The following group members will be presenting their work at the upcoming 2016 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory Tobias Koch and Gonzalo Vazquez-Vilar, «A General Rate-Distortion Converse Bound for Entropy-Constrained Scalar Quantization” Markus Stinner (TUM), Luca Barletta (Politecnico di Milano) and Pablo M. Olmos, «Finite-Length Scaling Based on Belief Propagation for Spatially Coupled LDPC…
A new paper from the group has been accepted for publication The paper “The Shannon lower bound is asymptotically tight” by T. Koch has been accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. Abstract: The Shannon lower bound is one of the few lower bounds on the rate-distortion function that holds for a…
A new paper from the group has been accepted for publication The paper “Bayesian M-ary Hypothesis Testing: The Meta-Converse and Verdú-Han Bounds are Tight” by G. Vazquez-Vilar, A. Tauste Campo, A. Guillén i Fàbregas and A. Martinez has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. Abstract: Two alternative exact characterizations of the minimum error probability…
A new paper from the group has been accepted for publication The paper “Layered Adaptive Importance Sampling” by L. Martino, V. Elvira, D. Luengo, and J. Corander has been accepted for publication in Statistics and Computing. Abstract: Monte Carlo methods represent the «de facto» standard for approximating complicated integrals involving multidimensional target distributions. In order to generate random realizations from…
Join us for an invited talk with David López-Pérez (Bell Labs Alcatel-Lucent): Title: “Understanding Capacity Scaling through Dense Deployments in Future Radio Access Networks” Event Date: February, 4. 12:00-13:00. Location: 4.2.E03 Room; Torres Quevedo Building; Leganés Campus; Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Abstract: Today’s heterogeneous networks comprised of mostly macrocells and indoor small cells will…
A new paper from the group has been accepted for publication The paper «Short-Packet Communications over Multiple-Antenna Rayleigh-Fading Channels» by Giuseppe Durisi, Tobias Koch, Johan Östman, Yury Polyanskiy, and Wei Yang has been accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Communications. Abtract: Motivated by the current interest in ultra-reliable, low-latency, machine-type communication systems, we…
Join us for an invited talk with Roy Timo (Technische Universität München): Title: «Communications for Tracking and Control». Event Date: Tuesday, December, 15, 2015; 12:00 Location: 4.0.E06 Room; Torres Quevedo Building; Leganés Campus; Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Abstract: We will give an introduction to the problem of tracking an unstable linear system over a…
Pablo García Moreno, a PhD student in the Signal Processing Group of the University Carlos III de Madrid will defend his doctoral thesis titled «Bayesian Nonparametrics for Crowdsourcing» on November 13. Title: «Bayesian Nonparametrics for Crowdsourcing» Advisor: Fernando Pérez Cruz and Antonio Artés Rodríguez. Event Date: Friday, November 13, 2015, 11:30 am. Location: Adoración de…
Join us for an invited lecture with Dr. Finale Doshi-Velez (School of Engineering and Applied Sciences; Harvard University): Title: «Interpretable and Predictive Generative Models: Case Study of Deriving Data-Driven Phenotype Trajectories in Autism Spectrum Disorders«. Event Date: Thursday, November 12; 2015, 16:00 am Location: 4.0.E05 Room; Torres Quevedo Building; Leganés Campus; Universidad Carlos III de…
Two new papers from the group have been accepted for their publication: The paper «On the Waterfall Performance of Finite-length SC-LDPC Codes Constructed from Protographs» by Markus Stinner and Pablo M. Olmos has been accepted for publication in IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, special issue on Recent Advances in Capacity Approaching codes. November…