2008 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory

July 6th to 11th, 2008
Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Final Technical Program

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Please note: all talks are 20 minutes. Sessions Tu-PM-14, Th-PM-7, Th-PM-16, and Fr-PM-13 in the previous "PDF Final Program" file contained incorrectly listed presentation start times. The program handed out at ISIT unfortunately also contains the incorrect start times.

 
Sunday, July 6
09:00 - 12:00
Tutorial: T-1: Information-theoretic security: theory and practice
Tutorial: T-2: Distributed source coding: Foundations, constructions and applications
14:00 - 17:00
Tutorial: T-3: Information exchange in viral infections: Applications to vaccine design
Tutorial: T-4: Networks' challenge: Where game theory meets network optimization
 
Monday, July 7
08:30 - 09:30
Plenary: A. Robert Calderbank, Princeton University
09:50 - 11:10
Mo-AM-1: Multi-Hop and Delay-Tolerant Networks
Mo-AM-2: Network Coding and Networking
Mo-AM-3: CEO Problem and Function Computation
Mo-AM-4: Decoding I
Mo-AM-5: Capacity of Quantum Channels
Mo-AM-6: Wiretap Channels
Mo-AM-7: Capacity of Fading Channels
Mo-AM-8: Iterative Decoding
11:30 - 12:50
Mo-AM-9: Secure Network Coding
Mo-AM-10: Wireless Networks
Mo-AM-11: Decoding II
Mo-AM-12: Signatures, Fingerprints, Watermarks
Mo-AM-13: Gaussian Interference Channel Capacity
Mo-AM-14: Fading Channels
Mo-AM-15: Theoretical Aspects of LDPC Codes
Mo-AM-16: Quantum Codes I
14:40 - 16:00
Mo-PM-1: Network Coding Capacity
Mo-PM-2: Capacity of Wireless Networks
Mo-PM-3: Quantum Codes II
Mo-PM-4: Secrecy and Interference
Mo-PM-5: Multiaccess Channels with Feedback
Mo-PM-6: Multi-terminal Source Coding
Mo-PM-7: Performance of LDPC Codes
Mo-PM-8: Iterative Estimation and Inference
16:20 - 18:00
Mo-PM-9: Relays: Capacity and Coding
Mo-PM-10: Statistical Physics
Mo-PM-11: Secrecy Capacity and Networks
Mo-PM-12: Interference Channels
Mo-PM-13: MIMO I
Mo-PM-14: Energy Efficiency and Power Control
Mo-PM-15: Special Problems in Coding
Mo-PM-16: Inference in Networks
 
Tuesday, July 8
08:30 - 09:30
Plenary: Alon Orlitsky, UCSD
09:50 - 11:10
Tu-AM-1: Delay in Networks
Tu-AM-2: Sergio Servetto Memorial Session
Tu-AM-3: Feedback I
Tu-AM-4: Secrecy and Key Agreement
Tu-AM-5: Gaussian Broadcast Channels and Networks
Tu-AM-6: Codes for Cooperation
Tu-AM-7: Design of LDPC Codes
Tu-AM-8: Error Control Codes for Network Coding I
11:30 - 12:50
Tu-AM-9: Space-Time Coding for Cooperative Networks
Tu-AM-10: Rate Distortion Coding and Theory
Tu-AM-11: Error Control Codes for Network Coding II
Tu-AM-12: Feedback II
Tu-AM-13: Multi-user MIMO
Tu-AM-14: Watermarks and Spectrum Sharing
Tu-AM-15: Non-Binary LDPC Codes
Tu-AM-16: Error Correction and Detection I
14:40 - 16:00
Tu-PM-1: Universal Source Coding
Tu-PM-2: Secret Key Generation
Tu-PM-3: LDPC Convolutional Codes and Woven Codes
Tu-PM-4: Error Correction and Detection II
Tu-PM-5: Space-Time Coding I
Tu-PM-6: Shannon, Gauss, Nyquist, and Euclid
Tu-PM-7: Estimation I
Tu-PM-8: Throughput Scaling
16:20 - 18:00
Tu-PM-9: LDPC Codes and Applications
Tu-PM-10: New Code Constructions
Tu-PM-11: Source-Channel Coding
Tu-PM-12: Capacity Characterization
Tu-PM-13: Estimation II
Tu-PM-14: Degrees of Freedom in Wireless Networks
Tu-PM-15: Space-Time Coding II
Tu-PM-16: OFDM
 
Wednesday, July 9
08:30 - 09:30
Claude E. Shannon Award Lecture: Robert M. Gray, Stanford University
09:50 - 10:50
Recent Results Poster Session
11:00 - 12:40
We-AM-1: Relaying
We-AM-2: Cognitive Communication
We-AM-3: Sequences for Spread Spectrum
We-AM-4: Classic and New Problems
We-AM-5: Source Coding Topics
We-AM-6: Analysis of Iterative Decoding
We-AM-7: Multi-dimensional Constrained Coding
We-AM-8: Space-Time Codes: Construction and Performance Bounds
 
Thursday, July 10
08:30 - 09:30
Plenary: Emanuel H. Knill, NIST
09:50 - 11:10
Th-AM-1: Decoding by Optimization
Th-AM-2: Error Exponents for Multiple Users and Sources
Th-AM-3: Multi-terminal Coding
Th-AM-4: Balanced Codes and Constrained Coding
Th-AM-5: Capacity of Multipath Channels
Th-AM-6: Sensor Networks
Th-AM-7: New Directions
Th-AM-8: Boolean Functions Applied to Cryptography
11:30 - 12:50
Th-AM-9: Network Coding: Side Information and Feedback
Th-AM-10: Divergence
Th-AM-11: Multi-user OFDM Systems
Th-AM-12: Broadcast Channels
Th-AM-13: Coding for Flash Memories
Th-AM-14: Synthesis and Analysis of Sequences
Th-AM-15: Reliability and Error Exponents
Th-AM-16: Random Matrices
14:40 - 16:00
Th-PM-1: MDS Codes
Th-PM-2: Network Coding Fundamentals
Th-PM-3: Cryptographic Algorithms
Th-PM-4: Detection and Estimation
Th-PM-5: Turbo Codes
Th-PM-6: MIMO Relaying
Th-PM-7: Sequence Constructions
Th-PM-8: Redundancy
16:20 - 18:00
Th-PM-9: Code Construction and Analysis
Th-PM-10: Lossy Source Coding Topics
Th-PM-11: Detection in MIMO Systems
Th-PM-12: QoS and Fairness
Th-PM-13: Rateless Codes I
Th-PM-14: Relaying and Cooperation I
Th-PM-15: Entropies and Information Inequalities
Th-PM-16: Pattern Recognition and Learning
 
Friday, July 11
08:30 - 09:30
Plenary: Avi Wigderson, Institute for Advanced Study
09:50 - 11:10
Fr-AM-1: Channel Coding
Fr-AM-2: Lossy Source Coding with Side Information
Fr-AM-3: Compressed Sensing
Fr-AM-4: Secrecy with Broadcast and Relays
Fr-AM-5: Unequal Error Protection
Fr-AM-6: Rateless Codes II
Fr-AM-7: Relaying and Cooperation II
Fr-AM-8: Genes and Biometrics
11:30 - 12:50
Fr-AM-9: Source Coding and Networks
Fr-AM-10: Coded Modulation
Fr-AM-11: Computation I
Fr-AM-12: Diversity-Multiplexing Tradeoff
Fr-AM-13: Coding for Relay Channels
Fr-AM-14: Linear Complexity of Sequences
Fr-AM-15: Capacity of Wireless Channels
Fr-AM-16: Signal Recovery/Optimization
14:40 - 16:00
Fr-PM-1: Lossless Source Coding
Fr-PM-2: Codes and Lattices
Fr-PM-3: Computation II
Fr-PM-4: Multi-user Games
Fr-PM-5: Distributed Space-Time Coding
Fr-PM-6: Precoding and Beamforming
Fr-PM-7: Capacity of MIMO Channels
Fr-PM-8: Correlation of Sequences
16:20 - 17:40
Fr-PM-9: Topics in Algebraic Coding Theory
Fr-PM-10: Entropy
Fr-PM-11: MIMO II
Fr-PM-12: New Relaying Strategies
Fr-PM-13: Multiaccess Channels
Fr-PM-14: Quantization
Fr-PM-15: Modulation
Fr-PM-16: Quaternary Sequences