Day 3: Workshop

(April 1, Wednesday)

Plenary Session:

 Cooperative Communications and Compress-and-Forward (Prof. Gerhard Kramer)

PHY Track 

 (Room: Zafir)  

NET Track

(Room: Rubi)

Session 1a:

MIMO Channel Modeling and Detection

Session 1b:

Relaying and Source/Channel Coding

Implementing the Cost 273 MIMO Channel Model

L. Lingfeng (UCL), C. Nicolai (FTW), O. Claude (UCL)

Capacity of compound state-dependant channels with state information at the transmitter

P. Piantanida (SUPELEC) and S. Shamai (Technion)

Low-rate feedback for real measured temporally correlated MIMO channels

F. Kaltenberger (Eurecom), D. Sacristan-Murga (CTTC), A. Pascual-Iserte (UPC), A. I. Perez-Neira (UPC)

On the performance of arithmetic and quasi arithmetic codes for JSCC

M. Grangetto (Univ. of Torino), C. Guillemot (IRISA/INRIA), E. Magli (CNIT), S. Malinowski (IRISA/INRIA), G. Olmo (CNIT)

Parametrization of the Local Scattering Function of the Vehicular-to-Vehicular Channel Using a 2D Wiener Filter

L. Bernado, T. Zemen, A. Paier (FTW), J. Karedal (Lund University), B. Fleury (Aalborg University)

Low-Density Parity-Check Coding For Slow fading Relay Channels

D. Duyck (UGENT), J. J. Boutros (Texas A&M University at Qatar), M. Moeneclaey (UGENT)

Enhanced Lattice-Reduction Aided Detection for MIMO Systems

A. Murray, S. Weller (The University of Newcastle)

Adaptive Compress-and-Forward Relaying in Fading Environments with or without Wyner-Ziv Coding

Session 2a:

Receiver Design I

Session 2b:

Relaying and Cooperation

MIMO Radar Modelling Through Random Vandermonde Matrices

G. Alfano (SUPELEC), C. Chiasserini (POLITO), M. Debbah (SUPELEC), A. Nordio (POLITO), O.Ryan (CMA University of Oslo)

Erasure Probability in Relay Networks employing Distributed Fountain Codes

A. Tarable (POLITO), I. Chatzigeorgiouy and I. J. Wassell (University of Cambridge)

Robust Receiver Design for Wireless Communications over Multipath Spread Channels

O. Oguz (UCL), C. Herzet (Campus universitaire de Beaulieu), L. Vandendorpe (UCL)

Performance Analysis of Coded Cooperation over Time-Variant Channels

P. Castiglione (FTW), M. Nicoli (Politecnico di Milano) and T. Zemen (FTW)

On Approximately Universal linear space-time codes with reduced lattice dimensionality

P. Elia (EURECOM), J. Jalden (Vienna University of Technology)

Clustered Local Decoding in Simple Wireless Interference Networks

N. Levy and S. Shamai (Shitz) (TECHNION)

Further Results on Link Performance Prediction for Coded Multi-antenna OFDM Systems

I. Stupia, F. Giannetti, V. Lottici (University of Pisa), L. Vandendorpe (UCL)

Multiaccess Channels with State Known to One Encoder: Another Case of  Degraded Message Sets

A. Zaidi (UCL), S. Prasad Kotagiri (SERDES Technology Group, Xilinx Inc.), J. Nicholas Laneman (University of Notre Dame), L. Vandendorpe (UCL)

A Utility-Based Approach for Adaptive QAM with Diversity and Ambiguous CSI

A. Conti (CNIT Ferrara), H. Bogucka (PUT)

Opportunistic Localization Scheme based on Linear Matrix Inequality

F. Zorzi, A. Zanella (University of Padova), G. Kang, T. Perennou (University of Toulouse)

Lunch

Session 3a:

PHY & Link Layer Techniques

Session 3b:

Interference Management & Scheduling

Bit and Power Allocation for NOFDM Communications

A. Kliks, H. Bogucka (PUT), I. Stupia and V. Lottici (University of Pisa)

A Novel Distributed Interference Mitigation Technique using Power Planning

V. Corvino (University of Bologna), D. Gesbert (Eurecom), R. Verdone (University of Bologna)

BER of MRC for M-QAM with Imperfect Channel Estimation over Correlated Nakagami-M Fading

L. Jacobs (UGENT), G. C. Alexandropoulos (University of Patras), M. Moeneclaey (UGENT), T. Mathiopoulos (National Observatory of Athens)

Cooperation for Cognitive Radios with Incomplete Information

L. Giupponi, C. Ibars (CTTC)

Reduced Complexity Algorithms for Near-Optimal Decoding of Turbo and Turbo TCM Codes

S. Papaharalabos (National Observatory of Athens), M. Sybis, P. Tyczka (PUT), T. Mathiopoulos (National Observatory of Athens), G. Masera, M. Martina (Politecnico di Torino)

Channel & Interference-based Cross-Layer OFDMA Scheduling Techniques

N. Dimitriou (NKUA/IASA), F. Brah, L.Vanderdorpe (UCL), V. Tralli (Universita di Ferrara), G. Dainelli, M. Moretti (University of Pisa), V. Corvino, R. Verdone (University of Bologna)

Comparison of FEC and ARQ for protection of Video Data over a Wireless Rayleigh Fading Link

J. Neckebroek, F. Vanhaverbeke, M. Moeneclaey (UGENT)

SNR Estimation Techniques for Time-Varying Flat-Fading Channels

M. Moretti, G. Dainelli (Universita di Pisa), N. Dimitriou (NKUA/IASA)

Design Of Distributed LDPC Codes for the Time-Division Multiple-Access Relay Channel

D. Capirone (POLITO), C. Hausl (Technische Universitat Munchen)

Sub-carrier Allocation and Packet Scheduling in OFDMA-Based Cellular Networks

E. B. Rodrigues (UPC), M. Moretti (Universita di Pisa), P. Sroka (PUT), G. Dainelli (Universita di Pisa), F. Casadevall (UPC)

Coffee break

Session 4a:

Receiver Design II

Session 4b:

Cognition, Localization and Sensing

OFDM Receiver Design in the Presence of High Mobility Fading Channels

H. Dogan (Istanbul University), E. Panayirci (Kadir Has University), H.V. Poor Princeton University

Spectral Occupancy Measurements in Urban Areas and their Applicability to the Blind Standard Recognition Sensor Concept

M. López-Benítez, F. Casadevall, Anna Umbert (UPC), R. Hachemani, J. Palicot, C. Moy (SUPELEC/IETR)

Monte-Carlo Based Receivers for a Phase Noise Affected Channel

F. Simoens, D. Duyck (UGENT), H. Cirpan (University of Istanbul), E. Panayirci (Kadir Has University), M. Moeneclaey (UGENT)

Area Throughput and Energy Efficiency for Clustered Wireless Sensor Networks Deployed in Bounded Regions

J. Riihijarvi (RWTH), F. Fabbri, C. Buratti (University of Bologna), P. Mahonen (RWTH), R. Verdone (University of Bologna)

Feedforward Pilot-Aided Carrier Synchronization using a DCT Basis Expansion

J. Bhatti and M. Moenaclaey (UGENT)

On the Compound MIMO Broadcast Channels with Confidential Messages

M. Kobayashi (SUPELEC), Y. Liang (University of Hawaii), S. Shamai(Shitz) (TECHNION), M. Debbah (SUPELEC)

Unequal Error Protection in BICM with WAM Constellations: Interleaver and Code Design

A. Alvarado, E. Agrell (Chalmers University of Technology), L. Szczecinski (University of Quebec), A. Svensson (Chalmers University of Technology)

Theoretical Limits on Range Estimation in Cognitive Radio Systems

D. Dardari (CNIT - Bologna), Y. Karisan, S. Gezici (Bilkent University), A. A. D’Amico, and U. Mengali (CNIT-Pisa) 

Optimal Output Back-Off in OFDM Systems with Nonlinear Amplifiers and Bussgang Noise Cancellation Receiver

M. Senst, G. Ascheid (RWTH)

Accuracy Limits of TOA Cooperative Localization

M. Nicoli and D. Fontanella (Politecnico di Milano)

Design of Wireless Intrachip/interchip Interconnections for Ultra-large Scale Integration Technology

A. Abbosh (The University of Queensland)

Algorithms for Cluster Detection and Point Scatterers Localization

L. Reggiani (Politecnico di Milano), M. Rydstroem, E. G. Stroem, A. Svensson (Chalmers University of Technology)