CONFERENCE PROGRAM REGISTRATION VENUE VISA

COMMUNICATION THEORY SYMPOSIUM

Symposium Co-Chairs
Mérouane Debbah, SUPELEC
(Merouane.debbah@supelec.fr)
Elza Erkip, Polytechnic Institute of NYU (elza@poly.edu)
Syed Ali Jafar, University of California, Irvine (syed@uci.edu)
Lars K. Rasmussen, University of South Australia (Lars.Rasmussen@ieee.org)

Sponsoring
 Technical Committees
Communication Theory
Wireless Communications

Scope
The goal of the Communication Theory Symposium is to explore the fundamentals of communication systems, with particular emphasis on wireless and wire-line communications. The symposium welcomes original research in these general areas focusing on physical-layer as well as interactions with higher-layers.  Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, modulation, channel coding, detection and estimation, source coding, joint source-channel coding, multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems, cooperative communications, cognitive radio, signal processing and information theory for ad-hoc and sensor networks, optical communications, advanced multiple access strategies, network information theory, and network coding. Research on communication theory that relates to networking, genetics, bioinformatics, and quantum information processing are also encouraged.

Topics of Interest

  • Adaptive Modulation and Coding
  • CDMA and Spread Spectrum
  • Channel Estimation
  • Coding Theory and Practice
  • Communication Theory in Sensor and Ad-Hoc Networks
  • Theoretical aspects of Cognitive Radio
  • Cooperative Communications
  • Theoretical aspects of Cross Layer Design
  • Detection and Estimation
  • Distributed Coding and Processing
  • Diversity and Fading Countermeasures
  • Dynamic Spectrum Management
  • Equalization
  • Feedback Schemes in Communications
  • Fiber Optical Communications and Free-Space Optical Communications
  • Information Theory and Physical Layer Security
  • Interference Management, Cancellation, Avoidance
  • Iterative Techniques, Detection and Decoding
  • Joint Source/Channel Coding
  • Multi-Carrier Systems
  • Multiple Access Techniques
  • Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) Systems Design and Analysis
  • Multiuser Detection
  • Multiuser Diversity
  • Network Coding
  • Network Information Theory
  • Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM)
  • Radio Resource Management
  • Source Coding and Data Compression
  • Space-time Coding and Processing
  • Synchronization
  • Turbo and LDPC Codes
  • Ultra-Wideband Communications


Technical Program Committee

Ravi Adve, University of Toronto, Canada
Sofiene Affes, INRS, Canada
Defne Aktas, Bilkent University, Turkey
Alexandre Graell I Amat, Telecom Bretagne, France
Jeffrey Andrews, University of Texas at Austin, USA
Mohamad Assaad, Supelec, France
Jean-Claude Belfiore, Telecom-Paristech
Pascal Bianchi, Supelec, France
Maite Brandt-Pearce, University of Virginia, USA
Giuseppe Caire, University of Southern California, USA
Biao Chen, Syracuse University, USA
A. Chockalingam, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
Iain Collings, CSIRO, Australia
Shuguang Cui, University of Texas A&M, USA
Oussama Damen, University of Waterloo
Tim Davidson, McMaster University, Canada
Natasha Devroye, Harvard University , USA
Mischa Dohler, CTTC, Barcelona, Spain
Jamie Evans, University of Melbourne, Australia
Bernard Fleury, University of Aalborg
Christina Fragouli, EPFL, Switzerland
Hesham El Gamal, Ohio State University, USA
Javier Garcia-Frias, University of Delaware, USA
David Gesbert, Eurecom, France
Albert Guillen i Fabregas, University of Cambridge, UK
Maxime Guillaud, FTW,  Austria
Deniz Gunduz, Princeton/Stanford University, USA
Dongning Guo, Northwestern University, USA
Peter Hoher, University of Kiel, Germany
Are Hjørungnes, UNIK, Norway
Hamid Jafarkhani, University of California Irvine, USA
Nihar Jindal, University of Minnesota, USA
Sarah Johnson, University of Newcastle, Australia
Sang Wu Kim, Iowa State University, USA
Mari Kobayashi, Supelec, France
Samson Lasaulce, CNRS, France
Gottfried Lechner, FTW, Austria
Yingbin Liang, University of Hawaii, USA
Lutz Lampe, University of British Columbia, Canada
Ingmar Land, University of South Australia, Australia
Erik Larsson, Linkoping University, Sweden
Teng Joon Lim, University of Toronto, Canada
David Love, Purdue University, USA
Angel Lozano, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
Matthew Mckay, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
Urbashi Mitra, University of Southern California, USA
Guido Montorsi, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Rohit Negi, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Aria Nosratinia, University of Texas Dallas, USA
Claude Oestges, UCL Louvain, Belgium
Simon Pun, Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL)
Dinesh Rajan, Southern Methodist University, USA
Ashutosh Sabharwal, Rice University, USA
Akbar Sayeed, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA 
Jossy Sayir, FTW, Austria
Martin Schubert, Fraunhofer German-Sino Lab, Berlin, Germany
Osvaldo Simeone, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA
Birsen Sirkeci-Mergen, San Jose State University, USA
Mikael Skoglund, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Emina Soljanin, Alcatel-Lucent Bell-Labs
Predrag Spasojevic, Ruttgers University, USA
Chintha Tellambura, University of Alberta, Canada
Stefano Tomasin, University of Padova, Italy
Adriaan van Wijngaarden, Alcatel-Lucent, USA
Luc Vandendorpe, UCL, Belgium
Sriram Vishwanath, University of Texas at Austin, USA
Emmanuele Viterbo, Università della Calabria, Italy
Xiaodong Wang, Columbia University, USA
Zixiang Xiong, Texas A&M University, USA
Ji Wei Yu, University of Toronto, Canada
Pnhong Yuan, University of New South Wales, Australia
Rui Zhang, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
Qing Zhao, University of California Davis, USA

Presentation Style
The Globecom 2009 Technical Program Committee will go through a rigorous process to review all the papers submitted and select the best ones among them. The accepted papers will be presented in the conference either in a lecture style or in a poster style format. This distinction has no relationship with the quality of the accepted papers whatsoever. It is purely due to the limitations of the conference rooms available for lecture style presentations. Papers will be selected for lecture-style or poster-style presentation, solely based on the need to ensure topic homogeneity in lecture-style sessions.   All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings and IEEExplore without any indication of the presentation mode.