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The Seventh IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications

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Technical program at-a-glance (tentative)

Day	Time	Room: Californie	Room: Oslo	Room: Stockholm
Mon	09:00 AM-10:00 AM	Plenary: Single Antenna MIMO Transceivers, A New Challenge for Signal Processing, by Ralf Muller (NTNU, Norway)
	10:00 AM-11:15 AM		Blind estimation	Space-time coding
	11:30 AM-12:45 PM		Precoding and decoding for MIMO	Communication theory
	02:15 PM-03:15 PM	Plenary: Cross Layer Optimization in Large Wireless Networks using Stochastic Geometry, by Francois Baccelli (ENS, France)
	03:30 PM-04:45 PM		Multiple-antenna communications systems I	Multicarrier techniques I, Adhoc and sensor networks
Tue	09:00 AM-10:00 AM	Plenary: A Random-Channel Graph-Theoretic Perspective of Wireless Networks, by Bert Hochwald (Beceem, US)
	10:00 AM-11:15 AM		Resource allocation and cross-layer design	Multicarrier techniques II, Advanced transmitter and receiver design
	11:30 AM-12:45 PM		Broadcast channel techniques	Ultra-wideband systems
	02:15 PM-03:15 PM	Plenary: On the Sufficiency of Ignorance, Recent Lessons in Network Architecture, by Gregory Wornell (MIT, US)
	03:30 PM-04:45 PM		Equalization	Estimation and detection
Wed	09:00 AM-10:00 AM	Plenary: Signal processing and spectrum management in multi-user wireline (xDSL) systems, by Marc Moonen (KUL, Belgium)
	10:00 AM-11:15 AM		Cooperative wireless (relay) networks	Multi-user MIMO communications
	11:30 AM-12:45 PM		Multi-user communications	Multiple-antenna communications systems II

Full Technical Program (tentative)

Monday, Jul 3

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Plenary: Single Antenna MIMO Transceivers, A New Challenge for Signal Processing, by Ralf Muller (NTNU)

Californie

10:00 AM - 11:15 AM

Blind estimation

ROOM: Oslo

1-Blind carrier phase estimation for non-equiprobable constellations: Roberto López Valcarce (Universidad de Vigo, Spain); Carlos Mosquera (Universidad de Vigo, Spain)
2- Adaptive asynchronous CCI cancellation: Selection of the regularization parameter for regularized semi-blind technique: Alex Kuzminskiy (Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, United Kingdom); Yuri ABRAMOVICH (Cooperative Research Centre for Sensor Signal and Information Processing, Australia)
3-Identifiability of BPSK, MSK and QPSK FIR SISO channels from modified second-order statistics: Jean-Pierre Delmas (INT, France); Pierre Comon (CNRS, France); Yann Meurisse (Institut National des Télécommunications, France)
4-A blind feedforward frequency offset estimator for OFDM systems in multipath channels: Tilde Fusco (University of Naples, Italy); Mario Tanda (Università di Napoli Federico II, Italy)
5-Convolutive Separation of i.i.d. signals based on Simultaneous Tensors Diagonalization: Saloua Rhioui (ISITV, France); Eric Moreau (ISITV, France)
6-Second-Order Blind Source Separation: a new Expression of Instantaneous Separating Matrix for Mixtures of Delayed Sources: Gilles Chabriel, Jean Barrere (Universite du Sud -Toulon Var, France)
7-Subspace-Based Blind Channel Identification for Orthogonal Modulation: Andrew Klein (Supélec/LSS, France); Pierre Duhamel (LSS SUPELEC, France)
8-Blind Channel Equalization in Downlink MC-CDMA Systems Exploiting Guard Interval Redundancy and Excess Codes: Djebbar Ahmed Bouzidi (University of UVHC, France)
9-Blind Linearization of Nonlinear Channels using a Repetition/modulation Precoder: Alain Kibangou (Laboratoire I3S/CNRS/UNSA, France); Favier Gérard (Université de Nice, France)

Space-time coding

ROOM: Stockholm

1-New Diversity-Embedding STBC Constructions: Naofal Al-Dhahir (University of Texas at Dallas, USA); Sushanta Das (University of Texas at Dallas, USA)
2-Performance of Low-Density Parity Check with Space-Time Block coded MC-CDMA systems and Soft-Interference Cancellation: Luis Paredes (Polytechnical University of Madrid, Spain)
3-Two stage Bit-interleaved coded modulation for multiple-input multiple-output channels: Hadi Sawaya (Saint Joseph University, Lebanon)
4-Choice of appropriate space-time coding scheme for MIMO systems employing channel coding under BICM: Mohammad Khalighi (Ecole Centrale de Marseille, France)
5-Design of Serially-Concatenated LDGM coded MIMO systems: Francisco Vázquez-Araújo (University of A Coruña, Spain); Miguel González-López (Universidad de A Coruña, Spain); Luis Castedo (Universidad de A Coruña, Spain); Javier Garcia-Frias (University of Delaware, USA)
6-Reconfigurable Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) Code Interleaving for SISO and MIMO OFDM Systems: Markus Mueck (Motorola Labs, France); Stephanie Rouquette-Leveil (Motorola Labs, France); Marc de Courville (Motorola, France)
7-Codebook design for the non-coherent GLRT receiver and low SNR MIMO block fading channel: Marko Beko (ISR-IST, Portugal); João Xavier (I.S.T. - Technical U. Lisbon / I.S.R. Lisbon, Portugal); Victor Barroso (Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal)
8-Information Lossless Full-Rate Full-Diversity Trace-Orthogonal Space-Time Codes: Antonio Fasano (University of Roma "La Sapienza", Italy); Sergio Barbarossa (University of Rome, Italy)
9-Space-Time Multiplexing Codes: A Tensor Modeling Approach: André de Almeida (University of Nice - Sophia Antipolis, France); Favier Gérard (Université de Nice, France); Joao Mota (UFC, Brazil)
10-Capacity approaching layered MIMO schemes for quasi-static fading channels: Meritxell Lamarca (Technical University of Catalonia, Spain); Hanqing Lou (University of Delaware, USA); Javier Garcia-Frias (University of Delaware, USA)

11:30 AM - 12:45 PM

Precoding and decoding for MIMO

ROOM: Oslo

1-Spatial Precoder Design for Differential Space-Time Coded Systems: Based on fixed parameters of MIMO channels: Tharaka Lamahewa (The Australian National University, Australia); Van Khanh Nguyen (Deakin University, Australia); Thushara Abhayapala (Australian National University, Australia); Rodney Kennedy (Australian National University, Australia)
2-Tree-based reparameterization for symbol detection in spatially multiplexed MIMO systems in frequency flat fading: Cheran Vithanage (University of Bristol, United Kingdom); Christophe Andrieu (University of Bristol, United Kingdom); Robert Piechocki (University of Bristol, United Kingdom); Justin Coon (Toshiba TRL, United Kingdom)
3-A Fixed-Complexity MIMO Detector Based on the Complex Sphere Decoder: Luis Barbero (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom); John Thompson (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom)
4-On the average rate of precoded QSTBC in MIMO Channels with Non-zero Mean: Aydin Sezgin (Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications, HHI, Germany); Eduard Jorswieck (Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden); Holger Boche (Heinrich-Hertz-Institut für Nachrichtentechnik Berlin GmbH, Germany)
5-EIRP-restricted downlink beamforming in WLAN OFDM systems: Alex Kuzminskiy (Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, United Kingdom)
6-On the SNR and Diversity of Quantized Precoded MIMO Systems: Bishwarup Mondal (The University of Texas at Austin, USA); Robert Heath (The University of Texas at Austin, USA)

Communication theory

ROOM: Stockholm

1-Capacity-Achieving Input Phase Distributions for Noncoherent Rayleigh-Fading Channels with Memory: Sebastien de la Kethulle de Ryhove (Norwegian Univ. of Science and Technology, Norway); Geir Oien (NTNU, Norway)
2-On the Limits of Communication Performance with One-Bit Analog-to-Digital Conversion: Onkar Dabeer (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India); Jaspreet Singh (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA); Upamanyu Madhow (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)
3-Optimal Rate-Constrained Transcoding for a 2:1 Bandwidth Reducing Shannon Mapping: Fredrik Hekland (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway); Tor A. Ramstad (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway)
4-Noise analysis for dimension expanding mappings in source-channel coding: Pål Anders Floor (Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway); Tor A. Ramstad (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway)
5-On joint source-channel coding for the non-white Gaussian: Tor A. Ramstad (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway)
6-Estimation-Induced Outage Capacity of Ricean Channels: Pablo Piantanida (LSS-CNRS Supelec, France); Gerald Matz (Vienna University of Technology, Austria); Pierre Duhamel (LSS SUPELEC, France)
7-Linear Approximation of the Exponential Map with Application to Simplified Detection of Noncoherent Systems: Antonio Cipriano (France Telecom, France); Inès Kammoun (ENST Paris, France)
8-A Wyner Ziv Codec for Correlated Vector Sources: Azadeh Vosoughi (Cornell University, USA); Anna Scaglione (Cornell University, USA)
9-Dual Optimality Frameworks for Expectation Propagation: John Walsh (Cornell University, USA)

2:15 PM - 3:15 PM

Plenary: Cross Layer Optimization in Large Wireless Networks using Stochastic Geometry, by Francois Baccelli (ENS)

ROOM: Californie

3:30 PM - 4:45 PM

Multiple-antenna communications systems I

ROOM: Oslo

1-Maximising the Average Spectral Efficiency of Dual-Branch MIMO Systems with Discrete Rate Adaptation: Sebastien de la Kethulle de Ryhove (Norwegian Univ. of Science and Technology, Norway); Geir Oien (NTNU, Norway)
2-Closed-form Outage Probability and BER of MIMO ZF receiver in the presence of imperfect CSI: Cheng Wang (HKUST, Hong Kong); Edward K. S. Au (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong); Ross Murch (HKUST, Hong Kong); Vincent Lau (the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Algeria)
3-Performance of MIMO systems with antenna selection over nonlinear fading channels: Mohamed Ibnkahla (Queen's University, Canada); Ahmed Iyanda Sulyman (Queens University, Canada)
4-Exploiting the Spatial Information Provided by Channel Statistics and SNR Feedback: David Hammarwall (Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden); Bjorn Ottersten (Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden)
5-Impact of a Line of Sight Component on the Performance of a MIMO System Designed under Statistical Channel Knowledge: Antonio Pascual (Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain); Miquel Payaro (CTTC, Spain); Ana I. Pérez-Neira (Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain); Miguel Angel Lagunas (Telecommunications Technological Center of Catalonia, Spain)
6-Iterative Design of MIMO ARQ Transceiver for Decision Feedback Detection: Haitong Sun (University of California, Davis, USA); Zhi Ding (University of California at Davis, USA); Chunming Zhao (National Mobile Communications Research Laboratory, Dept. of Radio Engineering, Southeast University, P.R. China)
7-Weighted Layered Space-Time Architecture with Imperfect Channel State Information: Md Anisul Karim (The University of Sydney, Australia)
8-Effect of imperfect channel knowledge on the MIMO channel outage capacity: Lamia Berriche (Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications de Paris, France); Karim Abed-Meraim (Dept TSI, Télécom Paris, France); Jean-Claude Belfiore (Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications, France)

Adhoc and sensor networks

ROOM: Stockholm

1-Lifetime Optimization for Multi-hop Wireless Sensor Networks with rate distortion constraints: Subhrakanti Dey (University of Melbourne, Australia); James Li (University of Melbourne, Australia)
2-Wireless Relay Communications using an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle: Pengcheng Zhan (Brigham Young University, USA); Kai Yu (BYU, USA); Lee Swindlehurst (Brigham Young University, USA)
3-Robust Sensor Network Positioning Based on Projections onto Circular and Hyperbolic Convex Sets (POCS): Mats Rydström (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden); Erik Ström (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden); Arne Svensson (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)
4-Secrecy in Cooperative SENMA with Unauthorized Intrusions: Stefano Marano (University of Salerno, Italy); Vincenzo Matta (University of Salerno, Italy); Lang Tong (Cornell University, USA)
5-Optimal decentralized estimation through self-synchronizing networks in the presence of propagation delays: Gesualdo Scutari (University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy); Sergio Barbarossa (University of Rome, Italy); Loreto Pescosolido (University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy)

Multicarrier techniques I

ROOM: Stockholm

1-Pilot-Assisted Time-Varying OFDM Channel Estimation Based on Multiple OFDM Symbols: Zijian Tang (Delft Universtiy of Technology, The Netherlands); Geert Leus (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands); Paolo Banelli (University of Perugia, Italy)
2-Baseband compensation of Transmitter and Receiver IQ imbalance for OFDM in Frequency Selective Fading Channels: Job Oostveen (Philips Research, The Netherlands); Admar Schoonen (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands); Frans Willems (Technical University Eindhoven, The Netherlands)
3-Sensitivity of Multi Carrier 2 Dimensional Spreading Systems to Carrier Phase Noise: Youssef Nasser (Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, France); Mathieu Des Noes (CEA / LETI, France); Laurent Ros (Laboratoire des Images et des Signaux, France); Genevieve Jourdain (Laboratoire des Images et des Signaux, France)
4-Optimal Superimposed Pilot Selection for OFDM Channel Estimation: Angiras Varma (University of Melbourne, Australia)
5-New methods for blind fine estimation of carrier frequency offset in OFDM/OQAM systems: Gang Lin (Norwegian Univ. of Science and Technology, Norway); Lars Lundheim (NTNU, Norway); Nils Holte (NTNU, Norway)
6-Efficient Sequence Detection of Multi-Carrier Transmissions Over Doubly Dispersive Channels: Philip Schniter (The Ohio State University, USA); Sung-Jun Hwang (The Ohio State University, USA)
7-Analysis of the Peak-to-Average Power Ratio for OFDM/OQAM: Alexandre Skrzypczak (France Telecom Research and Development Division, France); Pierre Siohan (France Telecom, France); Jean-Philippe Javaudin (France Telecom R&D, France)

Tuesday, Jul 4

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Plenary: A Random-Channel Graph-Theoretic Perspective of Wireless Networks, by Bert Hochwald (Beceem)

ROOM: Californie

10:00 AM - 11:15 AM

Resource allocation and cross-layer design

ROOM: Oslo

1-Performance of a Resource Allocation Strategy for an FH-OFDMA based System in a Multi-cell Environment: Sophie Gault (Motorola Labs, France); Walid Hachem (Supélec, France); Philippe Ciblat (ENST, France)
2-Delay-aware Scheduling in Heterogeneous Multiuser Systems: Pooya Shariatpanahi (Sharif University of Technology, Iran); Babak Hossein Khalaj (Sharif University of Technology, Iran)
3-Adaptive Medium Access Control with CSMA/CA and TDMA for Overly Networks: Yawgeng Chau (Yuan Ze University, Taiwan)
4-Packet scheduling in the presence of channel estimation error in multi-user OFDM wireless systems: Jeon Jae Hoon (School of Electrical Engineering and INMC, Seoul National University, Korea); Yong-Hwan Lee (Seoul National University, Korea); Junghwan Kim (Seoul National niversity, Korea)
5-Joint Adaptive Transmission and Combining with Optimized Rate and Power Allocation: Anders Gjendemsjo (Norwegian Univ. of Science and Technology, Norway); Hong-Chuan Yang (University of Victoria, Canada); Mohamed-Slim Alouini (University of Minnesota, USA); Geir Oien (NTNU, Norway)
6-Proportional Fair Power Allocation for OFDM-CDM Systems in Frequency-selective Rayleigh Fading Channels: Brah Felix (Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium); Luc Vandendorpe (Universit catholique de Louvain, Belgium); JÃ©rÃ´me Louveaux (UniversitÃ© Catholique de Louvain, Belgium)
7-Maximizing the Capacity of Wireless Networks using Multi-Cell Access Schemes: Jan Kirkebø (University of Oslo, Norway); David Gesbert (Eurecom Institute, France); Saad Kiani (Eurecom Institute, France)
8-Resources allocation optimization for scalable multimedia data subject to quality of service contraints: Heykel Houas (University of Cergy-Pontoise, France); Cléo Baras (ENSEA - ETIS, France); Inbar FIJALKOW (Universite de Cergy-Pontoise, France)
9-p-PERSISTENT STABILISATION FOR WIRELESS NETWORK DIVERSITY MULTIPLE ACCESS PROTOCOLS: Ramiro Samano-Robles (University of Leeds, United Kingdom); Mounir Ghogho (University of Leeds, United Kingdom); Des McLernon (The University of Leeds, United Kingdom)

Advanced transmitter and receiver design

ROOM: Stockholm

1-Wireless Quantum-Key Distribution in RF and Microwave Frequencies: Naser Jam (Tehran Polytechnic university, Iran)
2-An all digital implementation of M-VSB modem using advanced digital signal processing techniques: Arjun Ramamurthy (San Diego State University, USA); Fred Harris (San Diego State Univ, USA)
3-A Linear Complexity Turbo Equalizer Based on a Modified Soft Interference Canceller: Dimitris Ampeliotis (University of Patras, Greece); Kostas Berberidis (Dept. of Computer Engineering and Informatics, University of Patras, 26500, Rio, Greece)
4-Performance of Serial Concatenated Codes under Iterative Decoding and Different Update Modes: Anne Wolf (Dresden University of Technology, Germany); Jochen Ertel (Dresden University of Technology, Germany); Adolf Finger (TU Dresden, Germany)
5-Exploiting cyclic prefix for performance improvement in single carrier systems: Bertrand Devillers (Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium); JÃ©rÃ´me Louveaux (UniversitÃ© Catholique de Louvain, Belgium); Luc Vandendorpe (Universit catholique de Louvain, Belgium)
6-Packet Combining Over Rayleigh Channels Using Signal-to-Noise Ration Information and Detection by the Maximum A-Posteriori Criterion: Angel Bravo-Santos (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain); Antonio Artés-Rodríguez (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain); Petar Djuric (State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA)

Multicarrier techniques II

ROOM: Stockholm

1-Window Design for Non-Orthogonal Interference Reduction in OFDM Receivers: Patrick Nickel (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany); Wolfgang Gerstacker (University of Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany); Gerd Kilian (Fraunhofer IIS, Germany); Albert Heuberger (Fraunhofer IIS, Germany); Wolfgang Koch (University, Germany); Christof Jonietz (University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany)
2-PAR Reduction in the Uplink for OFDMA Systems: Brian Krongold (University of Melbourne, Australia)
3-A New Data-Aided Carrier Frequency Offset Estimation Algorithm for OFDM Systems: Amine Laourine (INRS, Canada); Alex Stephenne (Ericsson, Canada); Sofiene Affes (INRS - Centre Energie, Materiaux et Telecommnunications, Canada)
4-Approaching the delay-limited OFDM broadcast capacity with OFDMA: Gerhard Wunder (Heinrich-Hertz-Institut, Germany); Thomas Michel (German-Sino Mobile Communications Institute (MCI), Germany)
5-Filtered Delay-Subspace Approach For Pilot Assisted Channel Estimation in OFDM Systems: Rui Vigelis (Universidade Federal do Ceará, Brazil); Darlan Cavalcante Moreira (Federal University of Ceará, Brazil); João Cesar Mota (Wireless Telecom Research Group - Federal University of Ceará, Brazil); Charles Cavalcante (Wireless Telecommunications Research Group - Federal University of Ceará, Brazil)
6-An Efficient Approximation of the OFDMA Outage Probability Region: Johannes Brehmer (Munich University of Technology, Germany); Christian Guthy (Munich University of Technology, Germany); Wolfgang Utschick (Munich University of Technology, Germany)
7-Adaptive Channel Estimation for OFDM Systems with Doppler spread: Rocco Claudio Cannizzaro (DIEI - University of Perugia, Italy); Paolo Banelli (University of Perugia, Italy); Geert Leus (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)

11:30 AM - 12:45 PM

Broadcast channel techniques

ROOM: Oslo

1-MC-CDMA as a Broadcast Channel: Performance Practical Upper Bound Using DPC and Beamforming Principles: Santiago Zazo (Universidad Politecnica Madrid, Spain); Ivana Raos (UPM, Spain); Milos Jakovljevic (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain)
2-Zero-forcing precoding for the MIMO broadcast channel under per-antenna power constraints: Federico Boccardi (University of Padova, Italy); Howard Huang (Bell Labs, USA)
3-Min-Max MSE Precoding for Broadcast Channels based on Statistical Channel State Information: Rachid El Assir (Munich University of Technology, Germany); Frank Dietrich (Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany); Michael Joham (Technische Universität München, Germany); Wolfgang Utschick (Munich University of Technology, Germany)
4-Iterative THP Transceiver Optimization for Multi-User MIMO Systems Based on Weighted Sum-MSE Minimization: Amine Mezghani (TU Munich, Germany); Raphael Hunger (TU Munich, Germany); Michael Joham (Technische Universität München, Germany); Wolfgang Utschick (Munich University of Technology, Germany)
5-About the performance of practical dirty paper coding schemes in Gaussian MIMO broadcast channels: Reza Mohammad Khani (Supelec, France); Samson Lasaulce (CNRS - Supelec, France); Julien Dumont (France Telecom R&D, France)
6-On the throughput of broadcast channels with imperfect CSI: Ali Vakili (California Institute of Technology, USA); Babak Hassibi (California Institute of Technology, USA)

Ultra-wideband systems

ROOM: Stockholm

1-A Novel Decision-Feedback Receiver for MBOK Direct Sequence Ultra-Wideband Radio: Jeng-Kuang Hwang (Yuan-Ze University, Taiwan); Yu-Lun Chiu (Yuan-Ze Univ, Taiwan); Rih-Lung Chung (Yuan-Ze University, Taiwan)
2-Multiband OFDM UWB channel estimation via a wavelet based EM-MAP algorithm: Sajad Sadough (Ecole Natonale Supérieure de Techniques Avancées, France); Mahieddine Ichir (University of Paris-sud, orsay, France); Emmanuel Jaffrot (Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Techniques Avancées, France); Pierre Duhamel (LSS SUPELEC, France)
3-UWB search strategies for minimal-length preamble and a low-complexity analog receiver: Claude Desset (IMEC, Belgium); Mustafa Badaroglu (AMI Semiconductor Belgium, Belgium); Julien Ryckaert (IMEC, Belgium); Bart Van Poucke (IMEC, Belgium)
4-Timing Acquisition for UWB Multiple Access: Lin Wu (Michigan Technological University, USA); Vincenzo Lottici (University of Pisa, Italy); Zhi Tian (Michigan Technological University, USA)
5-Frame-Timing Acquisition for UWB Signals Via the Multifamily Likelihood Ratio Test: Jose A. Lopez-Salcedo (Technical University of Catalonia (UPC), Spain); Gregori Vazquez (Polythecnic University of Catalonia, Spain)
6-On the Performance of UWB Geo-Regioning: Christoph Steiner (ETH Zurich, Switzerland); Frank Althaus (Swiss Federal Institut of Techology Zurich, Switzerland); Armin Wittneben (ETH, Switzerland)
7-Detection of Delay-Hopped Transmitted-Reference UWB Signals Under Narrowband Interference: Yohannes D. Alemseged (Graz University of Technology, Austria); Klaus Witrisal (Graz University of Technology, Austria)
8-On Optimal Signaling and Jamming Strategies in Wideband Fading Channels: Siddharth Ray (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA); Pierre Moulin (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA); Muriel Medard (MIT, USA)
9-Optimal Bandwidth for UWB PPM in Poisson arriving multipath channel and jitter context: Mohamed Kamoun (Motorola Labs, France); Laurent Mazet (Motrola Centre de Recherche, France)

2:15 PM - 3:15 PM

Plenary: On the Sufficiency of Ignorance, Recent Lessons in Network Architecture, by Gregory Wornell (MIT)

ROOM: Californie

3:30 PM - 4:45 PM

Equalization

ROOM: Oslo

1-Bit Error Rate Minimizing Channel Shortening Equalizers for Multicarrier Systems: Richard Martin (Air Force Institute of Technology, USA); Koen Vanbleu (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium); Geert Ysebaert (Alcatel Bell Antwerpen, Belgium); Andrew Klein (Supélec/LSS, France)
2-Fast Reduced Rank Equalizer for HSDPA Systems Based on Lanczos Algorithm: Pekka Jänis (Helsinki University of Technology, Finland); Maarit Melvasalo (Helsinki University of TEchnology, Finland); Visa Koivunen (HUT, Finland)
3-An Adaptive Decision Feedback Equalizer for Time-Varying Frequency Selective MIMO Channels: Athanasios Rontogiannis (National Observatory of Athens, Greece); Vassilis Kekatos (University of Patras, C.T.I.-R&D, Greece); Kostas Berberidis (Dept. of Computer Engineering and Informatics, University of Patras, 26500, Rio, Greece)
4-Low-Complexity Equalizers-Rank Versus Order Reduction: Guido Dietl (Munich University of Technology, Germany); Wolfgang Utschick (Munich University of Technology, Germany)
5-A New Iterative Equalizer based on a Deterministic Annealing Process: Mithridad Pourmir (Ecole Supérieure d'Electricité, France); Antoine Berthet (Ecole Superieure d'Electricite (SUPELEC), France)
6-Frequency Domain Turbo Equalization for Vestigial Sideband Modulation with Punctured Trellis Coding: Philip Schniter (The Ohio State University, USA); Hong Liu (The Ohio State University, USA)
7-Toward a Theory of Multirate Nonlinear Systems: Roberto López Valcarce (Universidad de Vigo, Spain); Soura Dasgupta (The University of Iowa, USA)
8-Optimization of Combined Chip and Symbol Level Equalization for Downlink WCDMA Reception: Ahmet Bastug (Eurecom Institute, France); Dirk Slock (Eurecom Institute, France)

Estimation and detection

ROOM: Stockholm

1-Estimators for Time-Variant Channels Applied to UMTS-HSDPA: Joachim Wehinger (Forschungszentrum Telekommunikation Wien (ftw.), Austria); Thomas Zemen (ftw. Forschungszentrum Telekommunikation Wien, Austria); Klemens Freudenthaler (Inst. f. Communications and Information Engineering, University of Linz, Austria)
2-Particle Filter with Hybrid Importance Function for Joint Symbol Detection and Phase Tracking: François Septier (University of Valenciennes, France); Yves Delignon (ENIC, France); Atika Rivenq (University, France); Christelle Garnier (GET/INT/ENIC - IEMN, France)
3-New Nonlinear Detector for Interference Cancellation in Spread Spectrum Overlay Systems: Sayyed Mohammad Saberali (Amirkabir University of Technology, Iran)
4-Noncoherent and Coherent Sequence Detection on Rayleigh Fading Channels: Gordon Stuber (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA); Qing Zhao (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
5-Comparison of Different Iterative Frequency Offset Estimation Schemes: Ivan Perisa (University of Ulm, Germany); Juergen Lindner (University of Ulm, Germany)
6-Identification of Time-Varying Frequency-Flat Rayleigh Fading Channels Based on Errors-In-Variables Approach: Ali Jamoos (Université Bordeaux1, France); William Bobillet (Equipe Signal & Image, UMR 5131 LAPS, France); Eric Grivel (Equipe Signal & Image, UMR 5131 LAPS, France); Hanna Abdel Nour (Department of Electronics Engineering, Al-Quds University, Poland); Mohamed Najim (Equipe Signal & Image, UMR 5131 LAPS, France)
7-An Algorithm for Estimation and Tracking of Distributed Diffuse Scattering in Mobile Radio Channels: Andreas Richter (Helsinki University of Technology, Finland); Jussi Salmi (Helsinki University of Technology, Finland); Visa Koivunen (Helsinki University of Technology, Finland)
8-Space-Time Block Coding : Joint Detection and Channel Estimation using Multiple Model Theory: Harini Kulatunga (Imperial College London, United Kingdom); Visakan Kadirkamanathan (University of Sheffield, United Kingdom)
9-Sequential Monte-Carlo approximation to the ML Time-delay Estimator in a Multipath Channel: Pau Closas (Technical University of Catalonia (UPC), Spain); Carlos Fernandez Prades (Technical University of Catalonia (UPC), Spain); Juan Fernandez-Rubio (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain)
10-LOS-NLOS Situation Tracking for Positioning Systems: Jose Huerta (Technical University of Catalonia, Spain); Josep Vidal (UPC, Spain)
11-Optimizing Eigenvector-Based Frequency Estimation in the Presence of Identical Frequencies in Multiple Dimensions: Jun Liu (University of Louisville, USA); Xiangqian Liu (University of Louisville, USA)

12-Parametric Characterization and Estimation of Bi-Azimuth Dispersion of Path Components

Xuefen Yin (Aalborg Univ, Denmark), Troels Pedersen (Aalborg Univ, Denmark), Nicolai Czink (FTW, Austria) Bernard Fleury (Aalborg Univ, Denmark)

Wednesday, Jul 5

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Plenary: Signal processing and spectrum management in multi-user wireline (xDSL) systems, by Marc Moonen (KUL)

ROOM: Californie

10:00 AM - 11:15 AM

Cooperative wireless (relay) networks

ROOM: Oslo

1-Performance Analysis of Collaborative Hybrid-ARQ Incremental Redundancy Protocols over Fading Channels: Igor Stanojev (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA); Osvaldo Simeone (Politecnico di Milano, Italy); Yeheskel Bar-Ness (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA)
2-Multicast Relay Strategies with Local and Global power constraints For Wireless Networks: Nima Khajehnouri (University of California, Los Angeles, USA); Ali Sayed (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
3-A Full-Diversity Distributed Space-Time Coding System with Regenerative Relays: Paul Anghel (University of Minnesota, USA); Geert Leus (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands); Mostafa Kaveh (University of Minnesota, USA)
4-Compress-and-Forward cooperative relaying in MIMO-OFDM systems: Sebastien Simoens (Motorola Centre de Recherche, France); Josep Vidal (UPC, Spain); Olga Munoz (UPC, Spain)
5-Upper Bound on Outage Capacity of Orthogonal Relay Networks: Jesús Gómez Vilardebó (Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya, Spain); Ana I. Perez-Neira (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain)
6-Multi-Source Cooperation with Full-Diversity Spectral-Efficiency and Controllable-Complexity: Alejandro Ribeiro (University of Minnesota, USA); Renqiu Wang (University of MInnesota, Ukraine); Georgios B. Giannakis (University of Minnesota, USA)
7-Achievable rates of multi-hop and cooperative MIMO Amplify-and-Forward relay systems with full CSI: Nicola Varanese (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA); Osvaldo Simeone (Politecnico di Milano, Italy); Yeheskel Bar-Ness (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA); Umberto Spagnolini (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
8-Tomlinson-Harashima Precoding with Adaptive Modulation for Fixed Relay Networks: Taiwen Tang (The University of Texas, Austin, USA); Chan-Byoung Chae (The University of Texas, Austin, USA); Robert Heath (The University of Texas at Austin, USA); Sunghyun Cho (Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, Korea)

Multi-user MIMO communications

ROOM: Stockholm

1-Nonlinear Predistortion for OFDM SDMA Systems: Rene Habendorf (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany); Gerhard Fettweis (Technische Universitaet Dresden, Germany)
2-Iterative Waterfilling for Weighted Rate Sum Maximization in MIMO-MAC: Kobayashi Mari (Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions (CTTC), Spain)
3-On convergence properties of joint optimal power control and transmit-receive beamforming in multi-user MIMO systems: Peter Wrycza (Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden); Mats Bengtsson (Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden); Björn Ottersten (Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)
4-Optimized Multi-User Beamforming with Channel Tracking based on a Low Rate Feedback: Abdelkader Medles (Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, United Kingdom); Angeliki Alexiou (Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, United Kingdom)
5-BER analysis of SDMA-OFDM Systems in The Presence of Power Amplifier Nonlinearities: Fernando Gregorio (Helsinki University of Technology, Finland); Stefan Werner (Helsinki University of Tehcnology, Finland); Juan Cousseau (Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina); Timo Laakso (Helsinki University of Technology, Finland)
6-A Convex Optimization Approach for the Robust Design of Multiuser and Multiantenna Downlink Communication Systems: Miquel Payaro (CTTC, Spain); Antonio Pascual (Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain); Jinhong Yuan (University of New South Wales, Australia); Miguel Angel Lagunas (Telecommunications Technological Center of Catalonia, Spain)
7-Convergence Behavior of Matrix-Based Iterative Transceiver Optimization: Holger Boche (Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications HHI, Germany); Martin Schubert (Fraunhofer German-Sino Lab for Mobile Communications MCI, Germany)
8-A Downlink Beamforming with SINR Balance in Frequency Selective Fading Environment: Byungjin Chun (University College Cork, Ireland)
9-Low Complexity Scheduling and Beamforming for Multiuser MIMO Systems: Marios Kountouris (France Telecom R&D, France); Ruben de Francisco (Eurecom Institute, France); David Gesbert (Eurecom Institute, France); Dirk Slock (Eurecom Institute, France); Thomas Sälzer (France Telecom, France)
10-Spreading sequence assignment in WCDMA for distributed antenna arrays based on interference model: Carmen Botella (Institute of Telecommunications and Multimedia Applications (iTEAM) - Technical University of Valen, Spain); Gema Piñero (Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain); Alberto Gonzalez (Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain); María De Diego (Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain)

11:30 AM - 12:45 PM

Multi-user communications

ROOM: Oslo

1-Minimising Complexity in Iterative Multiuser Detection using Dynamic Decoding Schedules: David Shepherd (Australian National University, National ICT Australia, Australia); Fredrik Brännström (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden); Zhenning Shi (National ICT Australia, Australia); Mark Reed (National ICT Australia, ANU, Australia)
2-On the Design of Group Orthogonal MC-CDMA systems: Felip Riera-Palou (University of the Balearic Islands, Spain); Guillem Femenias (Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain); Jaume Ramis (University of the Balearic Islands, Spain)
3-Iterative multiuser detection and channel estimation in a multibeam satellite communication system: Jean-Pierre MILLERIOUX (TeSA-ENST, France); Marie-laure Boucheret (ENST, France); Caroline Bazile (CNES, France); Alain DUCASSE (Alcatel Space, France)
4-A Cautionary View of the Use of Cyclic Prefix on CDMA Systems: Cristiano Panazio (University of Campinas, Brazil); Maurice Bellanger (CNAM, France)
5-Noise variance estimation in DS-CDMA and its effects on the individually optimum receiver: Romaric Gaudel (ENS Cachan, France); François Bonnet (ENS Cachan, France); Jean-Baka Domelevo-Entfellner (ENS Cachan, France); Aline Roumy (IRISA-INRIA, Campus de Beaulieu, Rennes, France)
6-Line Search Computation of the Block Factor Model for Blind Multi-user Access in Wireless Communications: Dimitri Nion (ETIS, UMR 8051 (CNRS, ENSEA, UCP), France); Lieven de LATHAUWER de LATHAUWER (E.E. Dept. (ESAT) - SCD-SISTA, Belgium)
7-Asynchronous Iterative Water-Filling for Gaussian Frequency-Selective Interference Channels: A Unified Framework: Gesualdo Scutari (University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy); Daniel Palomar (Princeton University, USA); Sergio Barbarossa (University of Rome, Italy)

Multiple-antenna communications systems II

ROOM: Stockholm

1-Blind Channel Identification for MIMO Single Carrier Zero Padding Block Transmission Systems: Yi-Sheng Chen (National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan); Ching-An Lin (National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan)
2-Blind Channel Estimation for Single-Carrier Space-Time Block Coded Transmission with Frequency-Domain Equalization: A Diagonal Precoding Based Approach: Jwo-Yuh Wu (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan); Ta-Sung Lee (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan)
3-A Sufficient Condition for Blind Identifiability of MIMO-OSTBC Channels Based on Second Order Statistics: Javier Vía (University of Cantabria, Spain); Ignacio Santamaria (University of Cantabria, Spain); Jesus Perez (University of Cantabria, Spain)
4-Analysis of A MIMO Relay System with HARQ: Insoo Hwang (Samsung Electronics, Korea); Sungjin Kim (Seoul National University, Korea)
5-Turbo Blind and Semi-blind Intracell Interference Cancellation for MIMO Downlink CDMA: Raphael Visoz (France Telecom R&D, Issy-Les-Moulineaux, France); Antoine Berthet (Ecole Superieure d'Electricite (SUPELEC), France)
6-Optimal Design of Uniform Planar Antenna Arrays for Strong Line-of-Sight MIMO Channels: Frode Bøhagen (Nera Research, Norway); Pål Orten (NERA, Norway); Geir Oien (NTNU, Norway)
7-Rotated MC-Cyclic Antenna Frequency Spread: Effect of Rotations in Correlated MIMO-OFDM Systems: Doris Yacoub (University of Ulm, Germany); Werner Teich (University of Ulm, Germany); Juergen Lindner (University of Ulm, Germany)
8-Semi-Blind Maximum Likelihood Joint Channel Estimation / Data Detection for MIMO fading channels: Constantinos Rizogiannis (University of Athens, Greece); Eleftherios Kofidis (University of Piraeus, Greece); Constantinos Papadias (Athens Information Technology, Greece); Sergios Theodoridis (University of Athenes, Greece)
9-A Deterministic Blind receiver for MIMO OFDM Systems: Myriam Rajih (University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, France); Pierre Comon (CNRS, France); Dirk Slock (Eurecom Institute, France)

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