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Preprint Monographs/Books Journal Publications Conference Publications Patents

Journal submissions under review

On the tradeoff region of secure exact-repair regenerating codes

S. Shao, T. Liu, C. Tian, and C. Shen, submitted Dec. 2017 IEEE Trans. IT.; revised, Jun. 2017.

On the symmetry reduction of information inequalities

K. Zhang and C. Tian, submitted, Nov. 2016, IEEE Trans. Communications; revised May 2017.

Symmetry, outer bounds, and code constructions: A computer-aided investigation on the fundamental limits of caching

C. Tian, submitted, Sep. 2016, IEEE Trans. IT; revised Jun. 2017.

Caching and delivery via interference elimination

C. Tian and J. Chen, submitted, Apr. 2016, IEEE Trans. IT; Revised Nov. 2016.

Enabling all-node-repair in minimum storage regenerating codes

J. Li, X.H. Tang, and C. Tian, submitted, Apr. 2016, IEEE Trans. IT; Revised Dec. 2016.

Monographs and book chapters

An approximation approach to network information theory

S. Avestimehr, S. N. Diggavi, C. Tian, and D. N. S. Tse, Foundations and Trends in Communications and Information Theory, Vol. 12, No. 1-2, pp. 1-183, Sep. 2015.

Journal publications 2014-

36. Matched multiuser Gaussian source channel communications via uncoded schemes

C. Tian, J. Chen, S. Diggavi and S. Shamai, IEEE Trans. IT, Vol. 63, No. 7, pp. 4155-4171, Jul. 2017.

35. Multilevel diversity coding with regeneration

C. Tian and T. Liu, IEEE Trans. IT, Vol. 62, No. 9, pp. 4833-4847, Sep. 2016.

34. Gaussian state amplification with noisy observations

C. Tian, B. Bandemer, and S. Shamai, IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, Vol. 61, No. 9, pp. 4587-4597, Sep. 2015.

33. Broadcasting correlated vector Gaussians

L. Song, J. Chen, and C. Tian, IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, Vol. 61, No. 5, pp. 2465-2477, May 2015.

32. Layered exact-repair regenerating codes via embedded erasure correction and block designs

C. Tian, B. Sasidharan, V. Aggarwal, P. Vijay Kumar and V. Vaishampayan, IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, Vol. 61, No. 4, pp. 1933-1947, Apr. 2015.

31. Polar codes for multiple descriptions

Q. Shi, L. Song, C. Tian, J. Chen, and S. Dumitrescu, IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, Vol. 61, No. 1, pp. 107-119, Jan. 2015.

Journal publications 2004-2014

30. Characterizing the rate-region of the (4,3,3) exact-repair regenerating codes

C. Tian, IEEE Journal on Secelected Areas in Communications, Vol. 32, No. 5, 967-975, May 2014.

29. Optimality and approximate optimality of source-channel separation in networks

C. Tian, J. Chen, S. N. Diggavi and S. Shamai, IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, Vol. 60, No. 2, pp. 904-918, Feb. 2014.

28. Accelerated bilateral filtering with block skipping

C. Tian and S. Krishnan, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, Vol. 20, No. 5, pp. 419-422, May 2013.

27. Worst-case expected-capacity loss of slow-fading channels

J. W. Yoo, T. Liu, S. Shamai, and C. Tian, IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, Vol. 59, No. 6, pp. 3764-3779, Jun. 2013.

26. Capacity-achieving polar codes for arbitrarily permuted parallel channels

E. Hof, I. Sason, S. Shamai and C. Tian, IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, Vol. 59, No. 3, pp. 1505-1516, Mar. 2013.

25. Distortion minimization in Gaussian source coding with fading side-information channel

C.T.K. Ng, C. Tian, A. Goldsmith and S. Shamai, IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, Vol. 58, No. 9, pp. 5725-5739, Sep. 2012.

24. The achievable distortion region of sending a bivariate Gaussian source on the Gaussian broadcast channel

C. Tian, S. Diggavi and S. Shamai, IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, Vol. 57, No. 10, pp. 6419-6427, Oct. 2011.

23. Latent capacity region: a case study on symmetric broadcast with common messages

C. Tian, IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, Vol. 57, No. 6, pp. 3273-3285, Jun. 2011.

22. Approximate characterizations for the Gaussian source broadcast distortion region

C. Tian, S. Diggavi and S. Shamai, IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, Vol. 57, No. 1, pp. 124-136, Jan. 2011.

21. A three-layer scheme for M-channel multiple description image coding

U. Samarawickrama, J. Liang and C. Tian, Signal Processing (Elsevier), Vol. 91, No. 10, pp. 2277-2289, Oct. 2011.

20. New coding schemes for the symmetric K-description problem

C. Tian and J. Chen, IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, Vol. 56, No. 10, pp. 5344-5365, Oct. 2010.

19. Asymmetric multilevel diversity coding and asymmetric multiple descriptions

S. Mohajer, C. Tian and S. N. Diggavi, IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, Vol. 56, No. 9, pp. 4367-4387, Sep. 2010.

18. M-channel multiple description coding with two-rate predictive coding and staggered quantization

U. Samarawickrama, J. Liang and C. Tian, IEEE Trans. Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Vol. 20, No. 7, pp. 933-944, Jul. 2010.

17. Network resource allocation for competing multiple description transmissions

Y. Li, C. Tian, S. N. Diggavi, M. Chiang and R. Calderbank, IEEE Trans. Communications, Vol. 58, No. 5, pp. 1493-1504, May 2010.

16. LDPC code design for asynchronous Slepian-Wolf coding

Z. Sun, C. Tian, J. Chen, and Kon Max Wong, IEEE Trans. Communications, Vol. 58, No. 2, pp. 511-520, Feb. 2010.

15. Remote vector Gaussian source coding with decoder side information under mutual information and distortion constraints

C. Tian and J. Chen, IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, Vol. 55, No. 10, pp. 4676-4680, Oct. 2009.

14. Approximating the Gaussian multiple description rate region under symmetric distortion constraints

C. Tian, S. Mohajer and S. N. Diggavi, IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, Vol. 55, No. 8, pp. 3869-3891, Aug. 2009.

13. Multiple description coding for stationary Gaussian sources

J. Chen, C. Tian and S. N. Diggavi, IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, Vol. 55, No. 6, pp. 2868-2881, Jun. 2009.

12. Multiple description coding with prediction compensation

G. Sun, U. Samarawickrame, J. Liang, C. Tian, C. Tu and T. D. Tran, IEEE Trans. Image Processing, Vol. 18, No. 5, pp. 1037-1047, May 2009.

11. A coding algorithm for constant weight vectors: a geometric approach based on dissections

C. Tian, V. Vaishampayan and N.J.A. Sloane, IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, Vol. 55, No. 3, pp. 1051-1060, Mar. 2009.

10. Physical sketching: reconstruction and analysis of 3D objects from freehand sketches,

C. Tian, M. Masry and H. Lipson, Journal of Computer Aided Design, Special Issue on Computer Support for Conceptual Design, Vol. 41, No. 3, pp. 147-158, Mar. 2009.

9. Side-information scalable source coding

C. Tian and S. Diggavi, IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, Vol. 54, No. 12, pp. 5591-5608, Dec. 2008.

8. Successive refinement for hypothesis testing and lossless one-helper problem

C. Tian and J. Chen, IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, Vol. 54, No. 10, pp. 4666-4681, Oct. 2008.

7. Successive refinement via broadcast: optimizing expected distortion of a Gaussian source over a Gaussian fading channel

C. Tian, A. Steiner, S. Shamai and S. N. Diggavi, IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, Vol. 54, No. 7, pp. 2903-2918, Jul. 2008..

6. Multiuser successive refinement and multiple description coding

C. Tian, J. Chen and S. N. Diggavi, IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, Vol. 54, No. 2, pp. 921-931, Feb. 2008.

5. On multistage successive refinement for Wyner-Ziv source coding with degraded side information

C. Tian and S. Diggavi, IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, Vol. 53, No. 8, pp. 2946-2960, Aug. 2007.

4. Multiple description quantization via Gram-Schmidt orthogonalization

J. Chen, C. Tian, T. Berger and S. S. Hemami, IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, Vol. 52, No. 12, pp. 5197-5217, Dec. 2006.

3. A new class of multiple description scalar quantizers and its application to image coding

C. Tian and S. S. Hemami, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, Vol 12, No. 4, pp. 329-332, Apr. 2005.

2. Optimality and sub-optimality of multiple description vector quantization with a lattice codebook

C. Tian and S. S. Hemami, IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, Vol. 50, No. 10, pp. 2458-2468, Oct. 2004.

1. Universal multiple description scalar quantization: analysis and design

C. Tian and S. S. Hemami, IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, Vol. 50, No. 9, pp. 2089-2102, Sep. 2004.

Conference publications 2014-

A generic transformation for optimal repair bandwidth and rebuilding access in MDS codes

J. Li, X. Tang, and C. Tian, IEEE Int. Symp. Information Theory (ISIT), Aachen Germany, Jun. 2017.

A computer-aided investigation on the fundamental limits of caching

C. Tian, IEEE Int. Symp. Information Theory (ISIT), Aachen Germany, Jun. 2017.

On the tradeoff region of secure exact-repair regenerating codes

S. Shao, T. Liu, and C. Tian, IEEE Int. Symp. Information Theory (ISIT), Aachen Germany, Jun. 2017.

Coded prefetching and efficient delivery in decentralized caching systems (invited)

K. Zhang and C. Tian, 2017 IEEE 18th International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC), Sapporo Japan, Jul. 2017.

Symmetry reduction of information inequalities

K. Zhang and C. Tian, Allerton Conf. on Comm., Contr. and Comp., Montecillo IL, Sep. 2016.

Symmetry, demand types and outer bounds in caching systems

C. Tian, IEEE Int. Symp. Information Theory (ISIT), Barcelona Spain, Jul. 2016.

Caching and delivery via interference elimination

C. Tian and J. Chen, IEEE Int. Symp. Information Theory (ISIT), Barcelona Spain, Jul. 2016.

Orbit-Entropy cones and extremal pairwise orbit-entropy inequalities

J. Chen, A. Salimi, T. Liu, and C. Tian, IEEE Int. Symp. Information Theory (ISIT), Barcelona Spain, Jul. 2016.

Cyclically symmetric entropy inequalities

J. Chen, H. Ye, C. Tian, T. Liu, and Z. Xiao, IEEE Int. Symp. Information Theory (ISIT), Barcelona Spain, Jul. 2016.

Multilevel diversity coding with regeneration: separate coding achieves the MBR point

S. Shao, T. Liu and C. Tian, 50th Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, Princeton, NJ, Mar. 2016.

On the fundamental limits of coded caching and exact-repair regenerating codes

C. Tian, 2015 Int. Sym. on Network Coding (NetCod), Sydney, Australia, Jun. 2015.

Multilevel diversity coding with regeneration

C. Tian and T. Liu, IEEE Int. Symp. Information Theory (ISIT), Hong Kong, Jun. 2015.

Matched multiuser Gaussian source-channel communications via uncoded schemes

C. Tian, J. Chen, S. Diggavi and S. Shamai, IEEE Int. Symp. Information Theory (ISIT), Hong Kong, Jun. 2015.

A C library of repair-efficient erasure codes for distributed data storage systems

C. Tian, Workshops in 2014 IEEE International Conference on BigData, Washington DC, Oct. 2014.

Repair-efficient distributed storage codes with heterogeneous reliability requirements

C. Tian, Allerton Conf. on Comm., Contr. and Comp., Montecillo IL, Oct. 2014.

Partial conference publications 2004-2014

*Only for results not documented in journal papers.

Distributed data storage systems with opportunistic repair

V. Aggarwal, C. Tian, V. Vaishampayan, Y.-F. Chen, IEEE Infocom, Toronto, Canada, Apr. 2014 (acceptance rate: 19.4%).

A probabilistic pairwise-preference predictor for image quality

A. Reibman, K. Shirley and C. Tian, IEEE Int. Conf. on Image Proc. (ICIP), Melbourne, Australia, Sep. 2013.

Distributed storage evaluation on a three-wide inter-data center deployment

Y.-F. Chen, S. Daniels, M. Hadjieleftheriou, P. Liu, C. Tian and V. Vaishampayan, Workshops in 2013 IEEE International Conference on BigData, Santa Clara CA, Oct. 2013.

An automatic grid corner extration technique for camera calibration

L. Yang, C. Tian, V. Vaishampayan and A. Reibman, IEEE Int. Conf. on Image Proc. (ICIP), Orlando FL, Sep., 2012.

Upsampling range camera depth maps using high-resolution vision camera and pixel-level confidence classification

C. Tian, V. Vaishampayan and Y. Zhang, IS&T/SPIE's Int. Symp. on Electronic Imaging-Stereoscopic Displays and Applications XXII, San Francisco CA, Jan. 2011.

Sending Gaussian source on bandwidth-mismatched Gaussian channel with improved robustness

C. Tian and S. Shamai, IEEE Int. Conf. on Communications (ICC), Kyoto, Japan, Jun. 2011.

Inequalities for entropies of sets of subsets of random variables

C. Tian, IEEE Int. Symp. on Information Theory (ISIT), Petersburg, Russia, Aug. 2011.

On the capacity of a hybrid broadcast multiple access system for WDM networks

V. Vaishampayan, C. Tian and M. Feuer, IEEE Int. Symp. on Inform. Th. (ISIT), Petersburg, Russia, Aug. 2011.

On source transmission over deterministic networks (invited)

S. Mohajer, C. Tian and S. Diggavi, IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW), Cairo, Egypt, Jan. 2010.

Capacity region of reversely degraded Gaussian MIMO broadcast channel

J. Chen and C. Tian, IEEE Globecom, p. 1-6, Honolulu HI, Nov. 2009.

A unified coding scheme for hybrid transmission of Gaussian source over Gaussian channel

C. Tian and S. Shamai, 2008 IEEE Int. Symp. on Information Theory (ISIT), Toronto, Canada, Jul. 2008.

Lossy source coding for a cascade communication system with side informations

D. Vasudevan, C. Tian and S. Diggavi, Allerton conference on Comm. Control and Comp., Monteceillo IL, Sep. 2006.

Visually optimized multiple description image coding

C. Tian and S. Hemami, IEEE Int. Conf. on on Acoustics, Speech, and Sig. Proc. (ICASSP), Toulouse, France, May 2006.

Staggered lattices in multiple description quantization

C. Tian and S. S. Hemami, IEEE Data Compression Conference (DCC), Snowbird UT, Mar. 2005.

An embedded image coding system based on tarp filter with classification

C. Tian and S. S. Hemami, IEEE Int. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Sig. Proc. (ICASSP), Montreal, Canada, May 2004.

Sequential design of multiple description scalar quantizers

C. Tian and S. S. Hemami, IEEE Data Compression Conference (DCC), Snowbird UT, Mar. 2004.

Patents

Encoding of data into constant weight codes

N. J. A. Sloane, C. Tian and V. Vaishampayan, US Patent No. 7,587,641, Sep. 2009.

Quantization splitting multiple description encoder

C. Tian and J. Chen, US Patent No. 7,944,388, May 2011.

Method and apparatus for improving transmission of data on a bandwidth mismatched channel

C. Tian, US Patent No. 8,774,308, Jul. 2014; US Patent No. 9,356,627, May 2016.

Method and apparatus for improving transmission of data on a bandwidth expanded channel

C. Tian, US Patent No. 8,781,023, Jul. 2014; US Patent No. 9,356,629, May 2016.

System and method of bilateral image filtering

C. Tian and S. Krishnan, US Patent No. 8,737,735, May 2014.

Apparatus and method for providing three dimensional media content

C. Tian, V. Vaishampayan and Y. Zhang, US Patent No. 8,428,342, May 2013; US Patent No. 8,977,038, Mar. 2015, US Patent No. 9,153,018, Oct. 2015.