Network Coding: Beyond Multicast Communications: Net/Comm/DSP Seminar

Seminar | November 2 | 3-4 p.m. | Cory Hall, 521 Cory (Hogan room)

Speaker/Performer: Yunnan Wu, Microsoft Research

Sponsor: Qualcomm Inc.

Network coding is a powerful generalization of the store-and-forward approach commonly adopted in today's networks, by allowing information to be intelligently processed or coded at intermediate nodes. Among the usage scenarios for network coding, multicast communication is best understood. However, the benefits of network coding go beyond multicast communications. This talk will present some results on the use of network coding in non-multicast scenarios: A constructive approach to inter-session network coding and its application to layered multimedia distribution Network coding-aware routing in multi-hop wireless networks. Network coding for distributed storage systems.

Bio:
Yunnan Wu received the Ph.D. degree from Princeton University in January 2006. Since August 2005, he has been a Researcher at Microsoft Corporation (Redmond, WA, USA). His research interests include networking, storage systems, information theory, and multimedia. He has been doing research on network coding since 2003. He has presented tutorials on network coding at the 2007 IEEE INFOCOM and ACM SIGMETRICS conferences. He has co-organized special sessions on network coding at the 2006 CISS and 2009 Asilomar conferences. He has served in the TPC of the annual network coding workshop since 2008. He has served as program co-chair of the Second Workshop on Wireless Network Coding, in conjunction with IEEE SECON 2009.

Event Contact: pulkit@eecs.berkeley.edu, 510-643-9263