Recent Seminars and Conferences



Distributed Function Computation

Speaker:	Prof Bikash Dey, EE IITB
Seminar Details:	It is often required in a network that a function of some data distributed over the network be computed in some terminal nodes. For instance, it may be required in a sensor network to compute the average or maximum temperature sensed by the sensor nodes. The problem has been considered in various setups in the past in different flavors. We will present some fundamental results for communicating the function `sum' to a set of terminals when the data at different sources are independent. Later we will introduce a network flow approach for function computation, and give linear programming formulations to design schemes for achieving the maximum rate of computing functions. We will also present various practical applications where these techniques may be applied.
Date and Time:	Monday 15th November, 10 am
Venue:	EE105, Electrical Department, IITB