Papers and Co-Authors Related to the ERC Starting Grant Project CTO Com

Below list shows all our papers related to the CTO Com project (sorted by theme). We first provide an exhaustive list of all co-authors on these papers.

Co-Authors: Faculties and Researchers
  • Philippe Ciblat, Telecom Paris, France
  • Yasser Fadlallah, University of Sciences and Arts in Lebanon, Lebanon
  • Jean-Marie Gorce, INSA Lyon, France
  • Mari Kobayashi, TU Munich, Germany, and CentraleSupelec, France
  • Yuval Kochman, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
  • Amos Lapidoth, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
  • Stefan Moser, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan, and ETH Zurich, Switzerland
  • Shirin Saeedi Bidokhti, University of Pennsylvania, US
  • Sadaf Salehkalaibar, Teheran University, Iran
  • Mireille Sarkiss, Telecom SudParis, France
  • Shlomo Shamai, Technion, Israel
  • Roy Timo, Ericsson, Sweden
  • Ligong Wang, University of Cergy Pontoise, CNRS, France
  • Sheng Yang, CentraleSupelec, France
  • Roy Yates, Rutgers University, US
  • Aylin Yener, The Ohio State University, US
  • Abdellatif Zaidi, Huawei Technologies, and University Paris-Est, France

  • Co-Authors: PhD Students, PostDocs, and Research Engineers
  • Othmane Oubejja, former Research Engineer, now working in industry
  • Shuai Ma, former PostDoc at Telecom Paris, now Assistant Professor at China University of Mining and Technology
  • David Kibloff, former PostDoc at Telecom Paris, now working in industry
  • Qifa Yan, former PostDoc at Telecom Paris, now faculty at Southwest Jiao Tong University
  • Nagananda Kyatsandra Gurukumar, former PostDoc at Telecom Paris, now working in industry
  • Sarah Kamel, former PostDoc at Telecom Paris, now working in industry
  • Chien-Yi Wang, former PostDoc at Telecom Paris, now working in industry
  • Nir Weinberger, PostDoc at MIT
  • Homa Nikbakth, former PhD student at Telecom Paris, now PostDoc at INSA Lyon
  • Pierre Escamilla, former PhD student at Telecom Paris, now working in industry
  • Longuang Li, former PhD student at Telecom Paris, now Assistant Professor at East China Normal University
  • Mustapha Hamad, PhD student at Telecom Paris
  • Mehrasa Ahmadipour, PhD student at Telecom Paris
  • Yue Bi, PhD student at Telecom Paris
  • Robert Graczyk, PhD student at ETH Zurich
  • Haoyue Tang, PhD student at Tsinghua University



  • All Publications related to the Project CTO Com

    Cache-Aided Systems

  • S. Saeedi Bidokhti, R. Timo, and M. Wigger, "Rate-Distortion Theory for Caching", chapter in "Edge Caching for Mobile Networks", edited by H. Vincent Poor and Wei Chen.
  • Y. Fadlallah, O. Oubejja, S. Kamel, P. Ciblat, M. Wigger, and J.-M. Gorce, Cache-Aided Polar Coding: From Theory to Implementation,
    Journal on Selected Areas in Information Theory, Dec. 2021.
  • (Link to Implementation Code)
  • S. Saeedi Bidokhti, M. Wigger, and A. Yener, Benefits of Cache Assignment on Degraded Broadcast Channels,
    IEEE Trans. on Inf. Theory, vol. 65, no. 11, pp. 6999-7019, Nov. 2019.
  • S. Kamel, M. Sarkiss, M. Wigger, and G. Rekaya-Ben Othman, Secrecy Capacity-Memory Tradeoff of Erasure Broadcast Channels,
    IEEE Trans. on Inf. Theory, vol. 65, no. 8, pp. 5094-5124, Aug. 2019.
  • C.-Y. Wang, S. Saeedi Bidokhti, and M. Wigger, Improved Converses and Gap-Results for Coded Caching,
    IEEE Trans. on Inf. Theory, vol.~64, vol. 11, pp. 7051-7062, November 2018.
  • S. Saeedi Bidokhti, M. Wigger, and R. Timo, Noisy Broadcast Networks with Receiver Caching,
    IEEE Trans. on Inf. Theory, vol. 64, no. 11, pp. 6996-7016, Nov. 2018.
  • R. Timo, S. Saeedi Bidokhti, M. Wigger, and B. Geiger, A Rate-Distortion Approach to Caching,
    IEEE Trans. on Information Theory, vol. 64, no. 3, pp. 1957-1976, March 2018.
  • H. Nikbakht, S. Kamel, M. Wigger, and A. Yener, Stochastic D2D Caching with Energy Harvesting Nodes, 2020 18th IEEE WiOPT, Jun. 15-19, 2020, Volos, Greece.
  • M. Sarkiss and M. Wigger, Multi-library Coded Caching with Partial Secrecy, IEEE ITW 2019, Visby, Sweden, Aug. 25-28, 2019.
  • S. Kamel, M. Sarkiss, and M. Wigger, Decentralized coded caching for wiretap broadcast channels, in Proc. Globecom 2018, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Dec. 9-13, 2018.
  • Q. Yan, M. Wigger, and S. Yang, Placement delivery array design for combination networks with edge caching, in Proc. ISIT 2018, Vail, USA, June 17-22, 2018.
  • S. Kamel, M. Sarkiss, and M. Wigger, Decentralized joint cache-channel coding over erasure broadcast channels, 2018 IEEE MENACOMM, Apr 2018, Jounieh, Lebanon.
  • S. Kamel, M. Wigger, and M. Sarkiss, Coded Caching for Wiretap Broadcast Channels, in Proc. ITW 2017, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Nov. 6-11, 2017. (Invited Paper)
  • Optical Wireless/Visible Light Communication

  • L. Li, S. M. Moser, L. Wang, and M. Wigger, On the Capacity of MIMO Optical Wireless Channels,
    IEEE Trans. on Inf. Theory, vol. 66, no. 9, pp. 5660-5682, Sep. 2020.
  • S. M. Moser, L. Wang, and M. Wigger, Capacity Results on Multiple-Input Single-Output Wireless Optical Channels,
    IEEE Trans. on Inf. Theory, vol. 64, no. 11, pp. 6954-6966, Nov. 2018.
  • L. Li, S. M. Moser, L. Wang, and M. Wigger, On the Capacity of Block Fading Optical Wireless Channels, 2019 IEEE Globecom, Waikoloa, USA, Dec. 9-13, 2019.
  • S. Ma and M. Wigger, First- and Second-Moment Constrained Gaussian Channels, IEEE ISIT 2021, 12-20 July 2021.
  • L. Li, S. M. Moser, L. Wang, and M. Wigger, On the capacity of MIMO optical wireless channels, in Proc. ITW 2018, Guangzhou, China, Nov. 25-29, 2018.
  • L. Li, S. M. Moser, L. Wang, and M. Wigger, The MISO free-space optical channel at low and moderate SNR, in Proc. CISS, Princeton (NJ), USA, March 21-23, 2018.
  • S. M. Moser, L. Wang, and M. Wigger, Asymptotic High-SNR Capacity of MISO Optical Intensity Channels, in Proc. ITW 2017, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Nov. 6-11, 2017.
  • Mixed-Delay Traffic

  • H. Nikbakth, M. Wigger, and S. Shamai (Shitz), Coordinated Multi Point Transmission and Reception for Mixed-Delay Traffic,
    extended version of article accepted at IEEE Trans. on Communications, Aug. 2021.
  • H. Nikbakht, M. Wigger, and S. Shamai, Multiplexing Gains under Mixed-Delay Constraints on Wyner's Soft-Handoff Model,
    Entropy 2020, 22, 182, Feb. 2020
  • H. Nikbakth, M. Wigger, S. Shamai (Shitz), and J.-M. Gorce, Cooperative Encoding and Decoding of Mixed Delay Traffic under Random-User Activity, IEEE ITW 2021, 17-21 October 2021.
  • H. Nikbakth, M. Wigger, and S. Shamai (Shitz), Random User Activity with Mixed Delay Traffic, IEEE ITW 2020, 12-15 April 2021.
  • H. Nikbakht, M. Wigger, W. Hachem, and S. Shamai, Mixed Delay Constraints on a Fading C-RAN Uplink, IEEE ITW 2019, Visby, Sweden, Aug. 25-28, 2019.
  • H. Nikbakht, M. Wigger and S. Shamai, Multiplexing Gain Region of Sectorized Cellular Networks with Mixed Delay Constraints, 2019 IEEE SPAWC, Cannes, France, July 2-5, 2019.
  • H. Nikbakht, M. Wigger, and S. Shamai, Mixed delay constraints at maximum sum-multiplexing gain, in Proc. ITW 2018, Guangzhou, China, Nov. 25-29, 2018.
  • H. Nikbakht, M. Wigger, and S. Shamai, Mixed delay constraints in Wyner's soft-handoff network, in Proc. ISIT 2018, Vail, USA, June 17-22, 2018.
  • Distributed Hypothesis Testing/Distributed Decision System

  • R. Salehkalaibar and M. Wigger, Distributed Hypothesis Testing with Variable-Length Coding,
    Journal on Selected Areas in Information Theory, vol. 1, no. 3, pp. 681-694, Nov. 2020.
  • S. Salehkalaibar and M. Wigger, Distributed Hypothesis Testing over Noisy Broadcast Channels,
    Entropy, July 2021.
  • P. Escamilla, M. Wigger, and A. Zaidi, Distributed Hypothesis Testing: Cooperation and Concurrent Detection,
    IEEE Trans. on Inf. Theory, vol. 66, no. 12, pp. 7550-7564, Dec. 2020.
  • S. Salehkalaibar and M. Wigger, Distributed Hypothesis Testing Based on Unequal-Error Protection Codes,
    IEEE Trans. on Inf. Theory, vol. 66, no. 7, pp. 4150-4182, Jul. 2020.
  • S. Salehkalaibar, M. Wigger, and L. Wang, Hypothesis Testing over the Two-Hop Relay Networks,
    IEEE Trans. on Inf. Theory, vol. 65, no. 7, pp. 4411-4433, July 2019.
  • S. Salehkalaibar, M. Wigger, and R. Timo, On Hypothesis Testing Against Independence with Multiple Decision Centers,
    IEEE Trans. on Communications, vol. 66, no. 6, pp. 2409-2420, June 2018.
  • M. Hamad, M. Wigger, and S. Sarkiss, Two-Hop Network with Multiple Decision Centers under Expected-Rate Constraints, IEEE Globecom 2021, 7-11 December 2021.
  • M. Hamad, M. Wigger, and S. Sarkiss, Optimal Exponents In Cascaded Hypothesis Testing under Expected Rate Constraints, IEEE ITW 2021, 12-15 October 2021.
  • M. Hamad, M. Wigger, and S. Sarkiss, Cooperative Multi-Sensor Detection under Variable-Length Coding, IEEE ITW 2020, 12-15 April 2021.
  • P. Escamilla, A. Zaidi, and M. Wigger, Some results on the vector Gaussian hypothesis testing problem, IEEE ISIT 2020, 21-26 June 2020.
  • S. Salehkalaibar and M. Wigger Distributed Hypothesis Testing wiht Variable-Length Coding, 2020 18th IEEE WiOPT, Jun. 15-19, 2020, Volos, Greece.
  • N. Weinberger, Y. Kochman and M. Wigger, Exponent Trade-off for Hypothesis Testing Over Noisy Channels, 2019 IEEE ISIT, Paris, France, July 7-12, 2019, pp. 1852-1856.
  • S. Salehkalaibar and M. Wigger, Distributed hypothesis testing over multi-access channels, in Proc. Globecom 2018, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Dec. 9-13, 2018.
  • P. Escamilla, M. Wigger, and A. Zaidi, Distributed hypothesis testing with collaborative detection, in Proc. Allerton 2018, Monticello, USA, Oct. 3-5, 2018.
  • P. Escamilla, M. Wigger, and A. Zaidi, Distributed hypothesis testing with concurrent detection, in Proc. ISIT 2018, Vail, USA, June 17-22, 2018.
  • S. Salehkalaibar and M. Wigger, Distributed Hypothesis Testing Over a Noisy Channel, in Proc. of IZS 2018, Zurich, Switzerland, Feb. 21-23, 2018.
  • S. Salehkalaibar, M. Wigger, and L. Wang, Hypothesis Testing over Cascade channels, in Proc. ITW 2017, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Nov. 6-11, 2017.
  • Distributed Computing

  • Q. Yan, S. Yang, and M. Wigger, Storage-Computation-Communication Tradeoff in Distributed Computing: Fundamental Limits and Complexity, submitted to IEEE Trans. on Inf. Theory, Sep. 2020.
  • Q. Yan, M. Wigger, S. Yang, and X. Tang, A Fundamental Storage-Communication Tradeoff in Distributed Computing with Straggling Nodes, IEEE Trans. on Communications, vol. 68, no. 12, pp. 7311-7327, Dec. 2020.
  • Q. Yan, M. Wigger, S. Yang and X. Tang, A Fundamental Storage-Communication Tradeoff in Distributed Computing with Straggling Nodes, 2019 IEEE ISIT, Paris, France, July 7-12, 2019, pp. 2803-2807.
  • Q. Yan, S. Yang, and M. Wigger, Storage, computation, communication: a fundamental tradeoff in distributed computing, in Proc. ITW 2018, Guangzhou, China, Nov. 25-29, 2018.
  • Q. Yan, S. Yang, and M. Wigger, A storage-computation-communication tradeoff for distributed computing, in Proc. ISWCS 2018, Lisbon, Portugal, Aug. 28-31, 2018. (Invited paper)
  • Coordination and Sensing

  • R. Graczyk, A. Lapidoth, and M. Wigger, Conditional and Relevant Common Information,
    to appear in Information and Inference: A Journal of the IMA, Sep. 2020.
  • M. Ahmadipour, M. Kobayashi, M. Wigger, and G. Caire An Information-Theoretic Approach to Joint Sensing and Communication, submitted to IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, July 2021.
  • M. Ahmadipour, M. Wigger, and M. Kobayashi, Joint Sensing and Communication over Memoryless Broadcast Channels, IEEE ITW 2020, 12-15 April 2021.
  • Age of Information

  • H. Tang, P. Ciblat, J. Wang, M. Wigger, R. Yates, Cache Updating Strategy Minimizing the Age of Information with Time-Varying Files' Popularities, IEEE ITW 2020, 12-15 April 2021.
  • H. Tang, P. Ciblat, J. Wang, M. Wigger, and R. Yates, Age of Information Aware Cache Updating with File- and Age-Dependent Update Durations, 2020 18th IEEE WiOPT, Jun. 15-19, 2020, Volos, Greece.
  • R. Yates, P. Ciblat, A. Yener, and M. Wigger, Age-Optimal Constrained Cache-Updating, in Proc. ISIT 2017, Aachen, Germany, June 25-30, 2017.