CTG Reading Group
The CTG Reading Group is a paper reading group for interested CTG students, which usually takes place on a bi-weekly basis (typically during terms).
For each session, a volunteer selects a journal or a conference paper he or she considers to be interesting for the other members of the CTG group. This paper can, for example, be a tutorial-style paper, but it can also be a research paper. Optionally, additional papers on the same topic can be proposed for further reading.
All participants read the (main) paper beforehand, which is usually sent out via email one week before the meeting. Alternatively, it can be downloaded from the Reading Group homepage. Then we will gather to discuss the paper in an informal session. The volunteer who proposed the paper will be responsible for summarizing the paper and presenting its basic concepts to the group, so as to get the discussion going. Any presentation style (using transparencies, the white board, or a laptop presentation) is welcome.
The Reading Group is a good opportunity for all CTG students to extend their knowledge beyond the scope of their own research topic, look at interesting new results and problems in the literature, and perhaps even develop new ideas for their own work.

Fall/ Winter 2008
When: Wednesdays, 1.30-3 pm (bi-weekly, start Oct. 29, 2008, end Jan. 28, 2009)
Where: Kaiser 4018 (Henry)
  1. Oct. 29, 2008 (Proposer: Jan Mietzner)
    "Cognitive Medium Access: Exploration, Exploitation and Competition" by L. Lai, H. El Gamal, H. Jiang, and H. V. Poor (submitted to IEEE Trans. Networking, October 2007)
    Slides

  2. Nov. 12, 2008 (Proposer: Mohammad Mohammadnia-Avval)
    "Meshed High Data Rate Personal Area Networks" by S. A. Mahmud, S. Khan, H. Al-Raweshidy, and K. Sivarajah (IEEE Commun. Surveys & Tutorials, 1st Quarter 2008)
    Slides

  3. Nov. 26, 2008 (Proposer: Zahra Ahmadian)
    "UWB Transmitted Reference Signaling Schemes - Part I: Performance Analysis" by T. Q. S. Quek, M. Z. Win, and D. Dardari (IEEE Int. Conf. Ultra-Wideband (ICUWB), September 2005)
    Further reading: "-------: Part II: Narrowband Interference Analysis" by T. Q. S. Quek, M. Z. Win, and D. Dardari (IEEE Int. Conf. Ultra-Wideband (ICUWB), September 2005)
    Slides

  4. Dec. 10, 2008 (Proposer: Hamed Mohsenian-Rad)
    "A Scalable Network Resource Allocation Mechanism with Bounded Efficiency Loss" by R. Johari and J. N. Tsitsiklis (IEEE Journ. Sel. Areas Commun., May 2006)
    Further reading: "Distributed Interference Compensation for Wireless Networks" by J. Huang, R. A. Berry, and M. L. Honig (IEEE Journ. Sel. Areas Commun., May 2006).
    Slides

  5. Jan. 7, 2009 (Proposer: Jeebak Mitra)
    "Cognitive Radio: An Information-Theoretic Perspective" by A. Jovicic and P. Viswanath (submitted to IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, May 2006; revised Feb. 2008)
    Slides

  6. Jan. 21, 2009 (Proposer: Ali Nezampour)
    "Information Theory of Wideband Communications" by D. Porrat (IEEE Commun. Surveys & Tutorials, 2nd Quarter 2007)

Spring/ Summer 2008
When: Fridays, 1-2 pm (bi-weekly, start Feb. 15, 2008, end July 25, 2008)
Where: Kaiser 3028 (Faraday)
  1. Feb. 15, 2008 (Proposer: Jan Mietzner)
    "Capacity and Mutual Information of Wideband Multipath Fading Channels" by I. E. Telatar and D. N. C. Tse (IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, July 2000)
    Slides

  2. Feb. 29, 2008 (Proposer: Anand Oka)
    "Near-Optimal Signal Recovery from Random Projections: Universal Encoding Strategies?" by E. J. Candes and T. Tao (IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, December 2006)
    Further reading: "Compressed Sensing" by D. L. Donoho (IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, April 2006)
    Slides

  3. Mar. 14, 2008 (Proposer: Jeebak Mitra)
    "The Effect upon Channel Capacity in Wireless Communications of Perfect and Imperfect Knowledge of the Channel" by M. Medard (IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, May 2000)
    Slides

  4. Mar. 28, 2008 (Proposer: Serhat Erkucuk)
    "An Introduction to Convex Optimization for Communications and Signal Processing" by Z.-Q. Luo and W. Yu (IEEE J. Sel. Areas Commun., August 2006)
    Further reading: "A Tutorial on Convex Optimization" by H. Hindi (American Contr. Conf., July 2004)
    Slides

  5. Apr. 11, 2008 (Proposer: Harry Chen)
    "Combining Beamforming and Orthogonal Space-time Block Coding" by G. Jongren, M. Skoglund, and B. Ottersten (IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, Mar. 2002)
    Slides

  6. Apr. 25, 2008 (Proposer: Ali Nezampour)
    "Joint source and channel coding for MIMO systems: Is it better to be robust or quick?" by T. Holliday, A. J. Goldsmith, and H. V. Poor (IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, April 2008)
    Link to Slides by H. V. Poor (see pp. 57-95 in particular)

  7. May 9, 2008 (Proposer: Anna-Marie Silvester)
    "Raptor codes" by A. Shokrollahi (IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, June 2006)
    Link to Slides by A. Shokrollahi

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