Special Sessions



MoInv1: Entropy, Information and Control 1

Organizer: Christoph Kawan (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany)

Monday, August 26 16:20 - 18:00

Room: Rosa Huset, Lower Floor
16:20 On the continuity of the invariance entropy for hyperbolic linear control systems on Lie groups
Adriano Da Silva (University of Campinas, Brazil)
16:40 Invariance pressure for linear discrete-time systems
Fritz Colonius (Augsburg University, Germany); Alexandre Santana and Joao Cossich (State University of Maringa, Brazil)
17:00 Coding theorems for non-stochastic information
Anshuka Rangi (University of California, San Diego, USA); Massimo Franceschetti (University of California at San Diego, USA)
17:20 Stabilizing a linear system using phone calls
Mohammad Javad Khojasteh (University of California, San Diego, USA); Massimo Franceschetti (University of California at San Diego, USA); Gireeja Ranade (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
17:40 Zero-Error Capacity of Multiple Access Channels via Nonstochastic Information
Girish N. Nair, Ghassen Zafzouf and Jamie S Evans (University of Melbourne, Australia)

MoInv2: Polar Codes

Organizer: Emanuele Viterbo (Monash University, Australia)

Monday, August 26 16:20 - 18:00

Room: Rosa Huset, Upper Floor
16:20 Erasures in channel polarization
Mine Alsan (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
16:40 Partially Information Coupled Bit-Interleaved Polar Coded Modulation for 16-QAM
Xiaowei Wu and Jinhong Yuan (University of New South Wales, Australia)
17:00 Rate-Flexible Fast Polar Decoders
Seyyed Ali Hashemi (Stanford University, USA); Carlo Condo (Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., France); Marco Mondelli (Stanford University, USA); Warren Gross (McGill University, Canada)
17:20 Trellis-based decoding techniques for polar codes with large kernels
Peter Trifonov (Saint-Petersburg Polytechnic University & ITMO University, Russia)
17:40 Polar Code Design Aspects and Future Challenge
Wen Tong (Huawei Technologies Canada Co., Ltd., Canada)

TuInv1: Privacy and Security 1

Organizer: Ravi Tandon (University of Arizona, USA)

Tuesday, August 27 16:20 - 18:00

Room: Rosa Huset, Lower Floor
16:20 On the Upload versus Download Cost for Secure and Private Matrix Multiplication
Wei-Ting Chang and Ravi Tandon (University of Arizona, USA)
16:40 Improved Storage for Efficient Private Information Retrieval
Karim A. Banawan (Alexandria University, Egypt); Batuhan Arasli and Sennur Ulukus (University of Maryland, USA)
17:00 Multi-library Coded Caching with Partial Secrecy
Mireille Sarkiss (Telecom SudParis, France); Michele A Wigger (Telecom ParisTech, France)
17:20 Secure Caching and Delivery for Combination Networks with Asymmetric Connectivity
Ahmed A Zewail and Aylin Yener (Pennsylvania State University, USA)
17:40 Relaxed Wyner's Common Information
Michael Gastpar (EPFL, Switzerland); Erixhen Sula (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland)

TuInv2: Entropy, Information and Control 2

Organizers: Victoria Kostina (Caltech, USA) and Takashi Tanaka (University of Texas at Austin, USA)

Tuesday, August 27 16:20 - 17:40

Room: Rosa Huset, Upper Floor
16:20 On Optimal Jamming in Strategic Communication
Emrah Akyol (Binghamton University - SUNY, USA)
16:40 Generic Variance Bounds on Estimation and Prediction Errors in Time Series Analysis: An Entropy Perspective
Song Fang and Mikael Skoglund (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden); Karl Henrik Johansson (Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden); Hideaki Ishii (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan); Quanyan Zhu (New York University, USA)
17:00 Bidirectional Information Flow and the Roles of Privacy Masks in Cloud-Based Control
Ali Reza Pedram and Takashi Tanaka (University of Texas at Austin, USA); Matthew Hale (University of Florida, USA)
17:20 Fundamental limits of distributed tracking
Victoria Kostina (California Institute of Technology, USA)

WeInv1: Graph Based Codes and Spatial Coupling

Organizer: Daniel J. Costello, Jr. (University of Notre Dame, USA)

Wednesday, August 28 16:00 - 17:40

Room: Rosa Huset, Lower Floor
16:00 A Finite-Length Construction of Irregular Spatially-Coupled Codes
Homa Esfahanizadeh (University of California, Los Angeles, USA); Ruiyi Wu and Lara Dolecek (UCLA, USA)
16:20 Spatially Coupled LDPC Codes for Joint Source-Channel Coding
David G. M. Mitchell and Ahmad Golmohammadi (New Mexico State University, USA)
16:40 Spatially Coupled LDPC Codes with Non-uniform Coupling for Improved Decoding Speed
Laurent Schmalen (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany); Vahid Aref (Nokia Bell Labs, Germany)
17:00 Spatially Coupled Sparse Regression Codes with Sliding Window AMP Decoding
Cynthia Rush (Columbia University, USA); Kuan Hsieh and Ramji Venkataramanan (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
17:20 Failure repair in LDPC-based distributed storage: Is there any chance to be lazy?
Muhammad Ali and Iryna Andriyanova (ENSEA/UCP/CNRS, France); Alexandre Graell i Amat (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)

WeInv2: Privacy and Security 2

Organizer: Chao Tian (Texas A&M University, USA)

Wednesday, August 28 16:00 - 17:40

Room: Rosa Huset, Upper Floor
16:00 Private Information Delivery
Hua Sun (University of North Texas, USA)
16:20 On the Capacity of Private Information Retrieval from Coded, Colluding, and Adversarial Servers
Lukas Holzbaur and Ragnar Freij-Hollanti (Technical University of Munich, Germany); Camilla Hollanti (Aalto University, Finland)
16:40 Improved Private Information Retrieval for Coded Storage From Code Decomposition
Hsuan-Yin Lin (Simula UiB, Norway); Siddhartha Kumar (Simula UiB AS, Norway); Eirik Rosnes (Simula UiB, Norway); Alexandre Graell i Amat (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)
17:00 Preserving ON-OFF Privacy for Past and Future Requests
Fangwei Ye, Carolina Naim and Salim El Rouayheb (Rutgers University, USA)
17:20 Weakly Secure Symmetric Multilevel Diversity Coding
Tao Guo, Chao Tian and Tie Liu (Texas A&M University, USA); Raymond W. Yeung (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)