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             Program 
									 
										Sunday, May 21 
								 
								
									
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										5:30 pm - 8:00 pm | 
										Registration | 
									 
									
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										6:00 pm - 9:00 pm | 
										Welcoming Reception | 
									 
								 
								Monday, May 22 
								 
								
									
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										8:30 am - 9:30 am | 
										Plenary:  
				What's in Wireless Sensor Networks for Communication Theorists? - pdf 
										Anthony Ephremides, University of Maryland | 
									 
									
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										9:30 am - 9:45 am | 
										AM Break | 
									 
									
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										9:45 am - 12:15 pm | 
										Cross-Layer Design   (Organizer: Andrea Goldsmith, Stanford University) 
			
			- Twenty-first Century Communication Theory:
  Beyond Ones and Zeros - pdf  David
			Goodman, National Science Foundation 
			(on leave from Polytechnic University, Brooklyn)
			 - Gradient-based Scheduling 
			and Resource Allocation
  in OFDMA systems - pdf  
			Randall Berry, Northwestern University
			 - Layering as
			Optimization Decomposition:
  Current Status and
			Open Issues - pdf  Mung Chiang,
			Princeton University
			 - Cross-Layer
			Optimization for Wireless Networks
  with
			Multi-Receiver Diversity - pdf  Michael
			J. Neely, University of Southern California
			 - Cross-Layer Rate
			Control in Multi-hop Networks:
  Fairness, Noisy
			Feedback and Stochastic Stability
			- pdf 
			Junshan Zhang, Arizona State University
			 - Cross-Layer Design
			for Multihop Wireless Networks:
  A Loose Coupling
			Perspective - pdf 
			Ness B. Shroff, Purdue University
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										12:15 pm - 1:30 pm | 
										Lunch | 
									 
									
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										1:30 pm - 3:35 pm | 
										Cooperative Communications   (Organizer: Hesham El Gamal, The Ohio State University) 
			
			- Diversity
			and Multiplexing in Multiuser Relay
			Channels
  Nicholas
			Laneman, University of Notre Dame
			 - Towards the
			Optimal Amplify-and-Forward
  Cooperative
			Diversity Scheme 
			Jean-Claude Belfiore, ENST
			 - High-Performance
				Cooperative Communication Protocols for
				the Half-Duplex Channel
 
				Mahesh Varanasi, University of Colorado,
				Boulder
			 - Receiver-centric
			Cooperation
  Ashutosh
			Sabharwal, Rice University
			 - On the Capacity of
			Half-Duplex Relay Networks
  
			Helmut Boelckskei, ETH Zürich
			  
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			3:35 pm - 3:45 pm | 
			PM Break | 
			 
			
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			3:45 pm - 4:45 pm | 
			Cooperative Communications (Panel Session) 
			
			-  Babak Hassibi, California Institute of Technology
			
 -  Sumeet Sandhu, Intel
			
 -  Sennur Ulukus, University of Maryland
			
 -  Greg Wornell, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
			
  
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			6:00 pm - 9:00 pm  | 
			Poster Session (Contributed work -  
			organized by Robert Heath, University of Texas at Austin,   and Sriram Viswanath, University of Texas at Austin) | 
			 
			 
			Tuesday, May 23 
			 
			
			
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			8:30 am - 9:30 am | 
			Plenary:  
			Clocks in Wireless Networks  P.R. Kumar, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign | 
			 
			
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			9:30 am - 9:45 am | 
			AM Break | 
			 
			
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			9:45 am - 12:15 pm | 
			Sensor Networks   (Organizer: Greg Pottie, University of California at Los Angeles) 
			
			- From Proof of Concept
			to Real-World Wireless Sensor
			networks
  Jan Beutel, ETH Zürich
			 - Sensor Network
			Architectures for Behavior
  Andreas Savvides, Yale University
			 - Acoustic and Seismic
			Array Processing in Sensor Networks
			- pdf
 
			Kung Yao, University of California at Los Angeles
                         - Active Wireless
			Sensing
    Akbar Sayeed, University of
			Wisconsin
			Smart Networks of Dense
			Sensors Using Randomized Graph Coding 
			Kannan Ramchandran, University of California at
			Berkeley
			Effective Modeling of
			Sensor Networks  Ameesh Pandya,
			Northrop-Grumman
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			12:15 pm - 1:30 pm | 
			Lunch | 
			 
			
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			1:30 pm - 3:35 pm | 
			Network Information Theory   (Organizer: Gerhard Kramer, Bell Labs) 
			
			- Multiterminal Data Compression
			and Secret Key Generation
   - pdf  Prakash Narayan,
			University of Maryland  (joint work with Imre Csiszar and
			Chunxuan Ye)
			Connectivity in Geometric
			Graphs: Beyond the Standard Model
			- pdf  Yuliy
			Baryshnikov, Bell Labs
			Sending Gaussian Sources Over
			Gaussian Channels:   Variations on a Theme by Goblick - pdf  Amos Lapidoth, ETH Zürich  (Based on Collaborations with Shraga Bross and   Stephan Tinguely)
			Parity Forwarding for the Relay
			Network - pdf  Wei Yu, University of Toronto 
			(joint work with Peyman Razaghi)
			Broadcasting with an Upgraded
			Relay - pdf  Emre Telatar, EPFL
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			3:35 pm - 3:45 pm | 
			PM Break | 
			 
			
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			3:45 pm - 4:45 pm | 
			Network Information Theory (Panel Session) 
			
			-  Suhas Diggavi, EPFL
			
 -  Anthony Ephremides, University of Maryland
			
 -  Jerry Foschini, Bell Labs
			
 -  Prakash Narayan, University of Maryland
			
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			6:00 pm - 7:00 pm | 
			Reception | 
			 
			
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			7:00 pm | 
			Dinner | 
			 
			 
			Wednesday, May 24 
			 
			
			
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			8:30 am - 9:30 am | 
			Plenary:  
			Energy and Inference in Wireless Sensor Networks - pdf   H. Vincent Poor, Princeton University | 
			 
			
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			9:30 am - 9:45am | 
			AM Break | 
			 
			
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			9:45 am - 11:50 am | 
			Network Coding   (Organizer: Emina Soljanin, Bell Labs) 
			
			- Toward Network Coding for Interference
			Networks
   - pdf Piyush Gupta, Bell Labs
			On Networks with Noisy and Interfering Channels - pdf Daniela Tuninetti, University of Illinois at Chicago
			Designing Failure-Tolerant Network
			Codes - pdf  Costas Georghiades, Texas A&M University
			On Network Coding for Non-Uniform
			Demand Networks - pdf  Christina
			Fragouli, EPFL 
			A Study of Ring
			Networks - pdf Serap Savari, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
			 
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			11:50 am - 12:25 pm | 
			Network Coding (Panel Session) 
			
			-  Muriel Medard, Massachusetts Institute of
			Technology
			
 -  Sergio Servetto, Cornell University
			
 -  Sriram Vishwanath, University of Texas at
			Austin
			
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			12:30 pm | 
			Conference Ends | 
			 
			 
			
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