UIUC CSL Communications Group Seminars

• Monday, January 22, 4 p.m., Room 114 C&SRL, Prof. B. Hajek, UIUC, "An overview of the equivalent bandwidth of bursty traffic sources"

• Monday, January 29, 4 p.m., Room 114 C&SRL, James Giles, UIUC, "On scheduling algorithms for input queued switches" (based on paper of N. McKeown and T.E. Anderson)

• Monday, February 5, 4 p.m., Room 114 C&SRL, Linhai He, UIUC, "On variations of queue responses for inputs with identical mean and autocorrelation functions"

• Monday, February 12, 4 p.m., Room 114 C&SRL, Kevin Mitzel, UIUC
  "On strategies for position location and search in cellular networks"

• Monday, February 19, 4 p.m., Room 114 C&SRL, Andras Mehes, UIUC, "On the optimality of the natural binary index assignment"

• Monday, February 26, 4 p.m., Room 114 C&SRL, Bert Hochwald, "Aspects of Vector Sensor Processing"

• Monday, March 4, 4 p.m., Room 114 C&SRL, Carolyn Allen, UIUC, "Codes from Surfaces as Multilevel Algebraic Codes"

• Tuesday, March 5, 4 p.m., Room 241 Altgeld Hall, Prof. Vera Pless, University of Illinois at Chicago, (Part of Mathematics in Science and Society Lecture Series)
  "Error-Correcting Codes"

• Monday, March 11, 4 p.m., Room 114 C&SRL, OPEN

• Monday, March 18, 4 p.m., Room 114 C&SRL, Mini-session (practice for presentations to be made later in the week at the Princeton Conference on Information Sciences and Systems)

• Monday, March 25, 4 p.m., Room 114 C&SRL, Tamas Frajka, UIUC, "Channel Error Recovery in Variable Length Codes"

• Monday, April 1, 4 p.m., Room 114 C&SRL, Bill Weeks, UIUC, "Improved Bounds on the Capacity of Certain Checkerboard Codes"

• Tuesday, April 2, 4 p.m., Room 241 Altgeld Hall, Prof. Tom Kurtz, University of Wisconsin, "Modeling processor network workload with long range dependence," (Part of Mathematics in Science and Society Lecture Series)

• Wednesday, April 3, 4 p.m., Room 114 C&SRL, Prof. Eitan Altman, INRIA (The French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control, FRANCE, "Admission and Flow Control in Telecommunication Networks as a Hybrid Control Problem"

• Monday, April 8, 4 p.m., Room 114 C&SRL, Vijay Subramanian, UIUC, "Improving Reliable Transport and Handoff Performance in Cellular Wireless Networks"

• Monday, April 9 and/or 10, Illini Union, Workshop of the Industrial Affiliates Program on Communications, Electromagnetics, Propagation and Signal Processing. Prof. Dilip V. Sarwate and Jianming Jin, co-Chairs

• Monday, April 15, 4 p.m., Room 114 C&SRL, Greg Sherwood, UIUC, "Image Coding Using Wavelets and Zerotrees"

• Monday, April 22, 4 p.m., Room 114 C&SRL, Dakshi Agrawal, UIUC, "A Low Complexity Algorithm for Decoding Euclidean-Space Codes and Its Performance"

• Monday, April 29, 4 p.m., Room 114 C&SRL, Hemant Chaskar, UIUC, "Call Blocking Performance of a Modern GSM Cell"

• Monday, May 13, 4 p.m., Room 114 C&SRL, Marcel Brouillet "Rate control for adaptive bit rate source on ATM networks using one bit congestion notification"

Volunteers and those with suggestions, please contact b-hajek@uiuc.edu. Interested in giving a talk but need a topic? Contact a Communications Group faculty member.

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