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@tum.de), Peihong Yuan (peihong.yuan@tum.de)