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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span
style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>Title:</span></b><span
style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'> On The Capacity
of Distributed Resource Allocation<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span
style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>W205 Friday April
9th from 11-12.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span
style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>Host: Zhu Han<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><b><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>Abstract:
</span></b><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>A key
characteristic of wireless networks is that no node in the network has complete
information about the network state. At best, nodes have a local view of the
network. As a result, they have to make distributed decisions on their
transmission and reception parameters. How does this information asymmetry at
each node impact resulting global network capacity? In this talk, we will
formulate the problem of studying the information theoretic capacity of
distributed decisions. We will derive exact capacity for several important
cases, which reveal new protocol design principles. Finally, we will discuss
the impact of new results on design of next-generation networks. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><b><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>Ashutosh
Sabharwal</span></b><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>
received his B.Tech from Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, and MS and
PhD from the Ohio State University. Currently he is an Assistant Professor at
Rice, where he also the Director of Center for Multimedia Communication. His
main research interests are information theoretic foundations, protocols and
platforms for high performance wireless networks. He is the founder of WARP
project (http://warp.rice.edu), which is a clean-slate network prototyping
platform in use at research labs worldwide.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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