Day: Tuesday, 05 September
Time: 9:00 – 12:30
Room: Harbour C
IEEE PIMRC 2023 Workshop CFP on 6G-Envisioned RIS & HoloS
Tentative Program Details below:
| Time | Workshop Schedule |
| Session 1: | |
| Welcome and Introduction | |
| 9.00 AM – 9.25 AM | Keynote I |
| 9.25 AM – 9.50 AM | Keynote II |
| 9.50 AM – 10.15 AM | Keynote III |
| 10.15 AM – 10.33 AM | Technical Session I: [P1] |
| Session 2: | |
| 11.00 AM – 11.25 AM | Keynote IV |
| 11.25 AM – 11.50 AM | Keynote V |
| 11.50 AM – 12.35 PM | Technical Session II: [P2], [P3], [P4] |
Keynote I: Prof. Marco Di Renzo, Université Paris-Saclay, France (virtual)
Title: Programmable Metasurfaces for Wireless Communications: Living at the Interface of Electromagnetics and Communications
Keynote II: Prof. Ahmed Alkhateeb, Arizona State University (in person)
Title: Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces: What Are the Real Use Cases?
Keynote III: Prof. Ekram Hossain, University of Manitoba, Canada (in person)
Title: On machine learning-aided channel estimation in RIS-based wireless communications systems
Keynote IV: Prof. George Alexandropoulos, University of Athens, Greece (virtual)
Title: RIS-Empowered Smart Wireless Environments: Capacity Characterization and Optimization
Keynote V: Prof. Shahrokh Valaee, University of Toronto, Canada (in person)
Title: RIS-Assisted Sensing and Localization using the Percolation Theory and Evolutionary Algorithms
Technical Session I:
[P1] Enhancing Secret Key Generation in Block Fading Channels Using Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces
Authors: Hibatallah Alwazani and Anas Chaaban (University of British Columbia, Canada)
Technical Session II:
[P2] Secrecy Communication for Simultaneous Transmission and Reflection (STAR) RIS Aided Systems With Multiple Eavesdroppers
Authors: Yuan Ren, Yao Jia, Xuewei Zhang, Fan Jiang and Guangyue Lu (Xi’an University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
[P3] Title: Joint Precoder and Phase Optimization for MIMO-IRS With Finite Alphabet Input
Authors: Jyothsna Sreekumar (Indian Institute of Technology Palakkad, India) and Lakshmi Narasimhan Theagarajan (Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India)
[P4] (Invited paper) Optimizing Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces for MmWave Communications in IoT Networks
Authors: Adeel Iqbal (COMSATS University Islamabad, Pakistan), Ali Nauman (Yeungnam University, South Korea), Muhammad Ali Jamshed (University of Glasgow, United Kingdom), Aryan Kaushik (University of Sussex, United Kingdom) and Wonjae Shin (Ajou University, South Korea)
Organizers:
General Chairs (Consortium of academia and industry with geographical and gender diversity):
- Aryan Kaushik, University of Sussex, UK, aryan.kaushik@sussex.ac.uk
- Anas Chaaban, University of British Columbia, Canada, anas.chaaban@ubc.ca
- Qurrat-Ul-Ain Nadeem, University of British Columbia, Canada, qurrat.nadeem@ubc.ca
- Ana Garcia Armada, University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain, anagar@ing.uc3m.es
- Nan Yang, Australian National University, Australia, nan.yang@anu.edu.au
- Alessio Zappone, University of Cassino and Southern Lazio, Italy, alessio.zappone@unicas.it
- Wonjae Shin, Ajou University, South Korea wjshin@ajou.ac.kr
- Doowhan Lee, NTT Corporation, Japan, doohwan.lee.yr@hco.ntt.co.jp
- Konpal Shaukat Ali, New York University Abu Dhabi, UAE, konpal.ali@nyu.edu
Steering Committee
- Marco Di Renzo, Paris-Saclay University, France, marco.di-renzo@universite-paris-saclay.fr
- Octavia A. Dobre, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada, odobre@mun.ca
- John Thompson, University of Edinburgh, UK, john.thompson@ed.ac.uk
- Georges Kaddoum, University of Quebec, Canada, Georges.Kaddoum@etsmtl.ca
- Carlo Fischione, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, carlofi@kth.se
IMPORTANT DATES
Paper Submission Deadline: 19 May 2023 Extended date: 31 May 2023
Acceptance Notification: 16 June 2023
Camera-Ready Due: 07 July 2023
Workshop Date: 05 September 2023
