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Information Theory Chapter
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- 28-29 May 2009 - Eindhoven (IT)
- WIC 2009, the 30th Symposium on Information Theory in the Benelux
The 30-th Symposium on Information Theory in the Benelux will be held at the Eindhoven University of Technology (Zwarte Doos) in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, on May 28 and 29, 2009.
Previously unpublished contributions across a broad range of topics in information theory are solicited, including (but not limited to) the following areas: Coding Techniques, Pattern Recognition, Statistical Learning, and Inference Coding Theory, Quantum Information Theory, Communications Sequences, Communication Networks, ShannonTheory, Complexity and Cryptography, Source Coding, Detection and Estimation, Signal Processing.
The call for papers for this conference is available for downloaded as a PDF document.
- 21 January 2009 - Eindhoven (IT SP)
- Midwinter Meeting of the 'Werkgemeenschap voor Informatie- en Communicatietheorie' (WIC) on Automotive Connectivity
Reception of radio programs via AM/FM radio in automobiles is nowadays considered as a natural feature. For a long time, the radio service was considered to be useful and sufficient. Slowly, some interest grew in the use of traffic information by means of RDS. Mobile telephones, portable media players and the rapid introduction of low-priced navigation systems caused an important change in the behavior of the car. In the past, the car only passively listened to broadcast signals, but more and more the car is expected to actively participate in communication with its environment. The need for sustainable mobility and the demand for increased safety and comfort are important driving forces for the development of automotive connectivity. The car is becoming part of a network in which the topology dynamically changes, resulting in both challenges and opportunities. For example, navigation related services can become more efficient if the car not only acts as a sink of information, but also as a source of information. The exchange of information has to be realized with reliable wireless access technologies and when Internet services are entering the car, there will also be a need for broadband connections. The application of automotive connectivity just started and the prospects that it will contribute to sustainable mobility and increased safety and comfort are promising.
- 31 January 2008 - Eindhoven (IT)
- WIC midwinter meeting on "Public safety"
- 28 January 2008 - Eindhoven (IT)
- Mini Symposium Information Theory
TU Eindhoven, Van Trier Zaal, Traverse, 10:15-13:00
Prof. Emre Telatar (EPFL): Bounds on the capacity region of certain interference channels;
Prof. Edward van der Meulen (KUL): The relay channel with and without delay;
Prof. Sergio Verdu (Princeton University): The information lost in erasures.
- 21 August 2007 - Eindhoven (IT)
- Michael C. Gastpar, Berkeley: Capacity and Dependence in Communication Networks
TU Eindhoven, Department of Electrical Engineering, Room PT 4.11, 15:30-16:30
For cooperative networks, capacity hinges on the amount of dependence between the transmitted signals. This was elegantly captured by Shannon for the case of the two-way channel, via inner and outer bounds that only differ in the amount of dependence: The inner bound does not allow for any dependence, and the outer bound allows for full dependence. It is therefore tempting to derive refined and explicit bounds that lie between these two extremes, exploiting the limits imposed by the network topology.
This talk will review some old results and recent progress. When all terminals have independent messages, a basic tool to limit dependence is a well-known "cut-set" bound due to Cover and El Gamal. For some topologies involving feedback, we show how to sharpen this bound via an extension of a "dependence-balance" argument due to Hekstra and Willems. This leads to new capacity upper bounds for multiple-access and interference channels with noiseless and noisy feedback. Then, we consider networks with dependent messages where a correlation-based argument due to Witsenhausen can be extended to calculate a limit on dependence. This can be used for example to prove the optimality of uncoded (straight-wire)transmission for a simple sensor network scenario. (In part this is joint work with Gerhard Kramer.)
- 24-25 May 2007 - Enschede (IT)
- 28th Symposium on Information Theory in the Benelux
- 29 March 2007 - Eindhoven (IT)
- Information Theory Colloquium - Eindhoven University of Technology, Auditorium, Lecture Room 10
Raymond Yeung: Network coding theory and network error correction
- 19 January 2007 - Eindhoven (IT CE)
- Midwinter Meeting of the 'Werkgemeenschap voor Informatie- en Communicatietheorie' (WIC) on IP Television
- 8-9 June 2006 - Noordwijk (IT)
- 27th Symposium on Information Theory in the Benelux
- 30 November / 1 December 2005 - Eindhoven (IT SP COM/VT)
- Fundamentals of Wireless Communication
by Prof. David Tse, UC Berkeley, USA
- 19-20 May 2005 - Brussel (IT)
- 26th Symposium on Information Theory in the Benelux
D. Gollman: Protocol Analysis beyond the Dolev-Yao model
Paul M.B. Vitanyi: On Lossy Compression: Distortion-rate theory for individual data
Andreas Winter: Quantum resources in information theory
Jos H. Weber: Stopping and dead-end set enumerators for binary Hamming codes
- 8 March 2005 - Eindhoven (IT SP)
- Midwinter Meeting of the 'Werkgemeenschap voor Informatie- en Communicatietheorie' (WIC) on Wireless Communications
I. Opperman: An Overview of Ultra Wideband Communication
L. van der Perre: Flexible radios: making flexibility rhyme with low cost and low power
- 2-4 June 2004 - Kerkrade (IT)
- 25th Symposium on Information Theory in the Benelux
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