Presenter(s)
ISIT 2024 Plenary Lecture
Abstract
Error control coding is essential in many scientific disciplines and nearly all telecommunication systems. Proposals for new codes and new roles of codes in communications and computing systems continue to appear. Each new proposal initially faces (justified) skepticism and pushback by practitioners until discarded or adopted as a necessary evil. Coding performance metrics have become hard to define and even harder to evaluate. The first part of this talk considers the service rate region of a code, a new performance metric of a distributed system that stores data redundantly using the code. It measures the storage system's ability to serve multiple users requesting different data objects. The second part of the talk asks if there is a coding gain in adding redundancy to distributed computing and how we can evaluate and achieve it.
Biography
Emina Soljanin is a Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rutgers University. Before moving to Rutgers in January 2016, she was a (Distinguished) Member of Technical Staff for 21 years in Bell Labs Math Research. She received her Ph.D. and M.Sc. from Texas A&M University and her B.S. from the University of Sarajevo, all in Electrical Engineering. Prof. Soljanin’s research interests and expertise are broad. She has participated in numerous research and business projects. These projects include designing the first distance-enhancing codes implemented in commercial magnetic storage devices, the first forward error correction for Bell Labs optical transmission devices, color space quantization for image processing, link error prediction methods for Hybrid ARQ wireless standards, network and rateless coding, and network data security and user anonymity, Her most recent activities are in distributed computing systems and quantum information science. Prof. Soljanin has served as an Associate Editor for Coding Techniques for the Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³» Transactions on Information Theory and has had various roles in other journal editorial boards, special workshop organizing, and conference program committees. She is an Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³» Fellow, an outstanding alumnus of the Texas A&M School of Engineering, the 2011 Padovani Lecturer, a 2016/17 Distinguished Lecturer, and the 2019 Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³» Information Theory Society President. Prof. Soljanin’s favorite recognition is the 2023 Aaron D. Wyner Distinguished Service Award.Related Videos
