Updated 26.11.2009
The Third International Workshop on Computational Advances in Multi-Sensor Adaptive Processing
 
Technical Program


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Sunday, Dec 13

17:00 - 20:00
Registration at reception
Room: Foyer Area

18:30 - 20:00
Welcome Reception
Room: Laguna Restaurant
 
Monday, Dec 14

8:00 - 12:00
Registration
Room: Foyer Area

8:40 - 9:00
Opening Remarks
Room: Salon A

9:00 - 9:45
Plenary 1: Resource Allocation and Game Theory
(Eric G. Larsson, Linkoping University, Sweden)

Chair: Daniel Palomar (HKUST, Hong Kong)
Room: Salon A

10:00 - 12:00
Invited Session 1: Game Theory
Chair: Daniel P Palomar (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)
Room: Salon A
10:00 Network Formation Games for Wireless Multi-hop Networks in the Presence of Eavesdroppers
Walid Saad (University of Oslo, UniK, Norway); Are Hjørungnes (University of Oslo, Norway); Zhu Han (University of Houston, USA); Tamer Basar (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)

10:20 Pareto-Optimal Beamforming for the MISO Interference Channel With Partial CSI
Eleftherios Karipidis (Linköping University, Sweden); Andreas Gruendinger (Linköping University, Sweden); Johannes Lindblom (Linköping University, Sweden); Erik G. Larsson (Linköping University, Sweden)

10:40 Alternative bargaining solutions for the interference channel
Ephraim Zehavi (Bar-Ilan University, Israel); Amir Leshem (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)

11:00 On Proportional Power Sharing Mechanisms for Secondary Spectrum Markets
Randall Berry (Northwestern University, USA)

11:20 K-Player Bayesian Waterfilling Game for Fading Multiple Access Channels
Gaoning He (Telecom ParisTech, France); Merouane Debbah (Supelec, France); Samson Lasaulce (CNRS/LSS, France)

11:40 Pricing, Competition, and Routing in Multi-hop Networks
Edmund Yeh (Yale University, USA)

Invited Session 2: Robust Methods for SAM
Chair: Abdelhak Zoubir (Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany)
Room: Salon B
10:00 A Theoretical Framework for Problems Requiring Robust Behavior
Rafael Carrillo (University of Delaware, USA); Tuncer Aysal (Cornell University, USA); Kenneth E Barner (Univesity of Delaware, USA)

10:20 Measuring the robustness of sequential methods
Petar Djuric (State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA); Monica F. Bugallo (Stony Brook University, USA); Pau Closas (Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC), Spain); Joaquin Miguez (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain)

10:40 Outlier Elimination for Robust Ellipse and Ellipsoid Fitting Jieqi Yu (Princeton University, USA); Haipeng Zheng (Princeton University, USA); Sanjeev Kulkarni (Princeton University, USA); H. Vincent Poor (Princeton University, USA)

11:00 Accuracy of Source Localization Based on Squared-Range Least Squares (SR-LS) Criterion
Richard J. Kozick (Bucknell University, USA); Brian Sadler (Army Research Laboratory, USA)

11:20 Robust Semiparametric Amplitude Estimation of Sinusoidal Signals: The Multi-Sensor Case
Michael Muma (Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany); Ulrich Hammes (TU Darmstadt, Germany); Abdelhak Zoubir (Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany)

11:40 Robust short-term load forecasting using projection
Yacine Chakhchoukh (Paris sud XI, France); Pascal Bondon (LSS CNRS, France); Lamine Mili (Virginia Tech, USA)

13:00 - 13:45
Plenary 2: Multilinear Rank Approximation Problems are Extremal Eigenvalue Problems (Bart De Moor, KU Leuven, Belgium)
Chair: Ali H. Sayed (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
Room: Salon A

14:00 - 16:00
Invited Session 3: Network Gossiping and Distributed Sensor Processing
Chair: Anna Scaglione (Cornell University, Italy)
Room: Salon A
14:00 Self-Organization in Bird Flight Formations Using Diffusion Adaptation
Federico S Cattivelli (University of California, Los Angeles, USA); Ali H. Sayed (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)

14:20 Directed Gossiping for Distributed Data Aggregation
Mehmet Yildiz (Cornell University, USA); Anna Scaglione (Cornell University, Italy)

14:40 Gossip and consensus in mobile networks
Anand D. Sarwate (University of California, San Diego, USA); Alex Dimakis (California Institute of Technology, USA)

15:00 Selective Gossip
Deniz Ustebay (McGill University, Canada); Rui Castro (Columbia University, USA); Michael Rabbat (McGill University, Canada)

15:20 Distributed sensor localization using barycentric coordinates
Usman Khan (Carnegie Mellon University, USA); Soummya Kar (Carnegie Mellon University, USA); Jose Moura (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)

15:40 Quadratic Gaussian Gossiping
Han-I Su (Stanford University, USA); Abbas El Gamal (Stanford University, USA)

Invited Session 4: Tensor-Based Signal Processing for Multi-Sensor Systems
Chair: Martin Haardt (Ilmenau University of Technology, Germany)
Room: Salon B
14:00 Methods for Factorization and Approximation of Tensors by Partial Fiber Sampling
Cesar Federico Caiafa (RIKEN BSI, Laboratory for Advanced Brain Signal Processing, Japan); Andrzej S Cichocki (RIKEN BSI, Laboratory for Advanced Brain Signal Processing, Japan)

14:20 Analytical performance evaluation for HOSVD-based parameter estimation schemes
Florian Roemer (Ilmenau University of Technology, Germany); Hanna Becker (Ilmenau University of Technology, Germany); Martin Haardt (Ilmenau University of Technology, Germany); Martin Weis (Ilmenau University of Technology, Germany)

14:40 Single Snapshot R-D Unitary Tensor-ESPRIT Using an Augmentation of the Tensor Order
Arpita Thakre (Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India, India); Martin Haardt (Ilmenau University of Technology, Germany)

15:00 Higher-Order PCA for Anomaly Detection in Large-Scale Networks
Hayang Kim (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA); Sungeun Lee (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA); Xiaoli Ma (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA); Chao Wang (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)

15:20 A link between the decomposition of a third-order tensor in rank-(L,L,1) terms and joint block diagonalization
Dimitri Nion (KU Leuven Belgium, Belgium); Lieven De Lathauwer (K.U.Leuven, Belgium)

15:40 A PARAFAC decomposition based algorithm for blind MIMO source separation
Rémi Dubroca (Université du Sud Toulon-Var, LSEET UMR 6017, France); Christophe De Luigi (Université du Sud Toulon-Var, LSEET UMR 6017, France); Eric Moreau (University of Sud Toulon Var, France)

16:20 - 17:40
Invited Session 5a: Network Beamforming and
Distributed Space-Time Coding - Part I

Chair: Alex Gershman (Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany) ,
Shahram Shahbazpanahi (University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada)
Room: Salon A
16:20 Cooperative Relaying with Side Information
Amir S. Avestimehr (Cornell University, USA)

16:40 A Semi-Closed-Form Solution To Optimal Decentralized Beamforming for Two-Way Relay Networks
Shahram Shahbazpanahi (University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada)

17:00 Joint Subcarrier Power Loading and Distrbuted Beamforming
Ahmed Abdelkader (Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany); Shahram Shahbazpanahi (University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada); Alex Gershman (Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany)

17:20 On Communication Protocol and Beamforming Design for Amplify-and-Forward N-Way Relay Networks
Feifei Gao (Jacobs University, Bremen, Germany); Tao Cui (California Institut of Technology, USA); Bin Jiang (National Mobile Communications Research Lab.,Southeast University, P.R. China); Xiqi Gao (Southest University, P.R. China)

Sparsity-Based Signal Processing
Chair: Sergiy A. Vorobyov (University of Alberta, Canada)
Room: Salon B
16:20 Segmented Compressed Sampling for Analog-to-Information Conversion
Sergiy A. Vorobyov (University of Alberta, Canada); Omid Taheri (University of Alberta, Canada)

16:40 Exploiting Covariance-domain Sparsity for Dimensionality Reduction
Ioannis Schizas (University of Minnesota, USA); Georgios B. Giannakis (University of Minnesota,, USA); Nikos Sidiropoulos (TUC, Greece)

17:00 Multi-Channel Reconstruction from a Randomly Sampled Array
Ryan Casey (Southwest Research Institute, USA); Kenneth Pesyna (Southwest Research Institute, USA); Christopher Smith (Southwest Research Institute, USA)

17:20 Collaborative Sparse Signal Recovery In Hierarchical Wireless Sensor Networks
Qing Ling (Michigan Technological University, USA); Zhi Tian (Michigan Technological University, USA)

17:40 Sparsity-Aware Estimation of Nonlinear Volterra Kernels
Vassilis Kekatos (University of Minnesota, USA); Daniele Angelosante (University of Cassino, Italy); Georgios B. Giannakis (University of Minnesota,, USA)

17:40 - 19:00
Invited Session 6: Adaptive Processing for Wireless Networks
Chair: Robert Heath (The University of Texas at Austin, USA) ,
Angel Lozano (Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Spain)
Room: Salon A
17:40 Adaptive Wireless Networking Primitives for Distributed Scheduling: Can Radios Swarm?
Roberto Pagliari (Cornell University, USA); Yao-Win Peter Hong (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan); Anna Scaglione (Cornell University, Italy)

18:00 Stochastic routing and scheduling in wireless ad-hoc networks using soft backpressure algorithms
Alejandro Ribeiro (University of Pennsylvania, USA)

18:20 A Cognitive Multi-Antenna Transceiver with a Multimodal-Pilot-Use Modem for Increased Wireless Network Throughput, Coverage and Power Efficiency
Sofiene Affes (INRS-EMT, Canada); Imen Mrissa (INRS-EMT, Canada); Karim Cheikhrouhou (INRS-EMT, Canada); Alex Stephenne (INRS - Centre Energie, Materiaux et Telecommnunications, Canada)

18:40 On Low Complexity Cooperative Spectrum Sensing for Cognitive Networks
Gang Xiong (Lehigh University, USA); Shalinee Kishore (Lehigh University, USA); Aylin Yener (Pennsylvania State University, USA)

18:00 - 19:00
Invited Session 7a: MIMO Radar - Part I - Performance Analysis
Chair: Marco Lops (University of Cassino, Italy) ,
Maria Greco (University of Pisa, Italy)
Room: Salon B
18:00 Co-Located MIMO radar with Orthogonal Waveform coding : Cram\'er-Rao Lower Bound
Rémy Boyer (CNRS, Université Paris-Sud (UPS), Supelec, France)

18:20 An Analysis of Phase Synchronization Mismatch Sensitivity for Coherent MIMO Radar Systems
Hana Godrich (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA); Alexander Haimovich (NJIT, USA); H. Vincent Poor (Princeton University, USA)

18:40 Cramér-Rao Bounds for Bistatic Radars
Maria Greco (University of Pisa, Italy); Fulvio Gini (University of Pisa, Italy); Alfonso Farina (SELEX-SI, Italy)
 
Tuesday, Dec 15

8:40 - 9:25
Plenary 3: Statistical Design and Imaging of Ultra-High Density 3D Microarrays
(Arye Nehorai, Washington University, USA))

Chair: Petar Djuric (State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA)
Room: Salon A

9:40 - 11:40

Invited Session 7b: MIMO Radar - Part II - Design Issues
Chair: Marco Lops (University of Cassino, Italy) ,
Maria Greco (University of Pisa, Italy)
Room: Salon B
9:40 MIMO radar waveform design: a divergence-based approach for sequential and fixed-sample size tests
Emanuele Grossi (Università degli Studi di Cassino, Italy); Marco Lops (University of Cassino, Italy)

10:00 Alternating Projection for MIMO Radar Waveform Design
Yang Yang (Lehigh University, USA); Rick Blum (Lehigh University, USA); Daniel Fuhrmann (Michigan Technological University, USA)

10:20 OFDM MIMO Radar Design for Low-Angle Tracking Using Mutual Information
Satyabrata Sen (Washington University in St. Louis, USA); Arye Nehorai (Washington University in St. Louis, USA)

10:40 Golay Complementary Waveforms for Sparse Delay-Doppler Radar Imaging
Yuejie Chi (Princeton University, USA); Robert Calderbank (Princeton University, USA); Ali Pezeshki (Colorado State University, USA)

11:00 Direction finding for MIMO radar with collocated antennas using transmit beamspace preprocessing
Aboulnasr Hassanien (University of Alberta, Canada); Sergiy A. Vorobyov (University of Alberta, Canada)

11:20 MIMO radar: From a different perspective
Chris J Baker (Australian National University, Australia)
Invited Session 8: Compressed Sensing
Chair: Yonina C. Eldar (Technion---Israel Institute of Technology, Israel)
Room: Salon A
9:40 On the Role of Sparsity in Compressed Sensing and Random Matrix Theory
Roman Vershynin (University of Michigan, USA)

10:00 An Adaptive and Information Theoretic Method For Compressed Sampling
Akram Aldroubi (Vanderbilt University, USA)

10:20 Universal Priors for Sparse Modeling
Ignacio Ramirez (University of Minnesota, USA); Federico Lecumberry (Universidad de la República, Uruguay); Guillermo Sapiro (University of Minnesota, USA)

10:40 Multipath Medium Identification Using Efficient Sampling Schemes
Kfir Gedalyahu (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel); Yonina C. Eldar (Technion---Israel Institute of Technology, Israel)

11:00 Distributed Spatio-Temporal Sampling of Diffusion Fields from Sparse Instantaneous Sources
Yue Lu (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland); Martin Vetterli (EPFL, Switzerland)

11:20 A Sublinear Algorithm for Sparse Reconstruction with l2 / l2 Recovery Guarantees
Robert Calderbank (Princeton University, USA); Stephen D Howard (Defence Science & Technology Organisation, Australia); Sina Jafarpour (Computer Science, Princeton University, USA)

11:40 Fast Algorithms for Recovering a Corrupted Low-Rank Matrix
Arvind Balasubramanian (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA); Zhouchen Lin (Microsoft Research, Asia, P.R. China); John Wright (Microsoft Research Asia, P.R. China); Leqin Wu (Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China); Minming Chen (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China); Yi Ma (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)

13:00 - 13:45
Plenary 4: On the Use of Acoustic Arrays in Blind Separation of Convolutive Mixtures
(Shoji Makino, University of Tsukuba, Japan)

Chair: Andrzej S Cichocki (RIKEN BSI, Laboratory for Advanced Brain Signal Processing, Japan)
Room: Salon A

14:00 - 16:00
Invited Session 9: Physics-Based Signal Processing and Imaging
Chair: Sven Nordebo (Vaxjo University, Sweden) ,
Mats Gustafsson (Lund University, Sweden)
Room: Salon A
14:00 Fisher information analysis in microwave tomography
Sven Nordebo (Vaxjo University, Sweden); Andreas Fhager (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden); Mats Gustafsson (Lund University, Sweden); Borje Nilsson (Vaxjo University, Sweden)

14:20 Passive imaging using cross correlations of ambient noise signals
Josselin Garnier (Universite Paris 7, France); George Papanicolaou (Dept of Mathematics, Stanford University, Algeria)

14:40 Passive imaging and detection in cluttered media
Knut Solna (UC Irvine, USA); Josselin Garnier (Universite Paris 7, France)

15:00 Underground Imaging of Irregular Terrains Using RF Tomography
Lorenzo Lo Monte (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA); Danilo Erricolo (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA); Francesco Soldovieri (CNR, Italy); Michael C Wicks (Air Force Research Laboratory, USA)

15:20 Multi-static synthetic aperture radar image formation
Venky Krishnan (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA); John Swoboda (MITRE Corporation, USA); Can Evren Yarman (WesternGeco - Schlumberger, USA); Birsen Yazici (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA)

15:40 Nonparametric Learning of Dictionaries for Sparse Representation of Sensor Signals
Lawrence Carin (Duke University, USA)

Acoustic Arrays and Localization
Chair: Kristine L Bell (George Mason University, USA)
Room: Salon B
14:00 Feature-Aided Localization and Tracking of Ground Vehicles Using Passive Acoustic Sensor Networks
Vishal Ravindra (University of Connecticut, USA); Yaakov Bar-Shalom (University of Connecticut, USA); Thyagaraju Damarla (U.S. Army Research Laboratory, USA)

14:20 Fast Sequential Source Localization Using the Projected Companion Matrix Approach
Mohammed El korso (Laboratoire des Signaux et Systémes (L2S), France); Rémy Boyer (CNRS, Université Paris-Sud (UPS), Supelec, France); Sylvie Marcos (Laboratoire des Signaux et Systems, Supélec, CNRS UMR8506, France)

14:40 Fast and Versatile Blind Separation of Diverse Sounds Using Closed-Form Estimation of Probability Density Functions of Sources
Hiroshi Saruwatari (Graduate School of Information Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan); Yu Takahashi (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan); Kentaro Tachibana (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan); Yoshimitsu Mori (Graduate School of Information Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan); Shigeki Miyabe (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan); Kiyohiro Shikano (Graduate School of Information Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan); Akira Tanaka (Hokkaido University, Japan)

15:00 BSS for Improved Interference Estimation for Blind Speech Signal Extraction with Two Microphones
Yuanhang Zheng (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany); Klaus Reindl (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany); Walter Kellermann (University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany)

15:20 Explicit Ziv-Zakai Bound for DOA Estimation with Sparse Linear Arrays
Diba Khan (George Mason University, USA); Kristine L Bell (George Mason University, USA)

15:40 Orientation-Aware Indoor Localization using Affinity Propagation and Compressive Sensing
Feng Chen (University of Beijing Jiaotong, Canada); Wain Sy Anthea Au (University of Toronto, Canada); Shahrokh Valaee (University of Toronto, Canada); Zhen-hui Tan (Beijing Jiaotong University, P.R. China)

16:20 - 18:00
Invited Session 5b: Network Beamforming and
Distributed Space-Time Coding - Part II

Chair: Shahram Shahbazpanahi (University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada) ,
Alex Gershman (Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany)
Room: Salon A
16:20 Improving Distributed Network Distributed Space-Time Coding Through Combining at Multiple-Antenna Relay
Yindi Jing (University of Alberta, Canada)

16:40 On the Capacity of Bidirectional Relaying with Unknown Varying Channels
Rafael F. Wyrembelski (Technische Universität Berlin, Germany); Igor Bjelakovic (Berlin University of Technology, Germany); Holger Boche (Technical University of Berlin, Germany)

17:00 Relay Selection for Grouped-Relay Networks Using the Average SLNR Measure
Jingon Joung (University of California, Los Angeles, USA); Ali H. Sayed (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)

17:20 Cooperative Amplify-and-Forward Beamforming with Multi-Antenna Source and Relays
Yang-wen Liang (University of British Columbia, Canada); Robert Schober (University of British Columbia, Canada)

17:40 Near-far robustness and optimal power allocation for two-way relaying with MIMO amplify and forward relays
Florian Roemer (Ilmenau University of Technology, Germany); Martin Haardt (Ilmenau University of Technology, Germany)

Theory and Applications
Chair: Tomas McKelvey (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)
Room: Salon B
16:20 Can Maximum-Likelihood "Threshold Performance" be Improved by Random Matrix Theory Tools?
Yuri Abramovich (Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO), Australia); Ben A. Johnson (JORN Technical Director, Australia); Nicholas Spencer (Adelaide Research & Innovation Pty Ltd (ARI), Australia)

16:40 The Marginalized Auxiliary Particle Filter
Carsten Fritsche (Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany); Thomas B. Schön (Linköping University, Sweden); Anja Klein (TU Darmstadt, Germany)

17:00 Basis Pursuit with Sequential Measurements and Time Varying Signals
M. Salman Asif (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA); Justin K Romberg (Georgia Tech, USA)

17:20 Fast Nonnegative Tensor Factorization for Very Large-Scale Problems Using Two-Stage Procedure
Anh Huy Phan (RIKEN, Japan); Andrzej S Cichocki (RIKEN BSI, Laboratory for Advanced Brain Signal Processing, Japan)

17:40 Classification of Microwave Scattering Data based on a Subspace Distance with Application to Detection of Bleeding Stroke
Mohammad Ali Khorshidi (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden); Tomas McKelvey (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden); Mikael Persson (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden); Hana Dobsicek Trefna (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)

19:30 - 21:30
Banquet
Room: Pool Deck
 
Wednesday, Dec 16

8:40 - 9:25
Plenary 5: Trends in Radar Sensor Information Fusion
(Rabinder N. Madan, Office of Naval Research, Arlington, VA, USA)

Chair: Petar Djuric (State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA)
Room: Salon A

9:40 - 11:40
Invited Session 10: Approximate Joint Diagonalization
Chair: Arie Yeredor (Tel-Aviv University, Israel)
Room: Salon A
9:40 Joint Diagonalization: Is Non-Orthogonal always preferable to Orthogonal?
Antoine Souloumiac (CEA, LIST, Laboratoire Processus Stochastiques et Spectres, France)

10:00 Extension of Joint Diagonalization for Moving Targets
Gen Hori (Asia University, Japan); Toshihisa Tanaka (TUAT and RIKEN, Japan)

10:20 On hybrid exact-approximate joint diagonalization
Arie Yeredor (Tel-Aviv University, Israel)

10:40 Block Decomposition for Very Large-Scale Nonnegative Tensor Factorization
Anh Huy Phan (RIKEN, Japan); Andrzej S Cichocki (RIKEN BSI, Laboratory for Advanced Brain Signal Processing, Japan)

11:00 An Optimal Step Size Relative Gradient Based Joint Diagonalization Algorithm
Hicham Ghennioui (I.S.I.T.V, France); Nadège Thirion (Institut des Sciences de l'ingénieur deToulon et du Var, France); Eric Moreau (University of Sud Toulon Var, France)

11:20 A Bias-Variance Dilemma in Joint Diagonalization and Blind Source Separation
Bijan Afsari (University of Maryland, USA)

Wireless Networks
Chair: Richard K. Martin (Air Force Institute of Technology, USA)
Room: Salon B
9:40 Power Allocation in Decode-and-Forward Cooperative Networks via SEP Minimization
Sergiy A. Vorobyov (University of Alberta, Canada); Arash Khabbazibasmenj (University of Alberta, Canada)

10:00 Distributed Space-Time Code Designs Via Cayley Transform
Yindi Jing (University of Alberta, Canada)

10:20 Wireless Network Discovery Via RSS-based Estimation of Multi-transmitter RF Footprint
Richard K. Martin (Air Force Institute of Technology, USA)

10:40 Distributed Projection Approximation Subspace Tracking based on Consensus Propagation
Carolina Reyes (Vienna University of Technology, Austria); Thibault Hilaire (Vienna University of Technology, Austria); Christoph F Mecklenbräuker (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)

11:00 Optimal network size and encoding rate for random field estimation with wireless sensor networks
Javier Matamoros (Centre Tecnologic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC), Spain); Carles Anton-Haro (Telecommunications Technological Center of Catalonia (CTTC), Spain)

11:20 Randomized transmission power for accelerated consensus in asymmetric WSNs
Silvana Silva Pereira (Technical University of Catalonia, Spain); Alba Pagès-Zamora (Technical University of Catalonia, Spain)

11:40 A Transceive Strategy for Regenerative Multi-Antenna Multi-Way Relaying
Aditya Umbu Tana Amah (TU Darmstadt, Germany); Anja Klein (TU Darmstadt, Germany)

13:00 - 13:45
Plenary 6: A Physics Based Approach to Nonlinear Filters
(Fred Daum, Raytheon, USA)

Chair: Abdelhak Zoubir (Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany)
Room: Salon A

14:00 - 16:00
Invited Session 11: Monte-Carlo Methods
Chair: Monica F. Bugallo (Stony Brook University, USA)
Room: Salon A
14:00 Particle Filters with Approximation Steps
Boris N Oreshkin (McGill University, Canada); Mark Coates (McGill University, Canada)

14:20 On MCMC-Based Particle Methods for Bayesian Filtering : Application to Multitarget Tracking
Francois Septier (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom); Sze Kim Pang (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom); Avishy Carmi (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom); Simon Godsill (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom)

14:40 A Monte Carlo Based Energy Efficient Source Localization Method for Wireless Sensor Networks
Engin Masazade (Sabanci University, Turkey); Ruixin Niu (Syracuse University, USA); Pramod Varshney (Syracuse University, USA); Mehmet Keskinoz (Sabanci University, Turkey)

15:00 Hybrid Probabilistic Data Association and Variational Filtering for Multi-Target Tracking in Wireless Sensor Networks
Jing Teng (University of Technology of Troyes, France); Hichem Snoussi (University of Technology of Troyes, France); Cedric Richard (UT Troyes, France); Yi Zhou (Shanghai Jiao Tong university, P.R. China)

15:20 Subspace-based Bayesian blind source separation for hyperspectral imagery
Nicolas Dobigeon (University of Toulouse, France); Saïd Moussaoui (IRCCyN, France); Martial Coulon (University of Toulouse, France); Jean-Yves Tourneret (IRIT/ENSEEIHT/TéSA, France); Alfred Hero (University of Michigan, USA)

15:40 Fragment-based Variational Visual Tracking
Yi Zhou (Shanghai Jiao Tong university, P.R. China); Hichem Snoussi (University of Technology of Troyes, France); Shibao Zheng (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, P.R. China); Cedric Richard (UT Troyes, France); Jing Teng (University of Technology of Troyes, France)

MIMO Communications
Chair: Lee Swindlehurst (University of California at Irvine, USA)
Room: Salon B
14:00 Downlink Resource Allocation for Multi-user MIMO-OFDMA Systems: The Kalai-Smorodinsky Bargaining Approach
Jie Chen (University of California, Irvine, USA); Lee Swindlehurst (University of California at Irvine, USA)

14:20 MSE Uplink-Downlink Duality of MIMO systems Under Imperfect CSI
Tadilo Endeshaw (University of Catolique de Louvain, Belgium); Batu Chalise (University Catholique de Louvain, Belgium); Luc Vandendorpe (University of Louvain, Belgium)

14:40 Comparison of Precoding Methods for Broadband MIMO Systems
Waleed Al-Hanafy (Strathclyde University, United Kingdom)

15:00 - 16:40
Invited Session 12: Cognitive Radio
Chair: Geert Leus (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)
Room: Salon B
15:00 Spectrum Sensing for Cognitive Radios Using Kriged Kalman Filtering
Seung-Jun Kim (University of Minnesota, USA); Emiliano Dall'Anese (University of Padua, Italy); Georgios B. Giannakis (University of Minnesota,, USA)

15:20 Energy-efficient distributed spectrum sensing with convex optimization
Sina Maleki (TU Delft, The Netherlands); Ashish Pandharipande (Philips Research Laboratories, The Netherlands); Geert Leus (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)

15:40 Time Delay Estimation in Cognitive Radio Systems
Fatih Kocak (Bilkent University, Turkey); Hasari Celebi (Texas A&M University at Qatar, Qatar); Sinan Gezici (Bilkent University, Turkey); Khalid A. Qaraqe (Texas A&M University at Qatar, Qatar); Huseyin Arslan (University of South Florida, USA); Vincent Poor (Princeton University, USA)

16:00 Joint optimization of detection thresholds and power allocation for opportunistic access in multicarrier cognitive radio networks
Sergio Barbarossa (University of Rome, Italy); Stefania Sardellitti (University of Cassino, Italy); Gesualdo Scutari (University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy)

16:20 Optimal Scheduling and QoS Power Control for Cognitive Underlay Networks
Eleftherios Karipidis (Linköping University, Sweden); Erik G. Larsson (Linköping University, Sweden); Kaj Holmberg (Linköping University, Sweden)