursoy (Syracuse University, USA)
Lattice Strategies for the Ergodic Fading Dirty Paper Channel
Ahmed Hindy (University of Texas at Dallas, USA)
Aria Nosratinia (University of Texas, Dallas, USA)
Fr-AM-2-7: Special Topics in Shannon Theory 2
Session Chair: Chao Tian
Friday 12:00-13:20
Room: 40.008
Cascade Channels with Infinite Memory
Martin Mittelbach (Dresden University of Technology, Germany)
Eduard Jorswieck (TU Dresden, Germany)
Quickest Sequence Phase Detection
Lele Wang (Tel Aviv University & Stanford University, Israel)
Sihuang Hu (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
Ofer Shayevitz (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
Lossless linear analog compression
Helmut Bölcskei (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
Erwin Riegler (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
Günther Koliander (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)
Giovanni Alberti (University of Pisa, Italy)
Camillo De Lellis (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
Mutual Information, Relative Entropy and Estimation Error in Semi-Martingale Channels
Jiantao Jiao (Stanford University, USA)
Kartik Venkat (Stanford University, USA)
Tsachy Weissman (Stanford University, USA)
Fr-AM-2-8: Wiretap Channels 1
Session Chair: Holger Boche
Friday 12:00-13:40
Room: 40.010
Semantic-Security Capacity for Wiretap Channels of Type II
Ziv Goldfeld (Ben Gurion University, Israel)
Paul Cuff (Princeton University, USA)
Haim H Permuter (Ben-Gurion University, Israel)
A New Wiretap Channel Model and its Strong Secrecy Capacity
Mohamed Nafea (The Pennsylvania State University, USA)
Aylin Yener (Pennsylvania State University, USA)
Strong Secrecy and Stealth for Broadcast Channels with Confidential Messages
Igor Bjelakovic (Technische Universität Berlin, Germany)
Jafar Mohammadi (Fraunhofer Heinrich-Hertz-Institute & Technical University of Berlin, Germany)
Slawomir Stanczak (Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute & Technische Universität Berlin, Germany)
Achievable Secrecy Rates in the Multiple Access Wiretap Channel with Deviating Users
Karim A. Banawan (University of Maryland, College Park, USA)
Sennur Ulukus (University of Maryland, USA)
Secure Degrees of Freedom of the Gaussian Diamond-Wiretap Channel
Si-Hyeon Lee (University of Toronto, Canada)
Wanyao Zhao (University of Toronto, Canada)
Ashish Khisti (University of Toronto, Canada)
Fr-AM-2-9: Permutations in Coding Theory / Index Coding 2
Session Chair: Paul Siegel
Friday 12:00-13:20
Room: 40.150
String Concatenation Construction for Chebyshev Permutation Channel Codes
Yeow Meng Chee (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Han Mao Kiah (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
San Ling (NTU, Singapore)
Tuan Thanh Nguyen (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Van Khu Vu (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Xiande Zhang (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Limited-Magnitude Error-Correcting Gray Codes for Rank Modulation
Yonatan Yehezkeally (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel)
Moshe Schwartz (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel)
Secure Index Coding: Existence and Construction
Lawrence Ong (The University of Newcastle, Australia)
Badri N Vellambi (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA)
Phee Lep Yeoh (University of Melbourne, Australia)
Joerg Kliewer (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA)
Jinhong Yuan (University of New South Wales, Australia)
New Error Correcting Codes for Informed Receivers
Lakshmi Prasad Natarajan (Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India)
Yi Hong (Monash University, Australia)
Emanuele Viterbo (Monash University, Australia)
Fr-PM-1-1: Quantum Information and Communication
Session Chair: Saikat Guha
Friday 15:10-16:30
Room: 40.002
Exploiting Variational Formulas for Quantum Relative Entropy
Mario Berta (California Institute of Technology, USA)
Omar Fawzi (ENS de Lyon, France)
Marco Tomamichel (The University of Sydney, Australia)
Strong converse theorems using Rényi entropies
Felix Leditzky (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom)
Mark M Wilde (Louisiana State University, USA)
Nilanjana Datta (Cambridge, United Kingdom)
Multiple Quantum Hypothesis Testing Expressions and Classical-Quantum Channel Converse Bounds
Gonzalo Vazquez-Vilar (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain)
“Pretty strong” converse for the private capacity of degraded quantum wiretap channels
Andreas Winter (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona & ICREA, Spain)
Fr-PM-1-2: Group Testing 3
Session Chair: Olgica Milenkovic
Friday 15:10-16:30
Room: 40.144
Group testing schemes from low-weight codewords of BCH codes
Shashanka Ubaru (University of Minnesota, USA)
Arya Mazumdar (University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA)
Alexander Barg (University of Maryland, USA)
Converse Bounds for Noisy Group Testing with Arbitrary Measurement Matrices
Jonathan Scarlett (EPFL, Switzerland)
Volkan Cevher (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland)
SAFFRON: A Fast, Efficient, and Robust Framework for Group Testing based on Sparse-Graph Codes
Kangwook Lee (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
Ramtin Pedarsani (UC Berkeley, USA)
Kannan Ramchandran (University of California at Berkeley, USA)
Strong Divergence of the Shannon Sampling Series for an Infinite Dimensional Signal Space
Holger Boche (Technische Universität München, Germany)
Ullrich J Mönich (Technische Universität München, Germany)
Ezra Tampubolon (Technische Universität München, Germany)
Fr-PM-1-3: LDPC Codes 7
Session Chair: Alexandre Graell i Amat
Friday 15:10-16:10
Room: 40.146
Generalized turbo signal recovery for nonlinear measurements and orthogonal sensing matrices
Ting Liu (Southeast University, P.R. China)
Chao-Kai Wen (National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan)
Shi Jin (Southeast University, P.R. China)
Xiaohu You (National Mobile communication Research Lab., Southeast University, P.R. China)
Information Bottleneck Graphs for Receiver Design
Jan Lewandowsky (Hamburg University of Technology, Germany)
Maximilian Stark (Hamburg University of Technology, Germany)
Gerhard Bauch (Hamburg University of Technology, Germany)
Asymptotic MAP upper bounds for LDPC codes
David Matas (Technical University of Catalonia (UPC), Spain)
Meritxell Lamarca (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain)
Fr-PM-1-4: Delays in Networks
Session Chair: Raymond Yeung
Friday 15:10-16:10
Room: 40.148
Low Delay Network Streaming Under Burst Losses
Rafid Mahmood (University of Toronto, Canada)
Ahmed Badr (University of Toronto, Canada)
Ashish Khisti (University of Toronto, Canada)
Delay-Constrained Capacity For Broadcast Erasure Channels: A Linear-Coding-Based Study
Chih-Chun Wang (Purdue University, USA)
On Coding Capacity of Delay-constrained Network Information Flow: An Algebraic Approach
Minghua Chen (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, P.R. China)
Ye Tian (Nanjing University & The Chinese University of Hong Kong, P.R. China)
Chih-Chun Wang (Purdue University, USA)
Fr-PM-1-5: Complexity and Cryptography 1
Session Chair: Himanshu Tyagi
Friday 15:10-16:30
Room: 40.004
Affine-malleable Extractors, Spectrum Doubling, and Application to Privacy Amplification
Divesh Aggarwal (EPFL, Switzerland)
Kaave Hosseini (UCSD, USA)
Shachar Lovett (UCSD, USA)
Key Generation with Limited Interaction
Jingbo Liu (Princeton University, USA)
Paul Cuff (Princeton University, USA)
Sergio Verdú (Princeton University, USA)
Binarizations in Random Number Generation
Sung-il Pae (Hongik University, Korea)
On the Entropy of Physically Unclonable Functions
Olivier Rioul (Telecom ParisTech & Ecole Polytechnique, France)
Patrick Solé (Telecom Paristech, France)
Sylvain Guilley (Telecom ParisTech & Secure IC, France)
Jean-Luc Danger (Telecom ParisTech & Secure IC, France)
Fr-PM-1-6: Wireless Communications 7
Session Chair: Aly El Gamal
Friday 15:10-16:30
Room: 40.006
An Extended Tanner Graph Approach to Decoding LDPC Codes over Decode-and-Forward Relay Channels
Bin Qian (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)
Wai Ho Mow (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology & HKUST, Hong Kong)
A Blind Matching Algorithm for Cognitive Radio Networks
Doha Hamza Mohamed (KAUST, Saudi Arabia)
Jeff Shamma (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) & Georgia Institute of Technology, Saudi Arabia)
Channel Coding for Wireless Communication via Electromagnetic Polarization
Xiaobin Wu (University of Notre Dame, USA)
Thomas E Fuja (University of Notre Dame, USA)
Thomas Pratt (University of Notre Dame, USA)
A Systematic Design Approach for Non-coherent Grassmannian Constellations
Kareem M. Attiah (Alexandria University & Faculty of Engineering, Egypt)
Karim G Seddik (American University in Cairo, Egypt)
Ramy Gohary (Carleton University, Canada)
Halim Yanikomeroglu (Carleton University, Canada)
Fr-PM-1-7: Lossy Compression 3
Session Chair: Or Ordentlich
Friday 15:10-16:30
Room: 40.008
A single-shot approach to lossy source coding under logarithmic loss
Yanina Shkel (Princeton University, USA)
Sergio Verdú (Princeton University, USA)
Variable-Length Lossy Source Coding Allowing Some Probability of Union of Overflow and Excess Distortion
Ryo Nomura (Senshu University, Japan)
Hideki Yagi (University of Electro-Communications, Japan)
Soft Covering with High Probability
Paul Cuff (Princeton University, USA)
Independent and Memoryless Sampling Rate Distortion
Vinay Praneeth Boda (University of Maryland, College Park, USA)
Prakash Narayan (University of Maryland, USA)
Fr-PM-1-8: Wiretap Channels 2
Session Chair: Sennur Ulukus
Friday 15:10-16:30
Room: 40.010
On SDoF of Multi-Receiver Wiretap Channel With Alternating CSIT
Zohaib Awan (RUB, Germany)
Abdellatif Zaidi (Université Paris-Est Marne La Vallée, France)
Aydin Sezgin (RUB & Digital Communication Systems, Germany)
Towards a Constant-Gap Sum-Capacity Result for the Gaussian Wiretap Channel with a Helper
Rick Fritschek (Freie Universität Berlin)
Gerhard Wunder (Freie Universität Berlin)
The Multiple Access Wiretap Channel II with a Noisy Main Channel
Mohamed Nafea (The Pennsylvania State University, USA)
Aylin Yener (Pennsylvania State University, USA)
Low Complexity Precoding for MIMOME Wiretap Channels Based on Cut-off Rate
Sina Rezaei Aghdam (Bilkent University, Turkey)
Tolga M. Duman (Bilkent University, Turkey)
Fr-PM-1-9: MIMO and Space-Time Coding
Session Chair: Martin Bossert
Friday 15:10-16:10
Room: 40.150
Towards a complete DMT classification of division algebra codes
Laura Luzzi (ETIS (ENSEA, Université de Cergy-Pontoise, CNRS))
Roope Vehkalahti (University of Turku, Finland)
Alexander Gorodnik (University of Bristol, United Kingdom)
On the Throughput Rate of Wireless Multipoint Multicasting
Michal Kaliszan (Technische Universität Berlin, Germany)
Giuseppe Caire (Technische Universität Berlin, Germany)
Slawomir Stanczak (Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute & Technische Universität Berlin, Germany)
On the decoding delay of rate-1/2 Complex Orthogonal Designs
Smarajit Das (IIT Guwahati, India)
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Fr-PM-2-3: LDPC Codes 8
Session Chair: David Mitchell
Friday 16:50-18:10
Room: 40.146
Set Min-Sum Decoding Algorithm for Non-Binary LDPC Codes
Liyuan Song (Beihang University, P.R. China)
Qin Huang (Beihang University, Beijing, P.R. China)
Zulin Wang (Beihang University, P.R. China)
Integrated Parallel Interleaved Concatenation for Lowering Error Floors of LDPC Codes
Naoaki Kokubun (Toshiba Corporation & Storage & Electronic Devices Solutions Company, Japan)
Hironori Uchikawa (Toshiba Corporation, Japan)
Cutsize Distributions of Balanced Hypergraph Bipartitions for Random Hypergraphs
Takayuki Nozaki (Yamaguchi University, Japan)
Multiplicative Repetition Based Superposition Transmission of Nonbinary Codes
Xijin Mu (Xidian University, P.R. China)
Baoming Bai (Xidian University, P.R. China)
Rui Zhang (Xidian University, P.R. China)
Fr-PM-2-4: Graphical Methods / Weight Distribution
Session Chair: Pablo Olmos
Friday 16:50-17:50
Room: 40.148
Defect Tolerance: Fundamental Limits and Examples
Jennifer Tang (MIT, USA)
Da Wang (Two Sigma Investments, USA)
Yury Polyanskiy (MIT, USA)
Gregory Wornell (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
Graph-Based Lossless Markov Lumpings
Bernhard C. Geiger (Technical University of Munich, Germany)
Christoph Hofer-Temmel (NLDA, The Netherlands)
Weight Distribution of the Syndrome of Linear Codes and Connections to Combinatorial Designs
Christoph Pacher (AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH, Austria)
Philipp Grabenweger (AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, Austria)
Dimitris Simos (SBA Research, Austria)
Fr-PM-2-5: Complexity and Cryptography 2
Session Chair: Stefan Moser
Friday 16:50-18:10
Room: 40.004
Signature codes for the A-channel and collusion-secure multimedia fingerprinting codes
Grigory Kabatiansky (IITP, Moscow, Russia)
Marcel Fernández (Technical University of Catalonia, Spain)
Moon Ho Lee (Chonbuk National University, Korea)
Elena Egorova (IITP RAS, Russia)
Hierarchy of Three-Party Consistency Specifications
Daniel Tschudi (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
Julian Loss (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
Ueli Maurer (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
Secure Computation of Randomized Functions
Deepesh Data (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India)
On the Impossibility of Information-Theoretic Composable Coin Toss Extension
Gregor Seiler (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
Ueli Maurer (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
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Fr-PM-2-7: Source and Channel Coding
Session Chair: Anelia Somekh-Baruch
Friday 16:50-17:50
Room: 40.008
Joint Source-Channel Coding with One-Bit ADC Front End
Morteza Varasteh (Imperial College, United Kingdom)
Osvaldo Simeone (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA)
Deniz Gündüz (Imperial College London, United Kingdom)
Distance Preserving Maps and Combinatorial Joint Source-channel Coding for Large Alphabets
Arya Mazumdar (University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA)
Yury Polyanskiy (MIT, USA)
Ankit Singh Rawat (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Hajir Roozbehani (MIT, USA)
Streaming Data Transmission in the Moderate Deviations and Central Limit Regimes
Si-Hyeon Lee (University of Toronto, Canada)
Vincent Y. F. Tan (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Ashish Khisti (University of Toronto, Canada)
Fr-PM-2-8: Wiretap Channels 3
Session Chair: Mohamed Nafea
Friday 16:50-17:50
Room: 40.010
Super-Activation as a Unique Feature of Arbitrarily Varying Wiretap Channels
Rafael F. Schaefer (Technische Universität Berlin, Germany)
Holger Boche (Technical University Munich, Germany)
H. Vincent Poor (Princeton University, USA)
Almost universal codes for fading wiretap channels
Laura Luzzi (ETIS (ENSEA, Université de Cergy-Pontoise, CNRS))
Cong Ling (Imperial College London, United Kingdom)
Roope Vehkalahti (University of Turku, Finland)
Finite-Blocklength Bounds for Wiretap Channels
Wei Yang (Princeton University, USA)
Rafael F. Schaefer (Technische Universität Berlin, Germany)
H. Vincent Poor (Princeton University, USA)
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