Group meetings and Seminars

Fall 2009

Date Speaker Title
12/04/2009 Mohamed AbolSou TBD
11/20/2009 Thuy Nguyen TBD
11/13/2009 Yang Li Cooperative Diversity in Wireless Networks: Efficient Protocols and Outage Behavior
10/30/2009 Xinh Hua Compressed Sensing
10/23/2009 Ahmed Hesham Estimation Diversity and Energy Efficiency in Distributed Sensing
10/9/2009 Mohamed AbolSou Coding and Decoding for the Dynamic Decode and Forward Relay Protocol
10/2/2009 Thuy Nguyen Channel Polarization: A Method for Constructing Capacity-Achieving Codes for Symmetric Binary-Input Memoryless Channels
09/25/2009 Thuy Nguyen Channel Polarization: A Method for Constructing Capacity-Achieving Codes for Symmetric Binary-Input Memoryless Channels
09/18/2009 Yang Li Degrees of Freedom of the MIMO Interference Channel With Cooperation and Cognition
09/11/2009 Ahmed Hesham Information Theoretic Operating Regimes of Large Wireless Networks
09/04/2009 Mohamed AbolSoud Outage analysis of Block-Fading Gaussian Interference Channels
08/28/2009 Thuy Nguyen Performance of Fountain Codes in Collaborative Relay Networks

Summer 2009

Date Speaker Title
08/21/2009 Yang Li Compute-and-Forward: Harnessing Interference through Structured Codes
08/14/2009 Ahmed Hesham Ergodic Fading Interference Channels:Sum-Capacity and Separability
07/31/2009 Negar Bazargani The bootstrap and its application in signal processing
07/24/2009 Mohamed AbolSoud Finite-SNR diversity-multiplexing tradeoff for correlated Rayleigh and Rician MIMO channels
07/17/2009 Thuy V Nguyen Nested Linear/Lattice Codes for Structured Multiterminal Binning
07/10/2009 Dr. Aria Tutorial of Fountain Codes
07/03/2009 Yang Li Sensing in cognitive radio channels: A theoretical perspective
06/26/2009 Ahmed Hesham On Ergodic Sum Capacity of Fading Cognitive Multiple-Access and Broadcast Channels
06/19/2009 Negar Bazargani Survey on Independent Component Analysis
06/12/2009 Mohamed AbolSoud Optimal Relay-Subset Selection and Time-Allocation in Decode-and-Forward Cooperative Networks
06/05/2009 Thuy V Nguyen Approximately universal codes over slow-fading channels
05/29/2009 Yang Li The MIMO ARQ channel: Diversity-multiplexing-delay tradeoff
05/22/2009 Ahmed Hesham Joint Source and Channel Coding for MIMO Systems: Is it Better to be robust or Quick

Spring 2009

Date Speaker Title
05/15/2009 Negar Bazargani Markov chain Monte Carlo and Gibbs sampling
05/08/2009 Mohamed AbolSoud Diversity-Multiplexing tradeoff of the Two-User Interference Channel
05/01/2009 Thuy V Nguyen The case for structured random codes in network capacity theorems
04/24/2009 Youngsam Yoon Distributed Beamforming for information transfer in sensor networks
04/17/2009 Yang Li Slepian-Wolf and Wyner-Ziv Problems
04/10/2009 Ahmed Hesham The impact of CSI and power allocation on Relay Channel capacity and cooperation strategies
04/03/2009 Negar Bazargani Regularized Spectral Matching for Blind Source Separation. Application to fMRI Imaging
03/27/2009 Mohamed AbolSoud Multiple Multicasts with the Help of a Relay
03/13/2009 Ramy Tannious Fundamental Limits of MIMO Broadcast Channels
03/06/2009 Thuy Nguyen Code Designs for Cooperative Communication
02/27/2009 Youngsam Yoon Collaborative Beamforming for Distributed Wireless Ad Hoc Sensor Networks
02/20/2009 Yang Li Wireless Network Information Flow
02/06/2009 Ahmed Hesham Capacity and mutual information of wideband multipath fading channels
01/30/2009 Negar Bazargani On the Performance of Autocorrelation Estimation Algorithms for fMRI Analysis
01/23/2009 Mohamed AbolSoud Diversity and Multiplexing Tradeoff of Spatial Multiplexing MIMO Systems With CSI
01/16/2009 Thuy Nguyen Capacity With Causal and Noncausal Side Information: A Unified View
01/09/2009 Youngsam Yoon Breaking Spectrum Gridlock with Cognitive Radios: An Information Theoretic Perspective
01/02/2009 Yang Li Signal Space Diversity: A Power-and Bandwidth-Efficient Diversity Technique for the Rayleigh Fading Channel

Fall 2008

Date Speaker Title
12/18/2008 Ahmed Hesham Deterministic Approach to Wireless Relay Networks
12/12/2008 Negar Bazargani Filtering of colored noise for speech enhancement and coding
12/05/2008 Ramy Tannious Code diversity in multiple antenna wireless communication
11/21/2008 Mohamed AbolSoud The Gateway Channel: Outage Analysis
11/14/2008 Thuy V Nguyen Writing on dirty paper
11/07/2008 Mohamed AbolSoud Cooperative Strategies for the Half-Duplex Gaussian Parallel Relay Channel: Simultaneous Relaying versus Successive Relaying
10/31/2008 Negar Bazargani Robust Gaussian and non-Gaussian matched subspace detection
10/24/2008 Ramy Tannious Energy-Efficient Cooperative Relaying over Fading Channels with Simple Relay Selection
10/10/2008 Mohamed AbolSoud Adaptation, Coordination, and Distributed Resource Allocation in Interference-Limited Wireless Networks
10/03/2008 Negar Bazargani Compressed Sensing
09/26/2008 Ramy Tannious Sphere decoding
08/22/2008 Group Multisource, multi-destination, multi-relay wireless networks
08/29/2008 GroupThe Factor Graph Approach to Model-Based Signal Processing