Recent Sponsored Projects

Action in Shannon Theory

Funding sources: NSF, ISF

o       T. Weissman, “Capacity of Channels with Action-Dependent States”, submitted to IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory.

o       T. Weissman and H. Permuter, “Source Coding with a Side Information ‘Vending Machine’,” submitted to IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory.

 

Problems we can solve with a Helper

Funding sources: NSF, ISF

o       H. Permuter, Y. Steinberg and T. Weissman, “Two-way Source Coding with a Helper,” submitted to IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory.

 

Implementable Rate-Distortion Schemes

Funding sources: NSF, Viterbi funds

o       S. Jalali, S. Verdú and T. Weissman, “A Universal Scheme for Wyner-Ziv Coding of Discrete Sources,” submitted to IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory.

o       S. Jalali and T. Weissman, “Rate-Distortion via Markov Chain Monte Carlo,” submitted to IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory.

o       Gupta, S. Verdú and T. Weissman, “Rate-Distortion in Near-Linear Time,” submitted to IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory.

o       S. Jalali, A. Montanari and T. Weissman, “An Implementable Scheme for Universal Lossy Compression of Discrete Markov Sources,” Proc. Data Compression Conference (DCC 2009), Snowbird, Utah March 16-18, 2009.

o       S. Jalali, A. Montanari and T. Weissman, “An Iterative Scheme for Near Optimal and Universal Lossy Compression,” Proc. 2009 IEEE Inf. Th. Workshop (ITW2009), Volos, Greece, June 10-12, 2009 (invited).

 

Feedback Communication and Directed Information

Funding sources: NSF

o       H. Permuter, P. Cuff, B. Van Roy and T. Weissman, “Capacity of the Trapdoor Channel with Feedback,” IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, vol. 54, no. 7, pp. 3150–3165, July 2008.

o       N.C. Martins and T. Weissman, “Coding Schemes for Additive White Noise Channels with Feedback Corrupted by Quantization or Bounded Noise”, IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, vol. 54, no. 9, pp. 4274–4282, September 2008.

o       H. Permuter, T. Weissman and A. Goldsmith, “Capacity of finite-state channels with feedback”, to appear in April 2009 issue of IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory.

o       J. Chen, H. Permuter and T. Weissman, “Tighter Bounds on the Capacity of Finite-State Channels via Markov Set-Chains,” accepted to IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory.

o       H. Permuter, T. Weissman and J. Chen, “Capacity Region of the Multiple Access Channel With or Without Feedback,” accepted to IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory.

o       H. Permuter, Y. H. Kim and T. Weissman, “On Directed Information and Gambling,” Proc. Int. Symp. Information Theory, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, July 2008.

o       H. Permuter, Y. H. Kim and T. Weissman, “Directed Information, Causal Estimation and Communication in Continuous Time,” Proc. Control over Communication Channels (ConCom 2009), Seoul, Korea, June 27th, 2009.

 

Beyond Stationarity in Information Processing

Funding sources: NSF, ISF

o       T. Moon and T. Weissman, “Discrete Denoising with Shifts,” accepted to IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory.