The Compound Broadcast Channel: Recent Advances and Challenges

Date
Apr 25, 2016, 4:30 pm5:30 pm
Location
E-Quad, B205

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Abstract:  We investigate the general two-user Broadcast Channel (BC) where an encoder transmits common and private messages to two receivers while being oblivious to the possible channel realizations controlling the communication. We first study the role of Interference Decoding (ID) and then, we investigate a novel encoding technique, namely Multiple Description (MD) coding, where the source transmits common and private descriptions intended to each of the different instances of the channels realizations. Both strategies prove to be very useful in presence of channel uncertainty at the encoder. The benefits of combining these two strategies are emphasized, taking full advantage of the joint optimization of the encoding (MD coding) and the decoding (ID) techniques.
Joint work with Dr. Meryem Benammar (Huawei Technologies, France)  and Prof. Pablo Piantanida (CentraleSupelec, France).
This work was partially supported by the FP7 Network of Excellence in Wireless COMmunications NEWCOM#.
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 encompasses a wide spectrum of topics in information theory and statistical communications.
Dr. Shamai (Shitz) is an IEEE 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 and the 2014 Rothschild Prize in Mathematics/Computer Sciences and Engineering. He has been awarded the 1999 van der Pol Gold Medal of the Union Radio Scientifique Internationale (URSI), and is a co-recipient of the 2000 IEEE Donald G. Fink Prize Paper Award, the 2003, and the 2004 joint IT/COM societies paper award, the 2007 IEEE Information Theory Society Paper Award, the 2009 and 2015 European Commission FP7, Network of Excellence in Wireless COMmunications (NEWCOM++, NEWCOM#) Best Paper Awards, the 2010 Thomson Reuters Award for International Excellence in Scientific Research, the 2014 EURASIP Best Paper Award (for the EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking), and the 2015 IEEE Communications Society Best Tutorial Paper Award. He is also the recipient of 1985 Alon Grant for distinguished young scientists and the 2000 Technion Henry Taub Prize for Excellence in Research.
He has served as Associate Editor for the Shannon Theory of the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, and has also served twice on the Board of Governors of the Information Theory Society. He has served on the Executive Editorial Board of the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory.