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ACE / NEWCOM AUTUMN SCHOOL

Space-Time Coding

Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy, October 9-12, 2006

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Welcome

The purpose of this school is to provide the standard and new tools of the space-time coding used in wireless communications. We will focus on the well-known block coding (Alamouti and BLAST schemes) as well as on the most recent and powerful coding such as Golden codes. Decoding and information-theoretic aspects will be also treated. As for applications, we will concentrate on the Wimax.

This school is organized by Emanuele Viterbo from Politecnico di Torino (Polito, Turin, Italy), Jean-Claude Belfiore and Philippe Ciblat from Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications (ENST, Paris, France).

Registration

The course will be held in Politecnico di Torino, Turin , Italy, from October 9 to October 12, 2006 on the main campus (sede centrale, in Italian).

Reception desk will start on Monday October 9th at 8:30 in
Sala Buzano, Dipartimento di Matematica (3rd floor),
Politecnico di Torino
Corso Duca degli Abruzzi 24, Torino, Italy


The registration is now closed.

Notice that the attendance is free of charge for any participant. Even if this school is organized in the framework of Network of Excellence ACE and NEWCOM, the participants may not need to be ACE or NEWCOM members.

Speakers

Program

October 9th October 10th October 11th October 12th
9h00 - 12h15 Diversity
code design criterion
by E. Viterbo
Ergodic capacity, outage probability,
Diversity and Multiplexing trade-off,
and approximate universal codes

by S. Yang
Decoders
by J.-C. Belfiore
Distributed Space-Time coding
by S. Yang
Lunch
14h00 - 17h15 Alamouti code, BLAST,
orthogonal codes,
and associate decoders

by E. Viterbo
Cyclic division algebra based codes
(Golden codes and perfect codes)

by E. Viterbo
Non-coherent codes
by J.-C. Belfiore
17h30 - 18h30 Attendees talks

Attendees talks: during an afternoon session, the attendees may introduce their own works. In order to submit a talk (which has to rely on space-time coding), just send an email to Philippe Ciblat (before 09/22)

Slides: Hard copies of the slides will be available during the lectures.

Venue

The course will be held in the main campus (Address : Corso Duca Degli Abruzzi 24) of the Politecnico di Torino, Turin , Italy.
The main campus is 15 minutes walking distance from the main railway station (Porta Nuova station). To reach Turin, see the followings links : Notice that express buses enable you to reach the center of Turin (actually the main railway station) from the Turin airport.

Accomodation

A lot of hotels are located around this railway station. Notice that the main station is on the border of the city center. More information can be found on

Lunch

The lunch is not included in the registration. But we advise you to lunch at the Polito self-service restaurant which is located at the main campus. Further information will be provided on site.




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The course is supported by ACE Network of Excellence as well as NEWCOM Network of Excellence.

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