The International Workshop on New Information Coding Technology and Applications took place on Oct. 13, 2024 in the city of Huzhou, Zhejiang Province, China. This workshop was hosted by the Yangtze Delta Region Research Institute (Huzhou) of University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, the Â鶹´«Ã½AV Information Theory Society (ITSoc) Guangzhou Chapter, and the School of Information Engineering of Guangdong University of Technology. More than 80 scholars participated in the workshop.
This workshop focused on the field of information theory and coding with newly developed techniques that have the potential to be applied in mobile communications, quantum communications, cloud computing and storage.
Its one-day program consists of 9 invited talks delivered by both senior and junior scholars. In the morning session, Prof. Xiaohu Tang from Southwest Jiaotong University introduced his work on the construction of regenerating codes based on Reed-Solomon (RS) codes. Afterwards, Prof. Kai Niu of Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications presented their recent work on polar codes for 6G networks. Prof. Wenyi Zhang from the University of Science and Technology of China offered their insights into the guessing random additive noise decoding (GRAND) that has galvanized widespread attention in recent years. The last talk in the morning session was given by Prof. Li Chen of Sun Yat-sen University. He provided a unified view onto the algebraic decoding of RS codes. It was remarked that such an understanding may provide insights for designing advanced decoding algorithms for the more general algebraic-geometric (AG) codes.
In the afternoon session, the workshop focused on information theory and coding for the emerging areas. Dr. Min Li from Zhejiang University shared his recent research on the information theoretic analysis of integrated sensing and communication systems. Prof. Xueqin Jiang from Donghua University introduced his adaptive reconciliation protocol by modifying Raptor codes for quantum key distribution systems. Dr. Junyan Dai from Southeast University presented the overviews on information metamaterial communication and sensing systems. Dr. Huihui Wu from RDA Technologies Limited introduced the numerical methods for computing the rate-distortion functions in source coding, and Dr. Li Deng from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China presented her recent work on joint source-channel coding for anytime transmission scenarios.
The workshop’s success has been featured by its rich and exciting content that has also generated active discussions and created a warm and engaging atmosphere among all the participants. It is encouraging to point out that this was the first time that the Â鶹´«Ã½AV ITSoc Guangzhou Chapter organized its workshop outside Guangdong province, benefiting a larger group of information theory research community.
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