UIUC CSL Communications Group Seminars

• Monday, February 3, 4-5 p.m., Rong-Rong Chen, UIUC,"On Fixed Input Distributions for Noncoherent Communication over High SNR Rayleigh Fading Channels"

• Monday, February 10, 4-5 p.m., Suleyman S. Kozat, UIUC, "Universal Prediction"

• Monday, February 17, 4-5 p.m., Zhiyuan Yan, UIUC, "Design and Implementation of High-Throughput Universal Decoders of Reed-Solomon Codes"

• Monday, February 24, 4-5 p.m., Mohammad Mansour, UIUC, "On the Architecture-Aware Structure of LDPC Codes from Generalized Ramanujan Graphs and their Decoder Architectures"

• Monday, March 3, 4-5 p.m., Seok-jun Lee, UIUC, "Analysis of Linear Turbo Equalizer via EXIT Chart"

• Monday, March 10, 4-4:30 p.m., Xin Liu, UIUC, "The Timing Capacity of Single-Server Queues with Multiple Flows"

• Monday, March 10, 4:30-5 p.m., Xinzhou Wu, UIUC, "Near-Optimal Input Distributions in the Wideband Regime"

• Monday, March 17, 12-1 p.m.,Jeong W. Lee, UIUC, "On Analysis of Finite-Length Turbo Codes"

• Monday, March 17, 4-5 p.m., Jianyi Huang, UIUC, "Characterization and Computation of Optimal Distributions for Channel Coding"

• Monday, March 31, 4-5 p.m., Zhijun Zhao, UIUC, "Space Diversity for Multimode Optical Fibers"

• Monday, April 7, 12-1 p.m., Batu Sat, UIUC, "Orthogonal Multiaccess versus Single and Multi Group CDMA"

• Monday, April 7, 4-5 p.m., Sujay Sanghavi, UIUC, "Telling the Truth, with Applications to Networks"

• Monday, April 14, 12-1 p.m., Siddhartha Mallik, UIUC, "Coding for a Tough Channel"

• Monday, April 14, 4-5 p.m., Niranjan Ratnakar, UIUC, "On the Performance of Algebraic Soft-Decision Decoding of Reed Solomon Codes"

• Monday, April 21, 12-1 p.m., Pascal Vontobel, UIUC, "On the information rate of finite-state channels (Part I)"

• Monday, April 21, 4-5 p.m., Sichao Yang, UIUC, "Bandwidth provision and efficiency of the Hose Model in VPN"

• Monday, April 28, 12-1 p.m.,Hua Wang, UIUC, "Duality Between Channel Capacity and Rate Distortion with Two-Sided State Information"

• Monday, April 28, 4-5 p.m., Vignesh Sethuraman, UIUC, "Capacity per unit energy of fading channels with a peak constraint"

• Monday, May 5, 12-1 p.m., Pascal Vontobel, UIUC, "On the information rate of finite-state channels (Part II)"

• Monday, May 5, 4-5 p.m., Byonghyo Shim, UIUC, "Energy-Efficient Reliable Digital Signal Processing in the Presence of Soft Error"

• Monday, May 12, 12-1 p.m., Yibo Jiang, UIUC, to be announced

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. Here are some past seminar listings .

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