Cloud Radio Access Networks, Distributed Information Bottleneck, and more: A Unified Information Theoretic View

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Jun 14, 2018, 4:00 pm4:00 pm
Location
Engineering Quadrangle B205

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Abstract: We consider transmission over a cloud radio access network (CRAN) focusing on the framework of oblivious processing at the relay nodes (radio units), i.e., the relays are not cognizant of the users' codebooks.
This approach is motivated by future wireless communications (5G and beyond) and the theoretical results connect to a variety of different information theoretic models and problems. First it is shown that relaying a-la Cover-El Gamal, i.e., compress-and-forward with joint decompression and decoding, which reflects 'noisy network coding,' is optimal. The penalty of obliviousness is also demonstrated to be at most a constant gap, when compared to cut-set bounds. Naturally, due to the oblivious (nomadic) constraint the CRAN problem intimately comments to Chief Executive Officer (CEO) source(s) coding under a logarithmic loss distortion measure. Furthermore, we identify and elaborate on some interesting connections with the distributed information bottleneck model for which we characterize optimal tradeoffs between rates (i.e., complexity) and information (i.e., accuracy) in the discrete and vector Gaussian frameworks. Further connections to 'information combining' and 'common reconstruction' are also pointed out. In the concluding outlook, some interesting problems are mentioned such as the characterization of the optimal input distributions under users' power limitations and rate-constrained compression at the relay nodes.
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Joint work with: I.E. Aguerri (Paris Research Center, Huawei France) A. Zaidi (Universite Paris-Est, Paris) and G. Caire (USC-LA and TUB, Berlin)
The research is supported by the European Union's Horizon 2020 Research And Innovation Programme: no. 694630.
Bio:  Shlomo Shamai (Shitz) received the B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the Technion---Israel Institute of Technology, in 1975, 1981 and 1986 respectively.
During 1975-1985, he was with the Communications Research Labs, in the capacity of a Senior Research Engineer. Since 1986 he is with the Department of Electrical Engineering, Technion---Israel Institute of Technology, where he is now a Technion Distinguished Professor, and holds the William Fondiller Chair of Telecommunications. His research interests encompass a wide spectrum of topics in information theory and statistical communications.
Dr. Shamai (Shitz) is an IEEE Fellow, an URSI Fellow, a member of the Israeli Academy of Sciences and Humanities and a foreign member of the US National Academy of Engineering. He is the recipient of the 2011 Claude E. Shannon Award, the 2014 Rothschild Prize in Mathematics/Computer Sciences and Engineering and the 2017 IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal.