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Kangda Zhi receives 2026 IEEE CTTC Andrea Goldsmith Young Scholars Award

Kangda Zhi has received the 2026 IEEE Communications Society Communication Theory Technical Committee (CTTC) Andrea Goldsmith Young Scholars Award, in recognition of his contributions to RIS-aided and large-scale MIMO sy…

Partially Connected Networks: Limits, Algorithms, and Applications in Wireless Distributed Computing

Dr. Yue Bi · HFT-TA 617

This talk is divided into two parts. In the first part, we present a general interference alignment (IA) coding scheme for general partially-connected interference networks and formulate an intuitive number-filling puzzl…

2025 IEEE Communications Society & Information Theory Society Joint Paper Award

Professor Caire and his co-authors have received the 2025 IEEE Communications Society & Information Theory Society Joint Paper Award for the paper, "On the Fundamental Tradeoff of Integrated Sensing and Communication…

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2023 Comsoc CTTC Technical Achievement Award

On behalf of the Awards Committee, Professor Giuseppe Caire has been selected as the winner of the 2023 IEEE Communications Society Communication Theory Technical Committee (CTTC) Technical Achievement Award .

The Information Bottleneck: A Unified Information Theoretic View

Prof. Shlomo Shamai (Shitz) (Technion-Israel Institute of Technology) · HFT-TA 617

This presentation focuses on connections between relatively recent notions and variants of the Information Bottleneck and classical information theoretic frameworks, such as: Remote Source-Coding; Information Combining;…

On the Relevance-Complexity Region of Scalable Information Bottleneck

Prof. Mari Kobayashi (Centrale Supelec, Paris) · HFT-TA 617

Motivated by data and image classification applications, we study the scalable information bottleneck problem, where the encoder extracts multiple stages of information about the source from the observation. Exploiting s…

Wiretap Code Design by Neural Network Autoencoders

Dipl.-Ing. Karl-Ludwig Besser (Technische Universität Dresden) · HFT-TA 617

In industrial machine type communications, an increasing number of wireless devices communicate under reliability, latency, and confidentiality constraints, simultaneously. From information theory, it is known that wiret…

Millimeter Wave Systems: Where Signal Processing meets Hardware & Physics

Prof. Upamanyu Madhow (U.S.C., Santa Barbara) · HFT-TA 617

Utilizing the essentially unlimited bandwidth and spatial reuse at millimeter wave and THz frequencies requires the development of signal processing approaches that exploit the physics of tiny wavelengths, while accounti…

Bringing optimization-based control to IoT-based cyber-physical systems

Prof. Sergio Lucia (Einstein Center Digital Future, TU Berlin) · HFT-TA 617

The increasing complexity of modern cyber-physical systems such as energy networks, transportation systems, smart healthcare systems or smart buildings makes their control and operation a demanding challenge. Using compu…

Joint State Sensing and Communication: A Preliminary Result and Vehicular

Prof. Mari Kobayashi (Centrale Supelec, Paris) · HFT-TA 617

We consider a communication setup where a transmitter wishes to simultaneously sense its channel state and convey a message to a receiver. The state is estimated at the transmitted by means of an implicit generalized fee…

Can machine learning trump theory in communication system design?

Prof. Andrea Goldsmith (Stanford University) · HFT-TA 617

Design and analysis of communication systems have traditionally relied on mathematical and statistical channel models that describe how a signal is corrupted during transmission. In particular, communication techniques s…

Vehicle-to-Pedestrian Channel Modeling in Critical Scenarios

Mr. Ibrahim Rashdan (German Aerospace Center, Oberpfaffenhofen-Wessling) · MAR 5.006

Almost 29% of road fatalities occurred among non-motorized road users which are called Vulnerable Road Users (VRUs). A real-time and reliable V2P communication is necessary in order to exchange safety-related information…

Detecting colliding black holes with gravitational-wave observatories

Dr. Ian Harry (Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics) · MAR 0.008

In September 2015, the Advanced LIGO gravitational-wave observatory observed for the first time two black holes colliding. This discovery was awarded the Nobel Prize in 2017. Since then the Advanced LIGO and Advanced Vir…

Private Information Retrieval in the Time of Collusions

Prof. Salim El Rouayheb (Rutgers University, New Jersey) · MAR 0.003

Private Information Retrieval (PIR) allows users to query and search online data without revealing their queries and thus ensuring their privacy and protecting them from possible discrimination and persecution. The liter…

Foundations of security in cyber-physical systems

Prof. Suhas Diggavi (University of California Los Angeles (UCLA)) · MAR 0.003

Cyber-physical systems (CPS) such as automobiles, electrical grids,transportation networks and water networks, are increasingly controlled through (distributed) cyber-systems, which make them vulnerable to attacks. To se…

On Deep Learning-Based Communication Over the Air

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Stephan ten Brink (University Stuttgart) · MAR 0.003

We demonstrate an over-the-air communications system which is solely based on deep neural networks and has so far been only validated by computer simulations for block-based transmissions. Transmitter and receiver can be…

Reconciling Optimality and Complexity over Wireless Relay Networks

Dr. Martina Cardone (University of Minnesota) · MAR 0.007

Information theory designs near-optimal relaying schemes assuming no complexity constraints. 5G systems are envisaged to deploy cooperative relaying at a large scale, using low-complexity schemes. In this talk, we discus…

Coded Caching over Wireless: challenges and some solutions

Prof. Mari Kobayashi (CentraleSupélec Paris, TU München) · MAR 0.007

Coded caching, a recent breakthrough proposed by Maddah-Ali and Niesen, has inspired a rethinking of wireless downlink channels. Although a substantial gain, in particular its scalability with respect to the number of us…

Cover's Open Problem: "The Capacity of the Relay Channel"

Dr. Ayfer Ozgur (Stanford University, California) · MAR 5.006

Formulating the problem of determining the communication capacity of channels as a problem in high-dimensional geometry is one of Shannon’s most important insights that has led to the conception of information theory. In…

A View of Information-Estimation Relations in Gaussian Networks

Prof. Shlomo Shamai (Shitz) (Technion-Israel Institute of Technology) · MAR 4.033

This talk will focus on the recent applications of Information-Estimation Relations to Gaussian Networks. In the first part of the talk, we will go over recent connections between estimation theoretic and information the…

Distributed hypothesis testing via equivalence to channel coding

Dr. Yuval Kochman (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) · HFT-TA 617

We consider the problem of distributed binary hypothesis testing of a pair of sequences. We will mostly follow the illustrative example where the sequences are generated by a doubly symmetric binary source with one of tw…

On the Application of Stochastic Geometry for Spectral Efficiency Analysis in Wireless Networks

Dr. Ratheesh K. Mungara (Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona) · HFT-TA 617

Stochastic geometry is quickly becoming an indispensable instrument in wireless network analysis. We show how the application of stochastic geometry to the spectral efficiency analysis is greatly facilitated by (i) a cle…

On the Benefits of Feedback in Wireless Communications

Dr. Samir M. Perlaza (Laboratoire CITI (INRIA - Université de Lyon - INSA de Lyon), Lyon) · HFT-TA 617

In this talk, the key role of feedback is highlighted in two fundamental problems: (a) interference management in wireless networks; and (b) simultaneous wireless energy and information transmission. In the former, chann…

Smart Energy Management in Wireless Networks with Harvested Energy

Prof. Zhisheng Niu (Tsinghua University, Beijing) · HFT-TA 617

As traffic demands further grow, the increase of the energy consumption in wireless networks has become a key concern in 5G era. Utilizing the renewable energy by energy harvesting technologies is an effective way to dea…

Coding Theory for Modern Computing

Prof. Lara Dolecek (University of California, Los Angeles) · HFT-TA 617

Computing under uncertainty is an emerging paradigm in modern information processing systems. In this talk, we first review exciting recent results on the multifaceted role coding approaches can play in this important di…

Cooperative Strategies for sharing radio resources

Prof. Ephraim Zehavi (Bar Ilan University, Israel) · HFT-TA 617

Modern wireless communication system is operating over multiple frequency selective channels in which users can change their transmission or reception parameters to communicate efficiently by avoiding interference from o…

Closed-Loop and Structured Compressive Channel Estimation for Massive MIMO

Dr. An Liu (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) · HFT-TA 617

Acquisition of accurate channel state information (CSI) at the transmitter (CSIT) is a major challenge of deploying frequency-division duplexing (FDD) massive MIMO systems. Although compressive sensing (CS) based channel…

Coordination in Networks: An Information-Theoretic Approach

Prof. Joerg Kliewer (New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark) · HFT-TA 617

One fundamental problem in decentralized networked systems is to coordinate activities of different nodes so that they reach a state of agreement. This global objective is typically obtained by local operations, for exam…

On the performance of large-but-finite MIMO systems: HARQ and Scheduling

Dr. Behrooz Makki (Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg) · HFT-TA 617

We investigate the performance of the multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) systems in the presence of a large but finite numbers of antennas at the transmitters and/or receivers. Considering the cases with and without h…

Privacy, Secrecy, and Storage with Multiple Measurements of Noisy Identifiers

Mr. Onur Günlü (Technical University of Munich (TUM)) · HFT-TA 617

The key-leakage-storage capacity regions for a hidden biometric or physical identifier’s noisy measurements at two terminals of a secrecy system are derived. The capacity regions of binary hidden sources with multiple de…

Bringing Network Programmability to Mobile Networks

Dr. Ulas C. Kozat (Huawei R&D, Santa Clara) · HFT-TA 617

The expectations on 5G networks is quite high in terms of data rates, latency, mobility, energy efficiency, and service agility. Optimizing wireless/mobile networks in any one of these dimensions falls short of meeting t…

Structured Codes in Multi-user Communication Networks

Dr. Jingge Zhu (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) · HFT-TA 617

We discuss applications of structured codes in multi-user communication networks, with the focus on the compute-and-forward scheme. We show that a generalised compute-and-forward scheme permits a novel multiple access te…

MIMO Techniques for 4/5G Wireless Systems

Dr. Huan X Nguyen (Middlesex University, London) · HFT-TA 617

Multiplexing gain versus diversity gain is the fundamental trade-off that has been studied for multiple input multiple output (MIMO) systems. In this talk, two techniques, groupwise space time block code (GSTBC) and latt…

Multi-antenna communications in presence of progressive scattering: finite-dimensional analysis and open problems

Dr. Giusi Alfano (DISAT, Politecnico di Torino, Italy) · HFT-TA 617

Foreseen communication paradigms for 5G and beyond wireless cellular systems involve communication channels which, in case the transceivers are equipped with multiple antennas, can be suitably modeled by products of rand…

MAC layer Perspectives on Massive M2M and Massive MIMO

Prof. Petar Popovski (Wireless Communications Department, Aalborg University, Denmark) · HFT-TA 617

Uncertainty is the essential element of communication systems, caused by noise, errors, and random traffic/packet arrivals at users. A canonical example of the latter is seen in random access protocols, used for handling…

Adaptive Learning For Self-Organizing Communication Networks

Dipl.-Ing. Martin Kasparick (Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute (HHI), TU Berlin) · HFT-TA 617

Due to their dense and heterogeneous nature, the scarcity of resources, and high costs of manual configurations, the ability to self-organize is considered to be an essential feature of the next generation of wireless ne…

Physical Layer Multicasting and Caching towards Content-Centric Wireless Networks

Prof. Meixia Tao (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China) · HFT-TA 617

The driving forces behind the exponential growth in mobile cellular network traffic have fundamentally shifted from being “connection-centric” communications, such as phone calls and text messages, to the explosion of “c…

An Introduction Into Optical Wireless Communications

Dr. rer. nat. Volker Jungnickel (Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute, TU Berlin) · HFT-TA 617

Optical Wireless Communications has a long history. While free-space optical point-to-point links are well known, the use of optical wireless became popular since high-power light-emitting devices (LEDs) are widely used…

Analysis and Optimization of Caching and Multicasting in Large-Scale Cache-Enabled Wireless Networks

Dr. Ying Cui (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China) · HFT-TA 617

Caching and multicasting at base stations are two promising approaches to support massive content delivery over wireless networks. However, existing analysis and designs do not fully explore and exploit the potential adv…

Anticipatory Video Streaming for Mobile Users

Dr. Stefan Valentin (Huawei Technologies, Paris, France) · HFT 617

Mobile video streaming is a rising business but poses significant challenges for network and service operators. In mobile networks, time-variant wireless channels often violate the content's rate requirement, which leads…

From Caching to Control and Distributed Computation in Communication Networks

Prof. Babak H. Khalaj (Sharif University of Technology, Tehran) · HFT 617

As Big Data and Cloud Computing starts to reshape communication networks, new models and paradigms for design and analysis of such networks becomes of high importance. In such perspective, a better understanding of a gen…

Named Data Networking: Theory and Optimization for a New Internet Architecture

Prof. Edmund Yeh (Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts) · HFT 617

Emerging information-centric networking architectures, such as Named Data Networking (NDN), are currently changing the landscape networking research. Information-centric networking replaces the traditional client server…

Mini-Workshop in preparation of ISIT 2015

Dr. Xinping Yi, Dr. Kittipong Kittichokechai, Rick Fritschek M.Sc., Dr. Saeid Haghighatshoar (TU Berlin) · HFT 617

An oral presentation and short discussion with: 1) Dr. Xinping Yi (TU-Berlin) at 4pm Title: On the Optimality of Treating Interference as Noise: A Combinatorial Optimization Perspective Abstract: For single-antenna Gauss…

Computable Performance Analysis of Sparse Recovery

Prof. Arye Nehorai (Washington University in St. Louis (WUSTL)) · MA 313

The last decade has witnessed burgeoning developments in the reconstruction of signals based on exploiting their low-dimensional structures, particularly their sparsity, block-sparsity, and low-rankness. The reconstructi…

Behavioral Signal Processing: Enabling human-centered behavioral informatics

Prof. Shrikanth (Shri) Narayanan (USC, Los Angeles) · HFT 617

Smart Device Communications For Future Wireless Networks

Prof. David Gesbert (EURECOM, France) · HFT 6

Future wireless networks face serious challenges related to the ever-growing popularity of mobile applications and the increasing diversity of connected objects. Two fundamental approaches, namely network-centric cloud-b…