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| Time | Sessions | Authors | Titles |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monday, December 3, 2018 | |||
| 10:00-13:45 | On Site Registration | ||
| 13:45-14:00 | Opening Session | ||
| 14:00-14:30 | Keynote | Richard Blahut | The Lightwave Channel: Particles or Waves? |
| SS1: Signal Processing in Life Sciences | Chairpersons: Werner Henkel, Jacobs Univ. Bremen, Germany and Peter Höher, Univ. Kiel, Germany | ||
| 14:30-15:00 | Keynote | Robert Schober | Synthetic Molecular Communication: Fundamentals, Opportunities, and Challenges |
| 15:00-15:30 | Keynote | Tze-Yang Tung, Urbashi Mitra | Increasing Robustness to Synchronization Errors in Molecular Communications |
| 15:30-15:50 | Martin Damrath; Peter A. Hoeher | EXIT-Chart-Aided Code Matching in Molecular Communications | |
| 15:50-16:10 | Dawit Andualem Nigatu; Werner Henkel | Multilevel Capacities for the Codon Mutation Channel | |
| 16:10-16:30 | Coffee Break | ||
| 16:30-17:00 | Keynote | Raymond Yeung | Network Coding in Action |
| MO1: Iterative Signal Processing | Chairperson: Peter Höher, Univ. Kiel, Germany | ||
| 17:00-17:20 | Yi Liu; Z. He; Xiaoyan Kuai; Xiaojun Yuan | Learning Based Interference Cancellation for Cognitive Radio | |
| 17:20-17:40 | Hans-Andrea Loeliger; Boxiao Ma; Hampus Malmberg; Federico Wadehn | Factor Graphs with NUV Priors and Iteratively Reweighted Descent for Sparse Least Squares and More | |
| 17:40-18:00 | Kyubihn Lee; Nam Yul Yu | Improvement of Greedy Algorithms With Prior Information for Sparse Signal Recovery | |
| 18:00-18:20 | Nicolas Alibert; Karine Amis; Charlotte Langlais; Damien Castelain | Iterative Adaptive Signal Predistortion for Satellite Communications | |
| 19:00 | Welcome reception | ||
| Tuesday, December 4, 2018 | |||
| 9:00-9:30 | Keynote | Erdal Arıkan | Polar Codes for Terabit/s Data Rates |
| SS2: Polar Coding: Innovative Code Design and Decoding Algorithms | Chairperson: Ingmar Land, Huawei, France | ||
| 9:30-9:50 | Ling Liu; Cong Ling | Algebraic Polar Lattices for Fast Fading Channels | |
| 9:50-10:10 | Mohammad Rowshan; Emanuele Viterbo | Stepped List Decoding for Polar Codes | |
| 10:10-10:30 | Seyyed Ali Hashemi; Nghia Doan; Marco Mondelli; Warren Gross | Decoding Reed-Muller and Polar Codes by Successive Factor Graph Permutations | |
| 10:30-10:50 | Valerio Bioglio; Ingmar Land; Frederic Gabry; Jean-Claude Belfiore | Flexible Design of Multi-Kernel Polar Codes by Reliability and Distance Properties | |
| 10:50-11:20 | Coffee Break | ||
| TU1: Polar Codes | Chairperson: Baoming Bai, Xidian University, China | ||
| 11:20-11:50 | Keynote | Jean-Claude Belfiore | Advanced Concepts in Polar Code Design |
| 11:50-12:10 | Mathieu Léonardon; Camille Leroux; Pekka Jääskeläinen; Christophe Jego; Yvon Savaria | Transport Triggered Polar Decoders | |
| 12:10-12:30 | Peihong Yuan; Fabian Steiner | Efficient Decoding Algorithms for Polar Codes based on 2X2 Non-Binary Kernels | |
| 12:30-12:50 | Valerio Bioglio; Ingmar Land | On the Marginalization of Polarizing Kernels | |
| 12:50-14:00 | Lunch | ||
| 14:00-14:30 | Keynote | Shu Lin; Khaled Abdel-Ghaffar; Juane Li; Keke Liu | Collective Encoding and Iterative Soft-Decision Decoding of Cyclic Codes of Prime Lengths in Galois-Fourier Transform Domain |
| SS3: Multiple Access and Coding Techniques for 5G Systems and Beyond | Chairperson: Chunlin Yan, ZTE, China | ||
| 14:30-15:00 | Keynote | Yifei Yuan | NOMA Study in 3GPP for 5G |
| 15:00-15:30 | Keynote | Xiaojie Wang; Sebastian Cammerer; Stephan ten Brink | Near Gaussian Multiple Access Channel Capacity Detection and Decoding |
| 15:30-15:50 | Jian Song; Yushu Zhang | On Construction of Rate-Compatible Raptor-Like QC-LDPC Code for Enhanced IDMA in 5G and Beyond | |
| 15:50-16:10 | Yang Guiwu; Kai Kang; Jianhao Hu; Qiu Huang; Yujing Lin | Fast Convergence Stochastic LDPC Decoder Based on Edge Memory Structure | |
| 16:10-18:30 | Coffee Break + Posters | ||
| Sheng Jiang; Pengwei Zhang; Francis C.M. Lau; Chiu Wing Sham; Kechao Huang | A Turbo-Hadamard Encoder/Decoder System with Hundreds of Mbps Throughput | ||
| Mahdi Nouri Boroujerdi; Aliazam Abbasfar; Mohammad Ghanbari | Efficient beamforming scheme in distributed massive MIMO system | ||
| Sinan Kahraman | Strange Attractor in Density Evolution | ||
| Ali Dehghan; Amir Banihashemi | Computing the Asymptotic Expected Multiplicity of Elementary Trapping Sets (ETSs) in Random LDPC Code Ensembles | ||
| Jan Sykora | Iterative Double-Loop Hierarchical Decoding with Soft-Aided Bit-Wise H-SODEM in WPNC Networks | ||
| Wenchao Lin; Suihua Cai; Jiachen Sun; Xiao Ma; Baodian Wei | A Low Latency Coding Scheme: Semi-Random Block Oriented Convolutional Code | ||
| Estefania Recayte; Francisco Lázaro; Gianluigi Liva | Caching at the Edge with LT Codes | ||
| Shangyao Huang; Hanxu Hou; Yunghsiang Sam Han | An Improved MDS Condition of Blaum-Bruck-Vardy Codes | ||
| Ali Payani; Faramarz Fekri | Decoding LDPC Codes on Binary Erasure Channels using Deep Recurrent Neural-Logic Layers | ||
| Xin Dou; Min Zhu; Ji Zhang; Baoming Bai | Soft-Decision Based Sliding-Window Decoding of Staircase Codes | ||
| Motohiro Kawasumi; Kenta Kasai | A Message-passing Algorithm Realizing MAP Decoding of Klove's Permutation Codes | ||
| Xi Yan; Raquel Guerreiro Machado; Kechao Huang; Frederic Gabry; Marc Fossorier; Hartmut Hafermann; Huijian Zhang; Ingmar Land; Raymond Wai Kong Leung | Capacity Analysis of Delayed Bit Interleaved Coded Modulation | ||
| Ronald Garzón Bohórquez; Rami Klaimi; Charbel Abdel Nour; Catherine Douillard | Mitigating Correlation Problems in Turbo Decoders | ||
| Nazia Islam; Werner Henkel | Information Forwarding in LDPC Decoding for Markov Sources | ||
| Chulong Liang; Yang Hu; Chunlin Yan; Li Ping | Interleave Division Multiple Access for High Overloading Applications | ||
| Gianluigi Liva; Hannes Bartz | Protograph-based Quasi-Cyclic MDPC Codes for McEliece Cryptosystems | ||
| Xiaoyan Kuai; Xiaojun Yuan; Ying-Chang Liang | Bayesian Message-Passing Based OFDM Receiver for Doubly-Spread Multipath Channels | ||
| Yi Lei; Alex Alvarado; Bin Chen; Xiong Deng; Zizheng Cao; Jianqiang Li; Kun Xu | Decoding Staircase Codes with Marked Bits | ||
| Ali Dehghan; Amir Banihashemi | On Counting Short Cycles of LDPC Codes Using the Tanner Graph Spectrum | ||
| Meng Li; Andre Bourdoux; Veerle Derudder; Andy Dewilde; Claude Desset; Yanxiang Huang | A 100 Gbps LDPC Decoder for the IEEE 802.11ay Standard | ||
| Linqi Song | A Binary Randomized Coding Scheme for Pliable Index Coding with Multiple Requests | ||
| Albin Severinson; Alexandre Graell i Amat; Eirik Rosnes; Francisco Lázaro; Gianluigi Liva | A Droplet Approach Based on Raptor Codes for Distributed Computing With Straggling Servers | ||
| Lei Cheng; Lijun Zhang | Exponents of Hybrid Multi-Kernel Polar Codes | ||
| Shuyang Jiang; Clayton Schoeny; Lara Dolecek | An Interactive Algorithm for Synchronizing from Burst Deletions | ||
| Xue Tan; Ji Zhang; Baoming Bai; Min Zhu; Xiao Ma | Multiplicative Repetition-Based Partial Superposition Transmission with Nonbinary Codes | ||
| Tobias Prinz; Peihong Yuan | Successive Cancellation List Decoding of BMERA Codes with Application to Higher-Order Modulation | ||
| Wednesday, December 5, 2018 | |||
| 9:00-9:30 | Keynote | Rüdiger Urbanke | To be announced |
| WE1: LDPC Codes | Chairperson: Charbel Abdel Nour, IMT Atlantique | ||
| 9:30-9:50 | Siyu Chen; Brian Michael Kurkoski; Eirik Rosnes | Construction D' Lattices from Quasi-Cyclic Low-Density Parity-Check Codes | |
| 9:50-10:10 | Balazs Matuz; Federico Clazzer; Sarah J Johnson; Sachini Jayasooriya; Mahyar Shirvanimoghaddam | LDPC Code Design for Asynchronous Random Access | |
| 10:10-10:30 | Xin Xiao; Bane Vasic; Shu Lin; Khaled Abdel-Ghaffar; William Ryan | Girth-Eight Reed-Solomon Based QC-LDPC Codes | |
| 10:30-10:50 | Xijin Mu; Huaan Li; Chao Chen; Jinhong Yuan; Baoming Bai | A New Algebraic-Based Method for Constructing Protograph LDPC Codes | |
| 10:50-11:10 | Coffee Break | ||
| SS4: Iterative Signal Processing in MIMO Systems | Chairperson: Jinhong Yuan, University of New South Wales, Australia | ||
| 11:10-11:30 | Zahran Hajji; Karine Amis; Abdeldjalil Aïssa-El-Bey | Joint Channel Estimation and Simplicity-Based Detection for Large-Scale MIMO FEC-Coded Systems | |
| 11:30-11:50 | Chandan Pradhan; Ang Li; He Chen; Yonghui Li; Branka Vucetic | Low Latency mmWave Backhaul via Traffic Dispersion | |
| 11:50-12:10 | Zhuo Sun; Zhiqiang Wei; Lei Yang; Jinhong Yuan; Xingqing Cheng; Wan Lei | Joint User Identification and Channel Estimation in Massive Connectivity with Transmission Control | |
| 12:10-12:30 | Zhaoyang Zhang; Jue Wang; Xiao Cai | 1-bit Compressive Diffusion Based on Bayesian Inference | |
| 12:30-14:00 | Lunch | ||
| 14:00 | Excursion | ||
| Thursday, December 6, 2018 | |||
| TH1: Spatially Coupled FEC Codes | Chairperson: Michael Lentmaier, Lund University, Sweden | ||
| 9:00-9:20 | Shuangyang Li; Ji Zhang; Baoming Bai; Xiao Ma; Jinhong Yuan | Self-Superposition Transmission: A Novel Method for Enhancing Performance of Convolutional Codes | |
| 9:20-9:40 | Kevin Klaiber; Sebastian Cammerer; Laurent Schmalen; Stephan ten Brink | Avoiding Burst-like Error Patterns in Windowed Decoding of Spatially Coupled LDPC Codes | |
| 9:40-10:00 | Yen-Chin Liao; Shu Lin; Hsie-Chia Chang | Scalable Globally-Coupled Low-Density Parity Check Codes | |
| 10:00-10:20 | Eshed Ram; Yuval Cassuto | Spatially Coupled LDPC Codes with Random Access | |
| 10:20-10:50 | Keynote | Dan Costello; David G. M. Mitchell; Pablo M. Olmos; Michael Lentmaier | Spatially Coupled Generalized LDPC Codes – Introduction and Overview |
| 10:50-11:10 | Coffee Break | ||
| 11:10-11:40 | Keynote | Claus Kestel; Matthias Herrmann; Norbert Wehn | When Channel Coding Hits the Implementation Wall |
| SS5: FEC for Future Communication Systems: Implementation Issues | Chairperson: Catherine Douillard, IMT Atlantique France | ||
| 11:40-12:00 | Stefan Weithoffer; Charbel Abdel Nour; Norbert Wehn; Catherine Douillard; Claude Berrou | 25 Years of Turbo Codes: From Mb/s to beyond 100 Gb/s | |
| 12:00-12:20 | Pascal Giard; Alexios Balatsoukas-Stimming; Andreas Burg | On the Tradeoff Between Accuracy and Complexity in Blind Detection of Polar Codes | |
| 12:20-12:40 | François Leduc-Primeau; Elsa Dupraz; Francois Gagnon | Low-Latency LDPC Decoding Achieved by Code and Architecture Co-Design | |
| 12:40-13:00 | Chris Winstead; Emmanuel Boutillon; Fakhreddine Ghaffari; Tasnuva Tithi | Recent Advances on Stochastic and Noise Enhanced Methods in Error Correction Decoders | |
| 13:00-14:00 | Lunch | ||
| 14:00-14:30 | Keynote | Lara Dolecek | Finite-length Spatial Coupled Codes: Explicit Constructions and Applications in Data Storage |
| TH2: LDPC Decoders | Chairperson: Charlotte Langlais, IMT Atlantique | ||
| 14:30-14:50 | Ali Dehghan; Amir Banihashemi | Computing the Asymptotic Expected Multiplicity of Leafless Elementary Trapping Sets (LETSs) in Random Irregular LDPC Code Ensembles | |
| 14:50-15:10 | Yann Delomier; Bertrand Le Gal; Jeremie Crenne; Christophe Jego | Model-based Design of Efficient LDPC Decoder Architectures | |
| 15:10-15:30 | Franklin Cochachin Henostroza; Emmanuel Boutillon; David Declercq | Optimization of Sign-Preserving Noise-Aided Min-Sum Decoders with Density Evolution | |
| 15:30-15:50 | Florian Gensheimer; Tobias Dietz; Stefan Ruzika; Kira Kraft; Norbert Wehn | A Low-Complexity Projection Algorithm for ADMM-Based LP Decoding | |
| 15:50:16:10 | Coffee Break | ||
| SS6: Approximate Message Passing: Theory and Applications | Chairperson: Henry Pfister, Duke University, USA | ||
| 16:10-16:40 | Keynote | Yoshiyuki Kabashima | Semi-Analytic Resampling in Lasso |
| 16:40-17:00 | Mengke Lian, Henry Pfister | Iterative Reconstruction Algorithms for Compressive Sensing based on Relaxed Belief Propagation | |
| 17:00-17:20 | Cindy Rush | Capacity-Achieving Spatially-Coupled Sparse Regression Codes with Approximate Message Passing Decoders | |
| 17:20-17:40 | Junjie Ma; Lei Liu; Xiaojun Yuan; Li Ping | Iterative Detection in Coded Linear Systems Based on Orthogonal AMP | |
| 18:00-19:00 19:00-22:30 | Welcome Drink Banquet |
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| Friday, December 7, 2018 | |||
| 9:00-9:30 | Keynote | Michael Lentmaier | Design Criteria for Spatially Coupled Turbo-like Codes |
| SS7: Ultra-High Throughput Coding for Fibre-Optical and B5G Wireless Communications | Chairperson: Ingmar Land, Huawei, France | ||
| 9:30-9:50 | Alireza Sheikh; Alexandre Graell i Amat; Gianluigi Liva; Christian Häger; Henry D Pfister | On Low-Complexity Decoding of Product Codes for High-Throughput Fiber-Optic Systems | |
| 9:50-10:10 | Fabian Steiner; Gerhard Kramer | Optimization of Bit Mapping and Quantized Decoding for Off-the-Shelf Protograph LDPC Codes with Application to IEEE 802.3ca | |
| 10:10-10:30 | Vincent Pignoly; Bertrand Le Gal; Christophe Jego; Benjamin Gadat | High Data Rate and Flexible Hardware QC-LDPC Decoder for Satellite Optical Communications | |
| 10:30-10:50 | Guido Montorsi; Sergio Benedetto | High Throughput Two-Stage Soft/Hard Codecs for Optical Communications | |
| 10:50-11:10 | Coffee Break | ||
| FR1: Iterative Receiver Principles | Chairperson: Xiaojun Yuan, University of Electronic Science and Engineering of China, China | ||
| 11:10-11:30 | Jan Lewandowsky; Maximilian Stark; Gerhard Bauch | A Discrete Information Bottleneck Receiver with Iterative Decision Feedback Channel Estimation | |
| 11:30-11:50 | Rami Klaimi; Charbel Abdel Nour; Catherine Douillard; Joumana Farah | Low-complexity Decoders for Non-binary Turbo Codes | |
| 11:50-12:10 | Takanori Hara; Koji Ishibashi; Soon Xin Ng; Lajos Hanzo | Low-Complexity Generator Polynomial Search for Turbo Trellis-Coded Spatial Modulation Using Symbol-based EXIT Charts | |
| 12:10-12:30 | Shayan Hassanpour; Dirk Wübben; Armin Dekorsy | A Graph-Based Message Passing Approach for Joint Source-Channel Coding via Information Bottleneck Principle | |
| 12:30-14:00 | Lunch | ||