Study Groups

YR2009/2010

Chaired by Prof Ting See Ho

  • Every Tuesday: 10:00 - 12:00 (Research discussion group)
  • Every Friday: 15:30 - 17:30 (Study Group)
  • Venue : PWTC Meeting Room 4-4

NOTICE : Study session will start on 28th August 2009

Friday's STUDY GROUP
- Fundamentals of Wireless Communication by David Tse, Pramod Viswanath

Tuesday's 15th September 2009 RESEARCH GROUP DISCUSSION
1. Ghasemi A., Sousa E.S. Opportunistic spectrum access in fading channels through collaborative sensing, March 2007 Journal of Comms, vol. 2, No.2, pp. 71-82 presented by TAN CHIN HOCK
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Archive of papers for Monday's Session - For year 2009 the session is changed to Wednesdays!!

Date Title of Paper
Presented By
13th Oct

A. Bletsas, A. Khisti, D. P. Reed, and A. Lippman, "A simple cooperative diversity method based on network path selection," Selected Areas in Communications, IEEE Transactions on , vol. 24, no. 3, pp. 659-672, March 2006.

HAN YANG
20th Oct
H. Adam, C. Bettstetter, and S. M. Senouci, "Adaptive relay selection in cooperative wireless networks," in Proc. IEEE PIMRC 2008, Sep. 2008.
LI QIANG
20th Oct
R. Tannious and A. Nosratinia, “Spectrally-efficient relay selection with limited feedback”, IEEE J. Select. Areas Commun., vol. 24,  no. 3,  pp. 1419 – 1428, Oct. 2008. HARYA WICAKSANA
28th Oct

R. Madan, N. Mehta, A. Molisch, and Z. Jin, "Energy-efficient cooperative relaying over fading channels with simple relay selection," Wireless   Communications, IEEE Transactions on , vol. 7, no. 8, pp. 3013-3025, August 2008.

HAN YANG
28th Oct

A. Bletsas and A. Lippman, “Efficient collaborative (viral) communication in OFDM based WLANs”, in Proceedings ofInternational Symposium on Advanced Radio Technologies (ISART 2003), Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder Colorado, March 2003.

VIVEK ASHOK BOHARA
3rd Nov

H. Yomo, and P. Popovski, “Opportunistic scheduling for wireless network coding,” in Proc. IEEE ICC, Glasgow, Scotland, Jun. 2007

LI QIANG
17th Nov
M. Kaneko and P. Popovski, “Radio Resource Allocation Algorithm for Relay-Aided Cellular OFDMA System” in IEEE ICC, pp. 4831-4836, June 2007 VIVEK ASHOK BOHARA
17th Nov
A. Bletsas, H. Shin, and M.Z. Win “Cooperative communication with outage-optimal opportunistic relaying,” IEEE Trans. on Wireless communications, vol . 6, no. 9, pp. 3450-3460, Sept. 2007. HAN YANG
24th Nov
Z. Ding, Y. Gong, T. Ratnarajah, and C. Cowan, "On the performance of opportunistic cooperative wireless networks," in IEEE Trans. Commun., vol. 56, no. 8, Aug. 2008 LI QIANG
1st Dec
S. Borade, L. Zheng, and R. Gallager, "Amplify-and-Forward in Wireless Relay Networks: Rate, Diversity and Network Size", IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, vol. 53, no. 10, pp. 3302-3318, Oct. 2007 HARYA WICAKSANA
14th Jan 09
H. Shan, W. Zhuang and Z. Wang, “Distributed cooperative MAC for multi-hop wireless networks” VIVEK ASHOK BOHARA
28th Jan
Mohamed Abouelseoud and Aria Nosratinia, “The gateway channel: outage analysis”, IEEE Globecom, New Orleans, LA, Dec. 2008.
HARYA WICAKSANA
28th Jan
Y.-C.  Liang, Y. Zeng, E. C. Y.  Peh, and A. T.  Hoang,  “Sensing-throughput tradeoff for cognitive radio networks” , IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 7,  no. 4,  pp. 1326-1337,  Apr. 2008. HAN YANG
11th Feb

G. Kramer, and S. Shamai, "Capacity for classes of broadcast channels with receiver side information," in Proc IEEE ITW07, pp. 313-318, Sept. 2007.

LI QIANG
11th Feb
M. Yuksel and E. Erkip, “Diversity Gains and Clustering in Wireless Relaying”, in Proceedings of International Symposium on Information Theory, ISIT 2004, Chicago, IL USA, July, 2004.   VIVEK ASHOK BOHARA
18th Feb
G. Farhadi and N. C. Beaulieu, “Amplify-and-forward cooperative systems with fixed gain relays,” in proc. IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2008), Beijing, China, pp. 4300-4305, May 2008. HARYA WICAKSANA
18th Feb

W.  Zhang and K. B. Letaief, “Cooperative spectrum sensing with transmit and relay diversity in cognitive radio networks,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 7, pp. 4761-4766, Dec. 2008.

HAN YANG
4th Mar
R. Gowaikar, A. F. Dana, B. Hassibi, and M. Effros, "Practical schemes for wireless networks operation," IEEE Trans. Commun., vol. 55, pp. 463-476, Mar. 2007.
LI QIANG
11th Mar
Thomas W. Rondeau, Bin Le, David Maldonado, David Scaperoth, Charles W. Bostian, “Cognitive Radio Formulation and Implementation”, 1st international conference on Cognitive radio oriented wireless networks and communication, Mykonos Island, 8-10 June, 2006. VIVEK ASHOK BOHARA
11th Mar
X. Kang, Y-C Liang, A. Nallanathan, H. K. Garg, and R. Zhang, "Optimal power allocation for fading channels in cognitive radio networks: Ergodic capacity and outage capacity," IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 8,  no. 2, pp. 940 - 950, Feb. 2009 .
HAN YANG
18th Mar
P. Popovski and E. de Carvalho, "Improving the rates in wireless relay systems through superposition coding," IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 7, no. 12, pp. 4831 - 4836, Dec. 2008. HARYA WICAKSANA
18th Mar
Y. Wu, ``Broadcasting when receivers know some messages a priori,'' Proc. IEEE ISIT, Nice, France, Jun. 2007.
LI QIANG
25th Mar

A. Sharma et al., “Implementation of a Cooperative MAC Protocol Using a Software Defined Radio Platform,” Proc. IEEE LANMAN, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, Sept. 2008.

VIVEK ASHOK BOHARA
25th Mar
I. Krikidis, S. Zhanwei,  J. N. Laneman, and J. Thompson, "Cognitive legacy networks via cooperative diversity," IEEE  Communications Letters, vol. 13, no. 2, pp. 106-108, February 2009.
HAN YANG
1st April
T. W. Ban, W. Choi, B. C. Jung, and D. K. Sung, "Multiuser diversity in a spectrum sharing system," IEEE Trans. on Wireless Communications, vol. 8, no. 1, Jan 2009. HARYA WICAKSANA
1st April
J. Li, and M. Y, "Multi-source multihop wireless networks: a trellis representation and network coding," Proc. IEEE ICC 08, pp. 2740-2744, Beijing, China, May 2008. LI QIANG
8th April
B. Hamdaoui ,"Adaptive spectrum assessment for opportunistic access in cognitive radio networks", IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 922-930, Feb. 2009. HAN YANG
8th April
Jose A. Garcia-Naya, C. Mehlfurher, S. Caban and L. Castedo, “Throughput-based Antenna Selection Measurements”, submitted to VTC2009-Fall, Sept. 2009. VIVEK ASHOK BOHARA
22nd April
A. El Gamal, and S. Zahedi, "Capacity of a class of relay channels with orthogonal components" , IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, vol. 51, no. 5, pp. 1815-1817, May 2005. LI QIANG
22nd April
G. Ganesan, Y. (G.) Li, B.Bing and S. Li, "Spatiotemporal Sensing in Cognitive Radio Networks" , IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 26, no. 1, pp. 5-12, January 2008. HARYA WICAKSANA
29th April
A. T. Hoang, Y.-C. Ling, D. T. C. Wong, Y. Zeng, and R. Zhang, "Opportunistic spectrum access for energy-constrained cognitive radios" , IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications , vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 1206-1211, Mar. 2009. HAN YANG
6th May
L.Wang, W. Liu, and S. Wu, "Diversity-multiplexing tradeoff analysis of a cooperative network coding system, "  2009. SARNOFF '09. IEEE, pp. 1-5, Mar. 2009 LI QIANG
6th May

P. Popovski, H. Yomo, K. Nishimori, R.D. Taranto, and R. Prasad ,"Opportunistic Interference Cancellation in Cognitive Radio Systems", in Proc 2nd IEEE DySPAN, pp. 472-475, April 2007.

Available online: http://kom.aau.dk/~petarp/papers/Dyspan07_oic.pdf

HARYA WICAKSANA
25th Aug

R. Daher and R. Adve, "Diversity order of joint detection in distributed radar networks", in Proc IEEE Radar Conference, pp. 1-6, May 2008

Available online: http://www.comm.utoronto.ca/~rsadve/Publications/RaniDiversityOrder_Radar08.pdf

HARYA WICAKSANA
25th Aug
Islam, M.H.; Koh, C.L.; Oh, S.W.; Xianming Qing; Lai, Y.Y.; Cavin Wang; Ying-Chang Liang; Toh, B.E.; Chin, F.; Tan, G.L.; Toh, W, "Spectrum survey in Singapore: Occupancy measurements and analyses", in CrownCom 2008. 3rd International Conference,pp. 1-7, May 2008 TAN CHIN HOCK
1st Sept
C. Stevenson; G. Chouinard, Z. Lei, W. Hu, S. Shellhammer and W. Caldwell , IEEE 802.22: The First Cognitive Radio Wireless Regional Area Networks (WRANs) Standard” IEEE Commun. Mag. , vol. 47,  no.1, Jan. 2009,  pp. 130-138. VIVEK ASHOK BOHARA
1st Sept
C. H. Liu, J. G. Andrews, "Diversity-multiplexing tradeoff of network coding with bidirectional random relaying, " to appear in the Proceedings of Allerton Conference on Communication, Control and Computing, September 2009. LI QIANG
8th Sept
K.  Woradit,  T.Q.S. Quek, W. Suwansantisuk, H. Wymeersch,  L. Wuttisittikulkij, and M.Z. Win, "Outage Behavior of Selective Relaying Schemes," Wireless Communications, IEEE Transactions on , vol. 8,  no. 8,  pp. 3890-3895,  August 2009 HAN YANG
15th Sept
Ghasemi A., Sousa E.S. Opportunistic spectrum access in fading channels through collaborative sensing, March 2007 Journal of Comms, vol. 2, No.2, pp. 71-82 TAN CHIN HOCK
22nd Sept

J. Sydir and R. Taori , “An evolved cellular system architecture incorporating relay stations- [WiMAX update] IEEE Commun. Mag., vol. 47,  no. 6, June 2009,  pp. 115-121.

VIVEK ASHOK BOHARA
22nd Sept
L. Xiao, T. Fuja, J. Kliewer, D. Costello, "A network coding approach to cooperative diverstiy, " IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, vol. 53,  pp. 3714-3722, Oct. 2007. LI QIANG
     

 

Friday's Session
T. M. Cover, and J. A. Thomas, Elements of Information Theory. 1st edition. Wiley, 1991
(The ebook can be downloaded from the website of NTU Library)

Topics covered

Date Topic
10th Oct
Chapter 2.  Entropy, Relative Entropy and Mutual Information
17th Oct
Chapter 3.  The Asymptotic Aquipartition Property
24th Oct
Chapter 8. Channel Capacity
31st Oct
Chapter 8. Channel Capacity
7th Nov
Chapter 9. Differential Entropy
21st Nov
Chapter 10. Gaussian Channel

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