Wednesday, April 24, 2019
Location: Jaber-ibn Hayyan Hall
Opening Ceremony	08:30-09:30
Robert Schober (Keynote Speaker) Title: Synthetic Molecular Communication: Fundamentals, Opportunities, and Challenges	09:30-10:30
Break	10:30-11:00
Vincent Y. F. Tan (Invited talk) Title: On Wyner's, Exact and ∞ −Rényi Common Informations: Settling a Conjecture by Kumar, Li and El Gamal	11:00-11:45
Mohammad Hossein Yassaee (Invited talk) Title: Point-Wise Variable Length Coding for Some Multi-User Compression Problems	11:45-12:30
Lunch
Sessions 1, Location: Jaber-ibn Hayyan Hall
S1. Shannon and Coding Theory	14:00-15:20
Poster Session, Location: Jaber-ibn Hayyan Hall
Poster Session	14:00-15:20
Break	15:20-15:40
Sessions 2, Location: Jaber-ibn Hayyan Hall
S2. Communication Theory	15:40-17:00
Poster Session, Location: Jaber-ibn Hayyan Hall
Poster Session	15:40-17:00

Thursday, April 25, 2019
Location: Jaber-ibn Hayyan Hall
Tara Javidi (Keynote speaker) Title: Gaussian Process Bandits with Adaptive Discretization	09:00-10:00
Keivan Navaie (Invited Talk) Title: On Caching in Dense HetNets	10:00-10:45
Break	10:45-11:00
Session 3, Location: Jabir-ibn Hayyan Hall
S3. Applications of Information Theory	11:00-12:20
Poster Session, Location: Jabir-ibn Hayyan Hall
Poster Session	11:00-12:20
Lunch
Panel Session, Location: Jabir-ibn Hayyan Hall
Challenges and Open Problems in Communication and Information Theories	14:00-15:30
Closing Ceremony

Sessions
S1. Shannon and Coding Theory
Tight Bound on the Stability of Control Systems over Parallel Gaussian Channels Using a New Joint Source-Channel Coding Vahideh Sanjaroon, Abolfazl Motahari, Alireza Farhadi, Babak Hossein Khalaj	14:00-14:20
Time-Sharing Improves Dynamic Index Coding Delay Mohammad Hadi, Mohammad mahdi Mojahedian, Mohammad Reza Aref, Mohammad Reza Pakravan	14:20-14:40
Compressive Sensing-based Colocated MIMO Radar with Reduced Number of Transmit Antennas Abdollah Ajorloo, Arash Amini, Mohammad Hassan Bastani	14:40-15:00
New Inner Bounds for the Gaussian Interference Channel with a Cognitive Relay Elaheh Asadollahi Yazdi, Ghosheh Abed Hodtani, Hossein Khoshbin	15:00-15:20

S2. Communication Theory
Outage Performance in Secure Cooperative NOMA Milad Abolpour, Mahtab Mirmohseni, Mohammad Reza Aref	15:40-16:00
A Novel PHP-Based Coverage Analysis in Millimeter Wave Heterogeneous Cellular Networks Mehdi Sattari, Aliazam Abbasfar	16:00-16:20
Resource Allocation in Cognitive Radio Inspired Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access Fatemeh Mokhtari, Mahtab Mirmohseni, Farid Ashtiani, Masoumeh Nasiri-Kenari	16:20-16:40
Performance Analysis of All-Optical Multi-Hop FSO Systems over Gamma-Gamma Fading Channels Fariba Jamali, Mohammad Javad Emadi, Hamid Saeedi	16:40-17:00

S3. Applications of Information Theory
The Statistical Dictionary-Based String Matching Problem Meer Suri, Stefano Rini, National Chiao Tung	11:00-11:20
Efficiency and Crosstalk in Demultiplexing Orbital Angular Momentum Modes Using a Geometrical Transformation-based Mode Sorter Amir Minoofar, Amirnader Askarpour, Abdolali Abdipour	11:20-11:40
Private Shotgun DNA Sequencing: A Structured Approach Ali Gholami, Mohammad Ali, Abolfazl Motahari	11:40-12:00
The Impact of Distribution Uncertainty on the Average Distortion in a Block Fading Channel Sayed Ali Khodam Hoseini, Soroush Akhlaghi	12:00-12:20