Course Description
( upcoming/recent | all | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006)Tutorial on Network Coding
29 May 2007 29 June 2007 (10:00 - 15:00), UCL, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.
Speaker
Prof. Christina Fragouli, EPFL, Switzerland.
Abstract
The main idea in network coding is that we allow intermediate nodes in a network to not only forward but also to process the incoming information flows. The network code is the set of the operations that intermediate nodes perform. This simple idea promises to have a significant impact in diverse areas that include multicasting, wireless communications, network monitoring, reliable delivery, resource sharing, efficient flow control and security.
In this tutorial we will start by reviewing the main ideas and basic theoretical results and tools that have been used in the context of network coding; we will then evaluate possible benefits and requirements, and finally we will discuss specific applications.
Speaker biography
Christina Fragouli is currently an FNS assistant professor at the School of Computer and Communication Science, EPFL (Switzerland). She received her PhD and earned the EE Outstanding PhD award 2000-2001 from UCLA. She has since then worked at the Information Sciences Center AT&T Labs (Florham Park), and the National Technical University of Athens. She has also visited DIMACS (Rutgers University) and the Mathematical Sciences Research Center at Bell Labs (Murray Hill).
She is interested in questions that involve network information flow algorithms, network coding, wireless communications, and connections between communications and computer science.
Schedule
The course has a duration of 4 hours.
Schedule: 10-12:00 and 13-15:00.
Registration
Registration deadline: 18 May 2007.