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March 2008
Volume 54, Number 8
Publication No:
USPS 580-500
“The IEEE
Newsletter” (North Jersey Section), is published monthly except June and July
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Section Activities
March
2008
Mar. 3 – “Secrecy Capacity of Multi-terminal
Networks with Pricing” by Dr. Anand Santhanakrishnan, NJ
Communications Chapter, 6:15 PM, New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT),
Room 202, ECE Center, Newark, NJ. Dr.
Nirwan Ansari (973) 596-3670 (nirwan.ansari “AT” njit.edu) or check http://web.njit.edu/~ieeenj/comm.html
for the latest updates
Mar. 5 – “NJ Section Meeting”,
Mar. 11 – “Exploiting Link Rate
Diversity for High-Performance Wireless Meshes”
by Dr. Archan Misra, NJ Communications Chapter, 6:30 PM, New Jersey Institute
of Technology (NJIT), Room 202,
Mar.
11-May 6 – “Project Management”
by Dr. Donald Hsu, North Jersey Section, Tuesday Evenings, 8 sessions,
6:30-9:00 PM, NJ International Bulk Mail Center, 80 County Rd, Jersey City,
NJ. Donald Hsu (yanyou “AT”
hotmail.com).
Mar. 12 – “Engineers Meet:
Jobs, Fading Opportunities & Ethics”
with Dr. Stephen H. Unger, NJ PACE, GOLD, WIE,
Mar. 25 – “Undergraduate Student Paper Contest”,
SAC, 5:30 PM, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Room M105 Auditorium, Muscarelle
Building, 1000 River Road, Teaneck, NJ.
Any and all questions can be emailed to the contest organizer,
northjerseysac “AT” ieee.org.
Mar. 26 – “Programmable RF Circuits
for Spectrum-Agile Radios” by Dr. Mona Mostafa Hella, NJ MTT-S/AP-S, 7:00
PM, New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Room 202, ECE Center
(Intersection between Warren & Summit Streets), Newark, NJ. Dr. Edip Niver (973) 596-3542 (NJIT), Har
Dayal , (973) 633-4618, har.dayal “AT” baesystems.com, or
Mar. 27 – “Graduate Student Paper Contest”,
SAC, 5:30 PM, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Room M105 Auditorium, Muscarelle
Building, 1000 River Road, Teaneck, NJ. Any
and all questions can be emailed to the contest organizer, northjerseysac “AT”
ieee.org.
Mar. 27 – “Simulation, Virtual
Instruments in Design” by Patrick Noonan, NJ Consultants' Network,
Upcoming
Meetings
Apr. 1 – “Optimal State Feedback Stabilization Gain
Selection of Networked Control Systems with Time Delay and Packet Losses”
by Professor Mo-Yuen Chow, NJ Control Systems Chapter,
Apr. 2 – “NJ Section Meeting”,
Apr. 9 – “Electron Devices in Astronomy”
by Dr. Lucian Kasprzak, NJ EDS/C&S Chapters, 7:00 PM, New Jersey Institute
of Technology (NJIT), Room 202,
Apr. 24 – “How We Survived a Professional Website Redesign”
by Pat Banker, NJ Consultants' Network,
Apr. 25 – “Harmonics Seminar”,
NJ PES/IAS, 9:00AM to 2:00PM, PSE&G - Hadley Road Facility, 4000 Hadley
Road, South Plainfield, NJ. Ronald W.
Apr. 25
& 26 – “Region 1 Student
Conference”, NJ SAC-GOLD-WIE, Time TBA,
Apr. 26-27
– “Trenton Computer
Festival”, Saturday 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM and Sunday 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM, The
College of New Jersey in Ewing, NJ.
Allen Katz, TCF Speaker Program Chairperson, a.katz@ieee.org
or (609) 771-2666.
Apr. 28-30
– “2008 Sarnoff Symposium”,
Nassau Inn,
May 4 – “NJ Section Awards
Reception” -
Members and Non-Members Welcome
PLEASE POST
NJ Communications Society:
Secrecy Capacity of Multi-terminal Networks with Pricing
On
About the Talk
Secrecy
capacity is a measure of the information theoretic capacity of a key-less
secure channel. It is the maximum
information transfer rate such that the receiver error probability approaches
zero while an eavesdropper's error probability goes to 1/2. Most approaches in the literature study
secrecy capacity for a single source-destination pair in the presence of a
single eavesdropper. In this talk, we
present secrecy capacity results for multi-terminal networks considering the
multi-access interference due to multiple source-destination pairs. We propose a pricing function to limit the
transmit powers of the transmitters. We
present mathematical conditions on the pricing parameters that result in
optimal power allocation to maximise the secrecy capacities. We further show that the solution to the
power allocation problem is independent of the location of the
eavesdropper. It is also observed that
the pricing model improves the secrecy of the weakest transmit-receive pair.
About the Speaker