TURBO CODING 2008 Symposium


Monday, September 1
8-)
18:00 - 20:00 Welcome cocktail & registration - Hôtel Alpha-Palmiers - Lausanne city centre
Tuesday, September 2
8-o
08:00 – 09:00 Registration desk opens - Building SG - Le Foyer
09:00 - 09:50 Invited talk Dan Costello, University of Notre Dame
“The Genesis of Coding Theory”
room SG-1
10:20 - 12:00 Session Tue 1 - Room SG-1
13:40 - 14:30 Invited talk by David Burshtein, Univ.of Tel Aviv
“On the correction of a Fixed Fraction of Errors in LDPC Codes Using Iterative Decoding Algorithms”
Room SG-1
14:40 - 15:40 Session Tue 2 - Room SG-1
14:40 - 15:40 Session Tue 3 - Room SG-0211
15:40 - 17:00 Drinks & posters - SG Atrium
Wednesday, September 3
;-)
09:00 - 09:50 Invited talk by Claude Berrou, ENS Bretagne
**"About rate-1 codes as inner codes"**
10:20 - 12:00 Session Wed 1 - Room SG-1
12:30 Departure by coach from EPFL for the half day excursion to CERN
Thursday, September 4
=)
09:00 - 09:50 Invited talk by Andrea Montanari, University of Stanford
** "Iterative Codes for Measurement, Detection and Sensing" ** Room SG-1
10:20 - 12:00 Session Thu 1 - room SG-1
13:40 - 14:30 Invited talk by Pascal Vontobel, Hewlett Packard Labs Palo Alto
"Iterative Decoding of Quantum Codes"room SG1
14:40 - 15:40 Session Thu 2 - Room SG-1
14:40 - 15:40 Session Thu 3 - Room SG-0211
15:40 - 17:00 Drinks & posters - SG Atrium
18:30 - 19:30Apéritif – Room La Rotonde – Hotel Beau Rivage Palace - Lausanne Ouchy
19:30 - 23:00Banquet – Room Sandoz – Hotel Beau Rivage Palace - Lausanne Ouchy
Friday, September 5
:-D
09:00 - 09:50 Invited talk by Gerhard Kramer, Bell Labs Murray Hill "Cooperative Communications and Coding" ** Room SG-1
10:20 - 12:00 Session Fri 1 - Room SG-1
13:40 - 15:20 Session Fri 2 - Room SG-1
13:40 - 15:20 Session Fri 3 - Room SG-0211






Tuesday, Sep 2nd

Invited talk - 09:00 - 09:50 Room SG 1 Dan Costello “The Genesis of Coding Theory”
Session Tue1 - 10:20 - 12:00 Room SG 1
I. Goldenberg and D. Burshtein“Upper Bound on the Error Exponent of Regular LDPC Codes Transmitted over the BEC” PDF#14533
ChiaWen Wang and H. Pfister“Upper Bounds on the MAP Threshold of Iterative Decoding Systems with Erasure Noise” (#17167)
Shrinivas Kudekar and N. Macris“Decay of Correlations: an Application to Low-Density Parity Check Codes” PDF#22285
C. Koller, A. Graell i Amat, J. Kliewer, F. Vatta, and D. Costello“Hybrid Concatenated Codes with Asymptotically Good Distance Growth” PDF#16637
T. Awano, K. Kasai, T. Shibuya, and K. Sakaniwa“Analysis of Weight Distributions of Two-Edge type LDPC Codes by Hayman Approximation” PDF#16313


Invited talk - 13:40 - 14:30
Room SG 1
David Burshtein
“On the correction of a Fixed Fraction of Errors in LDPC Codes Using Iterative Decoding Algorithms”
Session Tue2 - 14:40 - 15:40 Room SG 1
D. Burshtein “Linear Complexity Approximate LP Decoding of LDPC Codes: Generalizations and Improvements” PDF#16485
A. Tanatmis, S. Ruzika, H. Hamacher, M. Punekar, F. Kienle, and N. Wehn “A Separation Algorithm for Improved LP-Decoding of Linear Block Codes” PDF#16467
M. Miwa, T. Wadayama, and I. Takumi“A Cutting Plane Method based on Redundant Rows for Improving Fractional Distance” PDF#16303
Session Tue3 - 14:40 - 15:40 Room SG 0211
W. Ryan and Yang Han“Pinning Techniques for Low-Floor Detection/Decoding of LDPC-Coded Partial Response Channels” PDF#16275
C. Nour and C. Douillard“Improving BICM Performance of QAM Constellations for Broadcasting Applications” PDF#16915
A.-N. Assimi, C. Poulliat, and I. Fijalkow“Packet Combining for Turbo-diversity in HARQ Systems with Integrated Turbo-equalization” PDF#16571


Posters
Session Tue 15:40 - 17:00 SG Atrium
C. Leroux, G. Le Mestre, C. Jego, P. Adde, M. Jezequel“A 5-Gbps FPGA Prototype of a (31,29)2 Reed-Solomon Turbo Decoder” PDF#16477
M. Kan, S. Okada, T. Maehara, K. Oguchi, T. Yokokawa, and T. Miyauchi“Hardware Implementation of Soft-Decision Decoding for Reed-Solomon Code” PDF#15119
H. Yamagishi and M. Noda“High-Throughput Hardware Architecture for (1440,1344) Low-Density Parity-Check Code Utilizing Quasi-Cyclic Structure” PDF#16419
M. Alles, T. Vogt, and N. Wehn“FlexiChaP: A Reconfigurable ASIP for Convolutional, Turbo, and LDPC Code Decoding” PDF#16361
T. Goubier, C. Dezan, B. Pottier, and C. Jego“Fine Grain Parallel Decoding of Turbo Product Codes: Algorithm and Architecture” PDF#16365
L. Boher, R. Rabineau, and M. Helard“Architecture and Implementation of an Iterative Receiver for MIMO Systems” PDF#16487
K. Amis, G. Sicot, and D. Leroux“Reduced Complexity Near-optimal Iterative Receiver for Wimax Full-rate Space Time Code” PDF#16965
F. Kienle“Low-Density MIMO Codes” PDF#16137
Ming Zhao, Zhenning Shi, and M. Reed“The Performance of Sphere Decoders for Iterative Spatial Multiplexing MIMO Receiver” PDF#15683
Yan-Xiu Zheng and Yu-Chuan Fang“Apply Bit-level Interleaver to Improve the Error Rate Performance of the Double Binary Turbo Code with Less Decoder Complexity” PDF#16227
T. Yokokawa, Makiko Kan, S. Okada, and Lui Sakai“Parity and Column Twist Bit Interleaver for DVB-T2 LDPC Codes” PDF#15847
W. Carson, I. Wassell, and M. Rodrigues“Optimal 8PSK Mappings for BICM-ID over Quasi-static Fading Channels” PDF#16433
A. Singh, E. Boutillon, and G. Masera“Bit-width Optimization of Extrinsic Information in Turbo Decoder” PDF#16957
Guosen Yue and Xiaodong Wang“A New Binary Iterative LDPC Decoding Algorithm” PDF#16283
H. Uchikawa, K. Harada, and Y. Tanabe“Reduced-complexity Serial Min-sum Decoding” PDF#16351
M. Viens and W. Ryan“A Reduced-Complexity Box-Plus Decoder for LDPC Codes” PDF#15963






Wednesday, Sep 3rd

Invited talk - 09:00 - 09:50
Room SG 1
Claude Berrou
“About Rate-1 Codes as Inner Codes”
Session Wed1 - 10:20 - 12:00 Room SG 1
I. Sason and G. Wiechman“Bounds on the Convergence Speed of Iterative Message-Passing Decoders over the Binary Erasure Channel” PDF#15535
R. Mori, K. Kasai, T. Shibuya, and K. Sakaniwa“Asymptotic Gaps Between BP Decoding and Local-MAP Decoding for Low-Density Parity-Check Codes” PDF#16173
E. Paolini, M. Chiani, and M. Fossorier“Pseudo-Binomial Degree Distributions from Derivative Matching” PDF#16445
V. Zyablov, M. Loncar, R. Johannesson, and P. Rybin“On the Asymptotic Performance of Low-Complexity Decoded LDPC Codes with Constituent Hamming Codes” PDF#16183
Yige Wang, J. Yedidia, and S. Draper“Construction of High-Girth QC-LDPC Codes” PDF#16551







Thursday, Sep 4th

Invited talk - 09:00 - 09:50
Room SG 1
Andrea Montanari
“Iterative Codes for Measurement, Detection and Sensing”
Session Thu1 - 10:20 - 12:00 Room SG 1
J. Karjalainen, T. Matsumoto, and W. Utschick“Convergence Analysis of MMSE Based Multiuser MIMO Turbo Detector with Linear Precoding Strategies” PDF#16587
Li Ping, Jun Tong, Xiaojun Yuan, and Qingua Guo“Performance Analysis of Multi-ary Systems with Iterative Linear Minimum-Mean-Square-Error Detection” PDF#16617
Xiaojun Yuan, Haitao Li, Li Ping, and Xiaokang Lin“Precoder Design for ISI Channels based on Iterative LMMSE Equalization” PDF#16465
N. Le Josse, C. Laot, and K. Amis“MMSE Turbo Equalization Using a Low Complexity Series Expansion to Approximate the Matrix Inversion in Frequency Selective MIMO Channels” PDF#16105
D. Fertonani, A. Barbieri, and G. Colavolpe“A Novel Graph-Based Approach to Low-Complexity Detection for Turbo Equalization” PDF#16539


Invited talk - 13:40 - 14:30
Room SG 1
Pascal Vontobel
“Iterative Decoding of Quantum Codes”
Session Thu2 - 14:40 - 15:40 Room SG 1
G. Lechner and C. Weidmann“Optimization of Binary LDPC Codes for the q-ary Symmetric Channel with Moderate q” PDF#16427
L. Sassatelli, D. Declercq, and C. Poulliat“Low-Rate Non-binary Hybrid LDPC Codes” PDF#16557
D. Klinc, Jeongseok Ha, and S. McLaughlin“On Rate-adaptability of Nonbinary LDPC codes” PDF#20941
Session Thu3 - 14:40 - 15:40) Room SG 0211
Jie Hou, C. Hausl, and Ralf Koetter“Distributed Turbo Coding Schemes for Asymmetric Two-Way Relay Communication” PDF#16405
Xiaoyan Xu, M. Flanagan, and N. Goertz“A Shared-Relay Cooperative Diversity Scheme Based on Joint Channel and Network Coding in the Multiple Access Channel” PDF#16159
G. Zeitler, R. Koetter, G. Bauch, and J. Widmer“Design of Network Coding Functions in Multihop Relay Networks” PDF#15903


Posters
Session Thu - 15:40 - 17:00 SG Atrium
A. Heim and U. Sorger“Turbo Decoding: Why Stopping-Criteria do Work” PDF#14987
C. Nelson, L. Stankovic, V. Stankovic, and S. Cheng“Performance Analysis of PUM Codes” PDF#17039
S. Crozier and K. Gracie“Improving the Flare Performance of Turbo Codes Using Error Detection and Event Flipping” PDF#15393
Y. Saouter“Selection Procedure for Binary Turbocode Permutation Parameters” PDF#16149
G. Kraidy and V. Savin“Irregular Turbo Code Design for the Binary Erasure Channel” PDF#16535
A. Venkiah, D. Declercq, and C. Poulliat“Randomized Progressive Edge-Growth (RandPEG)” PDF#16529
A. Marinoni, P. Savazzi, and S. Valle“Efficient Design of Non-binary LDPC Codes for Magnetic Recording Channels, Robust to Error Bursts” PDF#15215
J. Briffa and H. Schaathun“Non-Binary Turbo Codes and Applications” PDF#10469
Srimathy S and A. Thangaraj“Codes That Have Tanner Graphs With Non-Overlapping Cycles” PDF#16379
Y. Saouter and S. Vaton“Fast Estimation of the Frame Error Rate for Error-correcting Codes by the Generalized Error Impulse Method” PDF#15207
T. Sakai and K. Shibata“Efficient Simulation for Turbo Codes over Additive White Class A Noise Channel” PDF#16373
M. Gonzalez-Lopez, F. Vazquez-Araujo, L. Castedo, and J. Garcia-Frias“Interleave-Division Multiple Access (IDMA) Using Low-Rate Layered LDGM Codes” PDF#16589
S. Godtmann, A. Ispas, and G. Ascheid“Convergence Analysis of Code-Aided Channel Estimation by Means of Transfer Charts” PDF#14475
L. Schmalen, P. Vary, M. Adrat, and T. Clevorn“Complexity-Reduced Iterative Source-Channel Decoding by Conditional Quantization” PDF#14465
A. Limmanee and W. Henkel“UEP Network Coding for Scalable Data” PDF#16347
F. Bayramoglu and A. Yilmaz“A Hilbert Space of Probability Mass Functions and Applications on the Sum-Product Algorithm” PDF#16421
T. Tirronen and J. Virtamo“Greedy Approach for Efficient Packet Erasure Coding” PDF#15923







Friday, Sep 5th

Invited talk - 09:00 - 09:50
Room SG 1
Gerhard Kramer
“Cooperative Communications and Coding”
Session Fri1 - 10:20 - 12:00 Room SG 1
G. Lechner, I. Land, and L. Rasmussen“Decoding of LDPC Codes with Binary Vector Messages and Scalable Complexity” PDF#20821
N. Axvig, D. Dreher, K. Morrison, E. Psota, L. Perez, and J. Walker“Average Min-Sum Decoding of LDPC Codes” PDF#16623
C. Poulliat, D. Declercq, and T. Lestable“Preprocessing for an Efficient Decoding of Turbo-codes with Non-binary Belief Propagation” PDF#16233
D. Declercq“Nonbinary Group Decoder Diversity for Decoding Dense Block Codes” PDF#16359
H. Ogiwara, K. Shimamura, and T. Shohon“Sum-Product Decoding of BCH Codes” PDF#15645
Session Fri2 - 13:40 - 15:20 Room SG 1
S. Kudekar and R. Urbanke“Lower Bounds on the Rate-Distortion Function of Individual LDGM Codes” PDF#15549
A. Zribi, S. Zaibi, R. Pyndiah, and A. Bouallegue“Low-complexity Joint Source/Channel Turbo Decoding of Arithmetic Codes” PDF#17915
G. Shamir and K. Xie“Accumulate-Turbo Codes for Redundant Data” PDF#16567
F. Kayhan and T. Tanaka“A Practical Low-Density Coding Scheme for Binary Dirty Paper Channel” PDF#16411
W. Dai and O. Milenkovic“Iterative Subspace Pursuit Decoding of Weighted Euclidean Superimposed Codes” PDF#16645
Session Fri3 - 13:40 - 15:20 Room SG 0211
D. Mitchell, A. Pusane, N. Goertz, and D. Costello“Free Distance Bounds for Protograph-Based Regular LDPC Convolutional Codes PDF#16633
K. Gracie and S. Crozier“Convergence Performance and EXIT Analysis of 4-State Partially-Systematic Turbo Codes” PDF#16493
E. Rosnes“Minimum Distance Upper Bounds for 3-Dimensional Turbo Codes Using Quadratic Permutation Polynomial Interleavers” PDF#16437
V. Skachek and M. Flanagan“Lower Bounds on the Minimum Pseudodistance for Linear Codes with q-ary PSK Modulation over AWGN” PDF#16169
D. Hao, P. Yao, and P. Hoeher“Analysis and Design of Interleaver Sets for Interleave-Division Multiplexing and Related Techniques” PDF#16155