SYMPOSIUM ON SELECTED AREAS IN COMMUNICATIONS
DATA STORAGE TRACK

Symposium Chair
M. Fatih Erden, Seagate Technology (Fatih.Erden@Seagate.Com)
Track Vice-Chair
Hao Zhong, LSI Corporation

Sponsoring Technical Committee
Data Storage

Scope
Signal processing and coding have been key component of data storage systems in the past (tape recording, disk drives, CD and DVD players). Recording devices simply do not work without signal processing and coding electronics. Codes and signal processing methods in data storage are unique in the sense that they need to be tailor-made to address issues in data storage: head-disk interfaces, media noise, recording physics, etc. Over the past 5 years, there has been a major shift in signal processing methods for data storage, triggered by two events:

1. Shift to different magnetic recording technologies, such as perpendicular recording, energy assisted recording, patterned media recording, etc, and
2. Penetration of magnetic data storage into consumer electronics (iPods, digital cameras, video recorders, etc.)

As a result, established companies that had not been in the data storage industry in the past are entering this exciting technical area. The data storage track will present a chance for researchers in this community to present the novel approaches for signal processing and coding for data storage, also including object-based storage and storage security aspects of this exciting application.

Topics of Interest

• Channel characterization, including modeling of media noise and nonlinearity.
• Detection methods, including sequence detection, partial response and decision feedback.
• Modulation and run-length limited codes.
• Error-correcting codes, trellis coding and turbo codes.
• Combined equalization and coding.
• Equalization and filtering, including nonlinear techniques.
• Write precompensation and write equalization.
• Circuit designs for read/write channel electronics and coding / detection algorithms.
• Timing and gain recovery.
• New concepts for perpendicular recording.
• Noise modeling and analysis for perpendicular recording.
• Coding bounds, density, and channel capacity.
• Data compression for digital storage, including audio and video.
• AC-bias or FM linearization techniques.
• Multiple-head systems.
• Signal processing for optical storage systems: holographic, near-field, multi-level, phase change,magneto-optic, CD, DVD.
• Cost versus performance issues surrounding design of signal processing systems for storage.
• Coding techniques for disk arrays.
• Special issues surrounding signal processing and coding for removable storage devices.
• Signal processing and coding methods for object based storage systems.
• Data security for storage systems.
• Novel servo coding and formatting.
• Servo Gray code detection and processing.
• System-on-chip (SOC) architecture and optimization.
• Iterative decoding and LDPC codes.
• Efficient error control coding/decoding and LDPC codes for 4K block sectors.
• Measurement, testing and performance optimization.

Technical Program Committee

Aleksandar Kavcic, University of Hawaii
Krishna Narayanan, Texas A&M University
Henry Pfister, Texas A&M University
Xinmiao Zhang, Case Western Reserve University
Tolga M. Duman, Arizona State University
William E. Ryan, University of Arizona
Paul H. Siegel, University of California, San Diago
Bruce Wilson, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies
Ara Patapoutian, Seagate Technology
Raman C. Venkataramani, Seagate Technology
Milos Ivkovic, University of Arizona, USA
Sedat Oelcer, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory
Hao Zhong, LSI Corporation

Presentation Style
The IEEE 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.