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

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



Thursday, 11:00 to 12:00, Topaz Hall
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

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

Thursday, 11:00 to 13:00, Opal Hall
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
Thursday, 11:00 to 13:00, Edom Hall
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

Thursday, 11:00 to 12:00, Ophir Hall
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

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

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

Thursday, 11:00 to 13:00, Canaan Hall
Power Engineering (3) (4)
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

Thursday, 14:00 to 16:00, Topaz Hall
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

Thursday, 14:00 to 16:00, Opal Hall
Information Theory (3) (4)
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



Thursday, 14:00 to 16:00, Edom Hall
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

Thursday, 14:00 to 16:00, Ophir Hall
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

Thursday, 14:00 to 16:00, Eden Hall
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

Thursday, 14:00 to 16:00, Canaan Hall
Power Engineering (5) (6)
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

Thursday, 16:30 to 17:30, Topaz Hall
Special Session: Computer Simulation Technology (CST)
A commercial presentation

Thursday, 16:30 to 17:30, Opal Hall
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

Thursday, 16:30 to 17:30, Edom Hall
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



Thursday, 16:30 to 17:30, Ophir Hall
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

Thursday, 16:30 to 17:30, Eden Hall
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

Thursday, 16:30 to 17:30, Canaan Hall
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
Information Theory (6) (7)
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

Friday, 09:30 to 10:30, Edom Hall
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

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

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



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

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

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

Friday, 12:00 to 13:00, Ophir Hall
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

Friday, 11:00 to 12:00, Canaan Hall
Chair: Uri Erez

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

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