The 8th Iran Workshop on Communication and Information Theory (IWCIT) will take place at Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran on  May 26-28 2020.

IWCIT features world-class speakers, plenary talks and technical sessions on a diverse range of topics in communication and information theory.

Prospective authors are invited to submit high-quality, original, and unpublished contributions to IWCIT 2020.

All submitted papers will be subject to peer review. The scope of the workshop includes the following topics:

Shannon Theory
– Complexity and Computation theory
– Information theoretic security and privacy
– Multi-Terminal Information Theory
– Quantum Information Theory
– Data Compression and Source Coding

Communication Theory
– Network Resource Management and Scheduling
– Molecular and Nano Communications
– Optical and Quantum Communications
– Communication Network Modeling
– Theoretical Concepts in 5G and Beyond
– Machine Learning for Communication

Coding Theory and Beyond
– Compressed Sensing and Sparsity
– Network Coding
– Distributed Computing and Storage
– Polar Codes
– Graph-Based Codes

Applications of Information Theory
– Information Theory in Biology
– Information Theory in Networked Systems
– Foundations of Networked Control Systems
– Information Theory and Signal Processing
– Foundations of Cryptography and Security

Information Theoretic Data Analysis
– Information Theory and Statistics
– Big Data Analysis
– Information Theory and Learning