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Welcome to the UCLA Communication Systems Laboratory

News:


  • April 2013: Three CSL papers have been accepted to appear at the 2013 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory in Istanbul, Turkey.

  • July 2012: Thomas Courtade received the 2012 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory Best Paper Award.

  • May 2012: Tsung-Yi Chen was awarded the UCLA Dissertation Year Fellowship for 2012-2013.


  • Recent Research Projects:


  • "Variable-length Coding with Feedback: Finite-length Codewords and Periodic Decoding". IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Istanbul, Turkey, July 2013.

  • "Reliability-based Error Detection for Feedback Communication with Low Latency". IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Istanbul, Turkey, July 2013.

  • "Dynamic Voltage Allocation Based on Mutual Information for NAND Flash Memory". Non-Volatile Memories Workshop (NVMW), San Diego, CA, March, 2013.

  • "Firing the Genie: Two-Phase Short-blocklength Convolutional Coding with Feedback". IEEE Inf. Theory and Applications (ITA) Workshop, San Diego, CA, USA, February, 2013.

  • "Chernoff Bounds for Analysis of Rate-Compatible Sphere-Packing with Numerous Transmissions". IEEE Information Theory Workshop, Lausanne, Switzerland, September 2012.

  • "A Rate-Compatible Sphere-Packing Analysis of Feedback Coding with Limited Retransmissions". IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Cambridge, MA, July 2012.

  • "Minimizing Weighted Sum Finish Time for One-To-Many File Transfer in Peer-To-Peer Networks". Forty-Ninth Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, 2011.

  • "Weighted Universal Recovery, Practical Secrecy, and an Efficient Algorithm for Solving Both". Forty-Ninth Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, 2011.

  • "Superposition Coding to Support Multiple Streams, Priorities, and Channel Capacities in the Context of GMSK". to appear in MILCOM, 2011.

  • "On q-ary LDPC Code Design for a Low Error Floor". Globecom 2011, Houston, Texas, USA, December 2011.

  • "Protograph-Based Raptor-Like LDPC Codes for Rate Compatibility with Short Blocklengths". Globecom 2011, Houston, Texas, USA, December 2011.

  • "Soft Information for LDPC Decoding in Flash:Mutual-Information Optimized Quantization". Globecom 2011, Houston, Texas, USA, December 2011.

  • "Optimal Allocation of Redundancy Between Packet-Level Erasure Coding and Physical-Layer Channel Coding in Fading Channels". IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 59, No. 8, pages 2101 - 2109, August 2011.

  • "Absorbing Set Spectrum Approach for Practical Code Design". IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory 2011, Saint Petersburg, Russia, August 2011.

  • "Multiterminal Source Coding with an Entropy-Based Distortion Measure". IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory 2011, Saint Petersburg, Russia, August 2011. [slides]

  • "Controlling LDPC Absorbing Sets via the Null Space of the Cycle Consistency Matrix". ICC 2011: Kyoto, Japan, June 2011.

  • "A Sphere-Packing Analysis of Incremental Redundancy with Feedback". ICC 2011, Kyoto, Japan, June 2011.

  • "LDPC Absorbing Sets, the Null Space of the Cycle Consistency Matrix, and Tanner's Constructions". ITA 2011, San Diego, CA, USA, February 2011.

  • "Incremental Redundancy: A Comparison of a Sphere-Packing Analysis and Convolutional Codes". ITA 2011, San Diego, CA, USA, February 2011.


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