Program at-a-glance
| Tuesday June 18 | Wednesday June 19 | Thursday June 20 | Friday June 21 | |
| 9:00 - 10:00 | Plenary talk Martin Wainwright |
Plenary talk David Cory |
10:00 - 10:20 | Coffee break | Coffee break |
| 10:20 - 12:00 | Coding I | Shannon Theory | Coding II | |
| 12:00 - 1:30 | Lunch break | Lunch break | Lunch break | |
| 1:30 - 3:10 | Wireless I | Wireless II | Optical Communication | |
| 3:10 - 3:30 | Coffee break | Coffee break | Coffee break | 3:30 - 5:10 | Source/Channel Coding | Relaying | Communication Theory |
| Evening | Opening Reception 6:00 - 9:00 PM |
CSIT directors' meeting 5:30 - 6:30 PM |
Banquet 6:30 - 8:30 PM |
Detailed Program
All events are held in the Giovanni room unless specified.
Tuesday, June 18
6:00 PM - 9:00 PM : Opening Reception
(Note: Cash bar; soft drinks are complimentary. Registration will be available from 5:45 - 7:45 PM.)
Wednesday, June 19
8:45 AM - 9:00 AM : Welcoming Remarks
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM : Plenary talk - Prof. Martin Wainwright
Session chair: Andrew Eckford
From Information Theory to Statistics: A few modern vignettes
Abstract: While information theory has shared close connections with statistics since its inception, the modern era of "big data" has raised a number of new challenges at this interface. In this talk, we provide an overview of some statistical problems in which information theory has an important role to play. Examples include the problem of inferring the structure of large-scale networks from data, the minimization of convex functions based on noisy gradients, and trade-offs between individual privacy and statistical utility. In each of these settings, information-theoretic methods can be brought to bear in interesting and powerful ways.
10:00 AM - 10:20 AM : Coffee break
10:20 AM - 12:00 PM : Coding I
Session chair: Julian Cheng
Energy of Decoding Algorithms
Christopher Blake (University of Toronto, Canada); Frank R. Kschischang (University of Toronto, Canada)
Using Bit Recycling to Reduce Knuth's Balanced Codes Redundancy
Ahmad Al-rababa'a (Université Laval, Canada); Danny Dubé (Université Laval, Canada); Jean-Yves Chouinard (Laval University, Canada)
When are Maximum Likelihood and Minimum Distance Decoding Equivalent for Binary Contagion Channels?
Ghady Azar (Queen's University, Canada); Fady Alajaji (Queen's University, Canada)
On Selection of Optimal Parameters for the WG Stream Cipher Family
Kalikinkar Mandal (University of Waterloo, Canada); Guang Gong (University of Waterloo, Canada); Xinxin Fan (University of Waterloo, Canada); Mark D Aagaard (University of Waterloo, Canada)
Properties of the Polarization Transformations for the Likelihood Ratios of Symmetric B-DMCs
Mine Alsan (EPFL, Switzerland)
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM : Lunch break
1:30 PM - 3:10 PM : Wireless I
Session chair: Sorina Dumitrescu
On Optimal Detection Ordering for Coded V-BLAST
Alain Toboso (University of Ottawa, Canada); Sergey Loyka (University of Ottawa, Canada); Francois Gagnon (Ecole de Technologie Superieure, Canada)
Practical Theory of Two-Way (True Full-duplex) Wireless: Does More than Doubling the Rate!
Amir K. Khandani (University of Waterloo, Canada)
Asymptotic Error Rate Analysis of H-S/EGC Over Arbitrarily Correlated Rician Channels
Xuegui Song (University of British Columbia, Canada); Julian Cheng (University of British Columbia, Canada); Norman C. Beaulieu (University of Alberta, Canada)
An Enhanced Cross-Layer Authentication Mechanism for Wireless Communications Based on PER and RSSI
Peng Hao (The University of Western Ontario, Canada); Xianbin Wang (The University of Western Ontario, Canada); Ahmed Refaey Hussein (University of Western Ontario, Canada)
A Low Complexity Approach for Spread OFDM Signal Detection
Ali Elghariani (Purdue University, USA)
3:10 PM - 3:30 PM : Coffee break
3:30 PM - 5:10 PM : Source and Source/Channel Coding
Session chair: Yongyi Mao
Distortion Bounds for Broadcasting a Binary Source over Binary Erasure Channels
Louis Tan (University of Toronto, Canada); Ashish Khisti (University of Toronto, Canada); Emina Soljanin (Bell Labs, Alcatel - Lucent, USA)
Index Assignment Capable of Detecting One Bit Errors for Multiple Description Scalar Quantizers
Yinghan Wan (McMaster University, Canada); Sorina Dumitrescu (McMaster University, Canada)
Low and High-Delay Source-Channel Coding with Bandwidth Expansion and Correlated Interference
Ahmad Abou Saleh (Queen's University, Canada); Wai-Yip Geoffrey Chan (Queen's University, Canada); Fady Alajaji (Queen's University, Canada)
An Achievability Proof for the Lossy Coding of Markov Sources with Feed-Forward
Shahab Asoodeh (Queen's University, Canada); Fady Alajaji (Queen's University, Canada); Tamas Linder (Queen's University, Canada)
Turbo Code using Adaptive Puncturing for Transform Domain Wyner-Ziv Video Coding
Mohamed Haj Taieb (Laval University, Canada); Jean-Yves Chouinard (Laval University, Canada); Demin Wang (Communications Research Center, Canada)
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM : CSIT Directors' Meeting
Location TBA
Thursday, June 20
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM : Plenary talk - Prof. David Cory
Session chair: Patrick Mitran
Realizing Quantum Information Processors
Abstract: Quantum mechanics is the ultimate law of nature and when we can build a device that behaves uniquely quantum mechanically then we may achieve the highest efficiencies allowed by nature. One of the most compelling applications of quantum devices is for information processing. I will describe laboratory scale, small quantum processors: including a bit about how they work and what they are useful for. I will discuss some near term quantum devices, sensors and actuators that are emerging from laboratories. Finally I will include a brief perspective of where we are on the path to building a general-purpose quantum computer.
10:00 AM - 10:20 AM : Coffee break
10:20 AM - 12:00 PM : Shannon Theory
Session chair: Wei Yu
Informational Divergence Approximations to Product Distributions
Jie Hou (Technische Universität München, Germany); Gerhard Kramer (Technische Universität München, Germany)
A Unified Relay Framework with both D-F and C-F Relay Nodes
Xiugang Wu (University of Waterloo, Canada); Liang-Liang Xie (University of Waterloo, Canada)
On the achievability of the Degrees of Freedom for the three-cell MIMO interfering broadcast channel with minimum spatial dimensions
Ahmed Medra (McMaster University, Canada); Timothy N. Davidson (McMaster University, Canada)
On Separation of Source and Channel Coding in the Finite Block Length Regime
James Ho (University of Waterloo, Canada); Jin Meng (University of Waterloo, Canada); En-hui Yang (University of Waterloo, Canada)
Capacity region of a class of strong MIMO IC
Sanjay Karmakar (North Dakota State University, USA)
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM : Lunch break
1:30 PM - 3:10 PM : Wireless II
Session chair: Ivo Maljevic
Cluster Based Coordinated Beamforming and Power Allocation for MIMO Heterogeneous Networks
Kianoush Hosseini (University of Toronto, Canada); Wei Yu (University of Toronto, Canada); Raviraj Adve (University of Toronto, Canada)
Distributed Resource Allocation in Femtocell Networks
Oleg Petelin (University of Waterloo, Canada); Raviraj Adve (University of Toronto, Canada)
On Achieving Optimal Degrees of Freedom of MIMO Cellular Networks Using Decomposition
Gokul Sridharan (University of Toronto, Canada); Wei Yu (University of Toronto, Canada)
Approximate Bounds for Limited Backhaul Uplink Multicell Processing with Single-User Compression
Yuhan Zhou (University of Toronto, Canada); Wei Yu (University of Toronto, Canada)
Effective Capacity of MIMO MRC System with Constant and Variable Power Loading
Xiaobo Guo (Xidian University, P.R. China); Lei Dong (Xidian University, P.R. China); Ying Li (China Electronic System Engineering Company, P.R. China); Lifeng Wang (China Electronic System Engineering Company, P.R. China)
3:10 PM - 3:30 PM : Coffee break
3:30 PM - 5:10 PM : Relaying
Session chair: Raviraj Adve
Power Allocation Schemes For Relay-Based Heterogeneous Networks
Rajiv Devarajan (University of British Columbia, Canada); Shankhanaad Mallick (University of British Columbia, Canada); Vijay Bhargava (University of British Columbia, Canada)
Two-way Lossy Communication of Correlated Gaussian Sources with Amplify-and-Forward Relaying
Hamidreza Ebrahimzadeh Saffar (University of Waterloo, Canada); Masoud Badiei Khuzani (University of Waterloo, Canada); Patrick Mitran (University of Waterloo, Canada)
Differential Dual-Hop Relaying over Time-Varying Rayleigh-Fading Channels
M R. Avendi (University of Saskatchewan, Canada); Ha Nguyen (University of Saskatchewan, Canada)
Scheduling in Omnidirectional Relay Networks
Shuning Wang (University of Waterloo, Canada); Liang-Liang Xie (University of Waterloo, Canada)
On the Asymptotic Performance of Multiuser Opportunistic DF Cooperative Systems over Frequency Selective Fading Channels Using MMSE SC-FDE
Saed Daoud (Concordia University, Canada); Ali Ghrayeb (Texas A and M University at Qatar, Qatar)
6:30 PM - 8:30 PM : Conference Banquet -- Colony East room
(Note: Cash bar; soft drinks are complimentary)
Friday, June 21
10:20 - 12:00 : Coding II
Session chair: Jan Bajcsy
Improved Systematic Fountain Codes in AWGN Channel
Khaled F. Hayajneh (Queen's University, Canada); Shahram Yousefi (Queen's University, Canada)
Streaming Erasure Codes under Mismatched Source-Channel Frame Rates
Pratik Patil (University of Toronto, Canada); Ahmed Badr (University of Toronto, Canada); Ashish Khisti (University of Toronto, Canada)
Robust Streaming Erasure Codes using MDS Constituent Codes
Ahmed Badr (University of Toronto, Canada); Ashish Khisti (University of Toronto, Canada); Wai-tian Tan (Hewlett-Packard, USA); John Apostolopoulos (Cisco Systems, USA)
An efficient Soliton-like network coding protocol for the resource-constrained Y-network
Andrew Liau (Queen's University, Canada); Il-Min Kim (Queen's University, Canada); Shahram Yousefi (Queen's University, Canada)
Iterative Decoding and Multiuser Communication Using Sparse Space Codes for MIMO Channels
Sagar Dhakal (Research In Motion, USA); Thomas Sexton (Research In Motion, USA); Steve Hranilovic (McMaster University, Canada)
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM : Lunch break
1:30 PM - 3:10 PM : Optical Communication
Session chair: Shahram Yousefi
Optical Communication Using Coherent Detection with Space-Time Coding in the Presence of Atmospheric Turbulence
Mingbo Niu (University of British Columbia, Canada); Julian Cheng (University of British Columbia, Canada); Jonathan F Holzman (University of British Columbia (UBC) Okanagan, Canada)
Binary Faster than Nyquist Optical Transmission via Non-uniform Power Allocation
Yong Jin Daniel Kim (McGill University, Canada); Jan Bajcsy (McGill University, Canada)
Electrical-SNR-Optimized Detection Threshold for OOK IM/DD Optical Wireless Communications
Luanxia Yang (The University of British Columbia, Canada); Julian Cheng (University of British Columbia, Canada); Jonathan F Holzman (University of British Columbia (UBC) Okanagan, Canada)
Systematic Raptor Codes for Atmospheric Optical Channels
Linyan Liu (McMaster University, Canada); Majid Safari (McMaster University, Canada); Steve Hranilovic (McMaster University, Canada)
Performance of MIMO Adaptive Subcarrier QAM Intensity Modulation in Gamma-Gamma Turbulence
Md. Zoheb Hassan (School of Engineering, University of British Columbia, Canada); Md. Jahangir Hossain (Universtiy of British Columbia, Okanagan, Canada); Julian Cheng (University of British Columbia, Canada)
3:10 PM - 3:30 PM : Coffee break
3:30 PM - 5:10 PM : Communication Theory
Session chair: Tim Davidson
Translation Schemes and LP Bounds
Ali Al-Bashabsheh (University of Ottawa, Canada); Yongyi Mao (University of Ottawa, Canada); Terence H. Chan (University of South Australia, Australia)
Integrating prior knowledge in time series alignment: Prior optimized time warping
Xiaoguang Yan (York University, Canada); William Gage (York University, Canada); Andrew Eckford (York University, Canada)
On the Reserved Sub-Carrier Approach to Achieving N-Continuity for Side-Lobe Reduction in OFDM
Jesse Haber-Kucharsky (University of Waterloo, Canada); Ehsan Haj Mirza Alian (University of Waterloo, Canada); Patrick Mitran (University of Waterloo, Canada)
Security Enhancement in Cooperative Jamming Using Compromised Secrecy Region Minimization
Hao Li (The University of Western Ontario, Canada); Xianbin Wang (The University of Western Ontario, Canada); Weikun Hou (The University of Western Ontario, Canada)