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Conference Program

Monday, July 6

6:30 PM - 9:00 PM

Welcoming Reception

Quidi Vidi Brewery

Tuesday, July 7

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Plenary Speaker: Monique Morrow, CTO Cisco

The Making of a 21st Century Technology Leader
Room: Fort William Ballroom, Salon A

10:00 AM - 10:20 AM

Coffee Break


10:20 AM - 12:00 PM

Invited Speakers Session I

Room: Fort William Ballroom, Salon A
10:20 AM - 10:53 AM

Milica Stojanovic, Northeastern University, USA

Underwater Wireless Communication: An Overview of Challenges and Recent Results
10:54 AM - 11:27 AM

Sarah Katie Wilson, Santa Clara University, USA

Shine a Light: Optical Wireless Communications
11:27 AM - 12:00 PM

Alex Alvarado, University College, London, UK

Coding and Modulation for Optical Communication Systems

12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Lunch Break


1:30 PM - 3:10 PM

Coding Theory - Chair: Vijay Bhargava (University of British Columbia, Canada)

Higher dimensional varieties in coding
Hamid Usefi (Memorial University, Canada); Ian Blake (University of British Columbia, Canada); Kumar Murty (GANITA lab, Canada)
Non-Binary Distributed Arithmetic Coding
Ziyang Wang, Yongyi Mao and Iluju Kiringa (University of Ottawa, Canada)
Construction and Decoding of Generalized Skew-Evaluation Codes
Siyu Liu (University of Toronto, Canada); Felice Manganiello (Clemson University, USA); Frank R. Kschischang (University of Toronto, Canada)
A Fast Displacement-Based Peterson Decoder
Christian Senger and Frank R. Kschischang (University of Toronto, Canada)
Locality-aware fountain codes for massive distributed storage systems
Toritseju Okpotse (Queens University, Canada); Shahram Yousefi (Queen's University, Canada)
3:10 PM - 3:30 PM

Afternoon Coffee Break


3:30 PM - 5:10 PM

Information Theory

Room: Fort William Ballroom, Salon A
Chair: Yongyi Mao (University of Ottawa, Canada)
Upper Bound on the Capacity of the Nonlinear Schrödinger Channel
Mansoor Isvand Yousefi (Technical University of Munich, Canada); Gerhard Kramer (Technische Universität München, Germany); Frank R. Kschischang (University of Toronto, Canada)
On Maximal Correlation, Mutual Information and Data Privacy
Shahab Asoodeh, Fady Alajaji and Tamas Linder (Queen's University, Canada)
Characterization of Optimal Input Distributions for Gaussian-Mixture Noise Channels
Hung Vu (McGill University, Canada); Nghi H Tran (University of Akron, USA); M. Cenk Gursoy (Syracuse University, USA); Tho Le-Ngoc (McGill University, Canada); Subramaniya Hariharan (University of Akron, USA)
On the Secrecy Capacity of Fading Gaussian Wiretap Channel
Sanjay Karmakar and Anirban Ghosh (North Dakota State University, USA)
Enhancing Secrecy of the Gaussian Wiretap Channel
Mohamed Haj Taieb and Jean-Yves Chouinard (Laval University, Canada)

Wednesday, July 8

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Plenary Speaker: Moe Win, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Fundamental Limits of Network Localization and Navigation
Room: Fort William Ballroom, Salon A

10:00 AM - 10:20 AM

Coffee Break


10:20 AM - 12:00 PM

Invited Papers Session - Chair: Andrew Eckford (York University, Canada)

Room: Fort William Ballroom, Salon A
On Bounds for the Cognitive Multiple Access Z-Interference Channel
Fernando Reátegui (University of Surrey, United Kingdom); Muhammad Zeeshan Shakir (Texas A&M University at Qatar (TAMUQ) & Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Qatar); Muhammad Ali Imran and Rahim Tafazolli (University of Surrey, United Kingdom); Khalid A. Qaraqe (Texas A&M University at Qatar, USA)
Signal Detection for Ambient Backscatter Systemwith Multiple Receiving Antennas
Zhen Ma, Tengchan Zeng and Gongpu Wang (Beijing Jiaotong University, P.R. China); Feifei Gao (Tsinghua University, P.R. China)
Effect of Interference of Full-Duplex Transmissions in Underlay Device-to-Device Communication
Samad Ali and Nandana Rajatheva (University of Oulu, Finland); Matti Latva-aho (UoOulu, Finland)
Technologies for Future Broadband Wireless Evolution
Doru Calin (Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, USA)
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Lunch Break


1:30 PM - 3:10 PM

Invited Speakers Session II

Room: Fort William Ballroom, Salon A
1:30 PM - 2:03 PM

Shu Lin, University of California, Davis

A Broader View of the Superposition Construction of LDPC Codes
2:04 PM - 2:37 PM

Sofiène Affes, INRS, Canada

Efficient Distributed Collaborative Beamforming Designs for Real-World Applications
2:37 PM - 3:10 PM

Andrew Eckford, York University, Canada

Information Theory in Intercellular Signal Transduction

3:10 PM - 3:30 PM

Coffee Break


3:30 PM - 6:00 PM

Industry-Academia Invited Panel: The Roadmap for Open innovation

Room: Fort William Ballroom, Salon A

Moderator: Ray Gosine, Memorial University, Canada.
Academia: Vijay Bhargava, UBC, Canada; Milica Stojanivic, Northeastern University, USA; Katie Wilson, Santa Clara University, USA.
Industry: Dragos Cristea, Ciena, Canada; Doru Calin, 
Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, USA; Monique Morrow, Cisco Services; Mark Newell, Altera NL, Canada.

7:00 PM - 10:00 PM

Workshop Banquet

Thursday, July 9

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Plenary Speaker: Vahid Tarokh, Harvard University

Some Applications of The Theoremof Fisher-Tippett-Gnedenko
Room: Fort William Ballroom, Salon A

10:00 AM - 10:20 AM

Coffee Break


10:20 AM - 12:00 PM

Applications of Coding and Information Theory (Poster 1)

Room: Pre-Function Area A
Chair: Telex M. N. Ngatched (Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada)
Using Bit Recycling to Reduce the Redundancy in Plurally Parsable Dictionaries
Ahmad Al-rababa'a and Danny Dubé (Université Laval, Canada)
Permutation Entropy for Signal Analysis: A Case Study of Synthetic Aperture Radar Imagery
Khalid El-Darymli (Northern Radar Inc., Canada); Eric Gill (Memorial University, Canada); Cecilia R Moloney (Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada); Peter McGuire (C-Core, Canada); Desmond Power (C-CORE, Canada)
Database Query Privacy using Homomorphic Encryptions
Sudharaka Palamakumbura and Hamid Usefi (Memorial University, Canada)
Smart Home Automation Systemfor Intrusion Detection
Danish A. Chowdhry, Raman Paranjape and Paul Laforge (University of Regina, Canada)
Overlapped Fountain Coding for Delay-Constrained Priority-Based Broadcast Applications
Khaled F. Hayajneh and Shahram Yousefi (Queen's University, Canada)
Uplink Scheduling in Multi-Cell MU-MIMO Systems with ZF Post-processing and Diversity Combining
AasemN Alyahya and Jacek Ilow (Dalhousie University, Canada)
Approximate secrecy capacity region of an asymmetric MAC wiretap channel within 1/2 bits
Sanjay Karmakar and Anirban Ghosh (North Dakota State University, USA)

Digital Signal Processing and Its Applications - Chair: Nandana Rajatheva (University of Oulu, Finland)

Room: Fort William Ballroom, Salon A
Wideband Localization via Range Likelihood based on Reduced Dataset
Stefania Bartoletti (ENDIF University of Ferrara, Italy); Wenhan Dai (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA); Andrea Conti (ENDIF University of Ferrara, WiLAB University of Bologna, Italy); Moe Win (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
A Novel Non-Parametric Method for Blind Identification of STBC Codes
Mostafa Mohammadkarimi and Octavia A. Dobre (Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada)
Spatial Stream Scheduling in Uplink Multiuser MIMO Systems with Zero-Forcing Post-processing
AasemN Alyahya and Jacek Ilow (Dalhousie University, Canada)
Cognitive Radios for Aeronautical Telemetry
Michael Rice and Jacob Frogget (Brigham Young University, USA)
B
Adaptive Block-Length Partitioned Viterbi Algorithm
Mohamed Haroun (Laval University, Canada); Sebastien Roy (University of Sherbrooke, Canada)
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Lunch Break


1:30 PM - 3:10 PM

Applications of Coding and Information Theory (Poster 2) - Chair: Patrick Mitran (University of Waterloo, Canada)

Room: Pre-Function Area A
One Example of a non-Abelian Group Code over AWGN Channels
Jorge P Arpasi (University of Pampa - UNIPAMPA, Brazil)
Ocean Current Measurement Using Acoustic Sensor Network 'Challenges, Simulation, Deployement'
Samareh Attarsharghi (Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada); Vlastimil Masek (Memorial University, Canada)
Capacity of the Millimeter Wave Underground Mine Channel
Mohamad El khaled (Laval, Canada); Paul Fortier (Laval University, Canada); Mohamed Lassaad Ammari (Université Laval, Canada); Mohamed Haj Taieb (Laval University, Canada)
RF-Pilot Phase Noise Compensation for Long-Haul Coherent Optical OFDM Systems
Jingwen Zhu, Oluyemi Omomukuyo, Ramachandran Venkatesan, Cheng Li and Octavia A. Dobre (Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada)
Single-Source Two-Terminal Multicast Networks with Overlapping Demands Over the Binary Erasure Channel
Arghavan Modiri and Shahram Yousefi (Queen's University, Canada)
A New Reliability-Based Incremental Redundancy Hybrid ARQ Scheme Using LDPC Codes
Hamid Saber and Ian D. Marsland (Carleton University, Canada)

Communication Systems - Chair: Jean-Yves Chouinard (Laval University, Canada)

Room: Fort William Ballroom, Salon A
Chair: Jean-Yves Chouinard (Laval University, Canada)
On the Mutual Information of the VLC Channel in the presence of External Ambient Lighting
Stefano Pergoloni (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy); Mauro Biagi, Stefania Colonnese, Gaetano Scarano and Roberto Cusani (Università La Sapienza di Roma, Italy)
Outage Capacity and Throughput Analysis of Multiuser FSO Systems
Sasan Zhalehpour and Murat Uysal (Ozyegin University, Turkey); Octavia A. Dobre and Telex M. N. Ngatched (Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada)
Optimal CDMA Signatures For Correlated Sources With a Multi-Antenna Receiver
Chathura Illangakoon and Pradeepa Yahampath (University of Manitoba, Canada)
Power Allocation for Distributed Estimation in Sensor Networks with Semi-Orthogonal MAC
Jian Su and Ha Nguyen (University of Saskatchewan, Canada); Hoang D. Tuan (University of Technology, Sydney, Australia)
Communication of Dependent Messages over Degraded Compound Channels
Zhong Cheng and Yongyi Mao (University of Ottawa, Canada); Terence H. Chan (University of South Australia, Australia)
3:10 PM - 3:30 PM

Coffee Break


3:30 PM - 5:10 PM

Applications of Coding and Information Theory (Poster 3)

Room: Pre-Function Area A
Chair: Chen Feng (University of Toronto, Canada)
Empirical Support for the High-Density Subset Sum Decision Threshold
Thomas O'Neil and Travis Desell (University of North Dakota, USA)
Optimal Step Size for the Adaptive Least-Mean Squares Algorithm Applied in the Fractional Fourier Transform Domain for Efficient Signal Estimation in Interference and Noise
Seema Sud (Aerospace Corporation & George Mason University, USA)
On a Generalised Typicality with Respect to General Probability Distributions
Wuling Liu and Xiaoli Chu (University of Sheffield, United Kingdom); Jie Zhang (University of Sheffield, Dept. of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, United Kingdom)
A Novel Image Quality Assessment Metric using Singular Value Decomposition
Syed Salman Ali (University of Regina, Canada)
Adaptive erasure code based distributed storage systems
Brijesh Kumar Rai (IIT Guwahati, India)
Neural Network Associative Memories with Local Coding
Asieh Abolpour Mofrad (University of Bergen, Norway); Zahra Ferdosi (Amirkabir, Iran); Matthew Parker (University of Bergen, Norway); Mohammad Hesam Tadayon (Iran Telecommunication Research Center, Iran)

Relay-Assisted Communication

Room: Fort William Ballroom, Salon A
Chair: Wei Yu (University of Toronto, Canada)
A DoF Analysis of Compress-and-Forward in MIMO Gaussian Relay Channel with Correlated Noises
Seyedarvin Ayoughi and Wei Yu (University of Toronto, Canada)
Buffer-Aided Relaying with Discrete Transmission Rates
Wayan Wicke (Friedrich-Alexander University, Germany); Nikola Zlatanov (University of British Columbia, Canada); Vahid Jamali (Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany); Robert Schober (University of British Columbia, Canada)
Gaussian Multiple-Access Relay Channels with Non-Causal Side Information at the Transmitters
Assad Sahebalam and Soosan Beheshti (Ryerson University, Canada)
Improving Transmission Rate for the Two-Way Relay Channel by User Cooperation
Ahmad Abu Al Haija (McGill University, Canada); Mai Vu (Tufts University, USA)
Improved Training and Training Power Allocation Schemes for Multi-Relay AF Networks
Dan Wang (Henan University of Science and Technology, P.R. China); Yindi Jing (University of Alberta, Canada)