Wednesday, September 6 11:00 – 12:30
T1-S1: Antennas and Beamforming I
Room: Harbour A
Chair: Athanasios G. Kanatas (University of Piraeus, Greece)
Antenna Design and Measurements for Conductive Thermal Transfer Printing Based RFID Production
Ishita Dhopeshwar and Maxwell E McManus (University at Buffalo, USA); Dan Harrison and Betty Ralston (ARMOR IIMAK, USA); Christopher Janson, Alan Rae, Adrian Levesque and Zhangyu Guan (University at Buffalo, USA)
Analysis of Cell Association in mmWave Networks Based on Euclidean and Angular Distances
Charalampos Armeniakos and Athanasios G. Kanatas (University of Piraeus, Greece); Harpreet S Dhillon (Virginia Tech, USA)
Deep Reinforcement Learning for Distributed Coordinated Beamforming in Massive MIMO
Jungang Ge, Liao Zhang and Ying-Chang Liang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); Sumei Sun (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore)
Adaptive Beamforming for Non-Line-Of-Sight IRS-Assisted Communications Without CSI
Wenyu Wang, Wenhai Lai and Shuyi Ren (The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen), China); Liyao Xiang (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China); Xin Li and Shaobo Niu (Huawei Technologies, China); Kaiming Shen (The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen), China)
Long-Term Energy Consumption Optimization-Based Task Offloading Algorithm for Satellite-IoT Systems
Jiang Wenhang, Rong Chai and Siya Zhang (Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
T1-S20: UAV
Room: Harbour C
Chair: Yi Zhou (Southwest Jiaotong University, China)
Precoding and Trajectory Design in UAV-Enabled Joint Communication and Sensing Systems
Xianglin Cui and Rong Chai (Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Ruijin Sun (Xidian University, China); Lifan Li (Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
Joint Trajectory and Communication Optimization for UAV in Complex Electromagnetic Environment
Jad Abou Chaaya, Arnaud Coatanhay and Ali Mansour (ENSTA Bretagne, France); Thierry Marsault (DGA-MI, France)
Signal-To-Noise Ratio Based Physical Layer Authentication in UAV Communications
Yi Zhou, Zheng Ma and Heng Liu (Southwest Jiaotong University, China); Phee Lep Yeoh (University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia); Yonghui Li and Branka Vucetic (University of Sydney, Australia)
ECHO: Empirical Characterization and Height Optimization of UAV-To-Underground Channels
Muhamamd Hashir Syed (SMU, USA); Mehmet Can Vuran (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA); Joseph D. Camp (Southern Methodist University, USA)
Secrecy Performance Analysis on UAV Down-Link Broadcasting With a Full Duplex Receiver
Yuanjian Li (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore); Mathini Sellathurai (Heriot-Watt University, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Hamid Aghvami (King’s College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
T2-S10: AI Prediction in Wireless Networks
Room: Pier 2
Chair: Sherief Hashima (Postdoctoral & RIKEN-AIP Japan, Japan)
Sensing of Side Lobes Interference for Blockage Prediction in Dense mmWave Networks
Mohamed Sana (CEA LETI Grenoble, France); Hiba Dakdouk (CEA-LETI, France); Benoit Denis (CEA-Leti Minatec, France)
TDoA and Monostatic Radar Data Fusion for Single Object Localization and Tracking
Evert Ismael Pocoma (Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgium); Cédric Hannotier (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium); François Quitin (Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium); Luc Vandendorpe (Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium); Philippe De Doncker (ULB, Belgium); François Horlin (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)
Efficient Mobile Cellular Traffic Forecasting Using Spatial-Temporal Graph Attention Networks
SeyedMohammad Mortazavi and Elvino Silveira Sousa (University of Toronto, Canada)
Feature Selection for Automated QoE Prediction
Tatsuya Kikuzuki (University of Surrey, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Mahdi Boloursaz Mashhadi (University of Surrey & 5GIC & 6GIC, Institute for Communication Systems (ICS), United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Yi Ma and Rahim Tafazolli (University of Surrey, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Generating Event Sensor Readings Using Spatial Correlations and a Graph Sensor AdVersarial Model for Energy Saving in IoT: GSAVES
Roufaida Laidi (CERIST Research Center & Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Informatique, Algeria); Djamel Djenouri (University of the West of England, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Lyes Khelladi (CERIST, Algeria); Youcef Djenouri (NORCE Research Center, Norway); Miloud Bagaa (UQTR University, Canada)
T3-S1: Machine Learning for Efficient Networks and Systems
Room: Pier 3
Chair: Phone Lin (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
Spectrum Efficiency Maximization of Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface Assisted Device-To-Device Networks: An Actor-Critic Approach
Ajmery Sultana (Algoma University, Canada); Md Moniruzzaman (Lakehead University, Canada)
A Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach for Dependency-Aware Task Offloading in Cooperative Vehicular Networks
Yixin Fan, Xuelian Cai, Wenwei Yue, Jing Zheng and Changle Li (Xidian University, China)
Deep Reinforcement Learning Enabled Power Allocation for Multi-Connectivity C-V2X Downlink
Jianzhe Xue, Kai Yu, Tianqi Zhang and Haibo Zhou (Nanjing University, China); Sherman Shen (University of Waterloo, Canada)
Traffic Prediction in Multi-RAT Heterogeneous Network: A User-Cybertwin Asynchronized Learning Approach
Qihao Li (Jilin University); Wen Wu (Peng Cheng Laboratory, China); Wei Zhang (The University of New South Wales, Australia); Sherman Shen (University of Waterloo, Canada)
Machine Learning-Based Predictive Channel Modeling for 6G Wireless Communications Using Image Semantic Segmentation
Wu Tong (Southeast University, China); Cheng-Xiang Wang (Southeast University, China & Purple Mountain Laboratories, China); Junling Li (Southeast University, China); Chen Huang (Purple Mountain Laboratories & Southeast University, China)
T3-S10: Intelligent Techniques and Applications for Next-generation Networks
Room: Pier 4
Chair: Dongmei Zhao (McMaster University, Canada)
Heuristic Methods for Solving the Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP): A Comparative Study
Chenglin Zhang and Peng Sun (Duke Kunshan University, China)
Automatic and Flexible Transmission of Semantic Map Images Using Polar Codes for End-To-End Semantic-Based Communication Systems
Hossein Rezaei, Thushan Sivalingam and Nandana Rajatheva (University of Oulu, Finland)
Predictive and Robust Field-Of-View Selection for Virtual Reality Video Streaming
Zhixuan Huang and Peng Yang (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China); Wen Wu (Peng Cheng Laboratory, China); Ning Zhang (University of Windsor, Canada)
Fairness Oriented Spectrum Auction for Blockchain-Assisted Dynamic Spectrum Sharing
MengYing Wang and Wei Wang (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China); Shuo Wang (Sony (China) Limited, China); Chen Sun (Sony China Research Laboratory Beijing, China); Qihui Wu (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China)
Flexible Hardware Emulator for Narrowband MIMO Channels With NLoS Non-Isotropic Scattering and Arbitrary Antenna Motion
Zixiang Zheng and Guang Han (RWTH Aachen University, Germany); Kenan Turbic (Fraunhofer HHI, Germany); Haris Gacanin (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)
T4-S1: Optimizing the Energy in cloud environment
Room: Pier 5
Chair: Stefano Savazzi (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche CNR, Italy)
Cooperation and Federation in Distributed Radar Point Cloud Processing
Stefano Savazzi (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche CNR, Italy); Vittorio Rampa and Sanaz Kianoush (National Research Council of Italy (CNR), Italy); Alberto Minora and Leonardo Costa (Cognimade srl, Italy)
FedECS: Client Selection for Optimizing Computing Energy in Federated Learning
Shuo Han, Chenyu Zhang and Luhan Wang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Wei Zheng (BUPT, China); Xiang Ming Wen (Beijing University of posts and telecommunications, China)
Optimal Pricing and Energy Scheduling With Adaptive Grouping Based on Trading Contribution Evaluation in Smart Grid
Lishuang Liu, Xi Li, Hong Ji and Heli Zhang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
Dynamic Energy Cost Conservation for Distributed Edge Clouds Utilizing Online Mini-Batch Learning
Zewei Jing (Xidian University, China); Xianbin Wang (Western University, Canada); Qinghai Yang, Muyu Mei and Yan Wu (Xidian University, China)
Analyzing Federated Learning Aggregation and Distributed Personalization Algorithms Towards Understanding Users’ Residential Electric Load Patterns
Marwan Ghalib, Zied Bouida and Mohamed Ibnkahla (Carleton University, Canada)
Wednesday, September 6 14:00 – 15:30
T1-S2: Antennas and Beamforming II
Room: Harbour A
Chair: Hadi Baligh (Huawei Technologies Canada co. Ltd., Canada)
Link Distance and Carrier Frequency Dependence of Propagation Attenuation in OAM Multiplexing Using Parabolic Antenna
Shuhei Saito (Waseda University, Japan); Yasunori Yagi and Doohwan Lee (NTT, Japan); Fumiaki Maehara (Waseda University, Japan)
Satellite Swarms for Narrow Beamwidth Applications
Juan A. Vásquez Peralvo and Juan Duncan (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg); Geoffrey Eappen (Kirchberg Campus & University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg); Symeon Chatzinotas (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)
Closed-Form Robust Adaptive Beamforming for Sparse Diversely Polarized Antenna Array
Yaxing Yue (Zhejiang University & College of Information Science and Electronic Engineering, China); Zongyu Zhang and Chengwei Zhou (Zhejiang University, China); Yuan Wu (University of Macau, Macao); Fangyuan Xing and Zhiguo Shi (Zhejiang University, China)
Robust Beamforming for ISAC Systems in Highly Dynamic Scenarios
Haonan He, Tianhao Liang and Tingting Zhang (Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, China)
New Machine Learning Approach for Low Overhead Multi-Beam Prediction
Mostafa Medra (Huawei, Canada); Haoyuan Wei (Carleton University, Canada); Phuong Luong (Ecole de Technologie Superieure, Canada); Hadi Baligh (Huawei Technologies Canada co. Ltd., Canada)
T1-S21: Terahertz and Optical Wireless Communications
Room: Pier 2
Chair: Ahmed Wagdy Shaban (Huawei Technologies Canada, Canada & University of Waterloo, Canada)
Performance Analysis of Angular Diversity Receivers in Visible Light Communications
Ryo Harada, Callum T Geldard and Wasiu O. Popoola (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Parametrization of Simplified Memoryless Amplifier Models at 300 GHz
Nuutti Tervo, Marko E Leinonen, Sumit P Singh, Timo Rahkonen and Aarno Pärssinen (University of Oulu, Finland)
High Speed Optical Wireless Uplink Using Multiuser MIMO With Angle Diversity
Zhu Xuejuan (Nagoya Univerity, Japan); Chedlia Ben Naila, Hiraku Okada and Masaaki Katayama (Nagoya University, Japan)
Cooperative Rate-Splitting for Enhanced THz Frequency Coverage
Hyesang Cho (KAIST, Korea (South)); Beomsoo Ko (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Korea (South)); Bruno Clerckx (Imperial College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Junil Choi (KAIST, Korea (South))
Performance Comparison of OFDM and DFT-s-OFDM in the THz-Band Communications Channels
Erfan Khorram and Xiaodai Dong (University of Victoria, Canada)
T1-S9: mmWave
Room: Harbour C
Chair: Aman Jassal (Huawei, Canada)
Group-And-Codebook Based Two-Timescale Hybrid Precoding for mmWave Massive MIMO Systems
Baishuo Lin, An Liu and Rui Yang (Zhejiang University, China); Hongrui Zhou (Huawei Chengdu Research Center & Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., China)
Multi-User MIMO Based on Millimeter Wave Massive Analog Relay Stations
Suwen Ke (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan); Kei Sakaguchi (Tokyo Institute of Technology & Fraunhofer HHI, Japan); Gia Khanh Tran (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan); Masashi Iwabuchi (NTT, Japan); Tomoki Murakami (NTT Corporation, Japan)
Precoder and Detector Learning for Vision-Based mmWave Received Power Prediction
Jia Guo (Beihang University, China); Mehdi Bennis (Centre of Wireless Communications, University of Oulu, Finland); Chenyang Yang (Beihang University, China)
A Two-Stage Prediction-Based Beam Selection Algorithm in MmWave Massive MIMO Systems
Yuxiang Sheng (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunication, China); Jin Xu and Xiaofeng Tao (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
T2-S2: Medium Access Control
Room: Pier 3
Chair: Alexis Decurninge (Huawei Technologies, France)
Asynchronous MAC Protocol for Receiver-Less Backscatter Tag
Ryosuke Koizumi, Yohei Konishi and Kazuhiro Kizaki (Osaka University, Japan); Takuya Fujihashi (Osaka University & Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Japan); Shunsuke Saruwatari and Takashi Watanabe (Osaka University, Japan)
Unsourced Random Access With Tensor-Based and Coherent Modulations
Alberto Rech (University of Padova, Italy); Alexis Decurninge (Huawei Technologies, France); Luis G. Ordóñez (Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., France)
Delay and Jitter Constrained Wireless Scheduling With Near-Optimal Spectral Efficiency
Geetha Chandrasekaran (UT Austin, USA); Gustavo de Veciana (The University of Texas at Austin, USA); Vishnu V Ratnam and Hao Chen (Samsung Research America, USA); Jianzhong Zhang (Samsung, USA)
Analysis of Channel-Aware Multi-User Resource Allocators for Correlated Rayleigh Fading
Robert Walstab, Nick Schwarzenberg, Philipp Schulz and Gerhard P. Fettweis (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany)
Channel Selection for Wi-Fi 7 Multi-Link Operation via Optimistic-Weighted VDN and Parallel Transfer Reinforcement Learning
Pedro E Iturria Rivera (University of Ottawa, Canada); Marcel Chenier and Bernard Herscovici (NetExperience Inc., Canada); Burak Kantarci (University of Ottawa, Canada); Melike Erol-Kantarci (University of Ottawa & Ericsson, Canada)
T3-S2: Localization, Sensing, and Mobility Management
Room: Pier 4
Chair: Md Moniruzzaman (Lakehead University, Canada)
WiRiS: Transformer for RIS-Assisted Device-Free Sensing for Joint People Counting and Localization Using Wi-Fi CSI
Wei Yu Chung (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan); Li-Hsiang Shen (University of California, Berkeley, USA); Kai-Ten Feng (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan); Yuan-Chun Lin, Shih-Cheng Lin and Sheng-Fuh Chang (National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan)
A New Paradigm for Device-Free Indoor Localization: Deep Learning With Error Vector Spectrum in Wi-Fi Systems
Wen Liu and An-Hung Hsiao (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan); Li-Hsiang Shen (University of California, Berkeley, USA); Kai-Ten Feng (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan)
Jointly Learning V2X Communication and Platoon Control With Deep Reinforcement Learning
Tong Liu (Beijing University of Posts&Telecommunications, China); Lei Lei (University of Guelph, Canada); Zhiming Liu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Kan Zheng (Ningbo University, China)
LOMA Map for Location Based Resource Management and Data Transmission in Future RAN
Weisen Shi (Huawei Technologies Canada Co., Ltd., Canada); Hang Zhang (Huawei, Canada); Ming Jia (Huawei Technologies Canada Co., Ltd., Canada); Xu Li (Huawei, Canada)
Multi-Connectivity Mobility Management in Downlink FD-RAN: A Learning Based Approach
Tianqi Zhang, Jianzhe Xue and Jiwei Zhao (Nanjing University, China); Jiacheng Chen (Peng Cheng Laboratory, China); Haibo Zhou (Nanjing University, China); Sherman Shen (University of Waterloo, Canada)
T4-S3: UAV-based applications
Room: Pier 5
Chair: Yiqun Ge (Huawei Technologies Canada Inc., Canada)
Data-Efficient Energy-Aware Participant Selection for UAV-Enabled Federated Learning
Youssra Cheriguene (University of Laghouat, Algeria); Wael Jaafar (École de Technologie Supérieure, Canada); Chaker Abdelaziz Kerrache (University of Laghouat, Algeria); Halim Yanikomeroglu (Carleton University, Canada); Fatima Zohra Bousbaa (University de Amar Telidji de Laghouat, Algeria); Nasreddine Lagraa (Université Amar Telidji Laghouat, Algeria & LIM Laboratory, Algeria)
Assessing the Robustness of Steering Decisions to the Uncertainty of Roaming Traffic Forecasts
Guillaume Boulmier, Matthieu Chardy and Yann Dujardin (Orange, France)
A Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach for Federated Learning Optimization With UAV Trajectory Planning
Chunyu Zhang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Yiming Liu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunicaitons, China); Zhi Zhang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
Joint Trajectory Optimization and Task Offloading for UAV-Assisted Mobile Edge Computing
Yipeng Wang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Yiming Liu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunicaitons, China); Jiaxiang Zhang and Baoling Liu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
Communication-Efficient Federated Learning in Drone-Assisted IoT Networks: Path Planning and Enhanced Knowledge Distillation Techniques
Gad M Gad (Western University, Canada); Aya Farrag (Lakehead University, Canada); Zubair Md Fadlullah (Western University, Canada); Mostafa M. Fouda (Idaho State University, USA)
Wednesday, September 6 16:00 – 17:30
T1-S10: Modulation and Coding
Room: Harbour C
Chair: Thi My Chinh Chu (Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden)
Fast Polar Codes for Terabits-Per-Second Throughput Communications
Jiajie Tong and Xianbin Wang (Huawei Technologies, Co. Ltd., China); Qifan Zhang (Huawei Technologies Canada Inc., Canada); Huazi Zhang (Huawei Technologies, Co. Ltd., China); Jun Wang (Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd, China); Wen Tong (Huawei Technologies Canada Co., Ltd., Canada)
OTFDM: A Novel 2D Modulation Waveform Modeling Dot-Product Doubly-Selective Channel
Yihua Ma (ZTE Corporation & State Key Laboratory of Mobile Network and Mobile Multimedia Technology, China); Zhifeng Yuan, Yu Xin, Jian Hua and Guanghui Yu (ZTE Corporation, China); Jin Xu and Liujun Hu (ZTE, China)
Sum Rate of OTFS-NOMA Systems With K-Means Clustering of User Equipment
Thi My Chinh Chu and Hans-Juergen Zepernick (Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden)
A Hybrid Frame Structure Design of OTFS for Multi-Tasks Communications
Pu Yuan (vivo Mobile Communication Co., Ltd., China); Jin Liu and Dajie Jiang (vivo Mobile Communication Co., Ltd, China); Fei Qin (vivo Mobile Communication Co., Ltd.)
NOLLA: Non-Linear Outer Loop Link Adaptation for Enhancing Wireless Link Transmission
Lingrui Zhu and Carsten Bockelmann (University of Bremen, Germany); Thorsten Schier (Huawei Technologies Sweden AB, Germany); Salah Eddine Hajri (Huawei Technologies Sweden AB, Sweden); Armin Dekorsy (University of Bremen, Germany)
T1-S3: Channel Modeling I
Room: Harbour A
Chair: Michel Terré (CNAM, France)
Double Blind Channels Estimation for Interference Cancellation of Multicarrier Transmissions
Michel Terré and Luc Fety (CNAM, France)
System Loss Model for Body Area Networks in Room Scenarios
Manuel Ferreira (ESTSetúbal/Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal, Portugal); Filipe Cardoso (ESTSetubal/Polytechnic Institute of Setubal and INESC-ID, Portugal); Sławomir J. Ambroziak (Gdańsk University of Technology, Poland); Mariella Särestöniemi (Erkki Koiso-Kanttilan katu 1 & Center for Wireless Communication, University of Oulu, Finland); Luis M. Correia (IST/INESC-ID – University of Lisbon & INESC, Portugal)
System Loss Model for Body-To-Body Networks in Indoor and Outdoor Environments
Sławomir J. Ambroziak (Gdańsk University of Technology, Poland); Krzysztof K. Cwalina (Gdansk University of Technology, Poland); Manuel Ferreira (ESTSetúbal/Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal, Portugal); Filipe Cardoso (ESTSetubal/Polytechnic Institute of Setubal and INESC-ID, Portugal); Luis M. Correia (IST/INESC-ID – University of Lisbon & INESC, Portugal)
300 GHz Wideband Channel Measurement and Analysis in a Lobby
Yiqin Wang and Yuanbo Li (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China); Yi Chen (Huawei Technologies CO. LTD., China); Ziming Yu (Huawei Technologies CO., LTD, China); Chong Han (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China)
Classical Capacity of Arbitrarily Distributed Noisy Quantum Channels
Indrakshi Dey (South East Technological University, Waterford, Ireland); Harun Šiljak and Nicola Marchetti (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)
T2-S12: Radio Access Network
Room: Pier 3
Chair: Ilario Filippini (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Intelligent Load Balancing and Resource Allocation in O-RAN: A Multi-Agent Multi-Armed Bandit Approach
Chia-Hsiang Lai (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan); Li-Hsiang Shen (University of California, Berkeley, USA); Kai-Ten Feng (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan)
Admission Control With Resource Efficiency Using Reinforcement Learning in Beyond-5G Networks
Luis A Garrido (Iquadrat Informatica S. L., Spain); Kostas Ramantas (Iquadrat Informatica, Greece); Anestis Dalgkitsis (Iquadrat & Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain); Adlen Ksentini (Eurecom, France); Christos Verikoukis (University of Patras, Greece)
Joint Spatial-Frequency Domain Message Passing Algorithm for Radio Resource Scheduling
Luyuan Zhang, An Liu and Xihan Chen (Zhejiang University, China); Yuxin LU (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)
Latency Minimization in Phase-Coupled STAR-RIS Assisted Multi-MEC Server Systems
Ahmed A. A. Al-Habob (Memorial University, Canada); Omer Waqar (Thompson Rivers University (TRU), Canada); Hina Tabassum (York University, Canada)
Maximizing the Energy Efficiency in Integrated Sub-6 GHz, mmWave and THz Wireless Networks
Cirine Chaieb (University of Quebec at Montreal, Canada); Wessam Ajib (Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada); Fatma Abdelkefi (High School of Communications of Tunis (SUPCOM), Tunisia)
T2-S3: Routing and multi-hop communication
Room: Pier 2
Chair: Dariush Ebrahimi (Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada)
GAPPO – A Graph Attention Reinforcement Learning Based Robust Routing Algorithm
Xinyuan Li, Yang Xiao, Sixu Liu, Xucong Lu and Fang Liu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Wenli Zhou (Beijing University of Posts & Telecommunications, China); Jun Liu, Dr. (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
Reliable Multicast Routing Protocol Based on Reinforcement Learning
Ola A. M. Mohammed, Thomas Kunz and Marc St-Hilaire (Carleton University, Canada)
Interference Suppression for RIS-Assisted Multicast Communications
Jianhui Ma (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); Chenxing Li (Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., China); Linsong Du (SW Jiaotong University, China)
Modelling and Performance Analysis of the Coexisting NR-U and WiGig Networks
Haonan Hu and Chuxiong Wang (Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Yuan Gao (Shanghai University, China); Ying Dong and Qianbin Chen (Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Jie Zhang (University of Sheffield, Dept. of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Performance Analysis of Cellular V2V Communications (LTE Mode-3 and 5G Mode-1) in the Presence of Big Vehicle Shadowing
Thanh Hieu Nguyen (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore); Noor-A-Rahim Md. (University College Cork, Ireland); Yong Liang Guan (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore); Dirk Pesch (University College Cork, Ireland)
T3-S3: Resource Management for Satellite and Aerial Networks
Room: Pier 4
Chair: Wen Wu (Peng Cheng Laboratory, China)
Collaborative Deep Reinforcement Learning for Resource Optimization in Non-Terrestrial Networks
Yang Cao (UESTC, China); Shao-Yu Lien (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan); Ying-Chang Liang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); Dusit Niyato (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore); Sherman Shen (University of Waterloo, Canada)
Integrated Access and Backhaul via Satellites
Zaid Abdullah, Steven Kisseleff, Eva Lagunas and Vu Nguyen Ha (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg); Frank Zeppenfeldt (European Space Agency, The Netherlands); Symeon Chatzinotas (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)
Service-Oriented Resource Allocation in SDN Enabled LEO Satellite Networks
Jingchao He, Nan Cheng and Zhisheng Yin (Xidian University, China); Haibo Zhou (Nanjing University, China); Wenchao Xu (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China); Haixia Peng (Xi’an Jiaotong University, China); Conghao Zhou (University of Waterloo, Canada); Ruqian Zhang (Xidian Universit, China)
Energy Efficient UAV-Assisted Communications via Collaborative Beamforming
Tingting Zheng, Yanheng Liu and Geng Sun (Jilin University, China); Mushu Li, Conghao Zhou and Sherman Shen (University of Waterloo, Canada)
Queue-Aware Computation Efficient Optimization for MEC-Assisted Aerial-Terrestrial Network
Farhan Pervez, Lian Zhao and Cungang Yang (Ryerson University, Canada)
T4-S2: IoT-based efficient applications
Room: Pier 5
Chair: Ahmed Wagdy Shaban (Huawei Technologies Canada, Canada & University of Waterloo, Canada)
Efficient Compressed Ratio Estimation Using Online Sequential Learning for Edge Computing
Hiroki Oikawa, Hangli Ge and Noboru Koshizuka (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
Ambient IoT: Transmit Power Minimization for NOMA-Enabled BackCom
Diluka Galappaththige and Fatemeh Rezaei (University of Alberta, Canada); Chintha Tellambura (The University of Alberta, Canada); Amine Maaref (Huawei Technologies Canada, Canada)
Advancing Security and Efficiency in Federated Learning Service Aggregation for Wireless Networks
Zakaria Abou El Houda (University of Montreal, Canada); Diala Naboulsi (École de Technologie Supérieure, Canada); Georges Kaddoum (ETS Engineering School, University of Québec, Canada)
Analysis of Communication Overheads for DNN Inference Offloading Techniques in Homogeneous Edge Networks
Jamie Cotter, Victor Cionca, Ignacio Castiñeiras and Donna O’Shea (Munster Technological University, Ireland)
Post-Disaster Victim Localization via D2D Communications
Vishaka Basnayake (Sri Lanka Technological Campus, Sri Lanka); Hakim Mabed (Universite Bourgogne Franche Comte, France); Philippe H Canalda (Université de Franche-Comté & Femto-st Institute UMR 6174, France); Dushantha Nalin K. Nalin.K. Jayakody (Universidade Lusófona, Portugal)
Thursday, September 7 11:00 – 12:30
T1-S11: Modulation and Receiver Design
Room: Harbour C
Chair: Philipp Schulz (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany)
CSI of Each Subcarrier is a Fingerprint: Multi-Carrier Cumulative Learning Based Positioning in Massive MIMO Systems
Zirui Chen, Zhaoyang Zhang, Zhuoran Xiao, Chuanzhi Zhang and Zhaohui Yang (Zhejiang University, China)
Novel Transmission Technique Based on Intentional Overlapping for Spectral Efficiency Enhancement in Multicarrier Systems
Fatima Hamdar and Jeremy Nadal (IMT Atlantique Lab-STICC); Charbel Abdel Nour (IMT Atlantique, France); Amer Baghdadi (IMT Atlantique Lab-STICC)
Towards Improved Spectral Efficiency Using RSMA-Integrated Full-Duplex Communications
Raviteja Allu, Mayur Vitthalrao Katwe and Keshav Singh (National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan); Trung Q. Duong (Queen’s University Belfast, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Chih-Peng Li (National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan)
A New Perspective on Maximal-Ratio Combining
Philipp Schulz (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany); Lucas Scheuvens (TU Dresden, Germany); Gerhard P. Fettweis (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany)
Data Regularized Signal Recovery and Interference Rejection in High Mobility Scenarios
Alexandr Kuzminskiy, Pei Xiao and Rahim Tafazolli (University of Surrey, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Fan Wang (Huawei Technologies, Co. Ltd., China)
T1-S4: Channel Modeling II
Room: Harbour A
Chair: Harpreet S Dhillon (Virginia Tech, USA)
A Scatterer-Based Hybrid Channel Model for Integrated Sensing and Communications (ISAC)
Yi Chen (Huawei Technologies CO. LTD., China); Ziming Yu (Huawei Technologies CO., LTD, China); Jia He, Jian Li and Guangjian Wang (Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., China)
Channel Model for Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface Assisted Terahertz Propagation
Amir Mehdirezaei Khamse and Xiaodai Dong (University of Victoria, Canada)
Novel Ray-Tracing Received Power Adjustment Approach Based on the Ratio of Wavelength and Object Size
Azril Haniz and Hikaru Kawasaki (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan); Genki Hosokawa and Takuro Urushibata (YAZAKI Corporation, Japan); Yasuyuki Yanagi (Yazaki Energy System Corporation, Japan); Tadahide Kunitachi (YAZAKI Corporation, Japan); Hirokazu Sawada (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan); Takeshi Matsumura (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) & Kyoto University, Japan)
Stochastic Geometry Analysis of a New GSCM With Dual Visibility Regions
Anish Pradhan and Harpreet S Dhillon (Virginia Tech, USA); Fredrik Tufvesson (Lund University, Sweden); Andreas Molisch (University of Southern California, USA)
Deep Learning-Based Channel Estimation in High-Speed Wireless Systems With Imperfect Frame Synchronization
Sadaf Joodaki (RWTH, Germany); Kenan Turbic (Fraunhofer HHI, Germany); Aydin Sezgin (RUB, Germany); Haris Gacanin (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)
T2-S13: Resource management and allocation in edge computing
Room: Pier 3
Chair: Mohamed Sana (CEA LETI Grenoble, France)
Distributed No-Regret Edge Resource Allocation With Limited Communication
Saad Kriouile (Huawei Technologies France, France); Dimitrios Tsilimantos (Paris Research Center, Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., France); Theodoros Giannakas (Paris Research Center, Huawei Technologies, France)
Joint Computation Offloading and Power Allocation Strategy in NOMA-Based Dynamic MEC Network Assisted by RIS
Qian Liu, Junmin Zhu and Qilie Liu (Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
Double DQN Based Associative Tasks Computing Offloading Scheme for Internet of Medical Things
Fan Jiang (Xi’an University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Junwei Qin (Xi’an University of Posts & Telecommunication, China); Junxuan Wang (Xi’an University of Post and Telecommunications, China); Mengyan Guo (Xidian University, China)
Energy-Efficient Edge Cooperation and Data Collection for Digital Twin of Wide-Area
Mancong Kang, Xi Li, Hong Ji and Heli Zhang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
A Reinforcement Learning-Based Orchestrator for Edge Computing Resource Allocation in Mobile Augmented Reality Systems
Weiyang Qian and Rodolfo W. L. Coutinho (Concordia University, Canada)
T2-S4: UAV-based Systems
Room: Pier 2
Chair: Mostafa M. Fouda (Idaho State University, USA)
Enhancing Regional Signal-To-Noise Ratio for Flying UAV via Intelligent Reflecting Surface
Peiyao Zhong, Wenjun Xu and Fengyu Wang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Lan Lin (BUPT, China)
Self-Organizing UAV Swarm Placement via Layered Loose Coupling and User Prioritization
Antti Anttonen and Aarne Mämmelä (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Finland); Marko Höyhtyä and Fabrice Saffre (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd, Finland); Hannu Karvonen (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Finland)
Age Minimization in Massive IoT via UAV Swarm: A Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Approach
Eslam Eldeeb, Mohammad Shehab and Hirley Alves (University of Oulu, Finland)
A Featherweight Authentication and Key Agreement Scheme for Internet of Drones Applications
Cong Pu (Oklahoma State University, USA)
DissIdent: A Dissimilarity-Based Approach for Improving the Identification of Unknown UAVs
Alisson R Svaigen (University of Ottawa, Canada & Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil); Azzedine Boukerche (University of Ottawa, Canada); Linnyer Beatrys Ruiz (State University of Maringá & INCT NAMITEC, Brazil); Antonio Loureiro (Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil)
T3-S4: Mobile Edge and Cloud Computing
Room: Pier 4
Chair: Ajmery Sultana (Algoma University, Canada)
Scalable Resource Management for Dynamic MEC: An Unsupervised Link-Output Graph Neural Network Approach
Xiucheng Wang, Nan Cheng and Lianhao Fu (Xidian University, China); Wei Quan (Beijing Jiaotong University, China); Ruijin Sun, Yilong Hui and Tom H. Luan (Xidian University, China); Sherman Shen (University of Waterloo, Canada)
Cloud VR Video Streaming Processing Algorithm Based on Edge Cloud Collaboration
Wenhao Zou, Zongshuai Zhang and Lin Tian (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China); Jiaying Huang (University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
Digital Twin Model Selection for Feature Accuracy in Wireless Edge Networks
Hong Chen, Terence D. Todd, Dongmei Zhao and George Karakostas (McMaster University, Canada)
AI-Assisted Action in Edge Computing System: A Joint Latency and Accuracy Oriented Approach
Pengcheng Tan (University of Macau, China); Minghui Dai, Zhuohang Du and Yuan Wu (University of Macau, Macao); Liping Qian (Zhejiang University of Technology, China); Zhou Su (Xi’an Jiaotong University, China); Zhiguo Shi (Zhejiang University, China)
Long-Term Energy Consumption Minimization in NOMA-Enabled Vehicular Edge Computing
Mengru Wu, Xinyu Dong, Liping Qian and Mingqing Li (Zhejiang University of Technology, China); Yuan Wu (University of Macau, Macao)
T4-S4: Deep Learning applications
Room: Pier 5
Chair: Ivey Chiu (TELUS, Canada)
Accelerating Deep Neural Network Tasks Through Edge-Device Adaptive Inference
Xinyang Zhang, Yinglei Teng, Nan Wang, Gang Hu and Boya Sun (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
Edge-Boss: A Resource Optimization Framework at the Edge
Venkatraman Balasubramanian (Arizona State University, USA); Moayad Aloqaily and Mohsen Guizani (MBZUAI, United Arab Emirates)
A Geometric Approach for Cooperative Direct Localization
Shiva Akbari and Shahrokh Valaee (University of Toronto, Canada)
Legitimation of Newness Challenges and Opportunities in the 6G Era
Seppo Yrjölä (Nokia & Centre for Wireless Communications, University of Oulu, Finland)
Impact of User Privacy and Mobility on Edge Offloading
João Paulo Esper (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil); Nadjib Achir (INRIA TRiBE, France); Kleber V Cardoso (Universidade Federal de Goiás, Brazil); Jussara M. Almeida (Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil)
Movable Base Stations in Mobile Networks for Emergency Communications
Zhiyi Zhang (Univ Lyon, INSA Lyon, Inria, CITI, France); Razvan Stanica (INSA Lyon, France); Fabrice Valois (Univ Lyon, INSA Lyon, Inria, CITI, France)
Thursday, September 7 14:00 – 15:30
T1-S12: Next generation massive MIMO I
Room: Harbour C
Chair: Sergey Loyka (University of Ottawa, Canada)
Non-Uniform Array Design for Robust LoS MIMO via Convex Optimization
Michail Palaiologos and Mario H. Castañeda (Munich Research Center, Huawei Technologies Duesseldorf GmbH, Germany); Anastasios Kakkavas (Technical University of Munich, Germany); Richard A. Stirling-Gallacher (Munich Research Center, Huawei Technologies Duesseldorf GmbH, Germany); Giuseppe Caire (Technische Universität Berlin, Germany)
Score-Based Generative Modeling for MIMO Detection Without Knowledge of Noise Statistics
Toluwaleke Olutayo and Benoit Champagne (McGill University, Canada)
Optimal Designs of Uniform Linear Arrays for Multi-User Massive MIMO
Elhamsadat Anarakifirooz and Sergey Loyka (University of Ottawa, Canada)
Codeword Design for Asymmetric Millimeter-Wave MIMO Systems Under Mutual Coupling
Qi Li (Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen), China); Fu-Chun Zheng (Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, China & University of York, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Ke Xu (Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen & Peng Cheng Laboratory, China); Zihao Chen (Harbin Institution of Technology, China)
Spectral Efficiency Analysis of Downlink Transmission for Two-Way Cell-Free Massive MIMO System With Few-Bit ADCs
Jiaxi Cui and Pei Liu (Wuhan University of Technology, China); Kehao Wang (WHUT, China); Hongkuan Zhou (Wuhan 2nd Ship Design and Research Institute, China); Yue Zhang (Shantou University, China); Xinghua Sun (Sun Yat-sen University, China); Stefano Buzzi (University of Cassino and Lazio Meridionale/CNIT, Italy)
T1-S5: Integrated Sensing and Communications
Room: Harbour A
Chair: Marouan Mizmizi (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Raytracing-Based Simulation Platform With Efficient Doppler Embedding for Integrated Sensing and Communication
Yanni Zhou and Jianguo Liu (Nokia Bell Labs, China); Chaojun Xu (Nokia Bell Labs China, China); Wenjian Wang (Nokia Bell Labs, China); Fei Gao (Bell Labs, China)
High Resolution Integrated Sensing and Communication System by Out-Of-Band Emission
Dario Tagliaferri, Marouan Mizmizi, Silvia Mura and Francesco Linsalata (Politecnico di Milano, Italy); Damiano Badini (Huawei Technologies Italia, Italy); Maurizio Magarini and Umberto Spagnolini (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Average Utility Function Maximization-Based Multi-UAV Cooperative Perception and Trajectory Optimization
Renyan Pu and Rong Chai (Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Ruijin Sun (Xidian University, China); Lifan Li (Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
Environment Sensing With Beam Sweeping and Non-Uniform Pixelation in Wireless Communication Systems
Xin Tong, Zhaoyang Zhang, Zhaohui Yang and Jingze Che (Zhejiang University, China)
Performance Analysis of a Multistatic Joint Sensing and Communication System
Elisabetta Matricardi (CNIT, DEI, University of Bologna, Italy); Lorenzo Pucci and Enrico Paolini (University of Bologna, Italy); Wen Xu (Huawei Technologies Duesseldorf GmbH & – European Research Center (ERC), Germany); Andrea Giorgetti (University of Bologna, Italy)
T2-S14: Networking Security
Room: Pier 3
Chair: Weisen Shi (Huawei Technologies Canada Co., Ltd., Canada)
Sensitivity of Dynamic Network Slicing to Deep Reinforcement Learning Based Jamming Attacks
Feng Wang, M. Cenk Gursoy and Senem Velipasalar (Syracuse University, USA)
AIIPot: Adaptive Intelligent-Interaction Honeypot for IoT Devices
Volviane Saphir Mfogo (University of Dschang, Cameroon); Alain Zemkoho (University of Southampton, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Laurent Njilla (Air Force Research Laboratory, USA); Marcellin Nkenlifack (University of Dschang, Cameroon); Charles A Kamhoua (US Army Research Laboratory & Network Science Division, USA)
Cyber Deception Under Strategic and Irrationality Considerations
Satyaki Nan (Georgia Southwestern State University, USA); Swastik Brahma (University of Cincinnati, USA)
Optimal Honeypot Allocation Using Core Attack Graph in Cyber Deception Games
Achile Leonel Nguemkam (Dschang University, Cameroon); Ahmed H. Anwar Hemida (DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory, USA); Vianney Kengne Tchendji (University of Dschang, Cameroon); Deepak K Tosh (University of Texas, El Paso, USA); Charles A Kamhoua (US Army Research Laboratory & Network Science Division, USA)
T2-S5: Aerial Communication
Room: Pier 2
Chair: Mohammad Shehab (University of Oulu, Finland)
DRL-Based Dynamic Resource Allocation for Multi-Beam Satellite Systems
Guorong Yang, Rong Chai and Lei Liu (Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
Cross-Domain Federated Computation Offloading for Age of Information Minimization in Satellite-Airborne-Terrestrial Networks
Xiaohao Xia, Haitham Hany Esmat Abdelhafez, H. H Esmat, Kai Dyer and Beatriz Lorenzo (University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA); Linke Guo (Clemson University, USA)
Lifelong Learning for AoI and Energy Tradeoff Optimization in Satellite-Airborne-Terrestrial Edge Computing Networks
Yinxuan Wu and Beatriz Lorenzo (University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA); Bing Liu (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA)
On Enhancing WiGig Communications With A UAV-Mounted RIS System: A Contextual Multi-Armed Bandit Approach
Sherief Hashima (Postdoctoral & RIKEN-AIP Japan, Japan); Ehab Mahmoud Mohamed (Aswan University, Egypt); Kohei Hatano (Kyushu University & RIKEN AIP, Japan); Eiji Takimoto (Kyushu University, Japan); Mostafa M. Fouda (Idaho State University, USA); Zubair Md Fadlullah (Western University, Canada)
Measurement Reporting Enhancement for 5G Cellular-Connected Aerial Vehicles
Ayat Zaki Hindi (Aalborg University, Denmark); István Z. Kovács (Nokia Standards & Aalborg, Denmark); Rafhael Amorim (Aalborg University, Denmark); Jeroen Wigard (Nokia Bell Labs, Denmark)
T3-S5: Channel Modeling, Measurement, and Optimization
Room: Pier 4
Chair: Dongxiao Liu (University of Waterloo, Canada)
A Measurement Study of the Impact of Adjacent Channel Interference Between C-Band and CBRS
Muhammad Iqbal Rochman, Vanlin Sathya and Bill Payne (University of Chicago, USA); Mehmet Yavuz (Celona, USA); Monisha Ghosh (University of Notre Dame, USA)
A Practical Fast Model Inference System Over Tiny Wireless Device
Wenchao Xu (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China); Haodong Wan and Nan Cheng (Xidian University, China); Haibo Zhou (Nanjing University, China); Meng Qin (Xidian University, China)
Measuring a Low-Earth-Orbit Satellite Network
Jianping Pan, Jinwei Zhao and Lin Cai (University of Victoria, Canada)
Quantifying the Reproducibility of Multi-Band High Speed Wireless Channel Measurements
Faruk Pasic (TU Wien, Austria); Markus Hofer (AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, Austria); Danilo Radovic, Herbert Groll and Sebastian Caban (TU Wien, Austria); Thomas Zemen (AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH, Austria); Christoph F Mecklenbräuker (TU Wien, Austria)
Distributed Radio Map Modeling Based on Feature Augmentation of Augmented Scatter Graph
ChangHao Han, Hui Zhao, Xiaobo Liu, Jiakun Yang and Chong Yuan (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
T4-S5: Wireless Communications and Autonomous Vehicles
Room: Pier 5
Chair: Ivo Maljevic (TELUS & University of Toronto, Canada)
Predictive QoS of Wireless Communication for Autonomous Driving Vehicles by Fine Tuning
Kenichi Kawamura (NTT Corporation, Japan); Naoki Shibuya, Motoharu Sasaki and Takatsune Moriyama (NTT, Japan); Yasushi Takatori (NTT Corporation, Japan)
DRL-Driven Intelligent Access Traffic Management for Hybrid 5G-WiFi Multi-RAT Networks
Xueqing Zhou, Haiyuan Li, Anderson Bravalheri, Amin Emami, Reza Nejabati, Shuangyi Yan and Dimitra Simeonidou (University of Bristol, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Optimal Visual Coverage for Wireless Camera Sensor Networks Using Evacuation Plan
Aurélien Chambon (Université Gustave Eiffel & uGetWin, France); Abderrezak Rachedi (University Gustave Eiffel, France); Abderrahim Sahli (Univ Gustave Eiffel, CNRS, ESIEE Paris, France); Ahmed Mebarki (University Gustave Eiffel, France & Nanjing Tech University (China) Permanent Guest Professor Within High-Level Foreign Talents Program, China)
Trajectory Prediction of Neighboring Vehicles via Periodic Beaconing With Inaccurate GPS Data
Jae-Han Lim (Kwangwoon University, USA & University of California, Los Angeles, Korea (South)); Katsuhiro Naito (Aichi Institute of Technology, Japan); Yeon-sup Lim (Sungshin Women’s University, Korea (South))
Thursday, September 7 16:00 – 17:30
T1-S13: Next generation massive MIMO II
Room: Harbour C
Chair: Steven D Blostein (Queen’s University, Canada)
User Selection for MU-MIMO Based on Channel Estimation and Spatial Orthogonality
Omid Saatlou and Steven D Blostein (Queen’s University, Canada)
CFO Impact Analysis in Cell Free MIMO-OFDM in Millimeter Wave Spectrum
Antony Pottier (CEA-Leti, France); Valérian Mannoni (CEA, France); Jean-Baptiste Doré (CEA-LETI, France)
Antenna Topology Optimization for Massive MIMO Near-Field Wireless Communications With Line-Of-Sight Deterministic Channels
Yunhui Guo and Yang Zhang (Xidian University, China); Lihua Pang (Xi’an University of Science and Technology, China); Xiny Huang and Peng Ren (Xidian University, China); Yijian Chen (ZTE Corporation, China)
Power Allocation in 1-Bit Massive MIMO Downlink With Zero-Forcing Precoding
Ferhad Askerbeyli (Huawei Munich Research Center, Germany & Technical University of Munich, Germany); Wen Xu (Huawei Technologies Duesseldorf GmbH & – European Research Center (ERC), Germany); Josef A. Nossek (TU Munich, Germany & Federal University of Ceara, Fortaleza, Brazil)
Resource Allocation and User Scheduling Design for User-Centric Cell-Free Massive MIMO Systems
Reza Mahin Zaeem, Juan Duncan, Wallace Alves Martins, Vu Nguyen Ha, Symeon Chatzinotas and Björn Ottersten (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)
T1-S6: Joint communication and AI computing I
Room: Harbour A
Chair: Yiqun Ge (Huawei Technologies Canada Inc., Canada)
Minimizing Power in Buffer-Aided SWIPT-WPRNs Using Deep Reinforcement Learning
Arman Ahmadian and Hyuncheol Park (KAIST, Korea (South))
A Collaborative On-Device CNN Execution Considering Model Parallelism for Latency-Critical Applications
Emre Kilcioglu (Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium); Ivan Stupia (UCLouvain, Belgium); Luc Vandendorpe (Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium)
Learning to Communicate With Intent: An Introduction
Miguel Angel Gutierrez-Estevez (Huawei Technologies, Germany); Yiqun Wu (Huawei, China); Chan Zhou (Huawei European Research Center, Germany)
Tangled Program Graph for Radio-Frequency Fingerprint Identification
Alice Chillet, Baptiste Boyer and Robin Gerzaguet (Univ Rennes, CNRS, IRISA, France); Karol Desnos (INSA Rennes, France); Matthieu Gautier (Univ Rennes, CNRS, IRISA, France)
Machine Learning Based Prediction of Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum Signals
Pascal L. Thiele and Christoph Sulzbachner (AIT – Austrian Institute of Technology, Austria); David Löschenbrand (AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH, Austria); Laura Bernadó (Austrian Institute of Technology, Austria); Thomas Zemen and Benjamin Rainer (AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH, Austria); Maria Leitner (University of Vienna, Austria)
T2-S15: 5G and B5G Networks
Room: Pier 3
Chair: Mona Hashemi (Ericsson Research, Sweden)
Interference Aware Path Planning of Mobile Robots in mmWave Networks Under Joint Communication and Sensing
Yijing Ren and Vasilis Friderikos (King’s College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Efficient Approximation of SINR and Throughput in 5G NR via Sparsity and Interference Aggregation
Amir Rezaei and Philipp Schulz (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany); Rakash SivaSiva Ganesan (Nokia, Germany); Ahmad Awada (Nokia Bell Labs, Germany); Ingo Viering (Nomor Research GmbH, Germany); Gerhard P. Fettweis (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany)
Data-Driven Predictive Latency for 5G: A Theoretical and Experimental Analysis Using Network Measurements
Marco Skocaj (University of Bologna & WiLab, CNIT, Italy); Francesca Conserva (University of Bologna & WiLab/CNIT, Italy); Nicol Sarcone Grande (University of Bologna & WiLab CNIT, Italy); Andrea Orsi (TIM, Italy); Davide Micheli (Telecom Italia – TILAB, Italy); Giorgio Ghinamo (Tim Telecom Italia, Italy); Simone Bizzarri (Telecom Italia – TILAB, Italy); Roberto Verdone (University of Bologna, Italy)
Deep Reinforcement Learning for Downlink Scheduling in 5G and Beyond Networks: A Review
Michael P Seguin, Anjali Omer, Mohammad Koosha, Filippo Malandra and Nicholas Mastronarde (University at Buffalo, USA)
A Multi-Hop Industrial IoT Network at THz Bands Using Contention-Based Access
Sara Cavallero (University of Bologna, Italy); Kristi Qirjako (University of Bologna & ISEP, France); Roberto Verdone and Chiara Buratti (University of Bologna, Italy)
T2-S6: Cellular Networks
Room: Pier 2
Chair: Jale Sadreddini (Ericsson, Canada)
Load-Efficiency-Balance Cell Selection Policy for IAB Networks
Chourouk Ghodhbane (B-Com, France); Malo Manini and Patrick Savelli (B-com, France); Cedric Gueguen (University of Rennes 1 & CNRS, France); Xavier Lagrange (IMT Atlantique & IRISA, France)
PC-SSL: Peer-Coordinated Sequential Split Learning for Intelligent Traffic Analysis in mmWave 5G Networks
Khaled Bedda (Lakehead University, Canada); Mostafa M. Fouda (Idaho State University, USA); Zubair Md Fadlullah (Western University, Canada)
Distributed MIMO Precoding With Routing Constraints in Segmented Fronthaul
Jale Sadreddini (Ericsson, Canada); Omer Haliloglu (Ericsson Research, Turkey); Andres Reial (Ericsson Research, Sweden)
Energy and Economic Efficiency of Scalable Cell-Free Massive MIMO Networks
Yunlu Xiao (RWTH Aachen University, Germany); Petri Mähönen (Aalto University, Finland); Ljiljana Simić (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)
Federated Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning for Dynamic and Flexible 3D Operation of 5G Multi-MAP Networks
Esteban Catté (CEA-Leti, France); Mohamed Sana (CEA LETI Grenoble, France); Mickael Maman (CEA-Leti, France)
T3-S6: Connectivity Maximization in Physical Layer Design and Simulation
Room: Pier 4
Chair: Lian Zhao (Ryerson University, Canada)
An LR-FHSS Receiver for a Massive IoT Connectivity
Mohamed Amine Ben Temim (IMS Laboratory – University Bordeaux, France); Guillaume Ferré (University of Bordeaux, France); Olivier Seller (Semtech, France)
Inter-Mode-Interference-Aware OAM Detector via Deep Learning
Seonghoon Yoo (Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST) & KAIST, Korea (South)); Jiwan Seo (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Korea (South)); Sangwoo Park (King’s College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Joonhyuk Kang (KAIST, Korea (South))
Commercial 5G NPN and PN Deployment Options for Industrial Manufacturing: An Empirical Study of Performance and Complexity Tradeoffs
Sebastian Bro Damsgaard (Aalborg University, Denmark); David Segura (University of Málaga Spain, Spain); Martin Fejrskov (Aalborg University & Telenor Denmark, Denmark); Søren Aaberg Markussen (Telenor Denmark, Denmark); Simone Barbera (Telenor A/S, Denmark); Ignacio Rodriguez (University of Oviedo, Spain); Preben Mogensen (Aalborg University, Denmark)
Demonstrations of THz-Band Indoor Network Based on Photonics Technology
Seung-Hyun Cho and Sang-Rok Moon (ETRI, Korea (South)); Eon-Sang Kim (ETRI Daejeon, Korea (South))
T4-S7: Applications of Deep Learning and wireless communications
Room: Pier 5
Chair: Javad Jafarian (Bell Mobility, Canada)
Caching-Aided Coded Multicasting in Dynamic Scenarios
Mirna Hamad Haidar (Lebanese University & Saint Joseph University, Lebanon); Yasser Fadlallah (USAL, Lebanon); Hadi Edmond Sawaya (Saint Joseph University, Lebanon); Abed Ellatif Samhat (Lebanese University, Lebanon)
Communication-Efficient Orchestrations for URLLC Service via Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning
Wei Shi (Ericsson Research & KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden); Milad Ganjalizadeh (KTH-Ericsson, Sweden); Hossein Shokri Ghadikolaei (Ericsson Research, Sweden); Marina Petrova (RWTH Aachen University & KTH Royal Institute of Technolgy, Germany)
The Smart Kalman Filter: A Deep Learning-Based Approach for Time-Varying Channel Estimation
Antoine Siebert (IMS Bordeaux & THALES, France); Guillaume Ferré and Bertrand Le Gal (University of Bordeaux, France); Aurélien Fourny (THALES, France)
Energy Consumption Model for LoRaWAN via Field Experiments for Smart Agriculture
Satoshi Yamazaki (National Institute of Technology, Numazu College & Control & Computer Engineering, Japan); Taiki Ogura (Nagaoka University of Technology, Japan)
Deep-Learning-Based Accurate Beamforming Prediction Using LiDAR-Assisted Network
Omar Rinchi and Ahmad Alsharoa (Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA); Ibrahem Shatnawi (King Abdullah Petroleum Studies and Research Center, Saudi Arabia)
Collaborative GAA Clusters in Emerging Three-Tiered Spectrum Markets
Anindo Mahmood (University of Central Florida, USA); Mostafizur Rahman (University of West Georgia, USA); Murat Yuksel (University of Central Florida, USA)
Friday, September 8 11:00 – 12:30
T1-S14: Receiver Design
Room: Harbour C
Chair: Monirosharieh Vameghestahbanati (Huawei Technologies, Canada)
On the Use of Power Amplifier Nonlinearity Quotient to Improve Radio Frequency Fingerprint Identification in Time-Varying Channels
Lu Yang (Queensland University of Technology, Australia); Seyit Camtepe (DATA61 – CSIRO, Australia); Yansong Gao (Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China); Vicky Liu and Dhammika Jayalath (Queensland University of Technology, Australia)
Performance of Maddah-Ali-Niesen Scheme for Multi-Access Coded Caching Scheme Over Noisy Channels
Kakumani Sailahari (Indian Institute of Science, India); Anjana Ambika Mahesh (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India); Charul Rajput and B. Sundar Rajan (Indian Institute of Science, India)
Sum Rates of Full-Duplex Communication Under Optimal Power Allocation
Fangying Xu and Bin Zhou (Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China); Zhiyong Bu (Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, CAS, China)
Frequency Hopping Signal Detection in Low Signal-To-Noise Ratio Regimes
Zoheb Hassan (Virginia Tech, USA); David Couto (BAE Systems, USA); Mai A. Abdel-Malek (FIU, USA); Jeffrey Reed (Virginia Tech, USA)
Enhanced Low-Complexity Receiver Design for Short Block Transmission Systems
Mody Sy (EURECOM, France); Raymond Knopp (Institut Eurecom, France)
T1-S17: Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface III
Room: Pier 2
Chair: Narayan Prasad (Qualcomm, USA)
Performance of Joint Symbol Level Precoding and RIS Phase Shift Design in the Finite Block Length Regime With Constellation Rotation
Progress Zivuku, Steven Kisseleff, Wallace Alves Martins, Hayder Al-Hraishawi, Symeon Chatzinotas and Björn Ottersten (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)
Optimal Pattern Determination in Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface Aided Communications
Narayan Prasad (Qualcomm, USA); Yavuz Yapıcı (Qualcomm Inc., USA); Tao Luo, Junyi Li and Peter Gaal (Qualcomm, USA)
Sparse Bayesian Learning-Based Channel Estimation for IRS-Aided Millimeter Wave Massive MIMO Systems
Agrim Agarwal (IIIT Bangalore, India); Amrita Mishra and Priyanka Das (International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore, India)
Distributed RIS-Aided Joint Spatial Division and Multiplexing
Youssef Hussein (CentraleSupelec, France & Orange Labs, France); Mohamad Assaad (CentraleSupelec, France); Thierry Clessienne (Orange Labs, France)
Performance of RIS-Aided Media-Based Modulation With Imperfect CSI and Phase Tuning Errors
Shankul Saini and A. Chockalingam (Indian Institute of Science, India)
T1-S7: Joint communication and AI computing II
Room: Harbour A
Chair: Nandana Rajatheva (University of Oulu, Finland)
Selective Kernel Fusion Complex-Valued CNN for Modulation Recognition
Hongji Yang, Yan Zhang, Tianyu Zhao, Wancheng Zhang and Zunwen He (Beijing Institute of Technology, China)
Augmented-LSTM and 1D-CNN-LSTM Models for Linearization of Wideband Power Amplifiers
Ambagahawela Rathnayake, Lesthuruge Silva, Hossein Rezaei and Nandana Rajatheva (University of Oulu, Finland)
Radio Map Estimation With Deep Dual Path Autoencoders and Skip Connection Learning
William A Locke IV, Nikita Lokhmachev, Yan Huang and Xinrong Li (University of North Texas, USA)
Latency Minimization in Wireless-Powered Federated Learning Networks With NOMA
Mohammad Hossein Alishahi and Paul Fortier (Laval University, Canada); Ming Zeng (Université Laval, Canada); Fang Fang (Western University, Canada); Li Aohan (The University of Electro-Communications, China)
Resource Allocation for Multi-Target Radar Tracking via Constrained Deep Reinforcement Learning
Ziyang Lu and M. Cenk Gursoy (Syracuse University, USA)
T2-S7: Mobility and Handoff in Wireless Systems
Room: Pier 3
Chair: Philipp Schulz (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany)
Conditional Handover Modelling for Increased Contention Free Resource Use in 5G-Advanced
Jedrzej Stanczak (Nokia, Poland); Umur Karabulut (Nokia Standardization and Research Lab, Germany); Ahmad Awada (Nokia Standardization and Research, Germany)
A Novel Conditional Handover Scheme Based on Deep Reinforcement Learning for mmWave Systems
Juhyoung Sung (Korea Electronics Technology Institute (KETI), Korea (South)); Won-Gi Jeon and Sungyoon Cho (Korea Electronics Technology Institute, Korea (South)); Ki Won Kwon (Koera Electronics Technology Institute, Korea (South))
On the Mobility Analysis of UE-Side Beamforming for Multi-Panel User Equipment in 5G-Advanced
Subhyal Bin Iqbal (Technische Universität Dresden & Nokia Solutions and Networks, Munich, Germany); Salman Nadaf and Umur Karabulut (Nokia Standardization and Research Lab, Germany); Philipp Schulz (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany); Anna Prado (Technical University of Munich, Germany); Gerhard P. Fettweis (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany); Wolfgang Kellerer (Technische Universität München, Germany)
Opportunistic Transmission of Distributed Learning Models in Mobile UAVs
Jingxin Li (Kings College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Xiaolan Liu (Loughborough University, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Toktam Mahmoodi (King’s College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Game-Theoretic Flexible Resource Allocation for Handoff in Hybrid V2X Communication
Sachin Sharma (IIT Delhi, India); Saptarshi Ghosh (Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Petroleum Technology, India); Manav Bhatnagar (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India); Bijaya Ketan Panigrahi (IIT Delhi, India)
T3-S7: Security and Privacy in Wireless Networks
Room: Pier 4
Chair: Isaac Woungang (Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada)
Digital Signature Technology of Mobile Phone Verification Code Based on Biometrics
Baozhu Li (Zhuhai Fudan Innovation Institute, China); Ping Wang (QILU BANK, China); Xia Zhang (Jinan Branch of China Mobile Group Shandong Co. LTD, USA); Zhen Wang (Qilu Normal University, USA)
Physical Layer Security Against Passive Eavesdropper in Digital Twin-Enabler Power Grid: An IRS-Assisted Approach
Yiliang Liu (Xi’an Jiaotong University, China); Lili Sun, Xin Liu, Donglan Liu, Fangzhe Zhang and Rui Wang (State Grid Shandong Electric Power Research Institute, China); Tom H. Luan (Xidian University, China)
Shared Experiential History for Encryption Based Peer-To-Peer Authentication
Joshua Mark Daniel Green (University of Western Ontario, Canada); Xianbin Wang (Western University, Canada)
An Efficient Bloom Filter-Based Range Query Scheme Under Local Differential Privacy
Ellen Z. Zhang, Yunguo Guan, Rongxing Lu and Harry Zhang (University of New Brunswick, Canada)
Privacy-Driven Fine-Grained Data Trading
Xinyu He, Yuan Zhang and Shiyu Li (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); Yaqing Song (University of Electornic Science and Technology of China, China); Hongwei Li (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China)
T4-S6: Data-Driven Models
Room: Pier 5
Chair: Amir Ghasemi (Communications Research Centre Canada, Canada)
Data-Driven Modelling of Mobile Network Demand for Efficient Spectrum Management
Janaki Parekh (Communications Research Centre & Carleton University, Canada); Amir Ghasemi (Communications Research Centre Canada, Canada); Halim Yanikomeroglu (Carleton University, Canada)
A Game Theory-Based Group Mobility Model for mmWave FlyNets
Pavana Ravi Sai Kiran Malyala (Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur, India)
Optimized Transceiver Design for Over-The-Air Distributed Computation Over Cell-Free Massive MIMO Network
Fei Han (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong); Qiang Li (Peng Cheng Laboratory, Shenzhen, China); Yi Gong (Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China)
Fostering Collaboration in Emerging Three-Tiered Spectrum Markets
Mostafizur Rahman (University of West Georgia, USA); Anindo Mahmood and Murat Yuksel (University of Central Florida, USA)
Reinforcement Learning-Based Task Scheduling Using DVFS Techniques in Mobile Devices
Mohammadamin HajiKhodaverdian, Hamed Rastaghi, Milad Saadat and Hamed Shah-Mansouri (Sharif University of Technology, Iran)
Friday, September 8 14:00 – 15:30
T1-S15: Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface I
Room: Harbour A
Chair: Sergey Loyka (University of Ottawa, Canada)
Over-The-Air Co-Channel Interference Neutralization: An Active Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface Approach
Linsong Du (SW Jiaotong University, China); Xiaomin Chen (China Telecom, China)
RIS-Aided Wireless Sensor Network in Presence of Bursty Impulsive Noise for Smart-Grid Communications
Aman Sikri (ETS, Montreal, Quebec, Canada); Georges Kaddoum (ETS Engineering School, University of Québec, Canada); Bassant Selim (ETS Montreal, Canada); Minh Au (Hydro-Quebec, Canada); Basile L Agba (Hydro Quebec Research Institute, Canada)
On Globally-Optimal IRS Design for SIMO/MISO Channels
Milad Dabiri and Sergey Loyka (University of Ottawa, Canada)
Integrated Access and Backhaul With RIS: Analyzing Inter-Source and Inter-User Interference
Khaled Tahkoubit (CEA-Leti, France); Nicolas Cassiau (CEA-Leti Minatec Campus, France); David Demmer and Jean-Baptiste Doré (CEA-LETI, France)
Opportunistic Reflection in Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface-Assisted Wireless Networks
Wei Jiang (German Research Center for Artifitial Intelligence (DFKI GmbH), Germany); Hans D. Schotten (University of Kaiserslautern, Germany)
T1-S18: Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface IV
Room: Harbour C
Chair: Hadi Baligh (Huawei Technologies Canada co. Ltd., Canada)
Modular Quantum Machine Learning for Channel Estimation in STAR-RIS Assisted Communication Systems
Bhaskara Narottama and Sonia Aissa (INRS, University of Quebec, Canada)
Performance Analysis of a Backscatter-Assisted Full-Duplex Wireless-Powered Cognitive Radio Network
Reza Jafari and Abraham O Fapojuwo (University of Calgary, Canada)
Simultaneously Transmitting and Reflecting Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface Aided RSMA Communications: Outage Probability Analysis
Zina Mohamed, Khaled Albaden and Sonia Aissa (INRS, University of Quebec, Canada)
RIS-Assisted Downlink Transmission Under Unequal Coherence Intervals and CSI Feedback
Mehdi Karbalayghareh (University of Texas at Dallas, USA); Aria Nosratinia (University of Texas, Dallas, USA)
Exploiting STAR-RIS for Physical Layer Security in Integrated Sensing and Communication Networks
Zhipeng Liu, Xi Li, Hong Ji and Heli Zhang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
T1-S22: Wireless Networks
Room: Pier 2
Chairs: Dariush Ebrahimi (Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada), Yanyan Wu (Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China)
End-To-End Learning-Based Wireless Image Recognition Using the PyramidNet in Edge Intelligence
Kyubihn Lee (Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Korea (South)); Nam Yul Yu (Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST), Korea (South))
MCFGV: Maximizing Communications and Fairness for Groups of Vehicles
Pronab Ghosh (Lakehead University, Canada); Dariush Ebrahimi (Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada); Fadi Alzhouri (Concordia University, Canada); Thiago Eustaquio Alves de Oliveira (Lakehead University, Canada)
Reducing Delay of A Wireless Mesh Network With Scalable Per-Node Throughput
Lei Lei and Xudong Wang (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China)
The Best-Cell ISR Modeling for Network Planning
Yanyan Wu (Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China)
Pilot Contamination Reduction for Access Point Clustering-Based Pilot Assignment
Mariam Mussbah, Stefan Schwarz and Markus Rupp (TU Wien, Austria)
T2-S1: Wireless resources allocation and management
Room: Pier 3
Chair: Richard Jacob (TU Dresden, Germany)
Channel-Aware Multi-User Resource Allocation for Ultra-Reliable Low-Latency Communications
Nick Schwarzenberg (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany); Andreas Traßl (Technische Universität Dresden & Centre for Tactile Internet with Human-in-the-Loop, Germany); Friedrich Burmeister (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany); Richard Jacob (TU Dresden, Germany); Gerhard P. Fettweis (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany)
Resource Allocation and Performance Analysis of Hybrid RSMA-NOMA in the Downlink
Mohammad Amin Saeidi and Hina Tabassum (York University, Canada)
Performance Evaluation of 5G Delay-Sensitive Single-Carrier Multi-User Downlink Scheduling
Anjali Omer and Filippo Malandra (University at Buffalo, USA); Jacob Chakareski (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA); Nicholas Mastronarde (University at Buffalo, USA)
Beamforming Design for NOMA-Assisted Symbiotic Backscatter
Fatemeh Rezaei and Diluka Galappaththige (University of Alberta, Canada); Chintha Tellambura (The University of Alberta, Canada); Amine Maaref (Huawei Technologies Canada, Canada)
Radio Resource Splitting for CoMP Transmissions in Cellular Deployments
Caroline Elisabeth Zoll (Technical University Munich & Radio Lab HTWK Leipzig, Germany); Ola Bidhan (Leipzig University of Applied Sciences, Germany); Michael Einhaus (Hochschule für Telekommunikation Leipzig (HfTL), Germany)
T2-S11: ORAN and SDN
Room: Pier 4
Chair: Xavier N Fernando (Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada & Ryerson University, Canada)
Shaping Next-Generation RAN Topologies to Meet Future Traffic Demands: A Peak Throughput Study
Paolo Fiore and Ilario Filippini (Politecnico di Milano, Italy); Danilo De Donno (Huawei Technologies – Italy Research Center, Italy)
Relay-Assisted Online Service Function Chain Placement and Resource Allocation in 6G Network
Meihui Hua, Guangyi Liu, Na Li, Huimin Zhang and Zhou Tong (China Mobile Research Institute, China)
UE Centric DU Placement With Carrier Aggregation in O-RAN Using Deep Q-Network Algorithm
Roghayeh Joda (Ericsson, Canada); Sima Naseri (Eircsson, Canada); Mona Hashemi (Ericsson Research, Sweden); Chris Richards (Ericsson Canada, Canada)
DRJLRA: A Deep Reinforcement Learning-Based Joint Load and Resource Allocation in Heterogeneous Coded Distributed Computing
Ali Reza Heidarpour, Maryam Haghighi, Ardakani and Masoud Ardakani (University of Alberta, Canada); Chintha Tellambura (The University of Alberta, Canada)
Resource Cooperation in MEC and SDN Based Vehicular Networks
Beiran Chen (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland); Marco Ruffini (CONNECT, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)
T3-S8: Distributed AI for Wireless Networks
Room: Pier 5
Chair: Mushu Li (University of Waterloo, Canada)
A Transfer Learning Approach Based on Integrated Feature Extractor for Anti-Jamming in Wireless Networks
Siavash Barqi Janiar and Ping Wang (York University, Canada)
Long-Term Incentive Mechanism for Federated Learning: A Dynamic Repeated Game Approach
Jinkai Zheng (Xidian University, China); Guanjie Li (Xi’an University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Wang Wencong and Tom H. Luan (Xidian University, China); Zhou Su (Xi’an Jiaotong University, China); Mi Wen (Shanghai University of Electric Power, China)
Energy-Efficient Federated Learning Over Hierarchical Aerial Wireless Networks
Zhaochuan Li (Shanghaitech University, China); Zhibin Wang (ShanghaiTech University, China); Zixin Wang (Shanghaitech University, China); Yong Zhou (ShanghaiTech University, China)
A Noval Distributed Framework for Federated Learning Over the Marine IOT Network
Jiahong Ning, JiaLe Wang, Ping Feng and Tingting Yang (Dalian Maritime University, China)
Co-Operative Edge Intelligence for C-V2X Communication Using Federated Reinforcement Learning
Abhishek Gupta (Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada); Xavier N Fernando (Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada & Ryerson University, Canada)
Friday, September 8 16:00 – 17:30
T1-S16: Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface II
Room: Harbour C
Chair: A S Madhukumar (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Novel Probabilistic Reformulation Technique for Unconstrained Discrete RIS Optimization
Anish Pradhan and Harpreet S Dhillon (Virginia Tech, USA)
Sparsity Channel Estimation for Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface Aided MIMO Systems
Meng Gao (Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, China); Huafu Li, Yang Wang and Jiaao Yang (Harbin Institute of Technology, China)
Performance Analysis of IRS-Assisted Terahertz Communication System
Rithwik Premanand, A S Madhukumar, Shubha Sharma and Ranjan Singh (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Performance Analysis for RSMA-Empowered STAR-RIS-Aided Downlink Communications
Farjam Karim, Sandeep Kumar Singh and Keshav Singh (National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan); Shankar Prakriya (Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India); Chih-Peng Li (National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan)
RIS-Assisted Coverage Extension for LEO Satellite Communication in Blockage Scenarios
Ning Cao, Ziyuan Zheng and Wenpeng Jing (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Zhaoming Lu (BUPT, China); Xiangming Wen (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
T1-S19: Semantic Communications
Room: Pier 2
Chair: Philipp Schulz (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany)
Learned Image Transmission Toward Machine-Type Semantic Communications
Kailin Tan, Jincheng Dai, Sixian Wang, Ke Yang and Kai Niu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
Iterative Cancellation of Multi-User Non-Aligned Inter Spreading Factor Interference in LoRa Systems
Qiaohan Zhang (TU Dresden, Germany); Jia Zhang, Ana Belen Martinez, Ivo Bizon, Philipp Schulz and Gerhard P. Fettweis (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany)
Learned Image Transmission Over MIMO Fading Channels
Shengshi Yao (Beijing University of Post and Telecommunications, China); Sixian Wang, Jincheng Dai and Kai Niu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
Deep Joint Source-Channel Coding Based on Semantics of Pixels for Wireless Image Transmission
Qizheng Sun, Caili Guo, Yang Yang, Rui Tang and Chuanhong Liu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
SNR-Adaptive Multi-Layer Semantic Communication for Speech
Jiejie Guo, Yimeng Zhang, Chenyao Liu and Wenjun Xu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Zhisong Bie (BUPT, China)
T1-S8: Localization
Room: Harbour A
Chair: Hao Wang (Huawei Technologies, China)
VNP: A Weak-Supervised and Retraining-Free Learning Approach for Online Positioning
Jiankun Zhang and Hao Wang (Huawei Technologies, China)
Localization and Hardware Impairment Compensation Using Orthogonal Time, Frequency, and Space Principles
Muhammed Rahman and Shahrokh Valaee (University of Toronto, Canada)
Deep Learning Based DOA Estimation With Trainable-Step-Size LMS Algorithm
Yu Guo and Zhi Zhang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Yuzhen Huang (Artificial Intelligence Research Center, National Innovation Institute of Defense Technology & School of Information and Communication, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
DoA Estimation Using Cascaded Neural Networks and Angle Classification for Coherent Signals
Jigyasu Khandelwal (International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad, India); Madhuri Latha (International Institute of Information Technology, India); Nitin Nilesh (International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad, India); Sachin Chaudhari (International Institute of Information Technology, India)
Fast Ambiguity-Free Subspace-Based Multiple AoA Estimation for Hybrid Linear Arrays
Wei-Cheng Kao (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan); Jwo-Yuh Wu (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan); Shang-Ho (Lawrence) Tsai (National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan); Tsang-Yi Wang (National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan)
T2-S8: Wireless Networks
Room: Pier 3
Chair: Filippo Malandra (University at Buffalo, USA)
Dynamic Control of CCA Thresholds Based on Frame Priority With QoS Color for IEEE 802.11 Wireless LANs
Hanae Otani, Hirantha Abeysekera, Akira Kishida and Yusuke Asai (NTT Corporation, Japan)
Understanding Multi-Link Operation in Wi-Fi 7: Performance, Anomalies, and Solutions
Marc Carrascosa (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain); Giovanni Geraci (Telefonica Research & Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain); Lorenzo Galati Giordano (Nokia Bell Labs, Germany); Anders Jonsson (Pompeu Fabra University, Spain); Boris Bellalta (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain)
Frame Error Rate Prediction for Non-Stationary Wireless Vehicular Communication Links
Anja Dakić (AIT – Austrian Institute of Technology, Austria); Benjamin Rainer (AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH, Austria); Markus Hofer (AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, Austria); Thomas Zemen (AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH, Austria)
Unsupervised Deep Unfolded PGD for Transmit Power Allocation in Wireless Systems
Ramoni O. Adeogun (Aalborg University, Denmark)
T2-S9: Federated Learning in Wireless Systems
Room: Pier 4
Chair: Mohamed Sana (CEA LETI Grenoble, France)
Contention Matters: Modeling and Analyzing the Performance of Federated Learning Over WiFi
Prabhleen Kukreja and Mahendran Veeramani (Indian Institute of Technology Tirupati, India)
On the Optimization of UAV-Assisted Wireless Networks for Hierarchical Federated Learning
Roumaissa Khelf (Université de Québec a Montréal, Canada); Elmahdi Driouch and Wessam Ajib (Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada)
Edge Selection and Clustering for Federated Learning in Optical Inter-LEO Satellite Constellation
Chih-Yu Chen (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan); Li-Hsiang Shen (University of California, Berkeley, USA); Kai-Ten Feng (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan); Lie-Liang Yang (University of Southampton, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Jen-Ming Wu (Hon Hai Research Institute, Taiwan)
Probabilistic Client Sampling and Power Allocation for Wireless Federated Learning
Wen Xu and Ben Liang (University of Toronto, Canada); Gary Boudreau and Hamza Sokun (Ericsson, Canada)
A Safe Genetic Algorithm Approach for Energy Efficient Federated Learning in Wireless Communication Networks
Lina Magoula, Nikolaos Koursioumpas, Alexandros-Ioannis Thanopoulos, Theodora Panagea and Nikolaos Petropouleas (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece); Miguel Angel Gutierrez-Estevez and Ramin Khalili (Huawei Technologies, Germany)
T3-S9: Massive MIMO, Beamforming, and THz Communications
Room: Pier 5
Chair: Xavier N Fernando (Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada & Ryerson University, Canada)
A Hardware Simulation Platform of Artificial Noise-Assisted MIMO Communication System Based on LabVIEW-USRP
Ziyang Yu and Huanhuan Song (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); Hong Wen (UESTC, China); Yonghuang Liu and Wen Li (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China)
Vision-Assisted Beam Prediction for Real World 6G Drone Communication
Iftikhar Ahmad and Ahsan Raza Khan (University of Glasgow, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Rao Naveed Bin Rais (Ajman University, UAE, United Arab Emirates); Ahmed Zoha, Muhammad Ali Imran and Sajjad Hussain (University of Glasgow, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
FPGA Implementation of Efficient Beamformer for On-Board Processing in MEO Satellites
Rakesh Palisetty, Luis Manuel Garces-Socarras, Haythem Chaker and Vibhum Singh (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg); Geoffrey Eappen (Kirchberg Campus & University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg); Wallace Alves Martins, Vu Nguyen Ha, Juan A. Vásquez Peralvo, Jorge L González Rios, Juan Duncan, Symeon Chatzinotas and Björn Ottersten (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg); Adem Coskun (European Space Agency, The Netherlands); Stephen King (RHEA for ESA, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Salvatore D’ Addio and Piero Angeletti (European Space Agency, The Netherlands)
Towards Optimal Association of Coexisting RF, THz and mmWave Users in 6G Networks
Noha Hassan (Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada); Xavier N Fernando (Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada & Ryerson University, Canada); Isaac Woungang and Alagan Anpalagan (Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada)
Direct IF Sampling Receivers for 5G Millimeter-Wave Communications Systems
Zia Ullah Khan, Timothy O’Farrell and Kenneth Lee Ford (University of Sheffield, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
