| Date | Area | Topic | Leader | Papers | Writeup |
| 9/8 | Organizational Meeting | ||||
| 9/22 | MMSE estimation and lattice encoding/decoding for linear Gaussian Channels | lattice encoding/decoding for linear Gaussian channels with an MMSE estimator | Todd Coleman | Erez, Zamir '04, Forney '03, Zamir,Shamai,Erez '02, | Summary, Slides |
| 10/6 | MMSE estimation and lattice encoding/decoding for linear Gaussian Channels | Mutual Information and MMSE in Gaussian Channels | Baris Nakiboglu | Guo,
Shamai, Verdu_sub Duncan '70, Kolmogorov '56 |
Summary,
Slides |
| 10/13 | Eigenvalues of Graphs with Applications | Random Matrix Theory and Applications | Alex Olshevsky | Farkas et al `01, Khoruzhenko, Mihail-Papadimitrou `02, Telatar `99 | Summary, Slides |
| 10/20 | Eigenvalues of Graphs with Applications | Spectral Graph Theory and its Applications | Lillian Dai | Spielman '96, Guattery '95, Kelner '04 | Summary, Slides |
| 10/27 | Game Theory | Efficiency Loss in network resource allocation | Ashish Khisti | Johari '04 Kelly 97 | Summary Slides |
| 11/3 | Game Theory | The Effects of Monopolistic Pricing in a Network Resource Allocation Game | Danielle Hinton | Acemoglu and Ozdaglar, '03 | Summary |
| 11/10 | Wireless Networks | The Capacity vs. Delay Trade-off in Wireless Networks | Kyle Guan | GK2000 GMPS2004 GT2002 NM2004 | Summary |
| 11/17 | Wireless Networks |
Cooperative Diversity in Wireless Networks | Vijay Divi | Laneman, Wornell, Tse '03 Azarian, El Gamal, Schniter '04 Zheng, Tse '03 | Summary, Slides |
| 11/22 | Wireless Networks |
Cooperative Strategies and Capacity Theorems for Relay Networks | Desmond Lun | Kramer et al., Xie and Kumar, Cover and El Gamal 1979 | Summary, Slides |
| 12/1 | Heavy Traffic Theory |
Basics of Brownian approximation, Resource pooling, State-space Collapse | Elif Uysal-Biyikoglu | Harrison & Lopez, Harrison, Harrison and VanMieghem, Ata et al | Summary , Slides |
| 12/8 | Heavy Traffic Theory |
Delay analysis of Switches using state-space-collapse | Shashi Borade | Shah'04, Stolyar'04 | Summary, Slides |
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