Course Description
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Wireless Physical Layer security
June 16-17, 2008 in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.
H. V. Poor (Princeton, USA) and H. El Gamal (Ohio State University).
This course aims to :
1. introduce the basic principles of information theoretic security;
2. cover recent research advances in wireless physical layer security;
3. summarize the important contributions resulting from recent research efforts; and
4. outline the outstanding open problems in the area.
Outline
1. The Classical Wiretap Channel (2 hours)
(a) Information theoretic versus computational based secrecy (HEG)
(b) Shannon’s model (HEG)
(c) Wyner’s wiretap channel (HVP)
(d) The Csiszár-Körner broadcast channel with confidential messages (HVP)
2. Recent Advances in the Wiretap Channel (HEG: 3 hours)
(a) Secrecy through public discussion
(b) The wiretap channel with feedback
(c) Opportunistic secrecy
(d) The MIMO wiretap channel
(e) The relay-eavesdropper channel
(f) Authentication over the wiretap channel
3. Multi-User Wireless Channels with Secrecy Constraints (HVP: 3 hours)
(a) The broadcast channel
(b) The multiple access channel
(c) The cognitive interference channel
(d) Scheduling of secure broadcast
4. Concluding Remarks (HEG & HVP: 1 hour)
(a) Lessons learned
(b) Open problems
Biographies of the Instructors
Hesham El Gamal received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Cairo
University, Cairo, Egypt, in 1993 and 1996, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical
and Computer Engineering from the University of Maryland at College Park, MD, in 1999.
From 1993 to 1996, he served as a Pro ject Manager in the Middle East Regional Office
of Alcatel Telecom. From 1996 to 1999, he was a Research Assistant in the Department of
Electrical and Computer Engineering, the University of Maryland at College Park, MD. From
February 1999 to December 2000, he was with the Advanced Development Group, Hughes
Network Systems (HNS), Germantown, MD, as a Senior Member of the Technical Staff. Since
January 2001, he has been with the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the
Ohio State University where he is now an Associate Professor. He held visiting appointments
at UCLA, Institut Eurecom and Nile University.
He is a recipient of the HNS Annual Achievement Award (2000), the OSU College of
Engineering Lumley Research Award (2003), the OSU Electrical Engineering Department
FARMER Young Faculty Development Fund (2003-2008), and the National Science Foun-
dation CAREER Award (2004). He holds 10 patents and has 9 more pending applications.
He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and served as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Trans-
actions on Communications (2001-05), an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on
Mobile Computing (2003-07), a Guest Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Information
Theory special issue on cooperative communications (2007), and a member of the SP4COM
technical committee (2002-2005). He currently serves as the co-chair of the Globecom’08
communication theory symposium.
H. Vincent Poor (Ph.D., Princeton 1977) is the Dean of Engineering and Applied Science
at Princeton University, where he is also the Michael Henry Strater University Professor
of Electrical Engineering. From 1977 until he joined the Princeton faculty in 1990, he
was a faculty member at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has also
held visiting appointments at a number of universities, including recently Imperial College,
Stanford and Harvard. His research interests are primarily in the areas of stochastic analysis,
statistical signal processing and information theory, with applications in wireless networks
and related fields. Among his publications in these fields are the recent book MIMO Wireless
Communications (Cambridge University Press, 2007), and the forthcoming book Quickest
Detection (Cambridge University Press, 2008).
Dr. Poor is a member of the U. S. National Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the
American Academy of Arts & Sciences, and a former Guggenheim Fellow. He is also a Fellow
of the IEEE, the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, the Optical Society of America, and
other scientific and technical organizations. He has served as the President of the IEEE
Information Theory Society, as a member of the IEEE Board of Directors, and as Editor-
in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. Recent recognition of his work
includes the 2005 IEEE Education Medal, the 2007 IEEE Marconi Prize Paper Award, and
the 2007 Technical Achievement Award of the IEEE Signal Processing Society.
Registration fee
150 euros (coffee breaks, lunches, Monday dinner included, copy of transparencies) to be paid by transfer to the following bank (Dexia) account number : 091-0015728-43, mentionning your name and "pour GSEC50C5, inscription Security"
Bank name : Dexia Account holder's name : Université catholique de Louvain
IBAN : BE66.0910.0157.2843 BIC (SWIFT) : GKCCBEBB 44, Boulevard Pacheco, B - 1000 Bruxelles
Venue
The course will take place in the Mercator building. According to the map available here :
- Nr. 9 in square D8 is where the course will be held.
- For people coming by car, the closest free parking is the parking "Rédimé" in square D9.
- For people coming by train, the "Louvain-la-Neuve-univ." station is in square D6-7.
Timetable
9.30 - 13.00 (coffee break from 11 to 11.30)
13.00-14.00 : lunch
14.00-17.00 (coffee break from 15.30 to 16)
Accomodation
For Hotel Le Relais , please click on http://www.relais.ucl.ac.be/, for Hotel Mercure, click on
http://www.accorhotels.com/accorhotels/fichehotel/fr/mer/2200/fiche_hotel.shtml