2020 Workshop on Coding, Cooperation, and Security in Modern Communication Networks (COCO)
The 2020 Workshop on Coding, Cooperation, and Security in Modern Communication Networks (COCO 2020) will take place online on Zoom on
- Monday July 6th at 12:00-18:00 (Germany time)
- Thursday July 16th at 9:00-12:00 (Germany time).
This event is part of a German Israeli Project Cooperation of TUM and Ben Gurion University supported by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).
Workshop Chairs:
Gerhard Kramer, Antonia Wachter-Zeh (TUM), Haim Permuter, Moshe Schwartz (BGU)
Topics of interest
- Information Theory (IT)
- Coding Theory (CT)
- Machine Learning for IT, CT and Communication
Online Venue
- For security reasons, a Zoom link will be sent privately to all registered participants by email on Sunday July 5, 2020.
Registration
- Please register here.
Program
| Monday 6.7.2020 at 12-6pm (Germany time) | ||
| (1pm-7pm Israel time) | ||
| Time | Session 1 | Chair: Haim Permuter |
| 12:00 | Haim Permuter | Overview on the research group |
| 12:30 | Ziv Aharoni | Directed information neural estimation |
| 12:45 | Break | |
| Session 2 | Chair: Antonia Wachter-Zeh | |
| 13:00 | Antonia Wachter-Zeh | Overview on the research group |
| 13:15 | Hedongliang Liu | On the Gap between Vector and Scalar Solutions of Generalized Combination Networks |
| 13:30 | Haider Al Kim | Binary Codes for PSMC with Errors |
| 13:45 | Break | |
| Session 3 | Chair: Moshe Schwartz | |
| 14:00 | Moshe Schwartz | Overview on the research group |
| 14:15 | Han Cai | On optimal locally repairable codes and generalized sector-disk codes |
| 14:30 | Hengjia Wei | On the maximum size of $(t;h,h)_q$-independent configuration |
| 14:45 | Break | |
| Session 4 | Chair: Lorenz Welter | |
| 15:00 | Lorenz Welter | Criss Cross Deletion Correcting Codes |
| 15:15 | Georg Maringer | Information-theoretic Aspects of the RLWE-Channel |
| 15:30 | Asaf Lavi | Cellular BSs Optimization with Deep NN |
| 15:45 | Break | |
| Session 5 | Chair: Gerhard Kramer | |
| 16:00 | Ido Tal (Technion) | Polar Codes for the Deletion Channel: Weak and Strong Polarization |
| 16:20 | Yuval Kochman (HUJI) | Explaining the optimality of Dolinar's receiver for BPSK over optical channels |
| 16:40 | Break | |
| Session 6 | Chair: Or Ordentlich | |
| 17:00 | Ziv Goldfeld (Cornell) | Smooth Wasserstein distance: metric structure and statistical efficiency |
| 17:20 | Oron Sabag (Caltech) | The Minimal Directed Information Needed to Improve the LQG Cost |
| 17:40 | See you next week! | |
| Thursday 16.7.2020 at 8:30am-17:00pm (Germany time) | ||
| (9:30am-6pm Israel time) | ||
| Keynote Speaker | ||
| 8:30 | Shlomo Shamai (Technion) | Bottleneck Problems: Connections, Application and Implications |
| Session 1 | Chair: Gerhard Kramer | |
| 9:00 | Gerhard Kramer | Overview on the research group |
| 9:15 | Javier Garcia | Mismatched Models to Lower Bound the Capacity of Optical Fiber Channels |
| 9:30 | Break | |
| Session 2 | Chair: Antonia Wachter-Zeh | |
| 10:00 | Diego Lentner | Stealth Communication with Vanishing Power |
| 10:15 | Delcho Donev | Asymptotic Guard Intervals for Sinc and Prolate Spheroidal Wave Function Waveforms |
| 10:30 | Mustafa Coskun | Bounds on the List Size of SCL Decoding |
| 10:45 | Break | |
| Session 3 | Chair: Yuval Kochman | |
| 11:00 | Uzi Pereg | Quantum Channel State Masking |
| 11:15 | Roberto Ferrara | Semantic security with BRI Functions |
| 11:30 | Lunch break | |
| Session 4 | Chair: Moshe Schwartz | |
| 13:00 | Christian Deppe | Computability of the Zero-Error Capacity |
| 13:15 | Mohammad Salariseddigh | An Introduction to Identification Without Randomization |
| 13:30 | Nikita Polianskii | Adversarial Z channel |
| 13:45 | Break | |
| Session 5 | Chair: Antonia Wachter-Zeh | |
| 14:00 | Tsachi Tamo (TAU) | Combinatorial list-decoding of Reed-Solomon codes beyond the Johnson radius |
| 14:20 | Ofer Shayevitz(TAU) | A lower bound on the communication complexity of private simultaneous messages |
| 14:40 | Break | |
| Session 6 | Chair: Haim Permuter | |
| 15:00 | Eli Shemuel | Feedback Capacity of Finite-State Channels with Causal State Information Known at the Encoder |
| 15:15 | Dor Tzur | Capacity of continuous channels via directed information neural estimation. |
| 15:30 | Ben Marinberg | A Study on MIMO Channel Estimation by 2D and 3D Convolutional Neural Networks |
| 15:45 | Break | |
| Session 7 | Chair: Ziv Goldfeld | |
| 16:00 | Patrick Schulte (TUM) | TBD |
| 16:20 | Georg Böcherer (TUM) | Achievability [for optical fiber channels] rethought: one step back from capacity |
| 16:40 | Or Ordentlich (HIJU) | New Bounds on the Density of Lattice Coverings |
| 17:00 | Goodbye! | |
Further Information
- Contact: Eli Shemuel (els(at)post.bgu.ac.il)
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