2021 Workshop on Coding, Cooperation, and Security in Modern Communication Networks (COCO)


The 2021 Workshop on Coding, Cooperation, and Security in Modern Communication Networks (COCO 2021) will take place online on Zoom on
- Monday July 5th at 08:30-12:00 (Germany time)
- Monday July 19th at 13:00-17:00 (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 participants by email by Sunday July 4, 2021.
Program

Monday 5.7.2021 at 8:30-12:00 (Germany time) | ||
(9:30-13:00 Israel time) 8:30 - 8:40 Greetings | ||
Time | Session 1 | Chair: Antonia Wachter-Zeh |
8:40 | Hedongliang Liu | Lifted Codes for Local Correction |
9:10 | Mustafa Coskun | Polar Code Design for SCL Decoding: An Information-Theoretic Perspective |
9:40 | Christian Deppe | Identification over the Gaussian Channel in the Presence of Feedback |
10:10 | Break | |
Session 2 | Chair: Moshe Schwartz | |
10:30 | Eli Shmuel | The Feedback Capacity of Noisy Output is the STate (NOST) Channels |
11:00 | Ziv Aharoni | Information theoretic method for prediction of time-dependent stochastic processes with causally conditioned side information |
11:30 | Uzi Pereg | An Information-Theoretic Perspective on Quantum Repeaters |
12:00 | See you in two weeks! | |
Monday 19.7.2021 at 13:00-17:00 (Germany time) | ||
(14:00-18:00 Israel time) | ||
Session 1 | Chair: Gerhard Kramer | |
13:00 | Han Cai | A construction of maximally recoverable codes with order-optimal field size |
13:30 | Roberto Ferrara / Mattia Spandri | Reed-Muller Identification |
14:00 | Haider Al Kim | GV bound comparison for combined error-correcting and partially-defect-masking code constructions |
14:30 | Break | |
Session 2 | Chair: Haim Permuter | |
15:00 | Hengjia Wei | Improved Coding over Sets for DNA Data Storage |
15:30 | Mohammad Javad Salariseddigh | Deterministic Identification Over Poisson Channels |
16:00 | Dor Tsur | Estimating the capacity of discrete channels with memory via DINE |
16:30 | Bashar Huleihe | Computable upper bounds on the capacity of finite-state channels |
17:00 | Goodbye! |
Further Information
- Contact: Hedongliang Liu (lia.liu(at)tum.de), Peihong Yuan (peihong.yuan(at)tum.de)
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