The 4th workshop on Resource Allocation in Wireless Networks

March 31st, Berlin, Germany

 
  
 


 

 
 
 
Technical Program
[Note: exact time schedule will be confirmed later]
Morning Session: "Networking Aspects"
(Chair: Bozidar Radunovic, Microsoft Research, UK)

  • 9.00 - 10.00 Keynote talk (45 min + 15 min Q/A):
    Roger Wattenhofer (ETHZ) - The Worst-Case Capacity of Wireless Networks
    Technical Contributions:
  • 10.00 - 10.25 Node Interaction in 802.11 Based Networks with Boolean Interference
    Peter van de Ven (TU/e, NL), Dee Denteneer (Philips Research, NL)
  • 10.25 - 10.50 Efficient Quantization for Feedback Controlled Networks with Type II Hybrid ARQ
    Marco Levorato (University of Padova, Italy), Leonardo Badia (IMT Lucca, Italy), Michele Zorzi (University of Padova, Italy)
    Break: 15 min

  • 11.05 - 11.30 A Closed Power Allocation Solution for Outage Restricted Distributed MIMO Multi-hop Networks
    Yidong Lang, Dirk Wübben, Carsten Bockelmann, Karl-Dirk Kammeyer (Deptartment of Communications Engineering, University of Bremen, Germany)
  • 11.30 - 11.55 QoS Provisioning in Wireless Data Networks under Non-Continuously Backlogged Users
    Timotheos Kastrinogiannis (ICCS/NTUA), Symeon Papavassiliou (ICCS/NTUA)

 

Lunch break

 
Afternoon Session: "Communication Theoretic Aspects"
(Chair: David Gesbert, Eurecom Institute, France)

  • 13.30 - 14.30 Keynote talk (45 min + 15 min Q/A):
    Olivier Lévêque (EPFL) - Throughput-Delay Trade-off for Hierarchical Cooperation in Ad Hoc Wireless Networks
    Technical Contributions:
  • 14.30 - 14.55 Rate Region of Multi-channel Mesh Data Networks with Rate Control
    Alexandre Proutiere (Microsoft Research, UK), Nidhi Hegde (Orange Labs, France)
  • 14.55 - 15.20 Performance of multiuser MIMO and network coordination in downlink cellular networks
    Howard Huang (Alcatel_lucent Bell-Labs, USA), Matteo Trivellato (Univ. of Padova, Italy)

    Break: 15 min

  • 15.35 - 16.00 On near-far gain in multiuser diversity systems
    Kimmo Kansanen, Ralf Müller (NTNU, Norway)
  • 16.00 - 16.25 Optimal user pairing in downlink MU-MIMO with transmit precoding
    Ari Hottinen (Nokia Research, Finland) and Emanuele Viterbo (Univ. Calabria, Italy)
  • 16.25 - 16.50 Framework for analysis of opportunistic schedulers: average sum rate vs. average fairness
    Eduard Jorswieck (Dresden University of Technology, Germany), Aydin Sezgin (Stanford University, USA), Xi Zhang (Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)