1–4 June
Information Theory and Communications
"Energy-Efficient Communications via Network Coding"
by
Jos Weber
Delft University of Technology
Abstract: Network coding is a promising new technique which has been emerging in the last decade. While traditional routing solutions for communication networks keep independent data streams separate, network coding solutions allow nodes in the network to combine independent data streams. As a consequence, network coding has the potential to increase data rates, decrease energy consumption, reduce delay, increase robustness, provide security, etc. The price to be paid for these benefits may be a (slightly) higher complexity.
In this presentation, the focus is on possibilities to improve the energy efficiency in wireless communication networks through network coding techniques. Also, rather than considering interference in wireless networks as an annoying phenomenon which should be battled, it is shown how interference can be exploited by such techniques to improve the performance.
Biography: Jos H. Weber was born in Schiedam, The Netherlands, in 1961. He received the M.Sc. (in mathematics, with honors), Ph.D., and MBT (Master of Business Telecommunications) degrees from Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands, in 1985, 1989, and 1996, respectively. He is a senior member of the IEEE.
Since 1985 he has been with the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, and Computer Science of Delft University of Technology. Currently, he is an associate professor at the Wireless and Mobile Communications Group. He is the chairman of the WIC (Werkgemeenschap voor Informatie- en Communicatietheorie in the Benelux) and the secretary of the IEEE Benelux Chapter on Information Theory. He was a Visiting Researcher at the University of California at Davis, USA, the University of Johannesburg, South Africa, and the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan. His main research interests are in the areas of channel and network coding.