Cornell Communication Networks Research Group

This is the web page for Sergio Servetto's research group at Cornell. We are interested primarily in systems and theory problems in the general area of communication networks, with a focus on information and communication theory problems that come up in the context of sensor networks. See the pages describing our research work and lab for details.

Some general information:

• How to contact us:

  
  

  School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

  Cornell University

  Ithaca, NY 14853-6701.

  
  

  Sergio's office and phone number: 326 Rhodes Hall; Phone: (607)821-1244 (SkypeIn/Voicemail); Skype name: sservetto.

  Graduate students' office: 339 Rhodes Hall; lab: 362 Rhodes Hall.

  Administrative assistant: Sutapa Ghosh, 314 Rhodes Hall, (607)255-4844.

  Fax: (607)255-9072.

• Teaching during Spring 2007: ECE 446 -- Digital Communications over Packet-Switched Networks.

Some of our most recent work (see also our complete list of publications):

• S. D. Servetto. The Sum-Rate of Multiterminal Source Coding with Two Encoders. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory; Submitted, April 2006 (original title: "The Region of Achievable Rates for Multiterminal Source Coding, Part I"); Revised, November 2006; Second revision, February 2007.

• A. Hu, S. D. Servetto. A Scalable Protocol for Cooperative Time Synchronization Using Spatial Averaging. Submitted to the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, October 2006.

• R. Dabora, S. D. Servetto. On the Role of Estimate-and-Forward with Time-Sharing in Cooperative Communications. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory; Submitted, May 2006 (original title: "Truncate-and-Forward: A New Coding Strategy for the Relay Channel"); Revised, October 2006.

• S. D. Servetto. From "Sensor Networks" to "Sensor Networks". In the Proceedings of the Third IEEE Workshop on Embedded Networked Sensors (EmNets), Cambridge, MA, May 2006. [Download presentation slides] [Download position paper]

• S. D. Servetto, J. M. Rosenblatt. The Multiterminal Source Coding Problem for Spatial Waves. In the Proceedings of the UCSD Workshop on Information Theory and its Applications, San Diego, CA, February 2006. Invited paper. [Download paper]