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Events for May 20, 2009

• May

  20

  Meet USC: Admission Presentation, Campus Tour & Engineering Talk

  Wed, May 20, 2009

  Viterbi School of Engineering Undergraduate Admission

  Workshops & Infosessions

  
  

  This half day program is designed for prospective freshmen and family members. Meet USC includes an information session on the University and the Admission process; a student led walking tour of campus and a meeting with us in the Viterbi School. Meet USC is designed to answer all of your questions about USC, the application process and financial aid.Reservations are required for Meet USC. This program occurs twice, once at 9:00 a.m. and again at 1:00 p.m. Please visit http://www.usc.edu/admission/undergraduate/visit/meet_usc.html to check availability and make an appointment. Be sure to list an Engineering major as your "intended major" on the webform!

  Location: USC Admission Center

  Audiences: Prospective Freshmen and Family Members - RESERVATIONS REQUIRED

  Contact: Viterbi Admission

  

• May

  20

  Variable-to-Fixed Channel Coding Against Infrastructure Link Failures

  Wed, May 20, 2009 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

  Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars

  
  

  Speaker: Osvaldo Simeone,
  New Jersey Institute of TechnologyAbstract: Two models are discussed that illustrate the advantages of variable-to-fixed channel coding (i.e., the broadcast coding approach) for scenarios in which wireless communications is aided by an unreliable wired infrastructure. In the first scenario, a single macrocell, serving a number of outdoor users, is overlaid with a femtocell, which includes several home users. The femtocell is served by a home base station, which is connected to the macrocell base station via an unreliable connection (e.g., DSL). In the second scenario, a source communicates with a remote destination via a number of distributed relays. Communication from source to relays takes place over a (discrete or Gaussian) broadcast channel, while the relays are connected to the receiver via orthogonal and unreliable finite-capacity links.In both scenarios, link failures are assumed to be non-ergodic and unpredictable, and robust communications strategies are designed that deliver a variable information rate depending on the current (unknown) link conditions. Upper and lower bounds are derived on the achievable rates of interest, and some optimality conditions are obtained.Biography: Osvaldo Simeone received the M.Sc. degree (with honors) and the Ph.D. degree in Information Engineering from Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy, in 2001 and 2005 respectively. He is currently with the Center for Wireless Communications and Signal Processing Research (CWCSPR), at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Newark, New Jersey, where he is an Assistant Professor. His current research interests concern the cross-layer analysis and design of wireless networks with emphasis on information-theoretic, signal processing and queuing aspects. Specific topics of interest are: cognitive radio, cooperative communications, ad hoc, sensor, mesh and hybrid networks, distributed estimation and synchronization. Dr. Simeone currently serves as an Editor for IEEE Trans. Wireless Commun.Host: Urbashi Mitra, ubli@usc.edu, EEB 540, x04667

  Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248

  Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

  Contact: Gerrielyn Ramos