IT SESSIONS IN THE 2008 IEEE 25th CONVENTION IN ISRAEL
Mar 3, 2009

Every second year the IEEE Israel Section organizes a major convention that reflects academic and industrial achievements in Electrical, Electronics and computer Engineering. Practitioners and scientists can use this opportunity for interchanging information on the latest developments.

These biannual conventions draw a large number of original contributions in information theory, communication, and related fields.

The 2008 covention was held during December 3-5 in Eilat, Israel, and featured five full sessions devoted to information theory (21 talks). Program available at:

http://www.eng.tau.ac.il/~ieee/Convention/advance_program.pdf

The papers that were presented at the conference will be published on the web in IEEE Xplore.

The convention also featured a special session devoted to advances in wireless communication:

Advanced Communications Center (ACC)

Organized by Dr. Uri Erez , Tel-Aviv University

  1. Helmut Bölcskei . The case for optimum detection algorithms in MIMO wireless systems
  1. Shlomo Shamai . The Broadcast Approach in Communications Systems
  1. Angel Lozano. Long-Term Transmit Beamforming for Wireless Multicasting
  1. Danni Raphaely . Efficient Decoders for BICM MIMO