Princeton Wireless Distinguished Seminar Series

Abstract: This talk focuses on the frequency-selective symmetric Gaussian primitive diamond relay channel with oblivious processing.  The Gaussian input frequency power distribution that maximizes the information rate of the oblivious relay operation achieved by optimal distributed (Wyner-Ziv based) compression with joint decompression-decoding is determined. The Gaussian primitive diamond relay channel with correlated (positive and negative correlation) additive noise in both relays, modeling an interferer (jammer), is also addressed, considering optimal distributed compression. Closed form analytic expressions for the achievable oblivious processing rate are found. Non-oblivious relay processing combining Compress-Forward (CF) and Decode-Forward (DF) is examined. It is shown that time-sharing between CF and DF is advantageous over the superposition CF-DF coding methodology, for independent and correlated Gaussian noise at the relays. Superposition DF and CF where the DF part uses dirty-paper (DP) coding to eliminate the interference of the CF part at each relay is also considered. This communication setting motivates the presented correlated noise model employing optimal distributed compression. It is proved that also with the DP coding procedure, optimized time-sharing approach is advantageous. Performance of time-sharing is demonstrated also for an asymmetric and frequency-selective channel.

This talk is based on joint research with A. Katz and M. Peleg, supported by the European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme: No. 694630 and partly by the German Research Foundation (DFG) via the German-Israeli Project Cooperation (DIP), under Project SH 1937/1-1.

Bio: Shlomo Shamai (Shitz) received the B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the Technion—Israel Institute of Technology, in 1975, 1981 and 1986 respectively.,During 1975–1985 he was with the Communications Research Labs, in the capacity of a Senior Research Engineer. Since 1986 he is with the Department of Electrical Engineering, Technion—Israel Institute of Technology, where he is now a Technion Distinguished Professor, and holds the William Fondiller Chair of Telecommunications. His research interests encompasses a wide spectrum of topics in information theory and statistical communications.,Dr. Shamai (Shitz) is an IEEE Fellow, a member of the Israeli Academy of Sciences and Humanities and a Foreign Associate of the US National Academy of Engineering. He is the recipient of the 2011 Claude E. Shannon Award and the 2014 Rothschild Prize in Mathematics/Computer Sciences and Engineering.,He has been awarded the 1999 van der Pol Gold Medal of the Union Radio Scientifique Internationale (URSI), and is a co-recipient of the 2000 IEEE Donald G. Fink Prize Paper Award, the 2003, and the 2004 joint IT/COM societies paper award, the 2007 IEEE Information Theory Society Paper Award, the 2009 European Commission FP7, Network of Excellence in Wireless COMmunications (NEWCOM++) Best Paper Award, and the 2010 Thomson Reuters Award for International Excellence in Scientific Research. He is also the recipient of 1985 Alon Grant for distinguished young scientists and the 2000 Technion Henry Taub Prize for Excellence in Research. He has served as Associate Editor for the Shannon Theory of the IEEE Transactions On Information Theory, and has also served twice on the Board of Governors of the Information Theory Society. He is a member of the Executive Editorial Board of the IEEE Transactions On Information Theory.​

This seminar is supported with funds from the Korhammer Lecture Series