Mr Roy Timo

Roy Timo is a research fellow of information theory with the Institute for Telecommunication Research , University of South Australia. He received the B.E. (Hons) and Ph.D. degrees from the Australian National University (ANU) in July 2005 and December 2009, respectively.

Roy Timo is a member of the IEEE Information Theory Society and the ARC Communications Research Network (ACoRN).

Institute for Telecommunications Research

University of South Australia

The Australian National University

NICTA

IEEE: Member, Inst. Electrical & Electronic Engineers

Roy Timo (LinkedIn): Professional network

PhD and BE (Hons) The Australian National University

• General research interests are:
  • Network information theory (Coding and converse theorems for networks)
  • Data compression in networks using sparse-graph codes

Journal:

R. Timo, T. Chan and A. Grant, "Rate Distortion with Side-Information at Many Receivers," submitted to IEEE Transactions on Information Theory.

R. Timo, K. Blackmore and L. Hanlen, "Word-Valued Sources: an Ergodic Theorem, an AEP and the Conservation of Entropy," accepted to IEEE Transactions on Information Theory.

Recent Conference:

S. Zhao, R. Timo, T. Chan, A. Grant and D. Tuninetti, "The Impact of Side-Information on Gaussian Source Transmission Over Block-Fading Channels," in proceedings IEEE International Conference on Communications, Cape Town, South Africa, 2010.

B. N. Vellambi and R. Timo, "Multi-Terminal Source Coding: Can Zero-Rate Encoders Enlarge the Rate Region," in proceedings International Zurich Seminar on Communications, Zurich, Switzerland, 2010.

R. Timo and B. N. Vellambi, "Two Lossy Source Coding Problems with Causal Side-Information,," in proceedings IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Seoul, Korea, 2009.

R. Timo, A. Grant, T. Chan and G. Kramer, "Source Coding for a Simple Network with Receiver Side-Information," in proceedings IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Toronto, Canada, 2008.

R. Timo, K. Blackmore and J. Papandriopoulos, "Strong Stochastic Stability for Dynamic Source Routing," in proceedings 2007 IEEE Australasian Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference (ATNAC’07) , Christchurch, New Zealand, December, 2007.
--Received best student paper award.

R. Timo, A. Grant and L. Hanlen, "Source Coding for a Noiseless Broadcast Channel with Partial Receiver Side Information," in proceedings 2007 Australian Communications Theory Workshop (AusCTW’07), Adelaide, Australia, February, 2007.
--Received best student paper award.

PhD Thesis:

R. Timo, "Information-Theoretic Bounds for Overhead in Dynamic Networks," PhD Thesis, The Australian National University, 2009.

• Network Information Theory


• Network Coding for Multimedia Multicast


• Efficient Compression of Data for Transportation over Networks (summer research project)