What are the Benefits of Coding in Content Distribution Networks?

Emina Soljanin
Bell Laboratories

Monday, November 19, 2007 at 1:00PM

54-134 Engineering IV Building
Refreshments Served

Abstract: Network coding is an elegant and novel technique introduced at the turn of the millennium to improve network throughput and performance. Its power comes from allowing network nodes to combine and process different incoming information streams. It is widely believed that potential benefits of network coding are huge, in particular in terms of throughput and security. This talk will examine if such beliefs are generally justified, and quantify coding benefits for certain network topologies and traffic scenarios.

Biography: Emina Soljanin received the B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Sarajevo University, Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1986, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Texas A&M University, College Station, in 1989 and 1994. From 1986 to 1988, she worked in the Energoinvest Company, Bosnia and Herzegovina, developing optimization algorithms and software for power system control. After graduating from Texas A&M, she joined Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ, where she now serves as a Distinguished Member Staff in the Mathematical Sciences Research Center. Her research interests are in the broad area of communications, information and coding theory as well as their applications in storage and wireless systems, and, more recently, quantum computation and statistics. Dr. Soljanin was the recipient of the 1992 Texas A&M University Electrical Engineering Department Fouraker fellowship. She served as a Technical Proof-Reader, 1990-1992, and as the Associate Editor for Coding Techniques, 1997-2000, for the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. She was a co-chair for DIMACS Special Focus on Computational Information Theory and Coding 2001-2005.