INFOTECH OULU DOCTORAL PROGRAM AND RESCUE PROJECTSUMMER SCHOOL ON DISTRIBUTED COMPRESSION WITH APPLICATIONS

24-27 August, 2015
Lecture Hall A2, University of Oulu, Finland

The summer school is targeted to graduate students, postdocs and otherresearchers in the field of information theory, signal processing andcommunications engineering. It is organized by the University of Oulu Centrefor Wireless Communications (CWC) and Infotech Oulu Doctoral Program inco-operation with Links-on-the-fly Technology for Robust, Efficient and Smart
Communication in Unpredictable Environments (RESCUE) FP7 Project.
The course consists of two main parts:xx

Basic information theory lectures by Professor Gerhard Kramer
Presentations of recent results from RESCUEThe objective is to introduce a basic information theoretical framework of
distributed lossy and lossless source compression. Furthermore, the summer
school aims at presenting applications of the information theoretical foundations
to lossy decode-and-forward relay networks. In the poster session participants
can demonstrate their results and get feedback from experts.

Participation in lectures and otherscientifical sessions is free ofcharge. Lunches are available atown cost in university campusrestaurants.
Summer School Social Event on
Thursday 27th of August is open
for all summer school participants
for a fee of 50 € incl. dinner andpossibility to sauna bath (traditional Finnish smoke sauna
available). Payment instructions
are provided in registration form.

1. INFORMATION THEORETIC FOUNDATIONSOF DISTRIBUTED COMPRESSION (18 H)
With the increasing interest toward wireless sensor networks due toincreasing practical relevance of the internet of things, there is also a revived interest in joint optimization of distributed
compression, communications and networking. The information theoretic foundations of those are relatively wellunderstood when the problems are viewed in separation, but important open problems also exist. The fundamental
understanding of information theoretic limits is of fundamental importance in future research of big data problems overwireless internet of things in general and wireless sensor networks in particular.
SCOPE: AND CONTENTS:
Distributed data compression, source coding, rate distortion theory and compressive sensing with information theory
approach in wireless networks
INSTRUCTOR:
Prof. Gerhard Kramer, TU München, Germany

2. RECENT RESULTS AND ACHIEVEMENTS IN LOSSY DECODE-AND-FORWARD
RELAY NETWORKS: FROM THEORY TOWARDS PROOF-OF-CONCEPT (7 H)
Current communication standards and systems are not optimally prepared for their application in unpredictableenvironments which occur for example in serious disaster scenarios such as earthquakes or tsunamis. Cellularcommunications systems are planned using accurate/strict link budget allocation mechanisms, in order to keep theprobability of outage in an acceptable range. The whole communication chain (coding, signaling chain, but as well as
higher layer protocols) is optimized for the operation in this range. Therefore, communication services perform poorly
or fail completely in unpredictable environments.

RESCUE is an EU project proposing an integrated concept “links on the fly” which encompasses the key technologies of
distributed joint source/channel coding in lossy wireless networks, exploitation of multi-path information transfer inwireless mesh networks, distributed and centralized MAC/network protocols for channel access, and routing, crosslayer design for interference management and error control.
Some recent results will be presented from each work package of the technical part of RESCUE project:xxxx

WP1: Theoretical analyses for limit and rate-distortion region
WP2: Code and algorithm design and optimization
WP3: Message transfer
WP4: Validation, integration and field trials

SCOPE AND CONTENTS:
Following topics are considered in the context of lossy decode-and-forward relaying network: rate region and outage
probability analysis, coding/decoding and power allocation algorithms, MAC layer protocols, validation and verification
concepts.
KEY SPEAKERS:
Prof. Tadashi Matsumoto, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
Dr. Yi Ma, University of Surrey, UK

TIMETABLE:
Monday 24.8.2015
BASICSTimeSessionLecturer

8:30-10:00

Entropy, Divergence, and Information

Professor Gerhard Kramer

10:30-12:00

Typical Sequences and Sets

Professor Gerhard Kramer

12:00-13:15

Lunch Break

13:15-14:45

Rate Distortion Theory

Professor Gerhard Kramer

15:00-15:30

Wrap upProfessor Gerhard Kramer

Tuesday 25.8.2015 in
DISTRIBUTED SOURCE CODING

TimeSession

Lecturer

8:30-10:00

Lossless Distributed Source Coding

Professor Gerhard Kramer

10:30-12:00

Lossy Source Coding with Side Information

Professor Gerhard Kramer

12:00-13:15

Lunch Break

13:15-14:45

Lossy Distributed Source Coding

Professor Gerhard Kramer15:00-15:30

Wrap upProfessor Gerhard Kramer

INFOTECH OULU DOCTORAL PROGRAM AND RESCUE PROJECTSUMMER SCHOOL ON DISTRIBUTED COMPRESSION WITH APPLICATIONS

24-27 August, 2015
Lecture Hall A2, University of Oulu, Finland

Wednesday 26.8.2015
NETWORKSTimeSession

Lecturer

8:30-10:00

Multiple Description Source Coding

Professor Gerhard Kramer

10:30-12:00

Compress-Forward Relaying

Professor Gerhard Kramer

12:00-13:15

Lunch Break

13:15-14:45

Noisy Network Coding

Professor Gerhard Kramer

15:00-15:30

Wrap Up

Professor Gerhard Kramer

15:30-16:30

Poster Session

Thursday 27.8.2015
RECENT RESULTS AND ACHIEVEMENTS IN LOSSY DECODE-AND-FORWARD RELAY NETWORKS:FROM THEORY TOWARDS PROOF-OF-CONCEPTTimeSessionOrganizer

8:30-9:15

Links-on-the-fly technologies: from thecorrelated source coding theorem
viewpoint

Professor Tadashi Matsumoto

9:30-10:30

Towards terabits per second wirelesscommunications

Dr. Yi Ma, University of Surrey

10:30-11:30

Theoretical analysis for lossy decode-andforward relay networks

RESCUE WP1

11:30-12:30

Lunch Break

12:30-13:15

Physical and lower MAC layer code design
and power allocation

RESCUE WP2

13:15-14:00

Organizing Message Transfer over Linkson-the-Fly

RESCUE WP3

14:15-15:00

Validation and Verification Concepts
within RESCUERESCUE WP4

18:00-22:00

Summer School Social Event “Finnish Evening” (participation fee € 50)