ACoRN Spring School 2005 Coding and Information Theory

When: September 12-16, 2005
Where: Adelaide, South Australia
Organised by: Dr. Albert Guillen i Fabregas, ITR, University of South Australia

It is expected that 600-700 researchers from all over the world will attend the IEEE International Symposium of Information Theory (ISIT) in Adelaide (Sept. 4-9). A large number of the world's best researchers in the areas of information and communications theory will therefore be migrating to Adelaide, providing a unique opportunity to have a high caliber ACoRN Spring School on related hot topics.

Scope and Format

The school features three of the world's research leaders, presenting tutorials in highly relevant hot-topic research areas. Confirmed speakers are:

The school is based on two 2-day tutorial presentations on core topics and a 1-day course on a complementary topic.

School Program

Courses are to run from 9am to 5.30pm daily. 8.30am-9.00am sign-in.

Course Title: Fundamentals of Wireless Communication
Lecturer: David Tse
Duration/Date: 2 days, September 12-13
Contents:
  • Foundations
    • The Wireless Channel: Physical and statistical modeling of multipath wireless channels.
    • Diversity: Time diversity, Space diversity, Frequency diversity
    • Capacity of Wireless Channels: outage capacity, fast fading capacity, diversity, degree of freedom and power gains, high versus low SNR regimes, waterfilling over time and over frequency.
  • MIMO
    • MIMO I: Multi-input multi-output channels, capacity via singular value decomposition, spatial multiplexability of physical channels, spatial resolution of antenna arrays, MIMO channel modeling in the angular domain and statistical models.
    • MIMO II: Capacity of fading MIMO channels, spatial multiplexing architectures, space-division multiple access, downlink and uplink beamforming.
    • MIMO III: Diversity-Multiplexing Tradeoff, slow fading MIMO channels, outage-optimal architectures, D-BLAST and design via diversity-multiplexing tradeoff.
  • Wireless Systems
    • Multiple Access and Interference Management: Comparison of narrowband, wideband CDMA and wideband OFDM cellular systems, frequency reuse, power control, out-of-cell interference averaging and soft handoff
    • Opportunistic Communication: Multiuser waterfilling in downlink and uplink fading channels, multiuser diversity, fairness, delay and channel uncertainty,opportunistic beamforming and nulling
Course Title: Lattice Coding and Decoding for Fading Channels
Lecturer: Emanuele Viterbo
Duration/Date: 1 day, September 14
Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The communication problem: the fading channel, signal space diversity, rotated lattice constellations
  • Some lattice theory: definitions, sublattices, equivalent lattices, lattice packings and coverings
  • The sphere decoder: basic algorithm, modification with fading
  • First concepts in algebraic number theory: algebraic number fields, integral basis, canonical embedding, algebraic lattices
  • Ideal lattices: definition and minimum product distance
  • Rotated lattice codes: cyclotomic constructions, mixed constructions, performance bounds
  • Applications: dense lattices for the Gaussian channel, complex lattices for the Rayleigh fading channel, space-time block codes for coherent multiple-antenna channels
Course Title: Multiple User Information Theory
Lecturer: Gerhard Kramer
Duration/Date: 2 days, September 15-16
Contents:
  • Definitions (IT), Typical Sequences and Sets
  • Rate-Distortion Theory
  • Capacity-Cost Theory
  • Distributed Source Coding (Slepian-Wolf)
  • Source Coding with Side Information (Wyner-Ziv)
  • The Gel'fand-Pinsker Problem and Writing on Dirty Paper
  • Broadcast Channels
  • Multi-Access Channels
  • Relay Channels

Registration

Participation in this school is open to all to attend. The deadline for registration is 19 August 2005.

The seating capacity of the venue is limited. In case capacity is exceeded, preference will be given to ACoRN/NEWCOM students and researchers.

Registration Fees

Registration includes hand outs from the attended courses.

ACoRN/NEWCOM Members
and academics 		All courses at this school AUD$275
Others 1 day course AUD$440
2 day course AUD$660
All courses at this school AUD$1100

All prices include 10% GST

ACoRN Members: Remember that you may be eligible for a Attendance Grants.

Registration Form

Please register for the school by completing the registration form below and fax it to the ACoRN Network Administrator Christine Thursby at +61 8 8302 3873.

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Registrations will be confirmed via email shortly after the registration deadline.

Refund Policy

  • Registration cancellations up to 19 August 2005: 85% refund
  • Registration cancellations from 19 August 2005: no refund

Venue

The school will be held at the University of South Australia, City East campus room P607. Conference room P607 is located in the Playford building. The University have an A4 map of the campus that shows the Playford Building (P) that you may like to print out. This map also shows the Cafe/Bar and Cafeteria where refreshments are available.

Accommodation

For hotels where you can get discount bookings, try the links below. Look for hotels in Adelaide or North Adelaide.

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Travel Support

For eligible ACoRN members travel support is available through the ACoRN Domestic Conference/Workshop Attendance Grants.

Additional Information

For more information, please contact ACoRN and the administration staff can either answer your query or pass onto someone who can.