Song-Nam Hong

Ph.D. Candidate

Communication Sciences Institute
Department of Electrical Engineering
University of Southern California
Email: songnamh_at_usc_dot_edu

515 EEB, 3740 McClintock Ave.
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA 90089-2565

I am a fourth year Ph.D. student in the Electrical Engineering Department at University of Southern California.
My advisor is Giuseppe Caire.

Research Interest

• Information Theory
• Coding Theory
• Network Optimization
• Statistical Inference
• Compressed Sensing

Publications

Journals

[J1]. Structured Lattice Codes for Some Two-User Gaussian Networks with Cognition, Coordination and Two Hops

S. Hong and G. Caire

[arXiv]

Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Information Theory

[J2]. Compute-and-Forward Strategy for Cooperative Distributed Antenna Systems

S. Hong and G. Caire

Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Information Theory

[arXiv]

[J3]. Two Birds and One Stone: Gaussian Interference Channel with a Shared Out-of-Band Relay

R. Peyman, S. Hong, L. Zhout, W. Yu and G. Caire

To appear in IEEE Transactions on Information Theory

[arXiv]

[J4]. Design of Rate-Compatible RA-Type Low-Density Parity-Check Codes Using Splitting

H.-G. Joo, S. Hong, and D.-J. Shin

IEEE Transactions on Communications, Dec. 2009

[J5]. Quasi-Cyclic Low-Density Parity-Check Codes For Space-Time Bit-Interleaved Coded Modulation

S. Hong, S. Kim, D.-J. Shin and I. Lee

IEEE Communications Letters, Oct. 2008

[J6]. Sequential Message-Passing Decoding of LDPC Codes by Partitioning Check Nodes

S. Kim, M.-H. Jang, J.-S. No, S.-N. Hong and D.-J. Shin

IEEE Transactions on Communications, Jul. 2008

Conferences (Selected)

[C1]. Two-Unicast Two-Hop Interference Network: Finite-Field Model

S. Hong and G. Caire

Submitted to IEEE Information Theory Workshop 2013

[C2]. Generalized Degrees of Freedom for Network-Coded Cognitive Interference Channel

S. Hong and G. Caire

IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory 2013

[C3]. Structured Lattice Codes for 2\times2\times2 MIMO Interference Channel

S. Hong and G. Caire

IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory 2013

[C4]. Antenna and User Selection for a Cloud Base Station with (Reverse) Compute-and-Forward

S. Hong and G. Caire

IEEE Globecom '12 Workshops (on "Cloud Base-Station and Large-Scale Cooperative Communications")

[Slide]

[C5]. Reverse Compute and Forward: A Low-Complexity Architecture of Downlink Distributed Antenna System

S. Hong and G. Caire

IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory 2012

[Slide]

[C6]. Quantized Compute and Forward: A Low-Complexity Architecture of Distributed Antenna System

S. Hong and G. Caire

IEEE Information Theory Workshop 2011 (Invited Paper)

[Slide]

[C7]. Optimal Puncturing of Block-Type LDPC Codes and Their Fast Convergence Decoding

S. Hong, H.-G. Joo and D.-J. Shin

IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory 2006

[C8]. Design of Irregular Concatenated Zigzag Codes

S. Hong and D.-J. Shin

IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory 2005

[C9]. Optimal Rate-Compatible Punctured Concatenated Zigzag Codes

S. Hong and D.-J. Shin

IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory 2005

Misc/Notes

Asymptotic Analysis of Compressed Sensing using Replica Method

S. Hong

Course Project for Computation and Physics (CSCI599)

[Report]

Neighbor Discovery for Wireless Networks using Compressed Sensing

S. Hong

Course Project for Sparse Approximation (EE599)

[Report]

Graduate Coursework @ USC

• Information Theory, Network Information Theory, Network Coding Theory, Probability Theory, Random Process, Fundamental Concept of Analysis, Applied Matrix, Analysis, Convex Optimization, Network Flow, Queuing Theory, Large Scale Systems and Message Passing Algorithms, Computation and Physics

Personal Activity

• Reviewer for the following journals: IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
• Reviewer for the following conferences: ISIT, ICC, PIMRC, VTC

Software Skills

• Computer Programming: C/C++, MATLAB, Simulink