Basics of Communication - Information Theory
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Basics of Communication - Information Theory
Wed, 10/10/2018 - 11:00 to 12:45
Location:
Speaker:
Dr. Monica Navarro
Affiliation:
CTTC, Spain
Synopsis:
This lecture will provide an overview of the basics of communication and information theory. We will start the lecture with a review of the channel capacity for a variety of single-user channels and discuss its meaning for practical communication systems. In the second part of the talk, we will extend the discussion to multiple users and show on the one hand the limits of multi-user communications given by information theory and on the other hand explain the most relevant practical multiple-access schemes. We will also review relevant communication aspects for short block transmissions.
Biography:
Dr. Monica Navarro is the Head of the Communication Systems Division and Senior Researcher at the Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya within the Communication Systems Division. She received the MSc degree in Telecommunications Engineering from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya in 1997 and the Ph.D. degree in Telecommunications from the Institute for Telecommunications Research (ITR), University of South Australia, in 2002. From Oct. 1997 to Dec. 1998 she was a Research Assistant at the Department of Signal Theory and Communications at the UPC, where she worked on the development of fractal shape multiband antennas for wireless cellular communications systems. She has also been a part-time lecturer at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona. Her primary areas of interest are on information processing with applications to wireless communications and positioning. Particularly on iterative information processing, adaptive transmissions, coding techniques, and random access protocols for massive access. She has strong expertise on new radio air interfaces for cellular networks. Over the last 10 years, she has led projects funded by the European Commission, Spanish and Catalan Governments, as well as the European Space Agency (ESA).