ACE / NEWCOM AUTUMN SCHOOL Space-Time Coding Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy, October 9-12, 2006

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

• Jean-Claude Belfiore, Full Professor at ENST
• Emanuele Viterbo, Professor at Polito
• Sheng Yang, PhD Student at ENST

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 :

• Turin airport
• Italian railway

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

• Turin Tourism
• List of hotels (I)
• List of hotels (II)

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.

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