14th Canadian Workshop on Information Theory -- CWIT 2015

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)
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)