SUNDAY

Welcome Reception, 7-9:30pm

MONDAY

8:45-9:30 PLENARY TALK:

Reinaldo Valenzuela, Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs

Broadband wireless: the "Too Much Data Paradox" and the road forward

9:45-11:45 “CELLULAR 10X" PART 1
Organizers and Moderators:
Nihar Jindal, University of Minnesota
Angel Lozano, UPF
Panelists:
Reinaldo Valenzuela, Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs
Alexei Gorokhov, Qualcomm
Thomas Marzetta, Bell Labs
Robert W. Heath Jr., UT Austin

Speakers:

Alexei Gorokhov, Qualcomm	Coordinated joint transmission in wide area wireless networks
Osvaldo Simeone, NJIT	Information-theoretic Considerations on Femtocells and Network MIMO
Giuseppe Caire, USC	Dimension bottlenecks, downlink scheduling and dynamic mode switching in the multi-antenna celluar downlink
Thomas Marzetta, Bell Labs	Beyond LTE: Hundreds of Base Station Antennas!

11:45-2:30 Lunch (included)

2:30-4:30 "CELLULAR 10X" PART 2

Maxime Guillaud, Vienna University of Technology	Spatial Interference Management for Dense Wireless Networks: Alignment and Other Techniques
Harish Viswanathan, Alcatel-Lucent	Interference Management in Femto-Macro environments
Robert W. Heath Jr., UT Austin	Where are the Relay Gains in Cellular Systems?
Anthony C. K. Soong, Huawei	The path to 4G mobile broadband service: LTE-Advanced

4:30-4:45 Break

4:45-5:45 Cellular 10X Panel Discussion

6:30-8:00 Poster Session and Happy Hour at the Royal Beach Club

TUESDAY

8:45-11:00 SESSION “COMMUNICATING IN WHITESPACE”
Organizer and Moderator:
Narayan Mandayam, Rutgers University
Panelists:
Michael Marcus, Marcus Spectrum Solutions
Anant Sahai, UC Berkeley
Steve Shellhammer, Qualcomm
Michael Honig, Northwestern University

Speakers:

Michael Marcus, Marcus Spectrum Solutions	Antennas and Cognitive Radio: Wireless Research Issues that Could Have Large Spectrum policy Impact
Anant Sahai, UC Berkeley	What is the value of the television whitespaces?
Steve Shellhammer, Qualcomm	Challenges in Wireless Microphone Sensing and the Qualcomm Cognitive Radio Contest
Michael Honig, Northwestern University	Spectrum Markets and Interference Management

11:00-11:15 Break

11:15-12:00 PANEL "COMMUNICATING IN WHITESPACE"

12:00-2:30 Lunch (included)

2:30-4:30 SESSION “EMERGING TOPICS IN COMMUNICATION THEORY”
Organizer:
Upamanyu Madhow, UCSB
Speakers:

Claude Oestges, Université Catholique De Louvain	On and around the human body: results and challenges in Body Area Networks
Stefano Galli, Panasonic	A Review of Open Problems in Power Line Communications
Jeffrey Foerster, Intel	How can we enable ubiquitous mobile video services?
Upamanyu Madhow, UCSB	The Road to MultiGigabit Wireless: Challenges in Millimeter Wave Networking

4:45-6:15 PLENARY PANEL: "THE IMPACT OF COMMUNICATION THEORY ON TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT: IS THE BEST BEHIND US, OR AHEAD?”

Chris Rose' Intro Slides

Organizer:
Andrea Goldsmith, Stanford University
Panelists:
Rajiv Laroia, Qualcomm
Chris Rose, Rutgers
Mischa Dohler, CTTC, Spain
Giuseppe Caire, USC

7:30pm Workshop Banquet on the beach

WEDNESDAY

8:45-9:30 PLENARY TALK: Robust Interference Alignment
Syed A. Jafar, University of California at Irvine

9:45-12:15 SESSION “WIRELESS NETWORKING”
Organizer:
Ashutosh Sabharwal, Rice University
Speakers:

Tara Javidi, UC San Diego	Improving delay in a multi-hop wireless network  with receiver diversity
Elza Erkip, Polytechnic Institute of NYU	A Game Theoretic Perspective of the Interference Channel: Impact of Coordination and Bargaining
Anand Sarwate, UC San Diego	Discrete consensus in wireless networks
Daniela Tuninetti, University of Illinois at Chicago	Cognitive Interference Channels
Anna Scaglione, UC Davis	Cooperative Multiplexing of Broadcast Information in Dense Wireless Networks

12:30 Workshop Adjourns