Seminar to discuss network relaying and user cooperation

Yingbin Liang of Princeton University will discuss network relay and user cooperation of wireless communication at 4:15 p.m. Nov. 16 in 362 Willard Building, University Park. The event is free to the public. Relaying and user cooperation offers many advantages in wireless networking, including throughput and diversity gains, power saving and larger coverage possibilities. Liang will present an overview of relay schemes and the information-theoretic results on relay channels. In addition she will present results on her wireless relay channel model, where relay transmits and receives in orthogonal channels to satisfy practical constraint in wireless networks. The talk is the fourth installment in a series held by the signals and systems area. Liang is currently working as a postdoctoral research associate at Princeton. Liang received a doctorate in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois in 2005, and has been a Vodafone Fellow for 2003-2005 academic years.