Dr. Petros Elia (EURECOM, France) - iCore & CommNet2 Workshop Speaker
Petros Elia received the B.Sc. degree from the Illinois Institute of Technology, and the M.Sc. and Ph.D.
degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles, in 2001 and 2006 respectively. He
is now a professor with the Department of Communication Systems at EURECOM in Sophia Antipolis, France. His latest research deals
with the intersection of coded caching and feedback-aided communications in multiuser settings. He has also considered different
problems in the area of complexity-constrained communications, MIMO, cooperative and multiple access protocols and transceivers,
complexity of communication, as well as with isolation and connectivity in dense networks, queueing theory and cross-layer design,
coding theory, information theoretic limits in cooperative communications, and surveillance networks. He is a Fulbright scholar,
the co-recipient of the NEWCOM++ distinguished achievement award 2008-2011 for a sequence of publications on the topic of complexity
in wireless communications, and the recipient of the ERC Consolidator Grant 2017-2022 on cache-aided wireless communications.
Talk Title: "Coded caching for advanced wireless networks: new opportunities and challenges"
Abstract: The talk will focus on coded caching and the interesting salient features that arise when caching is applied in advanced PHY wireless scenarios. Focusing on recently revealed deep connections between caching and fundamental primitives of wireless networks, such as feedback, multiple antennas, and topology, we will seek to answer different questions that arise, and which include:
- When can super-small caches have a substantial impact?
- What is the relationship between caching and CSIT-type feedback? (it turns out that this is a deep relationship, of a synergistic as well as competing nature)
- How can caching data the night before, allow for the (paradoxical) ability to "buffer" CSI?
- How can non-linearity (which can reside in wireless settings) be used to boost wireless caching?