2010 IEEE 26-th Convention of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in Israel November 17-20, 2010, Eilat

2010 IEEE 26-th Convention of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in

Israel November 17-20, 2010, Eilat

Key Speakers

Thursday, 08:30 to 09:10, Ophir Hall

Shlomo Shamai. Technion. Information Theoretic Aspects of Constrained Cell-Sites Cooperation

Thursday, 12:00 to 13:00, Topaz Hall

El Hang Lee. INHA University. VLSI Photonics: Science and Engineering of Micro/Nano-Photonic Integration

Thursday, 17:30, Canaan Hall

Eilam Gross. Weizmann Institute. The LHC Collider and the Search for the God Particle

Friday, 11:00 to 12:00, Canaan Hall

Alon Orlitsky. University of California San Diego. Foreseeing the Unseen: Probability Estimation over Large Alphabets

List of Sessions/Lectures

Thursday, 08:30 to 10:30, Sapphire Hall

Special Session: Cellular Bioengineering, organized by Amit Gefen, Daphne Weihs

1. Assaf Zemel, Florian Rehfeldt, Andre Brown, Amnon Buxboim, Dennis Discher, Benjamin Friedrich and Sam Safran. Theory of Rigidity Sensing of Biological Cells

2. Lital Alfonta. Genetically Modified Bio-Fuel Cells 3. Mark Shein Idelson, Eshel Ben-Jacob and Yael Hanein. Collective Activation and

Activity Propagation in Engineered Networks of Neuronal Clusters 4. Naama Shimon and Amit Gefen. Stochastic Modeling of Proliferation and

Differentiation of 3T3-L1 Pre-Adipocyte Cells 5. Diana Goldstein and Daphne Weihs. Effects of Cancer Cell Metastatic Potential

on Intracellular Mechanics 6. Yonatan Shachaf and Dror Seliktar. Engineering the Cell/Tissue Interface

Towards Regulated Cell Migration and Tissue Remodeling 7. Oded Farago and Anne Bernheim-Groswasser. Entropy-Driven Aggregation of

Adhesion Sites in Supported Membranes 8. Inna Reutsky and Shy Shoham. Holographic Optical Control of Neural Activity in

a Blind Retina


Special Session: Switched and Hybrid Systems, organized by Michael Margaliot

1. Lev Rapoport. Periodic Solution of the Selector-Linear Differential Inclusion and Estimation of Invariant Regions in the Wheeled Robot Control Problem

2. Ron Teichner and Michael Margaliot. Explicit Construction of the Barabanov Norm for the Discrete-Time Planar Positive Absolute Stability Problem

3. Christos Cassandras and Chen Yao. A Stochastic Hybrid System View at a Class of Non-Cooperative Games

4. Tal Monovich and Michael Margaliot. Analysis of Discrete-Time Linear Switched Systems: A Variational Approach

5. Liron Its'haki Allerhand and Uri Shaked. Robust Control of Switched Linear Systems with Dwell Time

6. Jos C. Geromel, Patrizio Colaneri and Paolo Bolzern. Analysis and Control Synthesis of Continuous-Time Passive Switched Linear Systems

7. Yorai Wardi and Magnus Egerstedt. Algorithm for Optimal Mode-Scheduling in Switched-Mode Hybrid Dynamical Systems

8. Jiandong Xiong and Zhendong Sun. An Improved Combined Switching Strategy for Switched Linear Systems

Thursday, 08:30 to 10:30, Opal Hall

Special Session: Coding for Memories, organized by Simon Litsyn

1. Christoph Bunte and Amos Lapidoth. On the Storage Capacity of Rewritable Memories

2. Noam Presman and Simon Litsyn. On Upper Bounds for the Achievable Rates of LDPC Codes

3. Dina Goldin and David Burshtein. Approximate Iterative LP Decoding of LDPC Codes over GF(q) in Linear Complexity

4. Artyom Sharov and Ronny Roth. Fixed-Rate Tiling Encoders for 2-D Constraints 5. Tuvi Ezion. How to Correct a Multidimensional Burst? 6. Eyal En Gad, Michael Langberg, Moshe Schwartz, Jehoshua Bruck, On a

Construction for Constant-Weight Gray Codes for Local Rank Modulation 7. Beniamin Mounits, New Upper Bounds for Nonbinary Codes 8. Gerard Cohen and Sihem Mesnager. On Constrained Memories

Thursday, 08:30 to 10:30, Edom Hall

Circuits and Systems (1,2)

Chair: Eli Gershon

1. Salomon Beer, Ran Ginosar, Michael Priel, Rostislav (Reuven) Dobkin and Avinoam Kolodny. The Devolution of Synchronizers

2. Arthur Shoihet and Michael Slonim. Analysis of Buck Converter Processes Using Difference Equations Method

3. Eli Gershon, Uri Shaked and Nadav Berman. Retarded Linear Systems with Stochastic Uncertainties - Robust Polytopic H-Infinity Static Output-Feedback Control

4. Shmuel Wimer, Israel Koren and Itamar Cohen. Adaptive Clock Gating for Shift Register Based Circuits

5. Eli Shteimberg, Micha Kravits, Meir Arad, Amir Ellenbogen and Yosef Cohen. Internal Model Control Approach for Electrical Furnaces Based on Nonlinear Process Modeling

6. Sammy Korotkin, Guy Zaidner, Benny Cohen, Amir Ellenbogen, Meir Arad and Yosef Cohen. A Petri Net Formal Design Methodology for Discrete-Event Control Of Industrial Automated Systems

7. Calin Ciufudean and Constantin Filote. Advanced Discrete Event Systems Algorithms for Control Systems Diagnose

8. Jerzy Garus. Using of Soft Computing Techniques for Control of Self-propelled Mine Counter Charge

Thursday, 08:30 to 09:10 Ophir Hall

Chair: Arie Reichman

1. Shlomo Shamai. Technion. Information Theoretic Aspects of Constrained Cell-Sites Cooperation

Thursday, 09:10 to 10:30 Ophir Hall

Chair: Arie Reichman

1. Evgeniy Braginskiy, Avi Steiner and Shlomo Shamai (Shitz). Oblivious Cooperative Transmission with Multi-Layer Codes

2. Haim Permuter, Shlomo (Shitz) Shamai and Anelia Somekh-Baruch. Cooperation in Multiple Access Channels with States

3. Shraga Bross, Yossef Steinberg and Stephan Tinguely. The Noisy Feedback Interference Channel with Secrecy

4. Doron Ezri and Shimi Shilo. Green Handover a New Handover Mechanism that Minimizes Radiation from Mobile Devices

Thursday, 08:30 to 10:30, Eden Hall

Special Session: Power Supply and Delivery in VLSI Systems, organized by Levy Schachter and Avinoam Kolodny

1. Gregory Sizikov, Avinoam Kolodny, Eby G. Friedman, and Michael Zelikson. Frequency Dependent Efficiency Model of On-Chip DC-DC Buck Converters

2. Shahar Kvatinsky, Eby G. Friedman, Avinoam Kolodny and Levi Schchter. Power Grid Analysis Based on a Macro Circuit Model

3. Noel Berkovitch, Sharon Levin, Alfred Yankelevich, Alon Eyal and Shye Shapira. Integrated Zener Diode for Gate Protection and Voltage Sourcing in Integrated Power Management Platforms

4. Michael Evzelman and Sam Ben-Yaakov. Optimal Switch Resistances in Switched Capacitor Converters

Thursday, 08:30 to 10:30, Canaan Hall

Power Engineering (1) (2)

Chair: Alon Kuperman

1. Boris Kapilevich, Anatoly Lipsky and Boris Litvak. On-Line Testing Transformer Oil Using Microwaves

2. Raul Rabinovici and Yotam Frechter. Solar Cell Single Measurement Maximum Power Point Tracking

3. Raul Rabinovici and Yotam Frechter. Improving the Efficiency of Large Solar Fields

4. Raul Rabinovici, Amir Havili, Omer Cohen and Yotam Frechter. Predicting a Solar Fields Power Output While Considering Environmental Conditions.

5. Yuval Beck, Linor Nehab and Sigmond Singer. On Compatibility of Capacitive Based Converters to Soft Sources

6. Leonid Shpanin, Gordon Jones, Joseph Spencer and Anthony Deakin. Further Study of Electromagnetically Convoluted Arc Plasmas in Atmospheric Pressure Air

7. Raul Rabinovici and Rony Levin. Space Vector Modulation Algorithms with Multilevel Medium Voltage Inverters

8. Alon Kuperman, Ilan Peled, Udi Levy, Joseph Goren, Aryeh Zafranski and Alex Savernin. Modeling and Control of a 50KW Electric Vehicle Fast Charger

Thursday, 11:00 to 13:00, Sapphire Hall

Special Session: Bio-Inspired Electrical Engineering, organized by Orit Shefi

1. Adi Sheinfeld, Sharon Gilead and Avishay Eyal. Simultaneous Spatial and Spectral Characterization of Flow using Photoacoustic Doppler in a Turbid Media

2. Nurit Ashkenasy. Peptide Building Blocks for Electronic Devices 3. Yossi Yovel. What Can we Learn from Bats Biosonar 4. Ronen Segev. Coding of Information in the Archer Fish Retina 5. Uri Nevo, Nitzan Tirosh and Dan Benjamini. Brain Imaging Over Troubled Water 6. Rachela Popovtzer. Targeted Gold Nanoparticles for Multimodal Molecular

Imaging of Cancer


Special Session: Switched and Hybrid Systems, organized by Michael Margaliot

9. Dmitriy Laschov and Michael Margaliot. On the Optimal Control of Boolean Control Networks with a Single Input

10. Amir Ali Ahmadi, Raphal Jungers, Pablo Parrilo and Mardavij Roozbehani. Piecewise Polynomial Lyapunov Functions With Guaranteed Accuracy

11. Yizhar Or and Andrew Teel. The Set-Valued Bouncing Ball and its Application to Lagrangian Hybrid Systems

12. Josef Shinar, Valery Glizer and Vladimir Turetsky. Robust Pursuit of a Hybrid Evader - The Generalized Solution


Special Session: Network Processors and Networks on Chip, organized by Shlomo Weiss

1. El Hang Lee. VLSI Photonics: Science and Engineering of Micro/Nano-Photonic Integration


Information Theory (1) (2)

Chair: Ram Zamir

1. Eran Hof and Shlomo Shamai. Secret and Private Rates on Degraded Wire-Tap Channels via Polar Coding

2. Amir Salomon and Ofer Amrani. Space Time Diagonal Codes Using Lattices 3. Amir Salomon and Ofer Amrani. Improved Signal Superposition Coding for

Cooperative Diversity 4. Joao Carlos Leandro Da Silva. Factoring Semiprimes and Possible Implications

for RSA 5. Ronit Bustin and Shlomo Shamai (Shitz). The I-MMSE Approach on the Weak

Gaussian Z-Interference Channel and the Type I Gaussian Broadcast-Z-Interference Channel

6. Boaz Shuval and Igal Sason. On the Universality of LDPC Code Ensembles under Belief Propagation and Maximum-Likelihood Decoding

7. Anatoly Khina, Tal Philosof, Uri Erez and Ram Zamir. Binary Dirty MAC with Common State Information


Circuits and Systems (3) (4)

Chair: Calin Ciufudean

9. Dariusz Koscielnik and Marek Miskowicz. A Clockless Time-to-Digital Converter

10. Yuri Dolgin and Ezra Zeheb. Delay-Dependent H-Infinity Model Reduction of Time-Delay Systems

11. Dmitry Shurin, Evgeniy Kvaktun and Alexander Fish. Input Vector Control Efficiency in Sub-Micron CMOS Technologies

12. Guy Zaidner, Sammy Korotin, Eli Shteimberg, Amir Ellenbogen, Meir Arad and Yosef Cohen. Non Linear PID and its Application in Process Control

13. Adam Teman and Alexander Fish. Sub-Threshold and Near-Threshold SRAM Design

14. Alexander Samochin, Evgeny Kaminsky and Hugo Guterman. H.264 Encoder Based 3D Model Acquisition and Compression for Aerial Video

15. Emanuel Gluskin. Nonlinear Sampling and Lebesgues Integral Sums 16. Arkadiy Morgenshtein and Alexander Fish. Gate Diffusion Input (GDI) Logic in

Standard CMOS Nanoscale Process


Special Session: Multi Cell Processing and Cooperative Communications, organized by Arie Reichman

5. Doron Ezri, Genadiy Tsodik and Michael Erlihson. Near Optimal Multipoint Receive Beamforming with Finite Samples

6. Amir Leshem and Ephi Zehavi. Distributed Game Theoretic Optimization of Frequency Selective Interference Channels: A Cross Layer Approach

7. Amichai Sanderovich, Michael Peleg and Shlomo Shamai (Shitz). Multipoint Decentralized Processing of Interfered Gaussian Channel: Scaling Laws


Communications (1)

Chair: Ofer Amrani

1. Shimi Shilo, Anthony J. Weiss and Amir Averbuch. Performance of Suboptimal Beamforming with Perfect Knowledge of Part of the Channel Matrix

2. Tomer Yeminy, Dan Sadot and Zeev Zalevsky. Narrowband Information Encryption Using Frequency and Phase Cipher

3. Marko Porjazoski and Borislav Popovski. Impact of Fractional Frequency Reuse on LTE Performances in Uplink

4. Igor Gutman and Dov Wulich. Distribution of PAPR in Low Order OFDM With Non Equal Amplitudes


Signal Processing (2) (3)

Chair: Eugene Kagan

1. Tnu Trump. Convergence of Output Signal Based Combination of Two LMS Adaptive Filters

2. Przemyslaw Pietrzak. Dynamic Mass Measurement Using Discrete Time-Variant Filter

3. Eugene Kagan and Alexander Novoselsky. Relation Between F-Ratio and Segments Overlapping in Welch Periodograms in the Problem of Signals Identification

4. Michael Peleg, Ariel Tamam, Rostislav Dobkin, Ofer Maltz, Lior Zahavi and Efraim Pecht. Implementation of Interference Rejection for OFDM Communications

5. David-George Cristea, Yosi Shacham-Diamand, Hadar Ben-Yoav, Virgil Tiponut, Mihai-Emanuel Basch and Zoltan Haraszy. VLSI Universal Signal Conditioning Circuit for Electrochemical and Bioluminescent Sensors

6. Amos Dotan and Ilan Rusnak. Method of Measuring Closing Velocity by Transmitting a Dual-Chirp Signal

7. Tom Trigano, Yann Sepulcre, Mor Tal and Yaniv Mashiach. On a Sparse Regression Algorithm for Activity Estimation in Gamma Spectrometry

8. Saman Mousazadeh and Israel Cohen. Anomaly Detection in Sonar Images Based on Wavelet Domain Noncausal AR-ARCH Random Field Modeling



Chair: Raul Rabinovici

9. Michael Sokolov, Tim C. Green, Paul D. Mitcheson and Doron Shmilovitz. Dynamic Analysis of Photovoltaic System with MPP Locus Emulation

10. Florin Ciausiu, Cornel Aldea and Mircea Eremia. Avoiding Extended Failures in Large Interconnected Power Systems - Theoretical and Practical Issues

11. Lukas Sigrist, Ignacio Egido and Luis Rouco. Frequency Stability Boundary of Small Isolated Power Systems

12. Josef Tlusty, Zdenek Muller and Viktor Valouch. Stability Control of Renewable Energy Sources in Distribution Systems

13. Raul Rabinovici, Dmitry Baimel, Jacek Tomasik and Adrian Zuckerberger. Thirteen Level Cascaded NPC Inverter

14. Raul Rabinovici, Dmitry Baimel, Jacek Tomasik and Adrian Zuckerberger. Generic Phase Shifted PWM Algorithm for Thirteen Level Cascaded H-Bridge NPC Inverter

15. Gavriel Yehezkel and Raul Rabinovici. Operation of Power Backup Equipment in Load Management Mode

16. Roy Freud, Amir Ellenbogen, Alon Osovizky and Yosef Cohen. Readiness of Israel for Nuclear Power Plants

17. Ilan Aharon and Alon Kuperman. Design of Semi-Active Battery-Ultracapacitor Hybrids

Thursday, 14:00 to 16:00 Sapphire Hall

Special Session: Networks and Computation, organized by Guy Even Dana Ron

1. Shiri Chechik and David Peleg. Rigid and Competitive Fault Tolerance for Logical Information Structures in Networks

2. Ido Ben-Zvi and Yoram Moses. Causality in Synchronous Systems 3. Michael Elkin. Distributed Deterministic Graph Coloring 4. Shlomi Dolev and Sergey Frenkel. Multiplication Free Holographic Coding 5. Magnus M. Halldorsson, Boaz Patt-Shamir and Dror Rawitz. Online Scheduling

with Interval Conflicts 6. Guy Even and Moti Medina. Online Packet-Routing in Grids with Bounded

Buffers 7. Ishay Haviv and Michael Langberg. Beating the Gilbert-Varshamov Bound for

Online Channels


Special Session: Network Processors and Networks on Chip, organized by Shlomo Weiss

2. Gadi Oxman and Shlomo Weiss. Buffered Deflection Routing For On Chip Networks

3. Guy Koren and Amir Rosen. Architecture of a 100-Gbps Network Processor for Next Generation Video Networks

4. Bo Yang, Liang Guang, Thomas Canhao Xu, Tero Sntti and Juha Plosila. Multi-Application Mapping Algorithm for Network-on-Chip Platforms

5. Dmitri Vainbrand and Ran Ginosar. Comparing NoC Architectures for Neural Networks

6. Sagi Manole, Amit Golander and Shlomo Weiss. Workload Optimization of Proteomics Pattern Matching using Embedded Accelerator

7. Amit Golander, Nancy Greco, Jimi Xenidis, Maria Hyland, Brian Purcell and David Bernstein. IBMs PowerEN Developer Cloud: Fertile Ground for Academic Research

8. Ran Manevich, Isask'har Walter, Israel Cidon and Avinoam Kolodny. Best of Both Worlds: A Bus Enhanced NoC (BENoC)

9. Iaakov Exman and Evyatar Vaalani. Parallelism Detection For Multicore Processors



Chair: Uri Erez

8. Yuval Avner, Benjamin M. Zaidel, Shlomo Shamai (Shitz) and Uri Erez. On the Dirty Paper Channel with Fading Dirt

9. Iddo Naiss and Haim Permuter. Alternating Maximization Procedure for Finding the Global Maximum of Directed Information

10. Eran Hof, Igal Sason and Shlomo Shamai. Polar Coding for Degraded and Non-Degraded Parallel Channels

11. Joao Carlos Leandro Da Silva. Carmichael Numbers and a New Primality Test 12. Amos Lapidoth, Yossef Steinberg and Michle Wigger. Gaussian Broadcast

Channel with Partial Feedback 13. Shraga Bross and Amos Lapidoth. The State-Dependent Multiple-Access Channel

with States Available at a Cribbing Encoder 14. Tobias Koch and Amos Lapidoth. Increased Capacity per Unit-Cost by

Oversampling 15. Or Ordentlich and Uri Erez. Achieving the Gains Promised by Integer-Forcing

Equalization with Binary Codes


Circuits and Systems (5) (6)

Chair: Irad Ben-Gal

17. Florin Constantinescu, Miruna Nitescu and Alexandru-Gabriel Gheorghe. Circuit Models for Power Baw Resonators

18. Klaus Trangbaek. Safe LPV Controller Switching 19. Klaus Trangbaek. Improving Predictions in LPV-PBSIDopt 20. Daniel Shapiro, Philipp Digeser, Marco Tubolino, Martin Klemm, Axel Sikora

and Miodrag Bolic. Instruction Set Extensions for Computation on Complex Floating Point Numbers

21. Humberto Xavier Arajo and Luiz Carlos Kretly. AC Clocked Power Supply DCVSL Differential Cascode Voltage Switching Logic: Design Guidelines for Energy Consumption Optimization and CMOS Layout

22. Alexander Rybalov, Eugene Kagan, Yochai Manor and Irad Ben-Gal. Fuzzy Model of Control for Quantum-Controlled Mobile Robots

23. Daniel Seidner. A Configurable Zero Stall Pipelined Image Processor Architecture for FPGAs

24. Amit Ailon and Ilan Zohar. Path Planning and Optimal Control Strategies for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles with Bounded Inputs


Communications (2) (3)

Chair: Zeev Zalevsky

5. Roy Maiberger, Doron Ezri and Michael Erlihson. Location Based Beamforming 6. Igal Kotzer, Smadar Har-Nevo, Sasha Sodin and Simon Litsyn. An Analytical

Approach to the Calculation of EVM in Clipped OFDM Signals 7. Yeuda Shen bahar and Ofer Amrani. Iterative Multiuser Detection for Coded

Impulse Radio Systems 8. Romans Taranovs, Valery Zagursky and Anatolijs Morozovs. Heterogeneous

Collision-Free Clustered Scheme for Wireless Sensor Networks 9. Mark Geles, Ofer Amrani, Amir Averbuch and Doron Ezri. Maximum Likelihood

Detection for Single Carrier - FDMA: Performance Analysis 10. Shahaf Wayer and Arie Reichman. Resource Management in Satellite

Communication Systems - Heuristic Algorithms 11. Dov Wulich and Igor Gutman. Impact of Linear Power Amplifier on Power

Loading in OFDM. Part I. Principles 12. Dov Wulich Haim Permuter and Yuval Carmel. Impact of Linear Power Amplifier

on Power Loading in OFDM. Part II. Application to Maximum Bit Rate Criterion


Signal Processing (4) (5)

Chair: Ami Moyal

9. Yagmur Gucluturk, Umut Guclu and Andrews Samraj. An Online Single Trial Analysis of the P300 Event Related Potentials for the Disabled

10. Martha Roxana Quispe-Ayala, Krista Asalde-Alvarez and Avid Roman-Gonzalez. Image Classification Using Data Compression Techniques

11. Dikla Shechnik and Ami Moyal. An Efficient Vocabulary Reduction Algorithm for a Very Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition Engine

12. Jason Henry and Vered Aharonson. Gait Monitoring for the Elderly Using a Robotic Walking Aid

13. Livnat Ehrenberg, Sharon Gannot, Amir Leshem and Ephraim Zehavi. Sensitivity Analysis of MVDR and MPDR Beamformers

14. Baruchi Har-Lev, Vered Aharonson and Ami Moyal. An Efficient Phoneme Distance Measure Using a Lexical Tree

15. Ella Tetariy, Vered Aharonson and Ami Moyal. Phonetic Search Using an Anchor-Based Algorithm

16. Joseph Picard and Anthony J. Weiss. Localization Based on Periodic Signals with Ambiguity



Chair: Doron Shmilovitz

18. Svetlana Bronstein and Inna Katz. Piezoelectric Transformer Parameters Evaluation

19. Natan Krihely and Sam Ben-Yaakov. Piezoelectric Harvesting Circuit with Extended Input Voltage Range

20. Pavol Rafajdus, Peter Bracink and Juraj Altus. Transient Analysis of Voltage Transformer in Order to Fault Location in Medium Voltage Network

21. Murali Venkata Kirthiga and Samuel Arul Daniel. Optimal Sizing of Hybrid Generators for Autonomous Operation of a Micro-Grid

22. Kfir J. Dagan, Raul Rabinovici and Dmitry Baimel. An Analytical Approach to Total Harmonic Distortion Reduction in Multi-Level Inverters

23. Kfir J. Dagan and Raul Rabinovici. Sloped Multi-Level Selective Harmonic Elimination Pulse-Width Modulation

24. Shimon Limor and Doron Shmilovitz. A New, Harmonic-Free, Energy-Saving Controller for Induction Motors


Special Session: Computer Simulation Technology (CST)

A commercial presentation


Information Theory (5)

Chair: Amir Ingber

16. Yuval Lomnitz and Meir Feder. Communicating Over Modulo-Additive Channels with Compressible Individual Noise Sequence

17. Amir Ingber and Meir Feder. Finite Blocklength Coding for Channels with Side Information at the Receiver

18. Yonatan Kaspi and Neri Merhav. Revisiting Gallager's Error Exponent Analysis Technique

19. Ram Zamir. How to Generate a Simple Dither


Electromagnetic Compatibility and Engineering in Medicine Biology

Chair: Meir Perez

1. Ville Naumanen, Juhamatti Korhonen, Julius Luukko and Pertti Silventoinen. Multilevel Inverter Modulation Method to Reduce Common-Mode Voltage and Overvoltage at the Motor Terminals

2. Humberto Xavier Arajo and Luiz Carlos Kretly. Optimizing Impedance Matching Between the Exciter -APEX and the GTEM Chamber

3. Meir Perez, David Rubin, Tshilidzi Marwala, Lesley Scott and Wendy Stevens. A Population-Based Incremental Learning Approach to Microarray Gene Expression Feature Selection


Communications (4)

Chair: Ofer Amrani

13. Erez Marom, Lior Landesman and Ely Levine. MIMO Systems with One Directional Antenna

14. Nir Darshan and Isaac Rosenhouse. Nonlinear Pre-Emphasis for Improving QAM Performance over Channels With Additive and Multiplicative Noise

15. Kun Liu, Emilia Fridman and Eugenii Shustin. An Improved Stability Analysis of Networked Control Systems

16. Uria Basher, Avihay Shirazi and Haim Permuter. Capacity Region of Finite State Multiple-Access Channel with State Information at the Receiver and Delayed State Information at the Transmitters


Signal Processing (6) Chair: Sharon Gannot

17. Maxim Lapidus and Ilan Shallom. Enhanced Intrusive Voice Quality Estimation

(EVQE) 18. Tsvi G. Dvorkind. Signal Presence Hypothesis Testing With Scaled Covariance

Matrices 19. Vladimir Tourbabin and Boaz Rafaely. Electronic Steering for a Microphone

Array by Sub-Band Phase Compensation 20. Ronny Levanda and Amir Leshem. Adaptive Selective Sidelobe Canceller

Beamformer With Applications in Radio-Astronomy


Signal Processing (1)

Chair: Yuval Kochman

21. Zohar Bar-Yehuda, Yair Harari and Stanley Rotman. Band Selection in Hyperspectral Images Based on the Fisher Linear Discriminant Classifier

22. Yoav Feinmesser and Stanley Rotman. Iterative Approach for Gas Detection and Identification

23. Gideon Nave, Ofir Lindenbaum, Shai Maskit and Ophir Kutiel. Musical Features Extraction for Audio-Based Search

24. Artemy Baxansky and Meir Tzur. Single-Image Motion Deblurring Using a Low-Dimensional Hand Shake Blur Model

Friday, 08:30 to 10:30, Sapphire Hall

Antennas and Propagation

Chair: Yehuda Leviatan

1. Reuven Shavit, Hadar Dagan, Roie Yitzhak and Oleg Becker. Aperture-Coupled Fragmented Microstrip Phased Array

2. Yuval Serfaty and Dana Porrat. Waveguide Phenomena in Wideband Indoor Radio Channels

3. Asaf Shokron and Ely Levine. Broadband Tactical Antenna Design 4. Hugo G. Espinosa, Yaniv Brick, Amir Boag and Juan M. Rius. Software

Framework for Integration of Method of Moments Kernels with the Adaptive Cross Approximation (ACA) Algorithm

5. Antonio Topa, Carlos Paiva and Afonso Barbosa. Frequency Dispersion in Indefinite Media Waveguides

6. Tal Heilpern, Amir Shlivinski, Ehud Heyman, Beam-Based Back-Propagation and MUSIC Imaging

7. Yan Kaganovsky and Ehud Heyman. Airy Pulsed Beams 8. Tatiana Danov and Timor Melamed. Spectral Analysis of Relativistic Dyadic

Greens Function of Moving Dielectric Medium 9. Lev Pazin and Yehuda Leviatan. A Compact 60 GHz Tapered Slot Antenna

Printed on LCP Substrate for WPAN Applications

Friday, 08:30 to 10:30, Topaz Hall

Lasers and Electro-Optics (1) (2)

Chair: Dan Marom

1. Anatoly Patlakh and Dahn Katzen. Light Transmission of Bend Insensitive Optical Fiber

2. Michael Golub. Generalization of the Effective Index Design Approach to the Diffracting Surface Relief Photonic Structures

3. Yossef Ehrlichman, Ofer Amrani and Shlomo Ruschin. Photonic Comparator by Square-Wave Synthesis

4. Daniel Rozban, Avihai Akram, Assaf Levanon, Hezi Joseph, Amir Abramovich, Natan Kopeika, Orly Yadid-Pecht and Alex Belenkey. Inexpensive Imaging at THz Frequencies With Ne Indicator Lamp Detector Arrays

5. Alon Osovizky, Dimitry Ginzburg , Nathan Kopeika, Yair Ifergan, Max Ghelman, Ilan Cohen-Zada, Vitaly Pushkarsky, Eli Marcus, Avi Manor, Ehud Gonen, Tzachi Mazor, Yagil Kadmon and Yossef Cohen. Optical Design Considerations and Constraints for Implementation of Silicon Photomultiplier as a Light Sensor

6. Li-Yuan Chang, Chin-Chung Nien, Chen-Ming Li, Chun-Yen Huang, Ya-Chung Yu and Jenn-Hwan Tarng. A Simulation Method of Image Construction for Passive Millimeter-Wave Imaging System

7. Vladimir Nikulin and Rahul Khandekar. Demonstration of a Mobile Tracking System for Laser Communications

8. David Sinefeld, Christopher R. Doerr and Dan M. Marom. High Resolution Spectral Processor Implemented with Two-Dimensional WDM Channel Separation and Active LCoS Modulator for Phase and Amplitude Manipulations

Friday, 08:30 to 10:30, Opal Hall


Chair: Shlomo Shamai

20. Yuval Kochman, Anatoly Khina and Uri Erez. Broadcasting a Gaussian Source over MIMO Channels

21. Ruxandra Tapu, Titus Zaharia and Franoise Prteux. A Scale-Space Filtering-Based Shot Detection Algorithm

22. Raluca-Diana Petre, Titus Zaharia and Franoise Prteux. An Experimental Evaluation of View-Based 2D/3D Indexing Methods

23. Mustafa Kesal and Uri Erez. Capacity Bounds For Causal Dirty MAC 24. Adam Mashiach, Jan stergaard and Ram Zamir. Multiple Description Delta-

Sigma Quantization With Individual and Central Receivers 25. Himanshu Asnani, Haim Permuter and Tsachy Weissman. Multiple Access

Channel with Partial-Cribbing Encoders 26. Michal Palgy, Jan Ostergaard and Ram Zamir. Multiple Description Image/Video

Compression using Oversampling and Noise Shaping in the DCT-Domain 27. Bobak Nazer, Uri Erez, Jiening Zhan and Michael Gastpar. Integer-Forcing

Linear Receivers: A New Low-Complexity MIMO Architecture

Friday, 08:30 to 9:30, Edom Hall

Special Session: Solar Energy, organized by Yossi Rosenwaks

1. Rona Sarfaty, Gideon Segev, Roni Pozner, Abraham Kribus and Yossi Rosenwacks. Vertical Junction High-Efficiency Concentrator Photovoltaic Cells

2. Zorian Batushansky and Alon Kuperman. Thevenin-Based Approach to PV Arrays Maximum Power Prediction

3. Inbal Friedler, Yuval Yifat, Zeev Iluz, Yael Hanein, Amir Boag and Jacob Scheuer. Coherent Directional Emission of IR Radiation from Metallic Nano-Antenna Arrays


Industry Applications

Chair: Irad Ben-Gal

1. Yulia Pleshivtseva and Edgar Rapoport. Combined Optimization of Metal Hot Forming Line with Induction Pre-Heating

2. Gernot J. Riedel, Nikolaos Oikonomou, Roland Schmidt and Didier Cottet. Active Lifetime Extension Demonstrated for Voltage Source Converters

3. Raul Rabinovici, Moshe Shvartsas and Arthur Shoihet. Single Switch Inverter for Induction Heating

4. Simon Lineykin. Using Shape-Generation Code Vectorization for Modeling Magnetic Fields of Spatial Currents

Friday, 08:30 to 10:30, Ophir Hall

Communications (5) (6)

Chair: Shmuel Miller

17. Yakim Mihov, Kiril Kassev and Boris Tsankov. Analysis and Performance Evaluation of the DRX Mechanism for Power Saving in LTE

18. Arie Reichman. UWB PHY for Body Area Networks 19. Yoram Haddad and Michael Sazbon. Advanced Vocal Web Browser 20. Shmuel Miller. On Active Antenna Array Transmission Noise 21. Avihay Shirazi, Uria Basher and Haim Permuter. On Channel Coding With Rate

Limited Side Information and its Duality in Source Coding

Friday, 08:30 to 10:30, Eden Hall

Signal Processing (7) (8) Chair: Alon Sidi

25. Udi Ben Simon, Itshak Lapidot and Hugo Guterman. Comparison Between Normalizations for SVM GMM Supervectors Speaker Verification

26. Wafi Abo-Gannemhy, Itshak Lapidot and Hugo Guterman. Speech Recognition Using Combined Forward and Backward Viterbi Search

27. Mike Sumszyk, Gideon Inbar and Hillel Pratt. A New Physiologically Based Bayesian Model for Event-Related Brain Activity

28. Serge Karabchevsky, David Kahana and Hugo Guterman. Acoustic Real-Time, Low-Power FPGA Based Obstacle Detection for AUVs

29. Anh Duc Nguyen, Kensuke Naoe and Yoshiyasu Takefuji. A New Log-Spectral Amplitude Estimator Using the Weighted Euclidean Distortion Measure For Speech Enhancement

30. Dmitry Bykhovsky and Ofer Hadar. Evaluation of a GLRT Threshold for Voiced-Unvoiced Decision and Pitch Tracking in Noisy Speech

31. Alex Frid and Yizhar Lavner. Acoustic-Phonetic Analysis of Fricatives for Classification Using SVM Based Algorithm

32. Dan Grois, Evgeny Kaminsky and Ofer Hadar. Adaptive Bit-Rate Control for Region-of-Interest Scalable Video Coding


Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (1) (2)

Chair: Nonel Thirer

1. Irina Topalova and Alexander Tzokev. Increasing the Image Recognition Accuracy in Machine Vision Systems with Added Noise Due to Technological Issues

2. Lihi Naamani Dery, Bracha Shapira and Lior Rokach. MultiCamp - Cost Sensitive Active Learning Algorithm for Multiple Parallel Campaigns

3. Tomer Shimshon, Robert Moskovitch, Lior Rokach and Yuval Elovici. Clustering Di-Graphs for Continuously Verifying Users According to their Typing Patterns

4. Nadav David Marom, Lior Rokach and Armin Shmilovici. Using the Confusion Matrix for Improving Ensemble Classifiers

5. Andrey Godkin and Nonel Thirer. A FPGA Implementation of a Hardware Based Accelerator for a Genetic Algorithm

6. Vladislav Yakobov, Lior Mash and Nonel Thirer. On Chip Implementation of an OCR Algorithm for Musical Notation

7. Joel Ratsaby and Denis Zavielov. An FPGA-Based Pattern Classifier Using Data Compression

Friday, 11:00 to 13:00, Sapphire Hall

Microwaves (1) (2)

Chair: Shmuel Auster

1. Anatoli Shlapakovski. Toward Controllable High-Power Nanosecond Microwave Pulses: Research on the Antenna-Amplifier Dielectric Cherenkov Maser

2. Adiel Tabib, Khona Garb and Raphael Kastner. Microstrip Bandpass Filters Based on Coupling Matrix with Second Harmonic Suppression

3. Kuti Josefberg, Chen Lev and Ely Levine. Low Phase Noise Synthesizer With Integral FM Modulator

4. Gregory Muginshtein, Khona Garb and Raphael Kastner. Multimode Harmonic Power Meter for Circular Overmoded Waveguide at Second and Third Harmonics

5. Amit Vishnipolsky and Eran Socher. A Compact Power Efficient Transformer Coupled Differential W-Band CMOS Amplifier


Lasers and Electro-Optics (3)

Chair: Michael Golub

9. David Sinefeld, Roy Ella, Ofer Zaharan, Yuval Valiano, Eliezer Mach and Dan M. Marom. Wavefront Aberration Correction in a Free-Space Optical Communication Link using only the Fiber-Coupled Optical Power as a Feedback Mechanism

10. Dmitry Bykhovsky and Shlomi Arnon. Unguided Optical Communication Bus for Next-Generation Computers: Design Concept

11. Ronen Rachmani and Shlomi Arnon. Wavelength Diversity in Turbulence Channels for Sensor Networks

12. Alex Freilikhman and Shlomi Arnon. Unguided Optical Bus for the Next-Generation Computers: Simulation of the Motherboard


Emerging Technologies

Chair: Eugene Kagan

1. Igor Shirokov, Maxim Durmanov and Elena Redkina. The Calculation of Magnetic Field Strength in Inhomogeneous Medium in Tasks of Peoples Searching under Avalanches in Mines

2. Gal Goren, Eugene Kagan and Irad Ben-Gal. Probabilistic Double-Distance Algorithm of Search After Static or Moving Target by Autonomous Mobile Agent

3. Kristian Ambrosch, Christian Zinner and Helmut Leopold. A Miniature Embedded Stereo Vision System for Automotive Applications

Friday, 11:00 to 13:00, Opal Hall

Special Session: Storage Systems and Devices, Energy Efficient Computing and Communication Systems, organized by Yitzhak Birk

2. Yaniv Ben-Itzhak, Israel Cidon and Avinoam Kolodny. Thread Allocation Directed by Performance-Power Tradeoff in NoC-Based CMPs

3. Yitzhak Birk and Tomer Kol. Minimum Work per Mission: A Common Goal for High Performance and Energy Efficiency

4. Ronen Kat, Doron Chen, George Goldberg, Ealan Henis, Roger Kahn, Kalman Meth and Dmitry Sotnikov. Energy Management for Datacenter Storage

5. Danny Harnik, Elliot K. Kolodner, Shahar Ronen, Julian Satran, Alexandra Shulman-Peleg and Tal Sivan. Secure Access Mechanism for Cloud Storage

6. Amit Berman and Yitzhak Birk. Integrating De-Duplication and Write for Increased Performance and Endurance of Solid-State Drives

7. Lior David, Ami Galperin, Oded Green and Yitzhak (Tsahi) Birk. Efficient Parallel Computation of the Estimated Covariance Matrix


Computers (1) (2)

Chair: Iaakov Exman

1. Agni Dika and Blerta Prevalla. The Impact of Memory and Processor in Determining the Performance of Programs

2. Yuval Shavitt, Ela Weinsberg and Udi Weinsberg. Applying Clustering Algorithms on Peer-to-Peer Networks for Content Searching and Recommendation

3. Imina Aliyeva. Music Notation Software and an Authentic Representation of the Azerbaijani Modes Scales

4. Daniel Shapiro, Michael Montcalm and Miodrag Bolic. Parallel Instruction Set Extension Identification

5. Iaakov Exman and Slava Reznitsky. To Be and Not to Be at the Same Time: Hidden Watchdog Timers

6. Tal Marian, Osnat (Ossi) Mokryn and Yuval Shavitt. Sensing Clouds: A Distributed Cooperative Target Tracking

7. Francesco Rago. Collision-Based Computing and Event Calculus to Represent and Control Complex Engineering Systems


Communications (7)

Chair: Ofer Amrani

22. Yanir London and Dan Sadot. Analysis of Nonlinearity of Mach-Zehnder Modulator in Coherent Optical OFDM in the Presence of PAPR

23. Nir Sheffi and Dan Sadot. Direct Modulation and Coherent Detection Optical OFDM

24. Asael Adler, Yaron Glazer, Moran Bin-Nun and Dan Marom. High Index Contrast Polymer Optical Waveguides

25. Chien-Hung Chen, Min-Hui Ho and Chien-Ching Chiu. Error Rate Reduction by PSO in Indoor Wireless Communication


Control + Aerospace

Chair: Peleg Lapid

1. Ilan Rusnak, Haim Weiss, Tal Shima and Rei Eliav. Missile Guidance with Constrained Terminal Body Angle

2. Daniel Sigalov and Yaakov Oshman. A New Formulation of Fault-Tolerant Estimation Problems and Some Solutions

3. Peleg Lapid. New Type of Hybrid Locomotive

Friday, 11:00 to 13:00, Eden Hall

Signal Processing (9) (10) Chair: Joseph Picard

33. Dima Ruinskiy, Niv Dadush and Yizhar Lavner. Spectral and Textural Feature-Based System for Automatic Detection of Fricatives and Affricates

34. Yonathan Dunayevsky and Dan Marom. MEMS Spatial Light Modulator for Phase and Amplitude Modulation of Spectrally Dispersed Light

35. Yuval Kochman and Gregory W. Wornell. Compressive Antenna Arrays and Radar Processing

36. Umut elik and Sami Arca. Classification of the Visual Evoked EEG Using Multiresolution Approximation Based on Excitatory Post-Synaptic Potential Waveform

37. Josef Bajer and Dalibor Biolek. Voltage-Mode Electronically Tunable All-Pass Filter Employing CCCII+, One Capacitor and Differential-Input Voltage Buffer

38. Amitay Rudnick and Dan Marom. Airy- Soliton Interactions 39. Alon J. Sidi and Anthony J. Weiss. Tracking of a Moving Emitter Based on Delay

and Doppler Shift Using a Particle Filter 40. Elad Sarafian and Amir Shlivinski. Imaging Buried Objects in Layered Media

Using MUSIC Algorithm


Chair: Uri Erez 1. Alon Orlitsky. University of California San Diego. Foreseeing the Unseen:

Probability Estimation over Large Alphabets

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Thursday, 08:30 to 09:10, Ophir HallThursday, 12:00 to 13:00, Topaz HallThursday, 17:30, Canaan HallFriday, 11:00 to 12:00, Canaan HallList of Sessions/Lectures Thursday, 08:30 to 10:30, Sapphire HallSpecial Session: Cellular Bioengineering, organized by Amit Gefen, Daphne Weihs Thursday, 08:30 to 10:30, Topaz HallSpecial Session: Switched and Hybrid Systems, organized by Michael Margaliot Thursday, 08:30 to 10:30, Opal HallSpecial Session: Coding for Memories, organized by Simon Litsyn Thursday, 08:30 to 10:30, Edom HallCircuits and Systems (1,2)Chair: Eli Gershon Thursday, 08:30 to 09:10 Ophir HallChair: Arie Reichman Thursday, 09:10 to 10:30 Ophir HallChair: Arie Reichman Thursday, 08:30 to 10:30, Eden HallSpecial Session: Power Supply and Delivery in VLSI Systems, organized by Levy Schachter and Avinoam Kolodny Thursday, 08:30 to 10:30, Canaan HallPower Engineering (1) (2)Chair: Alon Kuperman Thursday, 11:00 to 13:00, Sapphire HallSpecial Session: Bio-Inspired Electrical Engineering, organized by Orit Shefi Thursday, 11:00 to 12:00, Topaz HallSpecial Session: Switched and Hybrid Systems, organized by Michael Margaliot Thursday, 12:00 to 13:00, Topaz HallSpecial Session: Network Processors and Networks on Chip, organized by Shlomo Weiss Thursday, 11:00 to 13:00, Opal HallInformation Theory (1) (2)Chair: Ram Zamir Thursday, 11:00 to 13:00, Edom HallCircuits and Systems (3) (4)Chair: Calin Ciufudean Thursday, 11:00 to 12:00, Ophir HallSpecial Session: Multi Cell Processing and Cooperative Communications, organized by Arie Reichman Thursday, 12:00 to 13:00, Ophir HallCommunications (1)Chair: Ofer Amrani Thursday, 11:00 to 13:00, Eden HallSignal Processing (2) (3)Chair: Eugene Kagan Thursday, 11:00 to 13:00, Canaan HallPower Engineering (3) (4)Chair: Raul Rabinovici Thursday, 14:00 to 16:00 Sapphire HallSpecial Session: Networks and Computation, organized by Guy Even Dana Ron Thursday, 14:00 to 16:00, Topaz HallSpecial Session: Network Processors and Networks on Chip, organized by Shlomo Weiss Thursday, 14:00 to 16:00, Opal HallInformation Theory (3) (4)Chair: Uri Erez Thursday, 14:00 to 16:00, Edom HallCircuits and Systems (5) (6)Chair: Irad Ben-Gal Thursday, 14:00 to 16:00, Ophir HallCommunications (2) (3)Chair: Zeev Zalevsky Thursday, 14:00 to 16:00, Eden HallSignal Processing (4) (5)Chair: Ami Moyal Thursday, 14:00 to 16:00, Canaan HallPower Engineering (5) (6)Chair: Doron Shmilovitz Thursday, 16:30 to 17:30, Topaz HallSpecial Session: Computer Simulation Technology (CST)A commercial presentation Thursday, 16:30 to 17:30, Opal HallInformation Theory (5)Chair: Amir Ingber Thursday, 16:30 to 17:30, Edom HallElectromagnetic Compatibility and Engineering in Medicine BiologyChair: Meir Perez Thursday, 16:30 to 17:30, Ophir HallCommunications (4)Chair: Ofer Amrani Thursday, 16:30 to 17:30, Eden Hall Thursday, 16:30 to 17:30, Canaan HallSignal Processing (1)Chair: Yuval Kochman Friday, 08:30 to 10:30, Sapphire HallAntennas and PropagationChair: Yehuda Leviatan Friday, 08:30 to 10:30, Topaz HallLasers and Electro-Optics (1) (2)Chair: Dan Marom Friday, 08:30 to 10:30, Opal HallInformation Theory (6) (7)Chair: Shlomo Shamai Friday, 08:30 to 9:30, Edom HallSpecial Session: Solar Energy, organized by Yossi Rosenwaks Friday, 09:30 to 10:30, Edom HallIndustry ApplicationsChair: Irad Ben-Gal Friday, 08:30 to 10:30, Ophir HallCommunications (5) (6)Chair: Shmuel Miller Friday, 08:30 to 10:30, Eden Hall Friday, 08:30 to 10:30, Canaan HallPattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (1) (2)Chair: Nonel Thirer Friday, 11:00 to 13:00, Sapphire HallMicrowaves (1) (2)Chair: Shmuel Auster Friday, 11:00 to 12:00, Topaz HallLasers and Electro-Optics (3)Chair: Michael Golub Friday, 12:00 to 13:00, Topaz HallEmerging TechnologiesChair: Eugene Kagan Friday, 11:00 to 13:00, Opal HallSpecial Session: Storage Systems and Devices, Energy Efficient Computing and Communication Systems, organized by Yitzhak Birk Friday, 11:00 to 13:00, Edom HallComputers (1) (2)Chair: Iaakov Exman Friday, 11:00 to 12:00, Ophir HallCommunications (7)Chair: Ofer Amrani Friday, 12:00 to 13:00, Ophir HallControl + AerospaceChair: Peleg Lapid Friday, 11:00 to 13:00, Eden Hall Friday, 11:00 to 12:00, Canaan Hall****************************** END ***********************************

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2010 IEEE 26-th Convention of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in Israel November 17-20, 2010, Eilat