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Sunday,
21 September 2008
18:00 – 20:00
Opening Reception
and Registration
Balmoral Room, The
Fairmont Empress
Monday,
22 September 2008
8:00 – 17:00
Buckingham Room, The
Fairmont Empress
Registration
8:00 – 17:00
Welcome
Address 8:30 – 8:45
Aaron Gulliver, University of
Victoria
Session
1 Coding and Information Theory 8:45 – 10:50
Chair: Ivan Fair, University of
Alberta
Tight
Finite-Blocklength Bounds in Channel Coding
Vincent Poor, Princeton University
Capacity Bounds and
Signaling Schemes for Bi-directional Coded Cooperation Protocols
Vahid Tarokh, Harvard University
An Information Theoretic
Study of Stock Market Behavior
Charlie Yang, Charles Schwab Co.
Simple Iterative
Decoding Using Convolutional Doubly Orthogonal Codes
David Haccoun, École Polytechnique de Montréal
Capacity and
Coding for Impulse Noise Channels
Han Vinck, University of Duisburg-Essen
10:50
– 11:10 Break
Session
2 Communications I 11:10 – 12:50
Chair: Qiang Wang, Maxit
Technology Inc.
Near-optimal
Receiver for Multiuser UWB Systems
Dong In Kim, Sungkyunkwan University
Channel
Equalization and Symbol Detection for Single Carrier Broadband MIMO Systems
with Multiple Carrier Frequency Offsets
Chengshan Xiao, Missouri University of Science and Technology
Cyclic/Phase
Shifting for Active Interference Cancellation on Multiband OFDM UWB
Transmission
Poramate Tarasak, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
Multireception
Systems in Mobile Environments
Angel Bravo, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
12:50
– 14:20 Lunch Balmoral Roo
Session
3 Communications II 14:20 – 16:35
Chair: Anwar Hasan, University
of Waterloo
On the Roots of
Wireless Communications
Andreas Antoniou, University of Victoria
An Improved
Ranging Method in OFDMA Systems
Hlaing Minn, University of Texas at Dallas
MIMO Systems and Practical Antenna Considerations
Ross Murch, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Network
Beamforming
Hamid Jafarkhani, University of California, Irvine
Multi-user Detection for Ad-hoc Networks in Emergency and Tactical
Scenarios
François Gagnon, École de technologie supérieure, Montréal
Monday,
22 September 2008
18:30 – 22:00 Reception followed by Banquet
Kiplings Room, The
Fairmont Empress
Tuesday,
23 September 2008
8:30 – 17:00
Buckingham Room, The
Fairmont Empress
Registration
8:30 – 12:00
Session
4 Cognitive and Cooperative Communications 9:00 – 10:40
Chair: Hlaing Minn, University
of Texas at Dallas
Advanced Sensing
Systems and the Right to Privacy
Stephen Wicker, Cornell University
Global Games
Approach for Decentralized Spectrum Access
Vikram Krishnamurthy, University of British Columbia
Are
Amplify-and-Forward Relaying and Decode-and-Forward Relaying the Same?
Norman Beaulieu, University of Alberta
Cognitive Radio
MAC: Practical Issues, Potential Approaches and Open Problems
Ekram Hossain, University of Manitoba
10:40
– 11:00 Break
Session
5 Coding 11:00 – 12:40
Chair: Ekram Hossain,
University of Manitoba
Reliability and
Efficiency Analysis of Distributed Source Coding in Wireless Sensor
Networks
Fortunato Santucci, University of L'Aquila
A Generalized
Decoding Problem
Qiang Wang, Maxit Technology Inc.
Detecting Errors
in Elliptic Curve Scalar Multiplication Units
Anwar Hasan, University of Waterloo
Synchronization-Correcting
Codes: Challenges and Applications
Hugues Mercier, Harvard University
12:40
– 14:10 Lunch Kiplings Room
Session
6 Cognitive Radio 14:10 – 16:10
Chair: Aaron Gulliver, University
of Victoria
A Queueing Analytic Model for Opportunistic Spectrum Access in
Cognitive Radio Networks
Mamunur Rashid, University of British Columbia
Cooperative Spectrum Sensing for Cognitive Radio Networks
Praveen Kaligineedi, University
of British Columbia
Link-Adaptation in OFDM-based Cognitive Radio Systems
Gaurav Bansal, University of British Columbia
Power Allocation for Cognitive Radios Based on Primary User
Activity in an OFDM System
Ziaul Hashmi, University of British Columbia
Blind Multi-source Detection and Localization for Cognitive Radio
Anjana Punchihewage, University of British Columbia
Efficient Broadcasting in
Wireless Ad-hoc Networks
Majid Khabbazian, University of British Columbia
End of Workshop
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