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Session: I.A -- Coding Theory I

Wednesday, September 28 - 8:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. - Rm: Library


Chair: U. Erez
(Tel Aviv University)


Organizers: R. Blahut and R. Koetter
(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Time: 8:30 a.m. Paper: 43_418 Convergence of Belief Propagation for Large Multi-User Receivers
  Authors: A. Montanari (Ecole Normale Superieure Paris),
B. Prabhakar (Stanford University), and
D. Tse (University of California, Berkeley)

Time: 9:00 a.m. Paper: 43_429 Why We Can Not Surpass Capacity: The Matching Condition
  Authors: C. Méasson (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology),
A. Montanari (Ecole Normale Superieure Paris), and
R. Urbanke (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)

Time: 9:30 a.m. Paper: 43_383 On Minimal Pseudo-Codewords of Tanner Graphs from Projective Planes
  Authors: P.O. Vontobel
(University of Wisconsin, Madison) and
R. Smarandache
(San Diego State University)

Time: 10:30 a.m. Paper: 43_364 Accumulate-Repeat-Accumulate Codes: Systematic Codes Achieving the Binary Erasure Channel Capacity with Bounded Complexity
  Authors: H.D. Pfister (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology), and
I. Sason (Technion-Israel Institute of Technology)

Time: 11:00 a.m. Paper: 43_426 Complexity-Optimized Low-Density Parity-Check Codes
  Authors: M. Ardakani (University of Alberta),
B. Smith, W. Yu, and F.R. Kschischang
(University of Toronto)

Time: 11:30 a.m. Paper: 43_116 Reliability-Based List Decoding with Multiple Biases
  Authors: W. Jin and M. Fossorier
(University of Hawaii)



Session: I.B -- Communication and Information Theory I

Wednesday, September 28 - 8:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. - Rm: Porch


Chair: D. Guo
(Northwestern University)


Organizer: P. Viswanath
(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Time: 8:30 a.m. Paper: 43_372 Wideband Fading Channel Capacity with Training and Partial Feedback
  Authors: M. Agarwal and M.L. Honig
(Northwestern University)

Time: 9:00 a.m. Paper: 43_367 Compact MIMO Receive Antennas
  Authors: R.R. Mueller, R. Bains, and J.A. Aas
(Norwegian University of Science & Technology)

Time: 9:30 a.m. Paper: 43_400 The Strong Interference Channel with Common Information
  Authors: I. Maric, R. Yates (Rutgers University), and
G. Kramer (Lucent Technologies, Bell Laboratories)

Time: 10:30 a.m. Paper: 43_381 MIMO Broadcast Scheduling with Limited Channel State Information
  Authors: C. Swannack (Massachusetts Institute of Technology),
E. Uysal-Biyikoglu (Ohio State University), and
G.W. Wornell (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Time: 11:00 a.m. Paper: 43_380 A Hybrid Analog-Digital Framework for Joint Source-Channel Broadcast Coding
  Authors: V. Prabhakaran, R. Puri, and K. Ramchandran
(University of California, Berkeley)

Time: 11:30 a.m. Paper: 43_368 On the Feedback Capacity of Stationary Gaussian Channels
  Authors: Y.-H. Kim
(Stanford University)



Session: I.C -- Communication and Control

Wednesday, September 28 - 8:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. - Rm: Butternut


Chair: A. Ozdaglar
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)


Time: 8:30 a.m. Paper: 43_314 On the Capacity of Infinite Population Multiple Access Protocols with Multipacket Reception Capability
  Authors: D.S. Chan and T. Berger
(Cornell University)

Time: 9:00 a.m. Paper: 43_307 Linear Remote Stabilization Over Packet Drop Networks with ACK Losses
  Authors: N. Elia
(Iowa State University)

Time: 9:30 a.m. Paper: 43_320 A Simple Rate Quantization Method for Service Guarantees with Input-Queued Switches
  Authors: B. Lin
(University of California, San Diego)

Time: 10:30 a.m. Paper: 43_216 Maximizing Throughput of Packet Switched Wireless Communication Systems
  Authors: C.K. Ho, F. Willems (Eindhoven University), and
J. Oostveen (Philips Research Laboratories)

Time: 11:00 a.m. Paper: 43_48 A Decision Theoretic Framework for Real-Time Communication
  Authors: A. Mahajan and D. Teneketzis
(University of Michigan)

Time: 11:30 a.m. Paper: 43_340 Host-Controlled Routing Architectures
  Authors: I. Stoica
(University of California, Berkeley)



Session: I.D -- Communication Networks

Wednesday, September 28 - 8:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. - Rm: Pine


Chair: K. Chugg
(University of Southern California)


Time: 8:30 a.m. Paper: 43_155 A Factor Graph Modelling of Product-Form Loss and Queueing Networks
  Authors: J. Ni and S. Tatikonda
(Yale University)

Time: 9:00 a.m. Paper: 43_241 Continuous-time Optimal Rate Control for Delay Constrained Data Transmission
  Authors: M. Zafer and E. Modiano
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Time: 9:30 a.m. Paper: 43_318 Rate Assignment in Micro-Buffered High Speed Networks
  Authors: M. Arisoylu, R.L. Cruz, and T. Javidi
(University of California, San Diego)

Time: 10:30 a.m. Paper: 43_311 Domination and Coverage Guarantees Through Distributed Computation
  Authors: D. Subhadrabandhu (University of Pennsylvania),
F. Anjum (Telcordia Technology),
V. Kannan, and S. Sarkar (University of Pennsylvania)

Time: 11:00 a.m. Paper: 43_164 SIFT: A Simple Algorithm for Tracking Elephant Flows, and Taking Advantage of Power Laws
  Authors: K. Psounis (University of Southern California),
A. Ghosh, B. Prabhakar (Stanford University), and
G. Wang (University of Southern California)

Time: 11:15 a.m. Paper: 43_284 Selfish vs. Social Routing with Competitive Traffic Pricing
  Authors: P.C. Gurumohan and J. Hui
(Arizona State University)

Time: 11:30 a.m. Paper: 43_226 Pricing Strategies and Service Differentiation in Queues---A Profit Maximization Perspective
  Authors: A.K.R. Katta and J. Sethuraman
(Columbia University)



Session: I.E -- MIMO Channels

Wednesday, September 28 - 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. - Rm: Lower Level


Chair: T. Coleman
(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)


Time: 8:30 a.m. Paper: 43_239 Capacity of MIMO Systems without CSI
  Authors: R. Gopalan, T. Li, S. Ranganathan,
K. Padmanabhan, and O.M. Collins
(University of Notre Dame)

Time: 9:00 a.m. Paper: 43_288 On the Diversity Multiplexing Tradeoff of Large MIMO Arrays
  Authors: M.A. Kamath and B.L. Hughes
(North Carolina State University)

Time: 9:30 a.m. Paper: 43_299 Characterizing the Capacity for MIMO Wireless Channels with Non-Zero Mean and Transmit Covariance
  Authors: M. Vu and A. Paulraj
(Stanford University)

Time: 10:30 a.m. Paper: 43_119 On the Optimality of MMSE-GDFE Pre-Processed Sphere Decoding
  Authors: S.-J. Hwang and P. Schniter
(Ohio State University)

Time: 10:45 a.m. Paper: 43_315 Layered Orthogonal Lattice Detector for Two Transmit Antenna Communications
  Authors: M. Siti (STMicroelectronics) and
M.P. Fitz (University of California, Los Angeles)

Time: 11:00 a.m. Paper: 43_274 On the Rate-Diversity Function for MIMO Channels with a Finite Input Alphabet
  Authors: R. Liu and P. Spasojević
(Rutgers University)

Time: 11:15 a.m. Paper: 43_36 Analysis of MIMO Transmission for GSM/EDGE
  Authors: P. Nickel, W. Gerstacker (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg),
R. Schober (University of British Columbia), and
W. Koch (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg)

Time: 11:30 a.m. Paper: 43_276 The Algebra of MIMO Channels
  Authors: E. Abbe (Massachusetts Institute of Technology),
E. Telatar (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)
and L. Zheng (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Time: 12:00 p.m. Paper: 43_211 On the Fairest Corner Point of the MIMO-BC Capacity Region
  Authors: M.A. Maddah-Ali, A. Mobasher, and A.K. Khandani
(University of Waterloo)



Session: I.F -- Relay Networks I

Wednesday, September 28 - 8:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. - Rm: Brick


Chair: D. Katabi
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)


Time: 8:30 a.m. Paper: 43_96 Beamforming Algorithms for Amplify-and-Forward Relaying in Wireless Networks
  Authors: M.M. Abdallah and H.C. Papadopoulos
(University of Maryland, College Park)

Time: 9:00 a.m. Paper: 43_65 On the Capacity of Multiple Input Erasure Relay Channels: The Non-Degraded Case
  Authors: R. Khalili (Paris VI University) and
K. Salamatian
(University Pierre & Marie Curie-LIP6)

Time: 9:30 a.m. Paper: 43_131 Power-Bandwidth Tradeoff in Linear Multi-Antenna Interference Relay Networks
  Authors: O. Oyman and A.J. Paulraj
(Stanford University)

Time: 10:30 a.m. Paper: 43_301 Approximately Universal Optimality in Wireless Relay Networks
  Authors: P. Elia and P.V. Kumar
(University of Southern California)

Time: 11:00 a.m. Paper: 43_58 On the Capacity of an Infinite Cascade of Channels
  Authors: U. Niesen (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne),
C. Fragouli (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne), and
D. Tuninetti (University of Illinois, Chicago)

Time: 11:15 a.m. Paper: 43_221 Matching Code-on-Graph with Network-on-Graph: Adaptive Network Coding for Wireless Relay Networks
  Authors: X. Bao and J.(T). Li
(Lehigh University)

Time: 11:30 a.m. Paper: 43_53 Optimal Space-Time Codes for the Amplify-and-Forward Cooperative Channel
  Authors: S. Yang and J.-C. Belfiore
(Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications)



Session: I.G -- Signal Processing

Wednesday, September 28 - 8:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. - Rm: Tent


Chair: M. Do
(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)


Time: 8:30 a.m. Paper: 43_67 On the Asymptotic Distortion Behavior of the Distributed Karhunen-Loève Transform
  Authors: O. Roy
(Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) and
M. Vetterli
(Swiss Federal Institute of Technology - EPFL)

Time: 9:00 a.m. Paper: 43_43 Image Detection in 2D Intersymbol Interference with Iterative Soft Decision Feedback Zig-Zag Algorithm
  Authors: P. Njeim (Boeing Commercial Airplanes),
T. Cheng, B.J. Belzer, and K. Sivakumar
(Washington State University)

Time: 10:30 a.m. Paper: 43_63 Denoising and Filtering Under the Probability of Excess Loss Criterion
  Authors: S. Pereira and T. Weissman
(Stanford University)

Time: 11:00 a.m. Paper: 43_14 Multi-Source Change Detection for Compound Poisson Processes
  Authors: E. Bayraktar (University of Michigan) and
H.V. Poor (Princeton University)

Time: 11:15 a.m. Paper: 43_154 Compression of Correlated Gaussian Sources Under Individual Distortion Criteria
  Authors: J.-J. Xiao and Z.-Q. Luo
(University of Minnesota)

Time: 11:45 a.m. Paper: 43_64 Multiple Description Image Coding: A New Efficient and Low Complexity Approach for Wireless Applications
  Authors: M. Malboubi, A. Bahai, and M. Ergen
(University of California, Berkeley)



Session: I.H -- Multi-User Communications

Wednesday, September 28 - 8:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. - Rm: Visitors Center


Chair: A. Wagner
(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)


Time: 8:30 a.m. Paper: 43_97 Reliable Computation over Multiple-Access Channels
  Authors: B. Nazer and M. Gastpar
(University of California, Berkeley)

Time: 9:00 a.m. Paper: 43_161 Reversible Information Embedding in Multi-User Channels
  Authors: S. Kotagiri and J.N. Laneman
(University of Notre Dame)

Time: 9:15 a.m. Paper: 43_27 Multi-Access MIMO Systems with Finite Rate Channel State Feedback
  Authors: W. Dai, B. Rider, and Y. Liu
(University of Colorado, Boulder)

Time: 9:30 a.m. Paper: 43_198 Signal Shaping Using Non-Unique Symbol Mappings
  Authors: F. Schreckenbach and P. Henkel
(Munich University of Technology)

Time: 10:30 a.m. Paper: 43_57 Random Multi-Access Algorithms - A Mean Field Analysis
  Authors: C. Bordenave (Ecole Normale Superieure Paris), D. McDonald (University of Ottawa), and A. Proutiere (France Telecom R&D)

Time: 11:00 a.m. Paper: 43_253 Sequential Random Coding Error Exponents for Degraded Broadcast Channels
  Authors: C. Chang and A. Sahai
(University of California, Berkeley)

Time: 11:30 a.m. Paper: 43_28 Achieving the Stationary Feedback Capacity for Gaussian Channels
  Authors: J. Liu and N. Elia
(Iowa State University)



Session: II.A -- Control and Communications I

Wednesday, September 28 - 1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. - Rm: Library


Chair: M. Franceschetti
(University of California, San Diego)


Organizers: M. Franceschetti (University of California, San Diego) and
P.R. Kumar (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Time: 1:30 p.m. Paper: 43_92 A Dynamical View of Information Theory
  Authors: S.K. Mitter
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Time: 2:00 p.m. Paper: 43_89 Control with Many Sensors and Communication Channels
  Authors: S. Tatikonda
(Yale University)

Time: 2:30 p.m. Paper: 43_44 Estimation and Control Over Lossy Networks
  Authors: B. Sinopoli, L. Schenato
(University of California, Berkeley),
M. Franceschetti
(University of California, San Diego),
K. Poolla, and S.S. Sastry
(University of California, Berkeley)

Time: 3:30 p.m. Paper: 43_256 A Simple Encoding and Decoding Strategy for Stabilization Over Discrete Memoryless Channels
  Authors: A. Sahai and H. Palaiyanur
(University of California, Berkeley)

Time: 4:00 p.m. Paper: 43_86 Fundamental Limitations of Feedback in the Presence of Side Information
  Authors: N.C. Martins, M.A. Dahleh
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology), and
J.C. Doyle
(California Institute of Technology)



Session: II.B -- Pricing and Game Theory

Wednesday, September 28 - 1:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. - Rm: Porch


Chair: S. Williams
(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)


Organizers: B. Hajek and R. Srikant
(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Time: 1:30 p.m. Paper: 43_337 Computing Prices in a Leontief Market
  Authors: A. Saberi
(Stanford University)

Time: 2:00 p.m. Paper: 43_333 Flow Allocation Games: Pricing, Equilibria, and Fast Convergence
  Authors: J.W. Byers
(Boston University) and
D. Raz
(Technion - Israel Institute of Technology)

Time: 2:30 p.m. Paper: 43_330 Toward Discrete-Step, Distributed Tatonnement Algorithms for the Market Equilibrium Problem
  Authors: R. Cole
(Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences) and
L. Fleischer
(IBM T.J. Watson Research Center)

Time: 3:30 p.m. Paper: 43_334 Communication Requirements of VCG-Like Mechanisms in Convex Environments
  Authors: R. Johari
(Stanford University) and
J.N. Tsitsiklis
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Time: 4:00 p.m. Paper: 43_331 On Efficiency and Revenue Maximization When Allocating a Divisible Resource
  Authors: R. Maheswaran
(University of Southern California)

Time: 4:30 p.m. Paper: 43_335 Price Competition and Efficiency in Congested Networks
  Authors: A. Ozdaglar and D. Acemoglu
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Time: 5:00 p.m. Paper: 43_336 Price of Anarchy and Stability for Some Network Formation and Pricing Games
  Authors: E. Tardos
(Cornell University)



Session: II.C -- Control and Optimization

Wednesday, September 28 - 1:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. - Rm: Butternut


Chair: B. Lin
(University of California, San Diego)


Time: 1:30 p.m. Paper: 43_152 Uniqueness of Generalized Equilibrium for Box Constrained Problems and Applications
  Authors: A. Simsek, A.E. Ozdaglar, and D. Acemoglu
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Time: 2:00 p.m. Paper: 43_104 The Eigenvectors and Eigenvalues of Time-Varying Systems
  Authors: P.R. Bouthellier
(University of Pittsburgh, Titusville)

Time: 2:30 p.m. Paper: 43_199 Computing the Optimal Mixed Strategy for Various Ambush Games
  Authors: F. Joseph and E. Feron
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Time: 2:45 p.m. Paper: 43_24 An Approximation Algorithm for the Curvature-Constrained Traveling Salesman Problem
  Authors: J. Le Ny (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
and E. Feron (Georgia Institute of Technology)

Time: 3:30 p.m. Paper: 43_136 The Value of Adaptability
  Authors: D. Bertsimas and C. Caramanis
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Time: 4:00 p.m. Paper: 43_317 Polynomial Level-Set Methods for Nonlinear Dynamical Systems Analysis
  Authors: T.-C. Wang, S. Lall, and M. West
(Stanford University)

Time: 4:30 p.m. Paper: 43_295 Model Reduction of Discrete-Time Linear Systems with White Noise Coefficients
  Authors: G. Kotsalis, A. Megretski, and M.A. Dahleh
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Time: 4:45 p.m. Paper: 43_272 Robust Supervisory Control and Blocking Invariant Languages
  Authors: A. Saboori and S. Hashtrudi Zad
(Concordia University)



Session: II.D -- Fading Channels I

Wednesday, September 28 - 1:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. - Rm: Pine


Chair: P. Schniter
(Ohio State University)


Time: 1:30 p.m. Paper: 43_306 Diversity-Multiplexing Tradeoff for Channels with Feedback
  Authors: R.H. Nanjundaswamy
(Indian Institute of Technology) and
V. Sharma
(Indian Institute of Science)

Time: 2:00 p.m. Paper: 43_54 First Applications of Cyclic Algebras to Noncoherent MIMO Channel
  Authors: F. Oggier
(Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne - EPFL)

Time: 2:30 p.m. Paper: 43_196 Outage Theorems for MIMO Fading Channels
  Authors: N. Prasad (NEC Laboratories America, Inc.),
M.K. Varanasi (University of Colorado, Boulder),
M.A. Khojastepour (NEC Laboratories America, Inc.), and X. Wang (Columbia University)

Time: 3:30 p.m. Paper: 43_33 A Low Complexity Circuit Architecture for Rapid PN Code Acquisition in UWB Systems Using Iterative Message Passing on Redundant Graphical Models
  Authors: O.W. Yeung and K.M. Chugg
(University of Southern California)

Time: 4:00 p.m. Paper: 43_255 On Single and Multiple Antenna Rake Receivers for UWB Signals
  Authors: C. Carbonelli and U. Mitra
(University of Southern California)

Time: 4:30 p.m. Paper: 43_323 Exploiting Time-Frequency Coherence to Achieve Coherent Capacity in Wideband Wireless Channels
  Authors: V. Raghavan, G. Hariharan, and A.M. Sayeed
(University of Wisconsin, Madison)



Session: II.E -- Network Coding I

Wednesday, September 28 - 1:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. - Rm: Lower Level


Chair: M. Médard
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)


Organizers: M. Médard (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and
R. Koetter (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Time: 1:30 p.m. Paper: 43_420 Nonreversibility of Multiple Unicast Networks
  Authors: R. Dougherty
(Center for Communications Research) and
K. Zeger
(University of California, San Diego)

Time: 2:00 p.m. Paper: 43_379 Polynomial Time Construction of Generic Linear Network Codes
  Authors: R.W. Yeung and S.-Y.R. Li
(Chinese University of Hong Kong)

Time: 2:30 p.m. Paper: 43_378 An Information Theory for the Erasure Channel
  Authors: K. Salamatian
(University Pierre & Marie Curie-LIP6) and
R. Khalili
(Paris VI University)

Time: 3:30 p.m. Paper: 43_384 The Importance of Being Opportunistic: Practical Network Coding For Wireless Environments
  Authors: S. Katti, D. Katabi, Wenjun Hu, Rahul Hariharan, Muriel Médard
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Time: 4:00 p.m. Paper: 43_428 On the Power (Saving) of Network Coding
  Authors: K. Jain and K. Talwar
(Microsoft Research)

Time: 4:30 p.m. Paper: 43_390 A Network Coding Approach to Network Monitoring
  Authors: C. Fragouli
(Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne), and
A. Markopoulou



Session: II.F -- Distribuited Source Coding

Wednesday, September 28 - 1:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. - Rm: Brick


Chair: D. Baron
(Rice University)


Organizers: D. Baron (Rice University), G. Shamir (University of Utah), and
A. Singer (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Time: 1:30 p.m. Paper: 43_363 Slepian-Wolf Codes for Parallel Sources: Design and Error-Exponent
  Authors: D. Schonberg, S.C. Draper, R. Puri, and
K. Ramchandran
(University of California, Berkeley)

Time: 2:00 p.m. Paper: 43_417 Directed Information for Communication Problems with Common Side Information and Delayed Feedback/Feedforward
  Authors: R. Venkataramanan and S.S. Pradhan
(University of Michigan)

Time: 2:30 p.m. Paper: 43_362 Low-Delay Distributed Source Coding: Bounds and Performance of Practical Codes
  Authors: O. Bursalioglu and E. Tuncel
(University of California, Riverside)

Time: 3:30 p.m. Paper: 43_419 An Information-Theoretic Approach to Distributed Compressed Sensing
  Authors: D. Baron, M.F. Duarte, S. Sarvotham, M.B. Wakin, and R.G. Baraniuk
(Rice University)

Time: 4:00 p.m. Paper: 43_403 Source Coding with Causal Side Information at the Decoder
  Authors: A. El Gamal and T. Weissman
(Stanford University)

Time: 4:30 p.m. Paper: 43_402 Source Coding with Variable Resolution and Coding for Deterministic Broadcast Channels
  Authors: E. Haim and R. Zamir
(Tel-Aviv University)



Session: II.G -- Sensor Networks

Wednesday, September 28 - 1:30 p.m. to 4:45 p.m. - Rm: Tent


Chair: N. Laneman
(University of Notre Dame)


Time: 1:30 p.m. Paper: 43_171 On Information Divergence Measures, Surrogate Loss Functions and Decentralized Hypothesis Testing
  Authors: X.-L. Nguyen, M.J. Wainwright, and M.I. Jordan
(University of California, Berkeley)

Time: 2:00 p.m. Paper: 43_73 Distributed Detection in Large-Scale Sensor Networks with Correlated Sensor Observations
  Authors: W. Li and H. Dai
(North Carolina State University)

Time: 2:15 p.m. Paper: 43_10 Distributed Mean-Field Estimation and Detection in Correlated Gaussian Random Fields Using Sensor Networks
  Authors: A. Dogandžić and B. Zhang
(Iowa State University)

Time: 2:30 p.m. Paper: 43_185 Distortion-Rate Analysis for Distributed Estimation with Wireless Sensor Networks
  Authors: I.D. Schizas, G.B. Giannakis, and N. Jindal
(University of Minnesota)

Time: 3:30 p.m. Paper: 43_217 Mostly-Sleeping Wireless Sensor Networks: Connectivity, k-Coverage, and $\alpha$-Lifetime
  Authors: W. Mo, D. Qiao, and Z. Wang
(Iowa State University)

Time: 4:00 p.m. Paper: 43_9 A Distributed Algorithm with Linear Convergence for Maximum Lifetime Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks
  Authors: R. Madan (Stanford University),
Z.-Q. Luo (University of Minnesota),
and S. Lall (Stanford University)

Time: 4:15 p.m. Paper: 43_15 Cooperative Time Reversal for Communication in Power-Constrained Wireless Sensor Networks
  Authors: R.J. Barton, J. Chen, and K. Huang
(University of Houston)

Time: 4:30 p.m. Paper: 43_202 Performance of Decentralized Detection in Large Sensor Networks: Impact of Different Binary Modulation Schemes and Fading in Sensor-to-Fusion Center Link
  Authors: V.R. Kanchumarthy and R. Viswanathan
(Southern Illinois University, Carbondale)



Session: II.H -- Multi-User Wireless Networks

Wednesday, September 28 - 1:30 p.m. to 5:15 p.m. - Rm: Visitors Center


Chair: M. Gastpar
(University of California, Berkeley)


Time: 1:30 p.m. Paper: 43_264 Gaussian Interference Networks with Feedback: Duality, Sum Capacity and Dynamic Team Problems
  Authors: W. Wu, S. Vishwanath, and A. Arapostathis
(University of Texas, Austin)

Time: 2:00 p.m. Paper: 43_218 Error Probability in the Block-Erasure Channel
  Authors: A. Guillén i Fàbregas
(University of South Australia)

Time: 2:30 p.m. Paper: 43_106 On the Duality between Outage Capacity and Multiuser Scheduling Gain for MIMO Systems and the Impact of Shadow Fading
  Authors: H. Dai
(North Carolina State University)

Time: 3:30 p.m. Paper: 43_225 A Unified Power Control Algorithm for Multiuser Detectors in Large Systems: Convergence and Performance
  Authors: F. Meshkati, H.V. Poor, S.C. Schwartz,
(Princeton University), and
D. Guo (Northwestern University)

Time: 4:00 p.m. Paper: 43_227 Wireless Ad Hoc Networks with Successive Interference Cancellation
  Authors: S. Weber (Drexel University),
J.G. Andrews, G. de Veciana (University of Texas, Austin), and
X. Yang (Intel Broadband)

Time: 4:30 p.m. Paper: 43_233 Opportunistic Link Scheduling, Power Control, and Routing for Multi-hop Wireless Networks Over Time Varying Channels
  Authors: Y.-H. Lin and R.L. Cruz
(University of California, San Diego)

Time: 5:00 p.m. Paper: 43_244 Packet Random Access in CDMA Radio Networks
  Authors: R. Kempter (University of Utah) and
C. Schlegel (University of Alberta)



Session: III.A -- Communication and Information Theory II

Thursday, September 29 - 8:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. - Rm: Library


Organizer/Chair: P. Viswanath
(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)


Time: 8:30 a.m. Paper: 43_366 On the Capacity of Fading MIMO Broadcast Channels with Imperfect Transmitter Side-Information
  Authors: A. Lapidoth (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology - ETH),
S. Shamai (Shitz) (Technion-Israel Institute of Technology), and
M.A. Wigger (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH)

Time: 9:00 a.m. Paper: 43_415 Bloom Filters: Innovations and Novel Uses
  Authors: Y. Lu, B. Prabhakar, and F. Bonomi
(Stanford University)

Time: 9:30 a.m. Paper: 43_404 On Redundancy over Continuous Alphabets
  Authors: A. Orlitsky and N.P. Santhanam
(University of California, San Diego)

Time: 10:30 a.m. Paper: 43_391 Silence is Golden and Time is Money: Power-Aware Communication for Sensor Networks
  Authors: C. Fragouli
(Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne) and
A. Orlitsky
(University of California, San Diego)

Time: 11:00 a.m. Paper: 43_374 Performance of Multicarrier and Multirate CDMA: Some Decoupling Results
  Authors: D. Guo
(Northwestern University)

Time: 11:30 a.m. Paper: 43_395 On Embedded Diversity Codes
  Authors: S. Diggavi, S. Dusad (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology), A.R. Calderbank (Princeton University), and N. Al-Dhahir (University of Texas, Dallas)



Session: III.B -- Coding Theory II

Thursday, September 29 - 8:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. - Rm: Porch


Chair: M. O'Sullivan
(San Diego State University)


Organizers: R. Blahut and R. Koetter
(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Time: 8:30 a.m. Paper: 43_427 From Sphere to Sequential Decoding
  Authors: A.D. Murugan, H. El Gamal (Ohio State University),
M.O. Damen (University of Waterloo), and G. Caire (University of Southern California)

Time: 9:00 a.m. Paper: 43_382 Reflecting on the AWGN Error Exponent
  Authors: C. Swannack, U. Erez, and G.W. Wornell
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Time: 9:30 a.m. Paper: 43_357 Complete ML Decoding of the (73, 45) PG Code
  Authors: J. Justesen, T. Hoeholdt, and J. Hjaltason
(Technical University of Denmark)

Time: 10:30 a.m. Paper: 43_430 Space-Time Reed-Muller Codes
  Authors: A. Ashikhmin (Lucent Technologies, Bell Laboratories) and
A.R. Calderbank (Princeton University)

Time: 11:00 a.m. Paper: 43_386 Analysis of Coding on Non-Ergodic Channels
  Authors: J.J. Boutros (ENST), A. Guillen i Fabregas
(University of South Australia), and E. Calvanese-Strinati (Motorola Labs/ENST)

Time: 11:30 a.m. Paper: 43_416 Non-Linear Programming Approaches to Decoding Low-Density Parity-Check Codes
  Authors: K. Yang, J. Feldman, and X. Wang
(Columbia University)



Session: III.C -- Fading Channels II

Thursday, September 29 - 8:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. - Rm: Butternut


Chair: K. Kar
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)


Time: 8:30 a.m. Paper: 43_321 Channel Model and Upper Bound on the Information Capacity of the Fiber Optical Communication Channel Based on the Effects of XPM Induced Nonlinearity
  Authors: H. Kakavand
(Stanford University)

Time: 9:00 a.m. Paper: 43_179 Cooperative Time Synchronization with Propagation Delay: Model and Analysis
  Authors: A.-S. Hu and S.D. Servetto
(Cornell University)

Time: 9:30 a.m. Paper: 43_31 Rate Regions and Optimal Power Allocation for TD Fading Broadcast Channels Without CSIT
  Authors: Y. Liang and A. Goldsmith
(Stanford University)

Time: 10:30 a.m. Paper: 43_293 Computing the Robust Capacity of Discrete Memoryless Channels
  Authors: N.C. Martins
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and
P. Parrilo
(Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)

Time: 11:00 a.m. Paper: 43_300 Attaining maximal reliability with minimal feedback via joint channel-code and hash-function design
  Authors: S.C. Draper, K. Ramchandran, B. Rimoldi, A. Sahai, and D.N.C. Tse
(University of California, Berkeley)

Time: 11:30 a.m. Paper: 43_130 The Importance of Transmitter Side Information and the Value of Training
  Authors: C. Steger, A. Khoshnevis, A. Sabharwal, and
B. Aazhang
(Rice University)

Time: 11:45 a.m. Paper: 43_262 An Integrated Joint Source Channel Framework for Video Transmission Over Wireless Fading Channels
  Authors: E. Maani and A.K. Katsaggelos
(Northwestern University)



Session: III.D -- Source Coding

Thursday, September 29 - 8:30 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. - Rm: Pine


Chair: S. Pradhan
(University of Michigan)


Time: 8:30 a.m. Paper: 43_156 Sending a Lossy Version of the Innovations Process is Suboptimal in Non-Gaussian Rate-Distortion
  Authors: K.T. Kim and T. Berger
(Cornell University)

Time: 9:00 a.m. Paper: 43_23 On Error Exponent in Lossy Source Coding
  Authors: M. Bakshi and R.K. Bansal
(Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur)

Time: 9:15 a.m. Paper: 43_254 Robust Image Watermarking with the Randlet Transform
  Authors: M. Malkin
(Stanford University) and
R. Venkatesan
(Microsoft Research)

Time: 10:30 a.m. Paper: 43_305 Variable-Rate Coding with Feedback for Universal Communication Systems
  Authors: S. Sarvotham, D. Baron, and R.G. Baraniuk
(Rice University)

Time: 10:45 a.m. Paper: 43_243 A Practical and Optimal Symmetric Slepian-Wolf Compression Strategy Using Syndrome Formers and Inverse Syndrome Formers
  Authors: P. Tan and J.(T). Li
(Lehigh University)

Time: 11:00 a.m. Paper: 43_230 A Wyner Ziv Codec Based on Equalization at the Decoder
  Authors: A. Vosoughi and A. Scaglione
(Cornell University)

Time: 11:15 a.m. Paper: 43_242 Source-Channel Communication Under Orthogonal Multiple Access
  Authors: J.-J. Xiao and Z.-Q. Luo
(University of Minnesota)

Time: 11:30 a.m. Paper: 43_246 Slepian-Wolf Cooperation: A Practical and Efficient Compress-and-Forward Relay Scheme
  Authors: J.(T). Li
(Lehigh University)



Session: III.E -- Overlay and P2P Networks

Thursday, September 29 - 8:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. - Rm: Lower Level


Chair: B. Hajek
(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)


Organizers: B. Hajek and R. Srikant
(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Time: 9:00 a.m. Paper: 43_338 What Does it Take to Disconnect a P2P Network?
  Authors: D. Loguinov
(Texas A&M University)

Time: 9:30 a.m. Paper: 43_339 Data Persistence for Zero-Configuration Sensor Networks
  Authors: A. Kamra, V. Misra, D. Rubenstein, J. Feldman
(Columbia University)

Time: 10:30 a.m. Paper: 43_341 Guaranteeing Predictable Performance to Unpredictable Traffic
  Authors: M. Kodialam, T.V. Lakshman
(Lucent Technologies, Bell Laboratories), and
S. Sengupta
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Time: 11:00 a.m. Paper: 43_349 Correctness Properties for Internet Routing
  Authors: N. Feamster
(Georgia Institute of Technology) and
H. Balakrishnan
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Time: 11:30 a.m. Paper: 43_342 Routers with Very Small Buffers
  Authors: A. Goel, M. Enachescu, Y. Ganjali,
N. McKeown, and T. Roughgarden
(Stanford University)



Session: III.F -- Confluence of Information, Communication, and Control

Thursday, September 29 - 8:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. - Rm: Brick


Organizer/Chair: C. Hadjicostis
(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)


Time: 8:30 a.m. Paper: 43_87 Control with Communication Constraints: Stability and Performance Issues
  Authors: S.V. Sarma, N.C. Martins, and M.A. Dahleh
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Time: 9:00 a.m. Paper: 43_352 Robust Entropy Rate for Uncertain Sources and its Applications in Controlling Systems Subject to Capacity Constraints
  Authors: C.D. Charalambous
(University of Cyprus) and
A. Farhadi
(University of Ottawa)

Time: 10:30 a.m. Paper: 43_327 Cooperative Distributed Control of Networks with Mobile Nodes: Theory and Practice
  Authors: W. Li and C.G. Cassandras
(Boston University)

Time: 11:00 a.m. Paper: 43_309 The Information Cost of Sensitivity Shaping Over Gaussian Channels
  Authors: N. Elia
(Iowa State University)



Session: III.G -- Relay Networks II

Thursday, September 29 - 8:30 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. - Rm: Tent


Chair: T. Javidi
(University of California, San Diego)


Time: 8:30 a.m. Paper: 43_144 Achievable Rates and Scaling Law of Wireless Relay Networks in the Low SNR Regime
  Authors: B. Wang and J. Zhang
(Arizona State University)

Time: 9:00 a.m. Paper: 43_146 Capacity Theorems for the Relay-Without-Delay Channel
  Authors: A. El Gamal and N. Hassanpur
(Stanford University)

Time: 9:30 a.m. Paper: 43_298 D-MG Optimality and Explicit Coding for Wireless Relay Networks With Reduced Channel Knowledge
  Authors: P. Elia and P.V. Kumar
(University of Southern California)

Time: 10:30 a.m. Paper: 43_17 Spectral Efficient Protocols for Nonregenerative Half-duplex Relaying
  Authors: B. Rankov and A. Wittneben
(Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich)



Session: III.H -- Multi-User Information Theory

Thursday, September 29 - 8:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. - Rm: Visitors Center


Chair: I. Rish
(IBM T.J. Watson Research Center)


Time: 8:30 a.m. Paper: 43_66 The Impact of Channel Estimation Error on the DPC Region of the Two-User Gaussian Broadcast Channel
  Authors: S. Yang and J.-C. Belfiore
(Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications)

Time: 9:00 a.m. Paper: 43_160 Capacity Bounds for Multiuser Communications with Side Information
  Authors: S.A. Jafar
(University of California, Irvine)

Time: 9:30 a.m. Paper: 43_38 Capacity Bounds and Coding Schemes for Two-Dimensional Asymmetric k-Constrained Runlength-Limited Arrays
  Authors: S.G. Srinivasa and S.W. McLaughlin
(Georgia Institute of Technology)

Time: 9:45 a.m. Paper: 43_192 Solution to the Sum Power Minimization Problem for the OFDM Multiple Access Channel Under Given Rate Requirements
  Authors: T. Michel and G. Wunder
(German-Sino Lab for Mobile Communications, Berlin)

Time: 10:30 a.m. Paper: 43_107 Multiuser Capacity Analysis of WDM in Nonlinear Fiber Optics
  Authors: M.H. Taghavi N., G.C. Papen, and P.H. Siegel
(University of California, San Diego)

Time: 11:00 a.m. Paper: 43_135 Achievable Rates for the Multiple Access Channel with Feedback and Correlated Sources
  Authors: L. Ong and M. Motani
(National University of Singapore)

Time: 11:30 a.m. Paper: 43_140 Achieving the Sum-Rate Capacity of the MIMO Broadcast Channel with Voronoi Codes and MMSE-GDFE Estimation
  Authors: F. Tosato
(Philips Research Laboratories)



Session: IV.A -- Algorithms for Communication Networks

Thursday, September 29 - 1:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. - Rm: Library


Chair: R. Cruz
(University of Calirfornia, San Diego)


Organizers: B. Hajek and R. Srikant
(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Time: 1:30 p.m. Paper: 43_343 Measurement-Based Opportunistic Feedback and Scheduling for Wireless Systems
  Authors: G. de Vecianna and S. Patil
(University of Texas, Austin)

Time: 2:00 p.m. Paper: 43_344 Modeling and Analysis of Wireless Local Area Networks
  Authors: Y. Gong and P. Marbach
(University of Toronto)

Time: 2:30 p.m. Paper: 43_345 New Results on Bloom Filters and Related Data Structures
  Authors: A. Kirsch and M. Mitzenmacher
(Harvard University)

Time: 3:30 p.m. Paper: 43_213 Capacity-Delay Scaling for Arbitrary Wireless Network
  Authors: R. Madan and D. Shah
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Time: 4:00 p.m. Paper: 43_347 Robust Network Response to Overload Traffic Fluctuations
  Authors: L. Georgiadis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) and
L. Tassiulas (University of Thessaly)

Time: 4:30 p.m. Paper: 43_348 Stability of Longest Queue First Scheduling
  Authors: A. Dimakis and J.C. Walrand
(University of California, Berkeley)

Time: 5:00 p.m. Paper: 43_194 Distributed Interference Compensation for Multi-channel Wireless Networks
  Authors: J. Huang, R. Berry, and M.L. Honig
(Northwestern University)



Session: IV.B -- Coding and Information Security

Thursday, September 29 - 1:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. - Rm: Porch


Chair: P. Moulin
(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)


Organizers: P. Moulin and R. Koetter
(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Time: 1:30 p.m. Paper: 43_361 Secure Biometrics via Syndromes
  Authors: E. Martinian (Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs, S. Yekhanin (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), and J.S. Yedidia (Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs

Time: 2:00 p.m. Paper: 43_358 Secure Watermark Detection
  Authors: T. Kalker
(Hewlett-Packard Laboratories)

Time: 2:30 p.m. Paper: 43_365 Steganography via Codes for Memory with Defective Cells
  Authors: J. Fridrich, M. Goljan, and D. Soukal
(State University of New York, Binghamton)

Time: 3:30 p.m. Paper: 43_425 Error Exponent for 'Dirty Paper Coding'
  Authors: A. Barg
(University of Maryland, College Park)

Time: 4:00 p.m. Paper: 43_245 On Blind Compression of Encrypted Correlated Data Approaching the Source Entropy Rate
  Authors: D. Schonberg, S.C. Draper, and K. Ramchandran
(University of California, Berkeley)

Time: 4:30 p.m. Paper: 43_109 Linear-Time Decodable Secrecy Codes for Binary Erasure Wiretap Channels
  Authors: S. Dihidar (Georgia Institute of Technology),
A. Thangaraj (Indian Institute of Technology, Madras),
S.W. McLaughlin (Georgia Institute of Technology), and
A.R. Calderbank (Princeton University)



Session: IV.C -- Wireless Networks

Thursday, September 29 - 1:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. - Rm: Butternut


Chair: A. Wagner
(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)


Time: 1:30 p.m. Paper: 43_281 Throughput Guarantees Through Maximal Scheduling in Wireless Networks
  Authors: P. Chaporkar (University of Pennsylvania),
K. Kar (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), and
S. Sarkar (University of Pennsylvania)

Time: 2:00 p.m. Paper: 43_304 Optimal Quantized Power Control in Multiple Antenna Communication Systems
  Authors: M.A. Khojastepour
(NEC Laboratories America, Inc.),
X. Wang (Columbia University), and
M. Madihian (NEC Laborarories America, Inc.)

Time: 2:30 p.m. Paper: 43_52 On the Achievable Rates and Cooperation Strategies of Three-Node Wireless Network
  Authors: L. Lai, K. Liu, and H. El Gamal
(Ohio State University)

Time: 3:30 p.m. Paper: 43_133 Capacity of Fading Broadcast Channels with Transmitter Ordering CSI
  Authors: R. Agarwal, Y. Liang, and A. Goldsmith
(Stanford University)

Time: 4:00 p.m. Paper: 43_81 Cooperative Diversity in Wireless Networks: A Geometry-Inclusive Analysis
  Authors: L. Sankaranarayanan (Rutgers University),
G. Kramer (Lucent Technologies, Bell Laboratories), and
N.B. Mandayam (Rutgers University)

Time: 4:30 p.m. Paper: 43_90 Control Reduces Delay in Mobile Wireless Networks with Maximal Throughput
  Authors: H.A. Waisanen, D. Shah, and M.A. Dahleh
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)



Session: IV.D -- Air Traffic and Applications

Thursday, September 29 - 1:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. - Rm: Pine


Organizer/Chair: N. Neogi
(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)


Time: 1:30 p.m. Paper: 43_414 Optimal Agent Cooperation: How Many is Enough?
  Authors: J. De Mot and E. Feron
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Time: 2:00 p.m. Paper: 43_79 A Decentralized Cooperative Strategy for Air Traffic Conflict Resolution
  Authors: E. Frazzoli
(University of California, Los Angeles)



Session: IV.E -- Wireless and Ad-hoc Sensor Networks

Thursday, September 29 - 1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. - Rm: Lower Level


Chair: M. Franceschetti
(University of California, San Diego)


Organizers: M. Franceschetti (University of California, San Diego) and
P.R. Kumar (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Time: 1:30 p.m. Paper: 43_75 Minimizing Power Consumption in Wireless Networks with Quality of Service Requirement
  Authors: N. Ehsan (University of California, San Diego) and
M. Liu (University of Michigan)

Time: 2:00 p.m. Paper: 43_200 On Noisy Feedback in Gaussian Networks
  Authors: M. Gastpar
(University of California, Berkeley)

Time: 2:30 p.m. Paper: 43_20 Avoiding Malicious Packet Dropping in Ad hoc Wireless Networks Using Multipath Routing
  Authors: P.B. Jeon and G. Kesidis
(Pennsylvania State University)

Time: 3:30 p.m. Paper: 43_85 Revisiting Saturation Throughput in 802.11 Networks
  Authors: T. Javidi (University of California, San Diego), M. Liu (University of Michigan), and R. Vijayakumar (University of Washington)

Time: 4:00 p.m. Paper: 43_50 The Radial Spanning Tree of a Poisson Point Process
  Authors: F. Baccelli and C. Bordenave
(Ecole Normale Superieure Paris)



Session: IV.F -- Distributed Estimation, Detection, and Diagnosis

Thursday, September 29 - 1:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. - Rm: Brick


Organizer/Chair: C. Hadjicostis
(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)


Time: 1:30 p.m. Paper: 43_354 A Middleware Framework for Robust Applications in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
  Authors: G. Chockler, M. Demirbas, S. Gilbert, and
C. Newport
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Time: 2:00 p.m. Paper: 43_393 A Trellis Notion for Distributed Systems
  Authors: E. Fabre
(IRISA/INRIA)

Time: 2:30 p.m. Paper: 43_356 Relative Measurement Orderings in Diagnosis of Distributed Physical Systems
  Authors: M. Daigle, X. Koutsoukos, and G. Biswas
(Vanderbilt University)

Time: 3:30 p.m. Paper: 43_353 Timed Virtual Stationary Automata for Mobile Networks
  Authors: S. Dolev (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev),
S. Gilbert (Massachusetts Institute of Technology),
L. Lahiani (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev),
N. Lynch, and T. Nolte
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Time: 4:00 p.m. Paper: 43_88 Some Robustness Properties of the Sum-Product Algorithm
  Authors: S. Tatikonda
(Yale University)

Time: 4:30 p.m. Paper: 43_373 Distributed Diagnosis in Distributed Systems Using Belief Propagation
  Authors: I. Rish
(IBM T.J. Watson Research Center)



Session: IV.G -- LDPC Codes

Thursday, September 29 - 1:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. - Rm: Tent


Chair: R. Drost
(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)


Time: 1:30 p.m. Paper: 43_162 Asymptotic Distributions of Trapping Sets in Random Regular LDPC Code Ensembles
  Authors: O. Milenkovic (University of Colorado, Boulder),
E. Soljanin, and P. Whiting (Lucent Technologies, Bell Laboratories)

Time: 2:00 p.m. Paper: 43_3 On the Parity-Check Density and Achievable Rates of LDPC Codes for Memoryless Binary-Input Output-Symmetric Channels
  Authors: G. Wiechman and I. Sason
(Technion-Israel Institute of Technology)

Time: 2:15 p.m. Paper: 43_209 The Performance of LDPC Codes with Large Girth
  Authors: M.E. O'Sullivan (San Diego State University),
J. Brevik and R. Wolski
(University of California, Santa Barbara)

Time: 2:30 p.m. Paper: 43_214 LDPC Code Design for Half-Duplex Decode-and-Forward Relaying
  Authors: A. Chakrabarti, A. de Baynast, A. Sabharwal, and
B. Aazhang
(Rice University)

Time: 3:30 p.m. Paper: 43_32 Lower Bounds on Stopping Distance of Linear Codes and Their Applications
  Authors: M. Zhu and K.M. Chugg
(University of Southern California)

Time: 3:45 p.m. Paper: 43_56 Exact Thresholds for LDPC Codes Transmitted Over Binary Erasure Channels
  Authors: T. Hehn, A. Dönmez, and J.B. Huber
(University of Erlangen-Nuremberg)

Time: 4:00 p.m. Paper: 43_165 The Error-Floor of LDPC Codes in the Laplacian Channel
  Authors: M.G. Stepanov and M. Chertkov
(Los Alamos National Laboratory)

Time: 4:15 p.m. Paper: 43_123 Turbo-Schedule for LDPC Decoding
  Authors: A. de Baynast, P. Radosavljevic,
J.R. Cavallaro, and A. Sabharwal
(Rice University)

Time: 4:30 p.m. Paper: 43_148 Multi-Hypothesis Based Distributed Video Coding using LDPC Codes
  Authors: K. Misra, S. Karande, and H. Radha
(Michigan State University)

Time: 4:45 p.m. Paper: 43_208 Capacity-Achieving Codes with Bounded Graphical Complexity on Noisy Channels
  Authors: C.-H. Hsu and A. Anastasopoulos
(University of Michigan)



Session: V.A -- Source and Source/Channel Coding

Friday, September 30 - 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. - Rm: Library


Chair: D. Baron
(Rice University)


Organizers: D. Baron (Rice University), G. Shamir (University of Utah),
and A. Singer (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Time: 10:00 a.m. Paper: 43_423 Distributed Source Coding Using LDPC Codes: Lossy and Lossless Cases with Unknown Correlation Parameter
  Authors: M. Sartipi and F. Fekri
(Georgia Institute of Technology)

Time: 10:30 a.m. Paper: 43_407 State Dependent Coding: How to Find the State?
  Authors: T. Tjalkens
(Eindhoven University)

Time: 11:00 a.m. Paper: 43_413 Joint Compression and Blind Watermarking: A Case Study in the JPEG-Compatible Scenario
  Authors: E. Yang and G. Wu
(University of Waterloo)

Time: 11:30 a.m. Paper: 43_422 Characterizing Source-Channel Diversity Approaches Beyond the Distortion Exponent
  Authors: B. Dunn and J.N. Laneman
(University of Notre Dame)

Time: 12:00 p.m. Paper: 43_360 Non-Systematic LDPC Codes via Scrambling and Splitting
  Authors: A. Alloum
(France Telecom R&D division),
J.J. Boutros
(École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications),
G.I. Shamir, and L. Wang
(University of Utah)

Time: 12:30 p.m. Paper: 43_377 LDGM Codes for Transmission of Correlated Senders Over MAC
  Authors: W. Zhong, H. Chai, and J. Garcia-Frias
(University of Delaware)



Session: V.B -- Control and Communications II

Friday, September 30 - 10:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. - Rm: Porch


Chair: M. Franceschetti
(University of California, San Diego)


Organizers: M. Franceschetti (University of California, San Diego) and P.R. Kumar (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Time: 10:00 a.m. Paper: 43_21 Cross-Layer Design of Distributed Control Over Wireless Networks
  Authors: X. Liu and A. Goldsmith
(Stanford University)

Time: 10:30 a.m. Paper: 43_302 Emergence of Power Laws in Multi Agent Systems Over Packet Drop Networks
  Authors: N. Elia
(Iowa State University)

Time: 11:00 a.m. Paper: 43_83 On Capacity and Delay in Mobile Wireless Networks with Realistic Mobility Constraints
  Authors: E. Frazzoli
(University of California, Los Angeles)

Time: 11:30 a.m. Paper: 43_387 Critical Node Lifetimes in Random Networks
  Authors: M. Franceschetti
(University of California, San Diego) and
R. Meester
(Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

Time: 12:00 p.m. Paper: 43_385 Percolation in the Signal to Interference Ratio Graph
  Authors: O. Dousse (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne),
M. Franceschetti (University of California, San Diego),
N. Macris (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), R. Meester (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), and P. Thiran (Ecole Polytechnique Fédéra



Session: V.C -- Cross-layer Optimization and QoS Trade-off in Multi-user Communication Systems

Friday, September 30 - 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. - Rm: Butternut


Chair: H. Boche
(Technische Universität Berlin)


Organizers: R. Koetter (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) and
H. Boche (Technische Universität Berlin)
Time: 10:00 a.m. Paper: 43_376 On the Value of Cooperation in Large Interference Relay Networks
  Authors: V.I. Morgenshtern and H. Bölcskei
(Swiss Federal Institute of Technology - ETH)

Time: 10:30 a.m. Paper: 43_392 Distributed Fair Power Control for Wireless Networks: Objectives and Algorithms
  Authors: S. Stańczak
(Fraunhofer German-Sino Lab for Mobile Communications) and
M. Wiczanowski
(Technical University of Berlin)

Time: 11:00 a.m. Paper: 43_424 On the SNR Exponent of Hybrid Digital-Analog Space Time Coding
  Authors: G. Caire
(University of Southern California) and
K. Narayanan
(Texas A&M University)

Time: 11:30 a.m. Paper: 43_115 On the Capacity of a Binary MIMO Channel with Random Interference
  Authors: R. Cristescu, M. Effros
(California Institute of Technology), and
M. Médard
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)



Session: V.D -- Simulation and Machine Learning

Friday, September 30 - 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. - Rm: Pine


Chair: A. Gosavi
(State University of New York, Buffalo)


Organizers: S. Meyn (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) and
A. Gosavi (State University of New York, Buffalo)
Time: 10:00 a.m. Paper: 43_408 Combining Expert Advice in Reactive Environments
  Authors: D. de Farias (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and N. Megiddo (IBM Almaden Research Center)

Time: 10:30 a.m. Paper: 43_397 Efficient Reinforcement Learning Algorithms for Problems with Acyclic State Spaces and Gaussian Disturbances
  Authors: S. Reveliotis and T. Bountourelis
(Georgia Institute of Technology)

Time: 11:00 a.m. Paper: 43_399 Semi-Variance-Sensitive Markov Decision Processes and Reinforcement Learning
  Authors: A. Gosavi
(State University of New York, Buffalo)

Time: 11:30 a.m. Paper: 43_394 Simulation Variance Reduction using Adaptive Control Variates
  Authors: S. Kim and S.G. Henderson
(Cornell University)

Time: 12:30 p.m. Paper: 43_396 A Hilbert Space Perspective on Variance Reduction
  Authors: R. Szechtman
(Naval Postgraduate School)



Session: V.E -- Communication and Information Theory III

Friday, September 30 - 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. - Rm: Lower Level


Chair: A. Poon
(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)


Organizer: P. Viswanath
(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Time: 10:00 a.m. Paper: 43_326 Fiber Aided Wireless Network Architecture: A SISO Wireless-Optical Channel
  Authors: S. Ray, M. Médard, and L. Zheng
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Time: 10:30 a.m. Paper: 43_405 Differentiated Rate Sceduling for MIMO Broadcast Channels
  Authors: A. Vakili, A. Dana, M. Sharif, and B. Hassibi
(California Institute of Technology)

Time: 11:00 a.m. Paper: 43_369 Estimation-Theoretic Representation of Mutual Information
  Authors: D.P. Palomar and S. Verdú
(Princeton University)

Time: 11:30 a.m. Paper: 43_389 Spectrum Sharing for Unlicensed Bands
  Authors: R. Etkin, A. Parekh, and D. Tse
(University of California, Berkeley)

Time: 12:00 p.m. Paper: 43_137 The p-Sphere Encoder: Vector Precoding with Low Peak-Power for the MIMO Gaussian Broadcast Channel
  Authors: F. Boccardi
(University of Padova) and
G. Caire
(Institut Eurecom)

Time: 12:30 p.m. Paper: 43_174 How Good is Phase Shift Keying for Peak-Limited Rayleigh Fading Channels in the Low-SNR Regime?
  Authors: W. Zhang and J.N. Laneman
(University of Notre Dame)



Session: V.F -- Network Coding II

Friday, September 30 - 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. - Rm: Brick


Chair: C. Fragouli
(Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne)


Organizer: R. Koetter
(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Time: 10:00 a.m. Paper: 43_401 Tighter Cut-Based Bounds for k-Pairs Communication Problems
  Authors: N.J.A. Harvey and R. Kleinberg
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Time: 10:30 a.m. Paper: 43_421 Dynamic Algorithms for Multicast with Intra-session Network Coding
  Authors: T. Ho
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and
H. Viswanathan
(Lucent Technologies, Bell Laboratories)

Time: 11:00 a.m. Paper: 43_282 Distributed Algorithms for Minimum Cost Multicast with Network Coding
  Authors: Y. Xi and E.M. Yeh
(Yale University)

Time: 11:30 a.m. Paper: 43_279 Multirate Media Streaming Using Network Coding
  Authors: N. Sundaram, P. Ramanathan, and S. Banerjee
(University of Wisconsin, Madison)

Time: 11:45 a.m. Paper: 43_142 Iterative Network and Channel Decoding on a Tanner Graph
  Authors: C. Hausl, F. Schreckenbach, I. Oikonomidis,
and G. Bauch
(Technische Universität München)



Session: V.G -- Space Time Codes

Friday, September 30 - 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. - Rm: Tent


Chair: J.-C. Belfiore
(Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications)


Time: 10:00 a.m. Paper: 43_222 Going Beyond the Multiplexing Gain: The Throughput-Reliability Tradeoff
  Authors: K. Azarian and H. El Gamal
(Ohio State University)

Time: 10:15 a.m. Paper: 43_118 Exact Pairwise Error Probability of Space-Time Codes Under MAP Decoding with Applications
  Authors: F. Behnamfar, F. Alajaji, and T. Linder
(Queen's University)

Time: 10:30 a.m. Paper: 43_219 Universally Decodable Matrices
  Authors: A. Ganesan and N. Boston
(University of Wisconsin, Madison)

Time: 11:00 a.m. Paper: 43_26 On the Non-Existence of Rate One Full-Diversity Quasi Orthogonal Space-Time Block Codes for More than Four Transmit Antennas
  Authors: J. Kazemitabar and H. Jafarkhani
(University of California, Irvine)

Time: 11:15 a.m. Paper: 43_248 Weight Enumerators and a MacWilliams-Type Identity for Space-Time Rank Codes Over Finite Fields
  Authors: D. Grant and M. Varanasi
(University of Colorado, Boulder)

Time: 11:30 a.m. Paper: 43_181 Layered Unitary Space Time Coding - Capacity Analysis
  Authors: X. Song (University of California, Riverside) and M. McCloud (Tensorcomm, Inc.)

Time: 11:45 a.m. Paper: 43_108 Complete Analysis of Space Time Group Codes
  Authors: S. Nitinawarat
(University of Maryland, College Park) and
N. Boston
(University of Wisconsin, Madison)



Session: V.H -- Coding Theory and Applications

Friday, September 30 - 10:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. - Rm: Visitors Center


Chair: T. Coleman
(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)


Time: 10:00 a.m. Paper: 43_278 A Capacity Achieving and Low Complexity Multilevel Coding Scheme for ISI Channels
  Authors: M. Chen, T. Li, and O.M. Collins
(University of Notre Dame)

Time: 10:30 a.m. Paper: 43_25 Turbo Decoding as Constrained Optimization
  Authors: J.M. Walsh (Cornell University),
P.A. Regalia (Catholic University of America), and
C.R. Johnson, Jr. (Cornell University)

Time: 10:45 a.m. Paper: 43_37 On the Asymptotics of Density Evolution for Iterative (Turbo) Decoding
  Authors: L. Schmitt and H. Meyr
(RWTH Aachen University)

Time: 11:00 a.m. Paper: 43_159 Koetter Interpolation Over Free Modules
  Authors: B. Wang, R.J. McEliece
(California Institute of Technology), and
K. Watanabe
(Semiconductor Solutions Network Co./Sony Corp.)

Time: 11:15 a.m. Paper: 43_13 Fixed-Rate Maximum Runlength-Limited Codes from Variable-Rate Bit Stuffing
  Authors: Y. Sankarasubramaniam and S.W. McLaughlin
(Georgia Institute of Technology)

Time: 11:30 a.m. Paper: 43_178 A Scalable Approach to Localize Congestion Using Coding Theory
  Authors: R. Narasimha, S. Dihidar, C. Ji, and
S.W. McLaughlin
(Georgia Institute of Technology)

Time: 11:45 a.m. Paper: 43_168 Improved Lower Bounds for the Error Rate of Linear Block Codes
  Authors: F. Behnamfar, F. Alajaji, and T. Linder
(Queen's University)

Time: 12:00 p.m. Paper: 43_61 Rate Distortion Region for Separate Coding of Correlated Gaussian Remote Observations
  Authors: Y. Oohama
(Kushu University)


 



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