Workshops

Time	Room F
Sunday, May 28 2023
09:00 - 11:00	WS01-S1 DigTwinWC: Keynote 1 and Paper Session
11:00 - 11:30	Coffee Break
11:30 - 13:00	WS01-S2 DigTwinWC: Paper Session
13:00 - 14:30	Lunch Break
14:30 - 16:00	WS01-S3 DigTwinWC: Panel
16:00 - 16:30	Coffee Break
16:30 - 18:00	WS01-S4 DigTwinWC: Paper Session

Sunday, May 28, 09:00 - 11:00

WS01-S1 DigTwinWC: Keynote 1 and Paper Session

Room: F

Chair: Lina Bariah (Technology Innovation Institute)

Keynote: Prof. Walid Saad (Virginia Tech), 09:00 – 09:45 AM
Towards a Wireless Network Digital Twin Model: A Heterogeneous Graph Neural Network Approach: Jose Perdomo (Munich Research Center, Huawei Technologies Duesseldorf GmbH, and ITEAM Research Institute, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia); Miguel Angel Gutierrez- Estevez (Munich Research Center, Huawei Technologies Duesseldorf GmbH); Chan Zhou (Munich Research Center, Huawei Technologies Duesseldorf GmbH); Jose F Monserrat (ITEAM Research Institute, Universitat Politecnica de Val`encia)
Digital Twin Based Beam Prediction: Can we Train in the Digital World and Deploy in Reality?: Shuaifeng Jiang (Arizona State University); Ahmed Alkhateeb (Arizona State University)

11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break

Sunday, May 28, 11:30 - 13:00

WS01-S2 DigTwinWC: Paper Session

Room: F

Chair:Lina Bariah (Technology Innovation Institute)

Ambiguity Subspace Resolution for Digital Twin Parameter Estimation: Wolfgang Zirwas (Nokia Siemens Networks GmbH&CoKG); Brenda Vilas Boas (Nokia & TU Ilmenau); Lars Thiele (Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute)
Communication-Efficient Personalized Federated Learning for Digital Twin in heterogeneous Industrial IoT: Zhihan Wang (Shandong Jianzhu University); Xiangxue Ma (Shandong Jianzhu University); Haixia Zhang (Shandong University); Dongfeng Yuan (Shandong University)
Leveraging Digital Twin Approach for Network Slicing in B5G Core Network: Mahnoor Yaqoob (Middlesex University); Huan X Nguyen (Middlesex University)
A Digital Twin Assisted Framework for Interference Nulling in Millimeter Wave MIMO Systems: Yu Zhang (Arizona State University); Tawfik Osman (Arizona State University); Ahmed Alkhateeb (Arizona State University)
Reinforcement Learning Based Age of Information Minimization for Downlink NOMA Systems: Waleed Ahsan (The University of EDINBURGH & Queen Mary University of London); Anees Ahsan (COMSATS University Islamabad, and Wrexham Glyndwr University); Faiqa Bibi (Virtual University)

13:00 – 14:30 Lunch break

Sunday, May 28, 14:30 - 16:00

WS01-S3 DigTwinWC: Panel

Room: F

Chair:Lina Bariah (Technology Innovation Institute)

Panel: The Nexus of Wireless Networks and AI through Digital Twins: Doohwan Lee (NTT); Emilio Calvanese Strinati (CEA); Qi Bi (China Telecom); Peiying zhu (Huawei)

16:00 – 16:30 Coffee break

Sunday, May 28, 16:30 - 18:00

WS01-S4 DigTwinWC: Paper Session

Room: F

Chair:Lina Bariah (Technology Innovation Institute)

Digital Twin-Empowered Resource Allocation for 6G-Enabled Massive IoT: Elif Bozkaya (National Defence University Turkish Naval Academy); Berk Canberk (Edinburgh Napier University); Stefan Schmid (TU Berlin)
Network Digital Twins: A Threat Analysis: Arun Raghuramu (Ericsson Research); Michael Liljenstam (Ericsson Research); Sonika Ujjwal (Ericsson Research); Utku Gülen (Ericsson Research); Gregoire Phillips (Ericsson Research); Zakaria Laaroussi (Ericsson Research); Leyli Karaçay (Ericsson Research)
TwinPot: Digital Twin-assisted Honeypot for Cyber-Secure Smart Seaports: Yagmur Yigit (Istanbul Technical University); Omer Kemal Kinaci (Istanbul Technical University); Trung Q. Duong (Queen's University Belfast); Berk Canberk (Edinburgh Napier University)

WS-02: 5th Workshop on Data Driven Intelligence for Networks and Systems (DDINS)

Room: B

Organizers:

Jinsong Wu, Guilin University of Electronic Technology
Stefano Giordano, University of Pisa
Zhi Liu, The University of Electro-Communications
Chuan Heng Foh, University of Surrey
Chee Yen Leow, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
Periklis Chatzimisios, International Hellenic University
Tao Chen, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland
William Liu, Auckland University of Technology
Chunguo Li, Southeast University
Haeyoung Lee, University of Hertfordshire
Abdulkadir Kose, Abdullah Gul University

Detailed Program

Time	Room B
Sunday, May 28 2023
08:30 - 11:00	WS02-S1 DDINS: Keynote 1 and Paper Session
11:00 - 11:30	Coffee Break
11:30 - 13:00	WS02-S2 DDINS: Paper Session
13:00 - 14:30	Lunch Break
14:30 - 16:00	WS02-S3 DDINS: Paper Session
16:00 - 16:30	Coffee Break
16:30 - 18:36	WS02-S4 DDINS: Paper Session

Sunday, May 28, 08:30 - 11:00

WS02-S1 DDINS: Keynote 1 and Paper Session

Room:B

Chair:Chuan Heng Foh

Keynote: Prof. Houbing Herbert Song, University of Maryland, USA, 08.30 - 09.00 AM
Deep Learning for Probabilistic Interference Predictions in mmWave Networks: Mohamed Marzban, Wooseok Nam, Tao Luo, Arumugam Kannan and Taesang Yoo (Qualcomm Technologies Inc., USA) Environment Semantic Aided Communication: A Real World Demonstration for Beam Prediction Shoaib Imran, Gouranga Charan, Ahmed Alkhateeb (Arizona State University, USA)
Environment Semantic Aided Communication: A Real World Demonstration for Beam Prediction: Shoaib Imran; Gouranga Charan; Ahmed Alkhateeb
Beam Management Driven by Radio Environment Maps in O-RAN Architecture: Marcin Dominik Hoffmann and Pawel Kryszkiewicz (Poznan University of Technology, Poland)
AMP-SBL Unfolding for Wideband MmWave Massive MIMO Channel Estimation: Jiabao Gao (Zhejiang University, China); Caijun Zhong (Zhejiang University, China); Geoffrey Ye Li (Imperial College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Deep Reinforcement Learning Based Joint Downlink Beamforming and RIS Configuration in RIS-aided MU-MISO Systems Under Hardware Impairments and Imperfect CSI: Baturay Saglam (Bilkent University, Turkey); Doğa Gürgünoğlu (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden); Suleyman Serdar Kozat (Bilkent University, Turkey)
A Novel Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning-enabled Distributed Power Allocation Scheme for mmWave Cellular Networks: Xiang Zhang (University of Utah, USA); Arupjyoti (Arup) Bhuyan (INL, USA); Sneha Kumar Kasera and Mingyue Ji (University of Utah, USA)
Cascaded binary classifiers for blind Beam Alignment in mmWave MIMO using one-bit quantization: Aymen Ktari (Télécom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France); Hadi Ghauch (Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden); Ghaya Rekaya (Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France)

11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break

Sunday, May 28, 11:30 - 13:00

WS02-S2 DDINS: Paper Session

Room:B

Chair:Chuan Heng Foh

Dual-Step Transfer Learning-Based Prediction Model for Next-Generation Intelligent Cellular Networks: Waqar Aziz and Iacovos Ioannou (University of Cyprus & CYENS Center of Excellence, Cyprus; Marios Lestas (Frederick University, Cyprus); Vasos Vassiliou (University of Cyprus & CYENS Center of Excellence, Cyprus)
3D Ray Reconstruction Method Based on Adaptive Conditional Variational Autoencoders: Panpan Shi and Kai Li (ShanghaiTech University, China); Jun Yang (Amlogic, China); Yang Yang (Terminus Group and Peng Cheng Laboratory, China); Jinning Su and Jinhan Guo (Shanghaitech University, China)
Reinforcement Learning-Based Fountain Codes for Latency-Sensitive Transmission: S. M. Mahdi Shahabi, Yirun Zhang and Mohammad Shikh-Bahaei (King's College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Graph Neural Networks for Power Allocation in Wireless Networks with Full Duplex Nodes: Lili Chen, Jingge Zhu and Jamie S Evans (University of Melbourne, Australia)
Machine Learning-Assisted Codebook Design for MMSE Channel Estimation: Xiaowen Tian (North Carolina State University, USA); Yeqing Hu, Yang Li, Tiexing Wang and Jianzhong Zhang (Samsung Research America, USA)

Sunday, May 28, 14:30 - 16:00

WS02-S3 DDINS: Paper Session

Room:B

Chair:Chuan Heng Foh

Fairness-based Data Rate Control For Channel Congestion Mitigation in Vehicular Communications: Lan-Huong Nguyen (National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan); Van-Linh Nguyen (National Chung Cheng University & College of Engineering, Taiwan); Jian-Jhih Kuo (National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan)
Actor-Critic Based Back-off Algorithm for Massive Machine-Type Communication: Xin Gao, Zhihong Qian, Mingtong Xie and Xue Wang (Jilin University, China)
RNN-based Robust Smartphone Indoor Localization on Ultra-wideband DL-TDOA: Sagnik Bhattacharya (IIT Kanpur, Korea (South)); Junyoung Choi (Samsung Electronics, Korea (South))
B-DT: A Bagged-Decision Tree Detection and Characterization of the IoT-SCADA Network Communication Traffic: Love Allen Ahakonye, Cosmas Ifeanyi Nwakanma, Jae Min Lee and Dong Seong Kim (Kumoh National Institute of Technology, South Korea)
Comparative Study of Machine Learning Techniques for Detecting GPS Spoofing Attacks on Mission Critical Military IoT: Devices Hassan El Alami, Kendal Hall and Danda B. Rawat (Howard University, USA)

16:00 – 16:30 Coffee break

Sunday, May 28, 16:30 - 18:36

WS02-S4 DDINS: Paper Session

Room: B

Chair:Chuan Heng Foh

Uninterrupted Machine Learning Predictions for Network Control Loops: Andrea Francini (Nokia Bell Labs, USA); Dan Scarafoni (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA); Edward Grinshpun (Nokia Bell Labs, USA)
Reinforcement Learning for Resource Allocation with Periodic Traffic Patterns: Zheyu Chen and Kin K. Leung (Imperial College, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Shiqiang Wang (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA); Leandros Tassiulas (Yale University, USA); Kevin S Chan (US Army Research Laboratory, USA); Patrick Baker (Royal Air Force, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
TraceNet: Operation Aware Root Cause Localization of Microservice System Anomalies: Jingjing Yang, Yuchun Guo, Yishuai Chen and Yongxiang Zhao (Beijing Jiaotong University, China)
Cache Policy Design via Reinforcement Learning for Cellular Networks in Non-Stationary Environment: Ashvin Srinivasan and Mohsen Amidzadeh (Aalto University, Finland); Junshan (Joshua) Zhang (University of California Davis, USA); Olav Tirkkonen (Aalto University, Finland)
Joint Communication and Learning Design of Differential Privacy for Federated Learning over Multi-cell Networks: Licheng Lin (Zhejiang University, China); Zhouxiang Zhao (Zhejiang University, China); Zhaohui Yang (Zhejiang University, China); Zhaoyang Zhang (Zhejiang University, China)
Reinforcement Learning-enabled Auctions for Self-Healing in Service Function Chaining: Marios Avgeris (Carleton University, Canada); Aris Leivadeas (École de Technologie Supérieure, Canada); Ioannis Lambadaris (Carleton University, Canada)
Online Bipartite Matching for HAP Access in Space-Air-Ground Integrated Networks using Graph Neural Network-Enhanced: Reinforcement Learning Yuejiao Xie (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China); Guanchong Niu (Xidian University, China); Man-On Pun (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China); Zhu Han (University of Houston, USA)

WS-03: Workshop on OTFS and Delay-Doppler Multicarrier Communications for 6G

Room: N

Organizers:

Jinhong Yuan, University of New South Wales, Australia
Jingxian Wu, University of Arkansas, USA
Yi Hong, Monash University, Australia
Hai Lin, Osaka Metropolitan University, Japan
Saif K. Mohammed, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India
Arman Farhang, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

Detailed Program

Time	Room N
Sunday, May 28 2023
09:00 - 11:00	WS03-S1 OTFS-DDMC-6G: Keynote 1 and Panel
11:00 - 11:30	Coffee Break
11:30 - 13:00	WS03-S2 OTFS-DDMC-6G: Paper Session
13:00 - 14:30	Lunch Break
14:30 - 16:00	WS03-S3 OTFS-DDMC-6G: Paper Session
16:00 - 16:30	Coffee Break
16:30 - 17:45	WS03-S4 OTFS-DDMC-6G: Paper Session
18:00 - 18:30	WS03-S5 OTFS-DDMC-6G: Keynote 2 and Conclusion

Sunday, May 28, 09:00 - 11:00

WS03-S1 OTFS-DDMC-6G: Keynote 1 and Panel

Room:N

Chair:Hai Lin (Osaka Metropolitan University, Japan)

Keynote: 6G Waveform Options: Prof. Huseyin Arslan (Istanbul Medipol University, Turkey)
Panel: Potential Waveforms for NextG
Moderator: Hai Lin, Osaka Metropolitan University, Japan
Panelists: Huseyin Arslan, Istanbul Medipol University, Turkey Jinhong Yuan, University of New South Wales, Australia Yi Hong, Monash University, Australia Arman Farhang, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break

Sunday, May 28, 11:30 - 13:00

WS03-S2 OTFS-DDMC-6G: Channel Model and Estimation

Room:N

Chair:Sanoopkumar P. s. (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)

On the Input-Output Relation of ODDM Modulation over General Physical Channels: Jun Tong (University of Wollongong, Australia); Jiangtao Xi (University of Wollongong, Australia); Jinhong Yuan (University of New South Wales, Australia); Hai Lin (Osaka Metropolitan University, Japan)
Off-grid Channel Estimation using Grid Evolution in Rectangular Pulse-Shaping OTFS System: Yaru Shan (Beijing Jiaotong University, China); Fanggang Wang (Beijing Jiaotong University, China); Yaxing Hao (Beijing Jiaotong University, China)
Improving Channel Estimation Performance for Uplink OTFS Transmissions: Pilot Design Based on A Posteriori Cramér-Rao bound: Mingcheng Nie (University of New South Wales, Australia); Shuangyang Li (University of Western Australia, Australia); Deepak Mishra (University of New South Wales (UNSW) Sydney, Australia)
Delay-Doppler Channel Estimation by Leveraging the Ambiguity Function in OFDM Systems: Hamish P. H. Shaw (University of New South Wales, Australia); Jinhong Yuan (University of New South Wales, Australia); Mohammad Rowshan (University of New South Wales, Australia)

13:00 – 14:30 Lunch Break

Sunday, May 28, 14:30 - 16:00

WS03-S3 OTFS-DDMC-6G: Equalization and Detection

Room: N

Chair:Yao GE (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

On the Performance of Practical Pulse-Shaped OTFS with Analog Receivers: Andong Zhou (University of Arkansas, USA); Yanjun Pan (University of Arkansas, USA); Jingxian Wu (University of Arkansas, USA); Hai Lin (Osaka Metropolitan University, Japan); Jinhong Yuan (University of New South Wales, Australia)
A Tomlinson-Harashima Precoding Design for OTFS: Lu Dai (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Hang Long (Beijing University of Posts & Telecommunications, China); Zhengrui Zhang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
Low-Complexity Equalization and Detection for OTFS-NOMA: Stephen McWade (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland); Mark F. Flanagan (University College Dublin, Ireland); Arman Farhang (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)
Parallel Encoded Orthogonal Delay-Doppler Division Multiplexing with Successive Detection and Decoding Feedback: Qi Li (The University of New South Wales, Australia); Min Qiu (University of New South Wales, Australia); Jinhong Yuan (University of New South Wales, Australia)
Practical Low Complexity MRC Detector for OTFS with Oversampling Receiver: Preety Priya (Monash University, Australia); Emanuele Viterbo (Monash University, Australia); Yi Hong (Monash University, Australia)

16:00 – 16:30 Coffee break

Sunday, May 28, 16:30 - 17:45

WS03-S4 OTFS-DDMC-6G: MIMO and Massive MIMO

Room:N

Chair:Stephen McWade (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)

Rectangular Pulse-Shaped OTFS with Fractional Delay and Doppler Shift for MU-MIMO Systems: Junjuan Feng (Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Hien Ngo (Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Michail Matthaiou (Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom (Great Britain)
Sensing Aided OTFS Massive MIMO Systems: Compressive Channel Estimation: Shuaifeng Jiang (Arizona State University, USA); Ahmed Alkhateeb (Arizona State University, USA)
Super-Resolution Estimation of Delay-Doppler-Angle Parameters of Doubly Selective Channels in Hybrid MIMO Systems: Jun Tong (University of Wollongong, Australia); Jiangtao Xi (University of Wollongong, Australia)
Low-Complexity Memory AMP Detector for High-Mobility MIMO-OTFS SCMA Systems: Yao GE (Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore); Lei Liu (Zhejiang University, China); Shunqi Huang (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan); David Gonzalez G. (Continental Automotive, Germany); Yong Liang Guan (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore); Zhi Ding (University of California at Davis, USA)

Sunday, May 28, 18:00 - 18:30

WS03-S5 OTFS-DDMC-6G: Keynote 2 and Conclusion

Room:N

Chair:Arman Farhang (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)

Keynote: A hitchhiker's guide to wireless propagation: From Marconi to 6G: Prof. Lajos Hanzo (University of Southampton, UK)

WS-04: 2nd Workshop on Industrial Private 5G-and-beyond Wireless Networks

Room: O

Organizers:

Kyeong Jin Kim, Samsung Research America, USA
David Lopez Perez, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
Kwang-Cheng Chen, University of South Florida, USA
Miaowen Wen, South China University of Technology, China
Petar Popovski, Aalborg University, Denmark
Theodoros A. Tsiftsis, University of Thessaly, Greece

Detailed Program

Time	Room O
Sunday, May 28 2023
09:00 - 11:00	WS04-S1 5GBeyondWN: Keynote and paper session
11:00 - 11:30	Coffee Break
11:30 - 13:00	WS04-S2 5GBeyondWN: Paper Session
13:00 - 14:30	Lunch Break
14:30 - 16:00	WS04-S3 5GBeyondWN: Paper Session
16:00 - 16:30	Coffee Break
16:30 - 18:36	WS04-S4 5GBeyondWN: Paper Session

Sunday, May 28, 09:00 - 11:00

WS04-S1 5GBeyondWN: Keynote and Paper Session

Room:O

Chair: Chao Wang (Xidian University, China)

Keynote: Semantic Communications for 6G and Beyond: Keynote Speaker: Prof. Geoffrey Li, Imperial College London, UK, 9:00-9:36
A Simulation Tool for Interference Analysis in MIMO Wavelength Division LiFi Indoor Networks: Giovanni Luca Martena and Janis Sperga (PureLiFi Ltd. & University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Dayrene Frometa Fonseca (IMDEA Networks Institute, Spain); Rui Bian (PureLiFi Ltd., United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Borja Genoves Guzman (University of Virginia, Spain); Mohamed Sufyan Islim, John Kosman and Harald Haas (PureLiFi Ltd., United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Thin Receiver Freeform Lenslet Concentrator Array for LiFi: Janis Sperga (PureLiFi Ltd. & University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Rui Bian, Mohamed Sufyan Islim and John Kosman (PureLiFi Ltd., United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Giovanni Luca Martena (PureLiFi Ltd. & University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Eoin Murphy and Harald Haas (PureLiFi Ltd., United Kingdom (Great Britain))

11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break

Sunday, May 28, 11:30 - 13:00

WS04-S2 5GBeyondWN: Paper Session

Room:O

Chair: Xin Hao (University Sydney, Australia)

Coverage and Capacity Analysis for Football Player's Bodycam with Cell-Free Massive MIMO: Rizqi Hersyandika (KU Leuven, Belgium); Marco Rossanese (NEC Laboratories Europe GmbH, Germany); Andra Lutu (Telefónica Research, Spain); Yang Miao (University of Twente, The Netherlands); Qing Wang (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands); Sofie Pollin (KU Leuven, Belgium)
Composite Virtual Spatial Modulation and Its Diversity Enhancement: Zahid Iqbal and Fei Ji (South China University of Technology, China); Jun Li (Guangzhou University, China); Qiang Li (Jinan University, China); Adil Nawaz (Shenzhen University, China); Xueqin Jiang (Donghua University, China); Jia Hou (Soochow University, China)
A Building Wireless Performance Evaluation Scheme in terms of Root-Mean-Square Delay Spread for Buildings with Complex Structures: Yixin Huang (The University of Sheffield, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Jiliang Zhang (Northeastern University, China); Jie Zhang (University of Sheffield, Dept. of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Graph Neural Network-Based Bandwidth Allocation for Secure Wireless Communications: Xin Hao, Phee Lep Yeoh and Yuhong Liu (University of Sydney, Australia); Changyang She (The University of Sydney, Australia); Branka Vucetic and Yonghui Li (University of Sydney, Australia)

13:00 – 14:30 Lunch Break

Sunday, May 28, 14:30 - 16:00

WS04-S3 5GBeyondWN: Paper Session

Room:O

Chair: Erdal Panayirci (Kadir Has University, Turkey)

Deep Autoencoder Design for RF Anomaly Detection in 5G O-RAN Near-RT RIC via xApps: Osman Tugay Basaran (Siemens Turkey, Turkey); Mehmet Basaran (Istanbul Technical University, Turkey); Derya Turan and Hamide Gul Bayrak (Siemens Turkey, Turkey); Yagmur Sabucu Sandal (Siemens A.Ş., Turkey)
DecentRAN: Decentralized Radio Access Network for 5.5G and beyond: Hao Xu (Huawei Technologies, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Xun Liu (Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., China); Qinghai Zeng (Huawei Technologies, China); Qiang Li (Peng Cheng Laboratory, Shenzhen, China); Shibin Ge (Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd./, China); Zhou Guohua (Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., China); Raymond Forbes (Huawei Technologies, United Kingdom (Great Britain)
PHY Security Enhancement Exploiting STAR-RIS for Dual-functional Radar-Communication: Chao Wang (Xidian University, China); Chengcai Wang (China Academy of Electronics and Information Technology, China); Zan Li (Xidian University, China); Derrick Wing Kwan Ng (University of New South Wales, Australia); Kai Kit Wong (University College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)
Energy-Efficient Design for RIS-Aided Cell-Free Ultra Dense HetNets: Bin Li (Wuhan University, China); Yulin Hu (RWTH Aachen University, Germany); Zhicheng Dong (Tibet University, China); Erdal Panayirci (Kadir Has University, Turkey); Huilin Jiang (Nanjing Xiaozhuang University, China); Qiang Wu (Nantong University, China)
Joint Beamforming Design for STAR-RIS-Aided MU-MIMO System with SWIPT: Jetti Yaswanth (National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan); Mayur Vitthalrao Katwe (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore); Keshav Singh (National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan); Omid Taghizadeh (Lenovo (Deutschland) GmbH, Germany); Anke Schmeink (RWTH Aachen University, Germany); Cunhua Pan (Southeast University, China)

16:00 – 16:30 Coffee break

Sunday, May 28, 16:30 - 18:00

WS04-S4 5GBeyondWN: Paper Session

Room: O

Chair: Chao Wang (Xidian University, China)

Joint Beamforming and Rate Splitting Scheme Design for Overloaded Industrial Private Networks: Cheng Zeng, Jun-Bo Wang and Penghui Zhang (Southeast University, China); Yijian Chen (State Key Laboratory of Mobile Network and Mobile Multimedia Technology, China); Hongkang Yu (ZTE Corporation, China); Gang Wang (Southeast University, China); Min Lin (Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China
Spectrum Sharing-inspired Safe Motion Planning: Kyeong Jin Kim; Abraham Puthuvana Vinod, Jianlin Guo, Vedang M. Deshpande, Kieran Parsons and Ye Wang (Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, USA)

WS-05: 5th Workshop on Orbital Angular Momentum Transmission (OAMT 2023)

Room: Q

Organizers:

Prof. Chao Zhang, Tsinghua University
Dr. Doohwan Lee, NTT Corporation
Prof. Marco Moretti, University of Pisa

Detailed Program

Time	Room Q
Sunday, May 28 2023
08:50 - 11:00	WS05-S1 OAMT: Keynotes 1 and 2, and Paper Session
11:00 - 11:30	Coffee Break
11:30 - 12:40	WS05-S2 OAMT: Paper Session

Sunday, May 28, 08:50 - 11:00

WS05-S1 OAMT: Keynote 1, Keynote 2 and Paper Session

Room: Q

Chair:Prof. Chao Zhang (Tsinghua University, China)

Keynote 1: Prof. Chao Zhang (Tsinghua University), 08:50 – 09:10
Keynote 2: Dr. Doohwan LEE (NTT Corporation), 09:10-09:30
A Simple Closed-Loop Method for Compensating the Impact of Antenna Misalignment in UCA-based OAM-MIMO Systems: Norifumi Kamiya and Eisaku Sasaki (NEC Corporation, Japan);
High-gain High-order Dual-polarized OAM MG Antenna Based on 3-D Non-uniform Travelling-wave Current Source: Zelin Zhu (Zhejiang University, China); Xiaowen Xiong (Tsinghua University, China); Yuqi Chen, Jun Wen, Shilie Zheng and Xianmin Zhang (Zhejiang University, China);
Protograph-Based LDPC-Coded Orbital Angular Momentum Systems with Index Modulation: Zhaojie Yang, Yufei Zhao and Yao GE (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore); Yi Fang (Guangdong University of Technology, China); Yong Liang Guan (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore);
Analysis of Vortex Microwave Quantum Transmission Based on Ray Tube Method: Qiuli Wu and Chao Zhang (Tsinghua University, China)
High-Capacity THz Communications Using Multiple Orbital-Angular-Momentum Beams: Amir Minoofar, Xinzhou Su, Huibin Zhou and Alan Willner (University of Southern California, USA)

11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break

Sunday, May 28, 11:30 - 12:40

WS05-S2 OAMT: Paper Session

Room: Q

Chair:Dr. Doohwan LEE (NTT Corporation, Japan)

Demonstration of 1.44 Tbit/s OAM Multiplexing transmission in Sub-THz Bands: Hirofumi Sasaki, Yasunori Yagi, Riichi Kudo and Doohwan Lee (NTT, Japan);
Design of Orbital Angular Momentum Module in 5G Open Source Radio Access Network: Yihong Zheng, Chenyu Zhang, Zhu Zishen, Luhan Wang, Zhaoming Lu and Wei Zheng (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China);
Beam Axis Misalignment Suppression Method Employing Efficient Beamforming and IMI Cancellation for OAM Multiplexing: Shuhei Saito and Hirofumi Suganuma (Waseda University, Japan); Kayo Ogawa (Japan Women's University, Japan); Fumiaki Maehara (Waseda University, Japan);
MEMS-Based Hybrid Mechanical-Electronic Beam Steering for THz OAM Communication Chips: Wenxuan Long, Zhenyang Tian and Rui Chen (Xidian University, China); Marco Moretti (University of Pisa, Italy);

WS-06: Workshop on Edge Learning for 5G Mobile Networks and Beyond

Room: C

Organizers:

Zhisheng Niu, Tsinghua University, China
Marco Di Renzo, Université Paris-Saclay, France
Sennur Ulukus, University of Maryland, US
Mingzhe Chen, University of Miami, US
Nguyen Hoang Tran, The University of Sydney, Australia
Changsheng You, Southern University of Science and Technology, China
Zhaohui Yang, Zhejiang University, China

Detailed Program

Time	Room C
Sunday, May 28 2023
09:00 - 11:00	WS06-S1 Edge5GMN: Paper Session
11:00 - 11:30	Coffee Break
11:30 - 13:00	WS06-S2 Edge5GMN: Paper Session
13:00 - 14:30	Lunch Break
14:30 - 16:00	WS06-S3 Edge5GMN: Paper Session
16:00 - 16:30	Coffee Break
16:30 - 18:00	WS06-S4 Edge5GMN: Paper Session

Sunday, May 28, 09:00 - 11:00

WS06-S1 Edge5GMN: Paper Session

Room: C

Chair:Zhaohui Yang (Zhejiang University)

RIS-Assisted Over-the-Air Adaptive Federated Learning with Noisy Downlink: Jiayu Mao (The Ohio State University, USA); Aylin Yener (The Ohio State University, USA)
Enhanced Federated Learning on Non-iid Data via Local Importance Sampling: Zheqi Zhu and Pingyi Fan (Tsinghua University, China); Chenghui Peng (Huawei Technologies co., China); Khaled B. Letaief (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)
Graph-Attention-Based Decentralized Edge Learning for Non-IID Data: Zhuojun Tian(Zhejiang University, China); Zhaoyang Zhang (Zhejiang University, China); Richeng Jin (Zhejiang University, China)
FlexSplit: A Configurable, Privacy-Preserving Federated-Split Learning Framework: Tiantong Wu (The University of Sydney & Data61, CSIRO, Australia); Herath Mudiyanselage Nelanga Dilum Bandara (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Australia & University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka); Phee Lep Yeoh (University of Sydney, Australia); Kanchana Thilakarathna (The University of Sydney, Australia)
User Cooperation with Power Control for Federated Learning in CFmMIMO Networks: Han Bao, Ke Xiong and Ruichen Zhang (Beijing Jiaotong University, China); Pingyi Fan (Tsinghua University, China); Dusit Niyato (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore); Khaled B. Letaief (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)
Learning-based Dynamic Clustering for Coordinated Multipoint Transmission in 5G and Beyond: Indu Yadav (TCS, India); Hemant Kumar Rath (Tata Consultancy Services, India); Garima Mishra (TCS (Research and Innovation), India); Muralidharan Menon (TCS, India)

11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break

Sunday, May 28, 11:30 - 13:00

WS06-S2 Edge5GMN: Paper Session

Room:C

Chair:Yang Yang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications)

STAR-RIS Assisted Over-the-Air Vertical Federated Learning in Multi-Cell Wireless Networks: Xiangyu Zeng (ShanghaiTech University, China); Yijie Mao (ShanghaiTech University, China); Yuanming Shi (ShanghaiTech University, China)
Hybrid Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface Assisted Over-the-Air Federated Learning: Jiaqi Jin and Zhibin Wang (ShanghaiTech University, China); Liantao Wu (Shanghaitech University, China); Yong Zhou (ShanghaiTech University, China)
FedSCS: Client Selection for Federated Learning Under System Heterogeneity and Client Fairness with a Stackelberg Game Approach: Tong Yin, Lixin Li, Wensheng Lin, Wei Liang and Xu Li (Northwestern Polytechnical University, China); Zhu Han (University of Houston, USA)
Convergence Analysis and Optimization of Over-the-Air Federated Meta-Learning: Yuxin Wang and Jingheng Zheng (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Wanli Ni (Beijng University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Hui Tian (Beijng University of posts and telecommunications, China)

13:00 – 14:30 Lunch break

Sunday, May 28, 14:30 - 16:00

WS06-S3 Edge5GMN: Paper Session

Room: C

Chair:Yang Yang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications)

When Wireless Hierarchical Federated Learning Meets Physical Layer Security: A Finite Blocklength Approach for MIMO Channel: Honan Zhang and Zhiming Yu (Southwest Jiaotong University, China); Chuanchuan Yang (State Key Laboratory of Advanced Optical Communication Systems and Networks, Peking University, China); Bin Dai (Southwest Jiaotong University, China)
Model-Assisted In-Orbit Intelligent Computation for Satellite-Ground Integrated Networks: Yongkang Gong and Haipeng Yao (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Arumugam Nallanathan (Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Ekram Hossain (University of Manitoba, Canada)
Theoretical Analysis and Performance Evaluation for Federated Edge Learning with Integrated Sensing, Communication and Computation: Yipeng Liang and Qimei Chen (Wuhan University, China); Guangxu Zhu (Shenzhen Research Institute of Big Data, China); Hao Jiang (Wuhan University, China)
Multi-fine-grained DNNs Partition and Offloading over Fog Computing Networks: Xuwei Fan, Zhipeng Cheng, Minghui Liwang and Ning Chen (Xiamen University, China); Lianfen Huang (XiaMen University, China); Xianbin Wang (Western University, Canada)

16:00 – 16:30 Coffee break

Sunday, May 28, 16:30 - 18:00

WS06-S4 Edge5GMN: Paper Session

Room:C

Chair:Zhaohui Yang (Zhejiang University)

Active Wireless Split learning via Online Cloud-Local Server Delta-Knowledge Distillation: Hyelin Nam (Yonsei University, Korea (South)); Jihong Park (Deakin University, Australia); Seong-Lyun Kim (Yonsei University, Korea (South))
Performance Optimization for Digital Internet-of-Things Twins Over Wireless Networks: Yujiao Zhu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Sihua Wang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Haonan Tong (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Changchuan Yin (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
A Framework of Robust Congestion Mitigation with Traffic Estimation, Split Ratio Optimisation and Path Planning: Guangyu Jia (Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd, China); Bing Kong and Lijin Yang (Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, China); Yong Zhang (ICBC, China); Jin Zeng and Cong Li (Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, China); Yong Zhu and Jie Zhang (Huawei Technologies, China)
Secure Federated Learning with Model Compression: Yahao Ding and Mohammad Shikh-Bahaei (King's College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Chongwen Huang (Zhejiang University, China); Weijie Yuan (Southern University of Science and Technology, China)

WS-07: 2nd Workshop on Green and Sustainable Networking (GreenNet 2023)

Room: D, B

Organizers:

Roberto Bruschi, University of Genoa and CNIT S2N National Lab, Italy (roberto.bruschi@unige.it)
Franco Davoli, University of Genoa and CNIT S2N National Lab, Italy (franco.davoli@unige.it)
Hesham ElBakoury, Independent Consultant, Santa Clara, CA, USA (helbakoury@gmail.com)
Timothy O'Farrell, University of Sheffield, UK (t.ofarrell@sheffield.ac.uk)
Tobias Hoßfeld, University of Würzburg, Germany (tobias.hossfeld@uni-wuerzburg.de)
Frank Loh, University of Würzburg, Germany (frank.loh@uni-wuerzburg.de)

Detailed Program

Time	Room D
Sunday, May 28 2023
08:45 - 09:00	WS07 GreenNet: Opening
09:00 - 11:00	WS07-S1 GreenNet: Expert and Industry Talk 1 and Paper Session
11:00 - 11:30	Coffee Break
11:30 - 13:00	WS07-S2 GreenNet: Expert and Industry Talk 2 and Paper Session
13:00 - 14:30	Lunch Beak
14:30 - 16:00	WS07-S3 GreenNet: Keynote 1 and Paper Session
16:00 - 16:30	Coffee Break
16:30 - 18:18	WS07-S4 GreenNet: Expert and Industry Talk 3 and Paper Session
Thursday, June 1 2023
Time	Room B
14:30 - 16:00	WS07-S5 GreenNet: Keynote 2 and Paper Session
16:00 - 16:30	Coffee Break
16:30 - 18:00	WS07-S6 GreenNet: Expert and Industry Talk 4 and Paper Session

Sunday, May 28, 08:45 - 09:00

WS07 GreenNet: Opening

Room: D

Sunday, May 28, 09:00 - 11:00

WS07-S1 GreenNet: Expert and Industry Talk 1 and Paper Session

Room: D

Chair:Tobias Hoßfeld, University of Würzburg, Germany

Expert and Industry Talk 1: Simon Fletcher (Real Wireless
Divide and Save: Splitting Workload Among Containers in an Edge Device to Save Energy and Time: Aria Khoshsirat, Giovanni Perin and Michele Rossi (University of Padova, Italy)
Queueing Model for Intermittent Communication and Computing of Battery-less Edge Computing: Yu-Tai Lin (Research Center for Information Technology Innovation, Academia Sinica, Taiwan); Chi-Yang Kuo (Academia Sinica, Taiwan); Ming-Hsuan Tsai (National Taiwan University & Academia Sinica, Taiwan); Chih-Yu Wang (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
Serverless Computing Lifecycle Model for Edge Cloud Deployments: Kien Nguyen and Frank Loh (University of Wuerzburg, Germany); Tung Nguyen (Hanoi University of Science and Technology, Vietnam); Duong Nguyen (FPT Software, Vietnam); Nguyen Huu Thanh (Hanoi University of Science and Technology, Vietnam); Tobias Hoßfeld (University of Würzburg, Germany)
Joint User Scheduling and Resource Optimization in MEC Networks with Asynchronous Computing: Yihan Cang (Southeast University, China); Songtao Gao and Yiming Yu (China Mobile Group Design Institute Co., Ltd, China); Zhaohui Yang (Zhejiang University, China); Yijin Pan (Southeast University, China); Haijian Sun (University of Georgia, USA); Ming Chen (Southeast University, China)

11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break

Sunday, May 28, 11:30 - 13:00

WS07-S2 GreenNet: Expert and Industry Talk 2 and Paper Session

Room: D

Chair:Timothy O’Farrell, University of Sheffield, UK

Expert and Industry Talk 2: Stefan Wunderer (Nokia)
Design and Implementation of a Sustainable Light-based IoT Node on a System-on-Chip: Khojiakbar Botirov (University of Oulu, Centre for Wireless Communications, Finland); Amila Perera and Marcos Katz (University of Oulu, Finland)
Collision and Energy Efficiency Assessment of LoRaWANs with Cluster-based Gateway Placement: Frank Loh (University of Wuerzburg, Germany); Carina Baur (University of Würzburg, Germany); Stefan Geissler (University of Wuerzburg, Germany); Hesham ElBakoury (Independent Consultant, USA); Tobias Hoßfeld (University of Würzburg, Germany)
Reliable and Resilient Communication in Duty Cycled Software Defined Wireless Sensor Networks: Muhammad Umar Farooq Qaisar and Weijie Yuan (Southern University of Science and Technology, China); Paolo Bellavista (University of Bologna, Italy); Shehzad Ashraf Chaudhry (Istanbul Gelisim University, Turkey); Adeel Ahmed (University of Science and Technology of China, China); Muhammad Ali Imran (University of Glasgow, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
NB-IoT vs. LTE-M: Measurement Study of the Energy Consumption of LPWAN Technologies: Viktoria Vomhoff (University of Würzburg, Germany); Simon Raffeck (University of Wuerzburg, Germany); Steffen Gebert (EMnify GmbH, Germany); Stefan Geissler (University of Wuerzburg, Germany); Tobias Hoßfeld (University of Würzburg, Germany)

13:00 – 14:30 Lunch break

Sunday, May 28, 14:30 - 16:00

WS07-S3 GreenNet: Keynote and Paper Session

Room: D

Chair:Franco Davoli, University of Genoa and CNIT S2N National Lab, Italy

Keynote: Chiara Lombardo (CNIT)
A power consumption model and energy saving techniques for 5G-Advanced base stations: Maria Oikonomakou (Nokia, France); Ahlem Khlass (Nokia Bell Labs, France); Daniela Laselva and Mads Lauridsen (Nokia, Denmark); Matha Deghel (Nokia, France); Gagandeep Bhatti (Nokia & Nokia of America Corporation, USA)
Analyzing the Power Consumption in Cloud-Native 5/6G Ecosystems: Raffaele Bolla (University of Genoa, Italy); Roberto Bruschi (CNIT, Italy); Franco R. Davoli (University of Genoa & National Inter-University Consortium for Telecommunications (CNIT), Italy); Chiara Lombardo (University of Genoa & CNIT- Research Unit of the University of Genoa, Italy); Nicole Simone Martinelli (DITEN - University of Genoa, Italy)
Sleep mode strategies for energy efficient cell-free massive MIMO in 5G deployments: Felip Riera-Palou and Guillem Femenias (University of the Balearic Islands, Spain); David López-Pérez (Huawei Technologies France, France); Nicola Piovesan (Huawei Technologies, France); Antonio De Domenico (Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., France Research Center, France)

16:00 – 16:30 Coffee break

Sunday, May 28, 16:30 - 18:10

WS07-S4 GreenNet: Expert and Industry Talk 3 and Paper Session

Room: D

Chair:Hesham ElBakoury, Independent Consultant, Santa Clara, CA, USA

Expert and Industry Talk 3: Jafaar Elmirghani (King’s College London)
Accurate Energy Efficiency Prediction in sub-6GHz Radio Access Networks based on Pathloss Modeling using Kriging Methods: Hao Fu and Timothy O'Farrell (University of Sheffield, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
A Power Auction Approach For Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access Wireless Relay Communications: Krishna Murthy Kattiyan Ramamoorthy and Wei Wang (San Diego State University, USA); Kazem Sohraby (Utah Valley University, USA)
Joint Resource Allocation and Relay Selection in Wireless-Powered FD Relay Networks with Imperfect CSI: Yuan Ren and Xuewei Zhang (Xi'an University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Hongyan Li (ZTE, China); Guangyue Lu (Xi'an University of Posts & Telecommunications, China)
Utilizing Communication Air-Time to Reduce Energy Consumption of Access Points: Ozgur Ozkaya (Ghent University, Belgium); Jetmir Haxhibeqiri (IDLab, Ghent University - imec, Belgium); Ingrid Moerman and Jeroen Hoebeke (Ghent University - imec, Belgium)

Thursday, June 01, 14:30 - 16:00

WS07-S5 GreenNet: Keynote and Paper Session

Room: B

Chair:Timothy O’Farrell, University of Sheffield, UK

accompanying position paper: Towards a 6G embedding sustainability

Esteban Selva; Azeddine Gati; Marie-Helene Hamon; Bahare Masood Khorsandi; Stefan Wunderer; Serge Bories; Giorgio Calochira; Giuseppe Avino; Stefan Wänstedt; Pernilla Bergmark; Tommy Svensson; Marja Matinmikko-Blue

Keynote: Towards a 6G embedding sustainability: Esteban Selva (Orange)
Carbon-Neutralized Joint User Association and Base Station Switching for Green Cellular Networks: Chien-Sheng Yang, Carlson Lin and I-Kang Fu (MediaTek Inc., Taiwan)
An Analysis of the Trade-off between Sustainability and Quality of Experience for Video Streaming: Alessandro Floris, Gulnaziye Bingol, Simone Porcu and Luigi Atzori (University of Cagliari, Italy)
Joint Resource Allocation for IRS-Aided VLC Network with Energy Harvesting: Ding Yao (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); Zheng Chang (University of Jyväskylä, Finland); Geyong Min (University of Exeter, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

16:00 – 16:30 Coffee break

Thursday, June 01, 16:30 - 18:00

WS07-S6 GreenNet: Expert and Industry Talk 4 and Paper Session

Room: B

Chair:Hesham ElBakoury, Independent Consultant, Santa Clara, CA, USA

Expert and Industry Talk 4: Chadi Khirallah (Samsung)
On Computation Offloading and Energy Efficiency on Android Devices: Gonçalo Carvalho and Karima Velasquez (University of Coimbra, Portugal); João Fernandes (University of Porto, Portugal); Bruno Cabral (University of Coimbra, Portugal)
On Modelling the Power Consumption of a Backbone Network: Daniel Otten (Osnabrück University, Germany); Sebastian Neuner (BelWue-Koordination, Germany); Nils Aschenbruck (Osnabrück University, Germany)
Comparing SWIPT Techniques for Zero-Energy RIS: Dimitrios Tyrovolas (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki & Technical University of Chania, Greece); Vasilis K. Papanikolaou and Sotiris A. Tegos (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece); Yue Xiao (Southwest Jiaotong University, China); Panagiotis D. Diamantoulakis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece); Sotiris Ioannidis (Technical University of Crete, Greece); Christos Liaskos (University of Ioannina, Greece & Foundation of Research and Technology Hellas, Greece); George K. Karagiannidis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece)
Energy Efficiency Analysis of RF Power Amplifier Digital Predistortion in Full-Digital MIMO Transmitters: Luis Godoy (Technische Universität Dresden & Vodafone Chair Mobile Communications Systems, Germany); Emil Matus and Gerhard P. Fettweis (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany)

WS-08: 1st Workshop on Beyond URLLC (BUW-6G)

Room: I

Organizers:

Federico Chiariotti, University of Padova, Italy
Jie Cao, Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore
Nikolaos Pappas, Linköping University, Sweden
Sumei Sun, Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore
Zhongxiang Wei, Tongji University, China

Detailed Program

Time	Room I
Thursday, June 1 2023
09:00 - 11:00	WS08-S1 BUW-6G: Paper Session
11:00 - 11:30	Coffe Break
11:30 - 13:00	WS08-S2 BUW-6G: Paper Session

Thursday, June 1, 08:30 - 11:00

WS08-S1 BUW-6G: Paper Session

Room:I

Chair:Federico Chiariotti (University of Padova, Italy)

Invited Talk: TBC, 09:00 – 09:30
The Probability Distribution of AoI for Multi-Connectivity Short-Packet Transmission in Industrial IoT: Hongbing Jiang (Harbin Institute of Technology, China); Xu Zhu (Harbin Institute of Technology, China & University of Liverpool, United Kingdom); Yufei Jiang (Harbin Institute of Technology, China)
Risk-Sensitive Optimization and Learning for Minimizing Age of Information in Point-to-Point Wireless Communications: Wanja de Sombre (TU Darmstadt, Germany); Andrea Ortiz (TU Darmstadt, Germany); Frank Aurzada (TU Darmstadt, Germany); Anja Klein (TU Darmstadt, Germany)
Age-optimal Computation Offloading for Mobile Edge Computing System: Yi Chen (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China); Zheng Chang (University of Jyväskylä, Finland); Geyong Min (University of Exeter, United Kingdom)
Improving Age of Information in Large-Scale Energy Harvesting Networks: Yiwen Zhu (Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China); Wei Zhang (Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China); Yan Lin (Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China); Yuan-Hsun Lo (National Pingtung University, Taiwan); Yijin Zhang (Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China)
Optimization of HARQ-based Coded Status Update System for Non-linear Age of Information: Hanyu Wu (Harbin Institute of Technology, China); Siqi Meng (Harbin Institute of Technology, China); Shaohua Wu (Harbin Institute of Technology, China)

11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break

Thursday, June 1, 11:30 - 13:00

WS08-S2 BUW-6G: Paper Session

Room:I

Chair:Jie Cao (Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore)

Game Theoretic Analysis of AoI Efficiency for Participatory and Federated Data Ecosystems: Alessandro Buratto (University of Padova, Italy); Alessio Mora (University of Bologna, Italy); Armir Bujari (University of Bologna, Italy); Leonardo Badia (University of Padova, Italy)
Importance-Aware Fresh Delivery of Versions over Energy Harvesting Multiple Access Channels: Gangadhar Karevvanavar (IIT Dharwad, India); Rajshekhar Vishweshwar Bhat (IIT Dharwad, India)
Finite Blocklength Coding Scheme for RIS-Aided MIMO Channel with Noisy Feedback: Guangfen Xie (Southwest Jiaotong University, China); Chuanchuan Yang (State Key Laboratory of Advanced Optical Communication Systems and Networks, Peking University, China); Bin Dai (Southwest Jiaotong University, China)
Cooperative Rate Splitting Multiple Access in Cognitive Radio Networks: Power Allocation and Location Optimization: Dawei Wang (Northwestern Polytechnical University, China); He Jin Long (Northwestern Polytechnical University, China); Yixin He (Northwestern Polytechnical University, China); Shaoyang Men (Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, China); Qian Xu (Northwestern Polytechnical University, China); Xin Yang (Northwestern Polytechnical University, China); Wei Liang (Northwestern Polytechnical University, China)
HBR: An Efficiency DRL-enabled Hybrid Blind Retransmission Method: Longdan Yu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Chenyu Zhang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Wei Zheng (BUPT, China); Zhaoming Lu (BUPT, China)

WS-09: Workshop on Architectural Innovations for 6G: Native-AI and Digital Twin

Room: P

Organizers:

Guangyi Liu, China Mobile Research Institute
Chenghui Peng, Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
Yang Yang, Terminus Group
Rongpeng Li, Zhejiang University

Detailed Program

Time	Room P
Sunday, May 28 2023
09:00 - 11:00	WS09-S1 AIDigTwin: Keynote and Digital Twin 1
11:00 - 11:30	Coffee Break
11:30 - 13:00	WS09-S2 AIDigTwin: Digital Twin 2
13:00 - 14:30	Lunch Break
14:30 - 16:00	WS09-S3 AIDigTwin: Native-AI 1
16:00 - 16:30	Coffee Break
16:30 - 18:00	WS09-S4 AIDigTwin: Native-AI 2

Sunday, May 28, 09:00 - 11:00

WS09-S1 AIDigTwin: Keynote and Digital Twin 1

Room: P

Chair:Yang Yang (Terminus Group)

Keynote 1: Yang Yang (Terminus Group), 09:00-09:25
Keynote 2: Chenghui Peng, (Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.), 09:25-09:50
Digital Twin Assisted DAG Task Scheduling via Evolutionary Selection MARL in Large-Scale Mobile Edge Network: Jiayu Huang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Fanqin Zhou (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Lei Feng (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Li Wenjing (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications China); Mingyu Zhao (Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., China); Xuegiang Yan (Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., China); Yan Xi (Huawei Technologies Co, Ltd, China); Jianjun Wu (Huawei Technologies Co, Ltd., China)
DDS: Dynamic Data Synchronization for Digital Twins in SAGIVN: Yilong Hui (Xidian University, China); Xiaoyuan Zhao (Xidian University, China); Changle Li (Xidian University, China); Nan Cheng (Xidian University, China); Mengqiu Tian (Xidian University, China); Tom H. Luan (Xidian University, China)

11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break

Sunday, May 28, 11:30 - 12:30

WS09-S2 AIDigTwin: Digital Twin 2

Room:P

Chair:Yang Yang (Terminus Group)

Digital Twin-Assisted Resource Allocation in UAV-Aided Internet of Vehicles Networks: Keshav Singh (National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan); Bishmita Hazarika (National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan); Chih-Peng Li (National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan); Kim Fung Tsang (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong); Sudip Biswas (Indian Institute of Information Technology, Guwahati, India)
A Digital Twin Network Approach for 6G Wireless Network Autonomy: Juan Deng (China Mobile Communications Corporation, China); Liexiang Yue (China Mobile Research Institute, China); Hongwen Yang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China);Guangyi Liu (Research Institute of China Mobile, China)
6G-enabled DTaaS (Digital Twin as a Service) for Decarbonized Cities: Kubra Duran (lstanbul Technical University, Turkey); Elif Ak (lstanbul Technical University, Turkey); Gokhan Yurdakul (BTS Group, Turkey); Berk Canberk (Edinburgh Napier University, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

12:30 – 14:30 Lunch break

Sunday, May 28, 14:30 - 16:00

WS09-S3 AIDigTwin: Native-AI 1

Room: P

Chair:Yang Yang (Terminus Group)

6G Network Self-evolution: Generating Core Networks: Zihao Liu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Meng Zhang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Hu Zheng (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Zhang Chunhong (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
Energy-efficient Resource Allocation for the 6G Computing Network Based on Deep Reinforcement Learning: Yunju Leng (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Qixing Wang (CMCC); Jinyang Liu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Hongwen Yang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Yitong Liu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Kuo Cui (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Yuehong Gao (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
Efficient Task Scheduling and Resource Allocation for AI Training Services in Native AI Wireless Networks: Tianjiao Chen (China Mobile Research Institute, China); Qinqin Tang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecom, China); Guangyi Liu (China Mobile Research Institute, China)
Modeling of Diverse Computing Requirements in Azure Task Traces: Mulei Ma (ShanghaiTech University & University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China); Chenyu Gong (Shanghaitech University, China); Yang Yang (Terminus Group and Peng Cheng Laboratory, China); Yue Gao (Fudan University, China); Kai li (School of lnformation Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, China)

16:00 – 16:30 Coffee break

Sunday, May 28, 16:30 - 17:10

WS09-S4 AIDigTwin: Native-AI 2

Room:P

Chair:Yang Yang (Terminus Group)

On Effectiveness of Exploration Strategies in Deep Reinforcement Learning for Power Allocation in Multi-carrier Wireless Systems: Amna Kopic (RWTH Aachen University, Germany); Kenan Turbic (RWTH Aachen University, Germany); Haris Gacanin (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)
A Data Collection and Provision Function for Intelligent RANs: Zecheng Fang (University of Chinese Academy of Sciences & Institute of Computing Technology, China); Chunjing Yuan (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Science, China); Shuzheng Liu (University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China); Guoliang Zhou (University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China); Lin Tian (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)

WS-10: Workshop on Near-Field Localization and Communication for 6G

Room: L

Organizers:

Haiyang Zhang, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China
Anna Guerra, National Research Council of Italy, Italy
Francesco Guidi, National Research Council of Italy, Italy
Nir Shlezinger, Ben-Gurion University, Israel
George C. Alexandropoulos, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece

Detailed Program

Time	Room L
Thursday, June 1 2023
08:30 - 11:00	WS10-S1 NrFldfCom6G: Keynotes 1, 2, and Paper Session
11:00 - 11:30	Coffe Break
11:30 - 13:00	WS10-S2 NrFldfCom6G: Paper Session

Thursday, June 1, 08:30 - 11:00

WS10-S1 NrFldfCom6G: Keynotes 1, 2, and Paper Session

Room:L

Chair:Nir Shlezinger, Ben-Gurion University, Israel

Keynote 1: Prof. Angel Lozano (Universitat Pompeu Fabra), 08:30-09:00
Keynote 2: Prof. Henk Wymeersch (Chalmers University of Technology), 09:00-09:30
Validity of the Parabolic Wavefront Model for Near-Field MIMO: Heedong Do (POSTECH, Korea (South)); Namyoon Lee (Korea University, Korea (South)); Angel Lozano (Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Spain)
THz Near-Field Codebook Design and Fast Beam Training with Grating Lobes: Lingxiang Li, Weixin Chen, Qiang Xu and Zhi Chen (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China)
Near-Field IRS Configuration Techniques for Wideband Signals and THz Communications: Alessandro Nordio, Laura Dossi and Alberto Tarable (CNR-IEIIT, Italy); Giuseppe Virone (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy)
Geometry-Aided Joint Estimation of Short Range MIMO Channels with Hybrid Transceivers: Shima Eslami, Bikshapathi Gouda, Antti Tölli and Dileep Kumar (University of Oulu, Finland)
Condition Number Improvement of IRS-aided Near-Field MIMO Channels: Wei Huang and Bichan Lei (Hefei University of Technology, China); Shiwen He (Central South University, China); Caihong Kai (Hefei University of Technology, China); Chunguo Li (Southeast University, China)

11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break

Thursday, June 1, 11:30 - 13:00

WS10-S2 NrFldfCom6G: Paper Session

Room:L

Chair:Francesco Guidi, WiLAB, CNR-IEIIT, Italy

Uplink Joint Positioning and Synchronization in Cell-Free Deployments with Radio Stripes: Alessio Fascista (University of Salento, Italy); Benjamin J. B. Deutschmann (Graz University of Technology, Austria); Musa Furkan Keskin (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden); Thomas Wilding (Graz University of Technology, Austria); Angelo Coluccia (University of Salento, Italy); Klaus Witrisal and Erik Leitinger (Graz University of Technology, Austria); Gonzalo Seco-Granados (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain); Henk Wymeersch (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)
OnRMap: An Online Radio Mapping Approach for Large Intelligent Surfaces: Herman L. dos Santos (State University of Londrina, Brazil); Victor Croisfelt and Cristian Jesús Vaca-Rubio (Aalborg University, Denmark); Taufik Abrão (State University of Londrina, Brazil); Petar Popovski (Aalborg University, Denmark)
Near-field Localization of Vehicles based on V2X Sidelink Communication: Nicolò Decarli (CNR - IEIIT, Italy & WiLab/CNIT, Italy); Anna Guerra (University of Bologna, Italy); Caterina Giovannetti (CNR-IEIIT, Italy); Francesco Guidi (National Research Council of Italy (CNR) - IEIIT, Italy); Barbara M Masini (CNR - IEIIT & University of Bologna, Italy)
Robust Beamfocusing for FDA-Aided Near-Field Covert Communications With Uncertain Location: Yuchen Zhang, Yichi Zhang, Jianquan Wang and Sa Xiao (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); Wanli Ni (Beijng University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); WanBin Tang (University of Electronic Science & Technology of China, China)
XL-MIMO Channel Modeling and Prediction for Wireless Power Transfer: Benjamin J. B. Deutschmann, Thomas Wilding, Maximilian Graber and Klaus Witrisal (Graz University of Technology, Austria)

WS-11: Workshop on BlockSecSDN: Blockchain for Secure Software-defined Networking in Smart Communities

Room: M

Organizers:

Dr. Gagangeet S Aujla, Durham University, UK
Dr. Anish Jindal, Durham University, UK
Prof. Neeraj Kumar, Thapar University, India
Prof. Harpreet S. Dhillon, Virginia Tech, USA

Detailed Program

Time	Room M
Sunday, May 28 2023
09:00 - 11:00	WS11-S1 BlockSecSDN: Paper session
11:00 - 11:30	Coffee Break
11:30 - 13:00	WS11-S2 BlockSecSDN: Paper Session
13:00 - 14:30	Lunch Break
14:30 - 16:00	WS11-S3 BlockSecSDN: Keynote and Paper Session
16:00 - 16:30	Coffee Break
16:30 - 18:36	WS11-S4 BlockSecSDN: Paper Session

Sunday, May 28, 09:00 - 11:00

WS11-S1 BlockSecSDN: Paper Session

Room:M

Chair:Anish Jindal (Durham University, UK)

Accelerated Gossip Protocol for Incentivizing Block Propagation: Pengcheng Chen, Zhang Li and Xintong Ling (Southeast University, China); Jiaheng Wang (National Mobile Communications Research Lab, Southeast University, China)
Blockchain and Dew Computing-based Model for Secure Energy Trading in Smart Grids: Parminder Singh (University Mohammed VI Polytechnic, Morocco); Avinash Kaur (Lovely Professional University, India); Mustapha Hedabou (Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, Morocco)
Blockchain-based Decentralized Trust Aggregation for Federated Cyber-Attacks Classification in SDN-Enabled Maritime Transportation Systems: Ahmad Zainudin and Revin Naufal Alief (Kumoh National Institute of Technology, Korea (South)); Made Adi Paramartha Putra (Kumoh National Institute of Technology, Korea (South) & STMIK Primakara, Indonesia); Rubina Akter (Kumoh National Institute of Technology & Networked Systems Laboratory, Korea (South)); Dong Seong Kim and Jae Min Lee (Kumoh National Institute of Technology, Korea (South))
Churn Rate Aware Interference Management for Device-to-Device Communications in SDNs: Hunny Saini (IIT R, India); Santosh Kumar Singh and Abhay Kumar Sah (IIT Roorkee, India); Satya Kumar Vankayala (Samsung R&D Institute Bangalore, India)
Post-Quantum based Oblivious Transfer for Authentication in Heterogeneous Internet of Everything: Ashwin Balaji (Netaji Subhas University of Technology, India); Sanjay Kumar Dhurandher (NSIT, University of Delhi, India); Karan Gupta (Netaji Subhas University of Technology, India); Isaac Woungang (Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada)

11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break

Sunday, May 28, 11:30 - 13:00

WS11-S2 BlockSecSDN: Paper Session

Room:M

Chair:Ankita Garg (Durham University, UK)

FBA-SDN: A Federated Byzantine Approach for Blockchain-based Collaborative Intrusion Detection in Edge SDN: John Hayes, Adel Aneiba, Mohamed Gaber, Md Shantanu Islam and Raouf Abozariba (Birmingham City University, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
IoT Data Security: An Integration of Blockchain and Federated Learning: Gagandeep Shubham, Vidushi Agarwal and Sujata Pal (Indian Institute of Technology Ropar, India)
On using Hyperledger Fabric over networks: Ordering phase improvements: Stavros Dimou, Kostas Choumas and Thanasis Korakis (University of Thessaly, Greece)
Blockchain-Enabled Service Function Chain in 6G Networks: A Survey: Yue Hu (China Mobile Communications Group Jiangsu Co., Ltd., China); Yongan Guo (Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
A Blockchain-Based Data-Sharing Framework for Cloud Based Internet of Things Systems with Efficient Smart Contracts: Ramana Kadiyala (Chaitanya Bharathi Institute of Technology, India); R Mohana (Chaitanya Bharathi Institute of Technology, India); Kishor Kumar Reddy (Stanley College of Engineering & Technology for Women, India); Gautam Srivastava (Brandon University & China Medical University, Canada); Thippa Reddy Gadekallu (Vellore Institute of Technology, India)

13:00 – 14:30 Lunch Break

Sunday, May 28, 14:30 - 16:00

WS11-S3 BlockSecSDN: Paper Session

Room:M

Chair:Qin Wang (Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)

Keynote: Keynote Speaker: Prof. Luca Foschini (University of Bologna, Italy), 14:30-15:15
An Optimized Approach for Intrusion Detection in Internet of Softwarized Things: Shivani Gaba (Bennett University, Greater Noida, India); Anushka Nehra (Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, India); Ishan Budhiraja and Vimal Kumar (Bennett University, Greater Noida, India); Aaisha Makkar Singh (Seoul National University of Science and Technology, India)
P-HrDPS: Security-Aware Heart Disorder Prediction Support Model using Ensemble learning Technique: Madhuri Gupta, Deepika Pantola and Deepanshi Chaudhary (Bennett University, India); Ishan Budhiraja (Bennett University, Greater Noida, India); Rajat Chaudhary (Karlstad University, Sweden)
Two-Stage Stackelberg Game based Dynamic Spectrum Sharing in UAV-Assisted Communications: Qin Wang and Zeyu Li (Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Lihaowen Zhu (University of Sydney, Australia); Xinyang Xia and Hai-tao Zhao (Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Hui Zhang (Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing, China); Hongbo Zhu (Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)

16:00 – 16:30 Coffee break

Sunday, May 28, 16:30 - 18:00

WS11-S4 BlockSecSDN: Paper Session

Room: M

Chair:Gagangeet Singh Aujla (Durham University, UK)

AI-based Intelligent SDN Controller to Optimize Onion Routing Framework for IoMT Environment: Malaram Kumhar (Institute of Technology Nirma University Ahmedabad, India); Jitendra Bhatia (Nirma University, India); Nilesh Kumar Jadav and Rajesh Gupta (Institute of Technology, Nirma University, India); Sudeep Tanwar (Institute of Technology Nirma University Ahmedabad Gujarat, India)
DGL-Routing: One Routing Optimization Model Based on Deep Graph Learning: Hongbo Sun, Wu Qingpeng, Hao She and Yongan Guo (Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Haotong Cao (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong)
Jenks Optimization-based Analysis of Non-Trusted Users in D2D Communication System for Datarate Maximization: Rajesh Gupta (Institute of Technology, Nirma University, India); Sudeep Tanwar (Institute of Technology Nirma University Ahmedabad Gujarat, India)

WS-12: 2nd Workshop on Semantic Communications

Room: M

Organizers:

Wen Tong, Huawei Canada
Geoffrey Ye Li, Imperial College London
Tolga M. Duman, Bilkent University
Zhijin Qin, Tsinghua University
QianQian Yang, Zhejiang University
Rong Li, Huawei China

Detailed Program

Time	Room M
Thursday, June 1 2023
09:00 - 11:00	WS12 SemComm: Keynote Session
11:00 - 11:30	Coffee Break
11:30 - 13:00	WS12-S1 SemComm: Paper Session I
13:00 - 14:30	Lunch Break
14:30 - 16:00	WS12-S2 SemComm: Paper Session II
16:00 - 16:30	Coffee Break
16:30 - 18:00	WS12-S3 SemComm: Paper Session III

Thursday, June 1, 09:00 - 11:00

WS12 SemComm: Keynote Session

Room: M

Chair: Rong Li (Huawei China)

Welcome Speech: Dr. Wen Tong (Huawei Canada), 9:00-9:05
Keynote 1: Prof. Geoffrey Ye Li, Imperial College London
Keynote 2: Yiqun Ge, Huawei Canada
Keynote 3: Prof. Sennur Ulukus, University of Maryland
Keynote 4: Prof. Mert Kalfa, Bilkent University

11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break

Thursday, June 1, 11:30 - 13:00

WS12-S1 SemComm: Paper Session I

Room: M

Chair:Qianqian Yang (Zhejiang University)

Semantic-Aware Speech-to-Text Transmission Over MIMO Channels: Zhenzi Weng (Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Zhijin Qin and Xiaoming Tao (Tsinghua University, China)
Semantic Text Compression for Classification: Emrecan Kutay and Aylin Yener (The Ohio State University, USA)
Semantic Communication Systems with a Shared Knowledge Base: Peng Yi (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); Yang Cao (UESTC, China); Xin Kang and Ying-Chang Liang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China)
Multi-task Semantic Communications: An Extended Rate-Distortion Theory Based Scheme: Zhengfen Sun, Fangfang Liu, Yang Yang, Wanjie Tong and Caili Guo (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
Real-time Remote Reconstruction of a Markov Source and Actuation over Wireless: Mehrdad Salimnejad (Linköping University, Sweden); Marios Kountouris (EURECOM, France); Nikolaos Pappas (Linköping University, Sweden)

13:00 – 14:30 Lunch break

Thursday, June 1, 14:30 - 16:00

WS12-S2 SemComm: Paper Session II

Room: M

Chair:Zhijin Qin (Tsinghua University)

A Multi-user Deep Semantic Communication System based on Federated Learning with Dynamic Model Aggregation: Huanlai Xing, Haolan Zhang and Xinhan Wang (Southwest Jiaotong University, China); Lexi Xu (China Unicom Research Institute & Queen Mary University of London, China); Zhiwen Xiao, Bowen Zhao, Shouxi Luo, Li Feng and Yuanshun Dai (Southwest Jiaotong University, China)
Semantic Communication Enabling Robust Edge Intelligence for Time-Critical IoT Applications: Andrea Cavagna, Nan Li, Alexandros Iosifidis and Qi Zhang (Aarhus University, Denmark)
GAN-inspired Intelligent Jamming and Anti-jamming Strategy for Semantic Communication Systems: Rui Tang, Dahua Gao and Minxi Yang (Xidian University, China); Tao Guo (Southeast University, China); Huihui Wu (Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., China); Guangming Shi (Xidian University, China)
Resource Management for Heterogeneous Semantic and Bit Communication Systems: Meng Zhang, Ruikang Zhong, Xidong Mu, Yue Chen and Yuanwei Liu (Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Cooperative Task-Oriented Communication for Multi-Modal Data with Transmission Control: Siqi Wan, Qianqian Yang, Zhiguo Shi, Zhaohui Yang and Zhaoyang Zhang (Zhejiang University, China)

16:00 – 16:30 Coffee break

Thursday, June 1, 16:30 -18:00

WS12-S3 SemComm: Paper Session III

Room: M

Chair:Gongzheng Zhang(Huawei China)

Pilot-Free Semantic Communication Systems for Frequency-Selective Fading Channels: Zijian Cao, Hua Zhang, Le Liang and Haotian Wang (Southeast University, China)
Integrated Communication and Control Systems: A Data Significance Perspective: Stefan Roth (Ruhr University Bochum, Germany); Yasemin Karacora (Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany); Christina Chaccour (Virginia Tech, USA); Aydin Sezgin (RUB, Germany); Walid Saad (Virginia Tech, USA)
EEG-Based VR Video Quality Measurement for Resolution Reduction: Zhe Li (Tsinghua University, China); Bingrui Geng (Communication University of China, China); Xiaoming Tao and Yiping Duan (Tsinghua University, China); Ting Li and Jinri Huang (China Mobile Research Institution, China)
uNPE: Unified Network Protocol Encapsulation for Highly Transparent Future Networks: Luoyao Hao (Columbia University, USA); Bilgehan Erman (Bell Labs, Nokia, USA); Andrea Francini, Bruce Cilli, Ejder Baştuğ and Catello Di Martino (Nokia Bell Labs, USA)

WS-13: Workshop on Synergies of Communication, Localization, and Sensing Towards 6G

Room: C

Organizers:

Henk Wymeersch, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, henkw@chalmers.se
Stefania Bartoletti, University of Rome, Tor Vergata, Italy, stefania.bartoletti@uniroma2.it
Liesbet Van der Perre, KU Leuven, Belgium, liesbet.vanderperre@kuleuven.be
Angeliki Alexiou, University of Piraeus, Greece, alexiou@unipi.gr, aalexiou@ieee.org
George C. Alexandropoulos, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece, alexandg@di.uoa.gr

Detailed Program

Time	Room C
Thursday, June 1 2023
09:00 - 11:00	WS13-S1 SynComm6G: Keynote 1 and Paper Session
11:00 - 11:30	Coffee Break
11:30 - 13:00	WS13-S2 SynComm6G: Paper Session
13:00 - 14:30	Lunch Break
14:30 - 16:00	WS13-S3 SynComm6G: Keynote 2 and Paper Session
16:00 - 16:30	Coffee Break
16:30 - 18:00	WS13-S4 SynComm6G: Paper Session and Panel

Thursday, June 1, 09:00 - 11:00

WS13-S1 SynComm6G: Keynote 1 and Paper Session

Room: C

Chair:Henk Wymeersch, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden

Keynote 1: Designing Communication and Sensing Infrastructures: Dr. Michael Peeters (VP of R&D for Connectivity at IMEC, Belgium), 09:00 – 09:45
Beyond 5G-assisted Automatic Guided Vehicles in Seaport Environments: Gianluca Torsoli (University of Ferrara, Italy); Stefano Stracca (Ericsson, Italy); Marzio Puleri (ERICSSON, Italy); Moe Z. Win (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA); Andrea Conti (DE and CNIT, University of Ferrara, Italy)
Environment-Aware Coordinated Multi-Point mmWave Beam Alignment via Channel Knowledge Map: Di Wu and Yong Zeng (Southeast University, China)
Bayesian Integrity Monitoring for Cellular Positioning - A Simplified Case Study: Liqin Ding (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden); Gonzalo Seco-Granados (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain); Hyowon Kim (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden); Russ Whiton (Volvo Car Corporation, Sweden); Erik G Ström, Jonas Sjöberg and Henk Wymeersch (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)
Learning Human-Blockage Direction Prediction from Indoor mmWave Radio Measurements: Praneeth Susarla (University of Oulu, Finland); Markku Jokinen (University of Oulu & Centre for Wireless Communications, Finland); Nuutti Tervo and Marko E Leinonen (University of Oulu, Finland); Miguel Bordallo Lopez (University of Oulu, Finland & VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd., Finland); Markku Juntti and Olli Silvén (University of Oulu, Finland)

11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break

Thursday, June 1, 11:30 - 13:00

WS13-S2 SynComm6G: Paper Session

Room: C

Chair:Stefania Bartoletti, University of Rome, Tor Vergata, Italy

Gibbs Sampling based Sparse Bayesian Learning for Direction-of-Arrival Estimation with Impulse Noise Towards 6G: Mingfeng Cheng (Huazhong University of Science and Technology & Wuhan Vocational College of Software and Engineering, China); Wei Peng (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China)
Sensing with OFDM Waveform at mmWave Band based on Micro-Doppler Analysis: Mingqing Liu (Tongji University, China); Fei Gao (Bell Labs, China); Zhuangzhuang Cui and Sofie Pollin (KU Leuven, Belgium); Qingwen Liu (Tongji University, China)
Sensing aided Channel Estimation in Wideband Millimeter-Wave MIMO Systems: Rakesh Mundlamuri (EURECOM, France); Rajeev Gangula (Northeastern University, USA); Christo Kurisummoottil Thomas (Virginia Tech, USA); Florian Kaltenberger (Eurecom, France); Walid Saad (Virginia Tech, USA)
A Flexible Matrix Structure for Superresolution Delay Estimation: Zhongju Li, Ahmad Nimr, Philipp Schulz and Gerhard P. Fettweis (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany)
Joint Sensing and Communication with Multiple Antennas and Bistatic Configuration: Flavio Zabini and Enrico Paolini (University of Bologna, Italy); Wen Xu (Huawei Technologies Duesseldorf GmbH & - European Research Center (ERC), Germany); Andrea Giorgetti (University of Bologna, Italy)

13:00 – 14:30 Lunch break

Thursday, June 1, 14:30 - 16:00

WS13-S3 SynComm6G: Keynote 2 and Paper Session

Room: C

Chair:Harpreet S. Dhillon, Virginia Tech, USA

Keynote 2: Fundamental Limits of Communication, localization, and sensing: Prof. Merouane Debbah (Chief Researcher at Technology Innovation Institute in Abu Dhabi), 14:30 – 15:15
Estimating Initial Map Features for High-Efficiency mmWave Cellular SLAM: Ossi Kaltiokallio and Jukka Talvitie (Tampere University, Finland); Yu Ge and Henk Wymeersch (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden); Mikko Valkama (Tampere University, Finland)
A Hybrid NOMA Empowered Integrated Sensing and Communications: Na Xue, Xidong Mu and Yuanwei Liu (Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Yue Liu (Macao Polytechnic University, Macao); Yue Chen (Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)

16:00 – 16:30 Coffee break

Thursday, June 1, 16:30 - 18:00

WS13-S4 SynComm6G: Paper Session and Panel

Room: C

Chair:George C. Alexandropoulos, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece

RIS-Aided Monostatic Sensing and Object Detection with Single and Double Bounce Multipath: Hyowon Kim (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden); Alessio Fascista (University of Salento, Italy); Hui Chen and Yu Ge (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden); George C. Alexandropoulos (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece); Gonzalo Seco-Granados (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain); Henk Wymeersch (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)
Limitations of RIS-Aided Localization: Inspecting the Relationships between Channel Parameters: Don-Roberts Emenonye, Harpreet S Dhillon and R. Michael Beuhrer (Virginia Tech, USA)
PANEL: Selected present speakers and session chairs

WS-14: 6th Workshop on Integrating UAVs into 5G and Beyond

Room: D

Organizers:

David López-Pérez, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
Qingqing Wu University of Macau, China
Jie Xu The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China
Giovanni Geraci Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
Yong Zeng Southeast University, China

Detailed Program

Time	Room D
Thursday, Jun. 1 2023
09:00 - 11:00	WS14-S1 UAV5GBynd: UAV association and offloading
11:00 - 11:30	Coffee Break
11:30 - 13:00	WS14-S2 UAV5GBynd: Experimental evaluations and data
13:00 - 14:30	Lunch Break
14:30 - 16:00	WS14-S3 UAV5GBynd: Trajectory design and localization
16:00 - 16:30	Coffee Break
16:30 - 18:36	WS14-S4 UAV5GBynd: Beamforming, age of information and use cases

Thursday, June 1, 09:00 - 11:00

WS14-S1 UAV5GBynd: UAV association and offloading

Room:D

Chair:David López-Pérez (Universitat Politècnica de València)

Keynote: Prof. David Gesbert, EURECOM, France, 09.00 - 09.38 AM
A Novel Metric for mMIMO Base Station Association for Aerial Highway Systems: Matteo Bernabè; David López-Pérez; Nicola Piovesan; Giovanni Geraci; David Gesbert
Reinforcement-Learning-Based UAV Utility Maximization for Offloading Cellular Communication Systems: Abhishek Mondal; Deepak Mishra; Ganesh Prasad; George C. Alexandropoulos; Ashraf Hossain
Adaptive Multiuser Access for UAV-assisted IoT Monitoring Networks Under Bursty Traffic: Nilupuli Senadhira; Sheeraz A. Alvi; Nan Yang; Xiangyun Zhou; Salman Durrani

11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break

Thursday, June 1, 11:30 - 13:00

WS14-S2 UAV5GBynd: Experimental evaluations and data

Room:D

Chair:Giovanni Geraci

Keynote: Prof. Hamid Jafarkhani, Univ. California Irvine, USA, France, 11.30 - 12.08 AM
End-to-end Full-Stack Drone Measurements: A Case Study Using AERPAW: Matteo Drago; Anıl Gürses; Robert Heath; Mihail Sichitiu; Michele Zorzi
Experimental Evaluation of Air-to-Ground VHF Band Communication for UAV Relays: Boris Galkin; Lester Ho; Ken Lyons; Gokhan Celik; Holger Claussen
Simultaneous Radio and Physical Mapping for Cellular-Connected UAV by Fusing Radio and Sensing Data: Yuhang Yang; Xiaoli Xu; Yong Zeng

13:00 – 14:30 Lunch Break

Thursday, June 1, 14:30 - 16:00

WS14-S3 UAV5GBynd: Trajectory design and localization

Room:D

Chair:Giovanni Geraci

Trajectory Design for UAV-Based Inspection System: A Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach: Wei Zhang; Dingcheng Yang; Fahui Wu; Lin Xiao
Optimal Trajectory Design for UAV-Assisted Wireless Communication with Discrete Code Rates: Xiaopeng Yuan; Yuxi Huang; Yulin Hu; Anke Schmeink
Joint Trajectory and Communication Optimization for UAV-Assisted Over-The-Air Federated Learning: Kai-Chieh Hsu; Ming-Chun Lee; Yao-Win Peter Hong
IRS-Based Secure UAV-Assisted Transmission with Location and Phase Shifting Optimization: Chen Xinying; Zheng Chang; Nan Zhao; Timo Hämäläinen
UAV-aided Network Localization Using Radio Phase Measurements: Omid Esrafilian; Rajeev Gangula; David Gesbert

16:00 – 16:30 Coffee break

Thursday, June 1, 16:30 - 18:00

WS14-S4 UAV5GBynd: Beamforming, age of information and use cases

Room: D

Chair:Giovanni Geraci

Millimeter Wave Drones with Cameras: Computer Vision Aided Wireless Beam Prediction: Gouranga Charan; Andrew Hredzak; Ahmed Alkhateeb
Adaptive Beamwidth Control for UAV mmWave Communications Under Jittering Effects: Wenyun Chen; Chenxi Liu; Wei Wang; Mugen Peng
Impact of Position Perturbation on Distributed Collaborative Beamforming Using UAV Swarm: Wenbo Guo; Jiaxin Du; Mu Yan; Hongzhi Zhao; Shihai Shao
Success Probability of Gauss-Poisson UAV-assisted Cellular Networks with Mobility: Jinming Qi; Na Deng; Haichao Wei
Muti-Agent Proximal Policy Optimization For Data Freshness in UAV-assisted Networks: Mouhamed Naby Ndiaye; El Houcine Bergou; Hajar EL Hammouti

WS-15: Workshop on Mega-Constellations in the 6G Era (6GSatComNet’23)

Room: N

Organizers:

Gunes Karabulut Kurt, Polytechnique Montréal, Canada
Halim Yanikomeroglu, Carleton University, Canada

Detailed Program

Time	Room N
Thursday, June 01 2023
09:00 - 11:00	WS15-S1 6GSatComNet23: Keynote 1 and Paper Session
11:00 - 11:30	Coffee Break
11:30 - 13:00	WS15-S2 6GSatComNet23: Keynote 2 and Paper Session
13:00 - 14:30	Lunch Break
14:30 - 16:00	WS15-S3 6GSatComNet23: Paper Session
16:00 - 16:30	Coffee Break
16:30 - 18:00	WS15-S4 6GSatComNet23: Panel and Paper Session

Thursday, June 01, 09:00 - 11:00

WS15-S1 6GSatComNet23: Keynote 1 and Paper Session

Room: N

Chair:Halim Yanikomeroglu (Carleton University)

Keynote 1: Prof. Lajos Hanzo (University of Southampton), 09:00-09:45
Satellite User Grouping and Multi-Beam Patterning for Generalized Rate-Splitting Multiple Access: Seonghoon Kim and Jihwan P. Choi (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea (South))
Handover Management of Aerial Users in Integrated HAPS-Ground Wireless Networks: Abdullah F. AlMuallim (King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia); Nour Kouzayha (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia); Hesham ElSawy (School of Computing, Queen's University, Canada); Hayssam Dahrouj (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) & Center of Excellence for NEOM Research, Canada); Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, USA)
Demand-aware Flexible Handover Strategy for LEO Constellation: Tedros Salih Abdu, Eva Lagunas and Vu Nguyen Ha (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg); Joel Grotz (SES, Luxembourg); Steven Kisseleff and Symeon Chatzinotas (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)

11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break

Thursday, June 01, 11:30 - 13:00

WS15-S2 6GSatComNet23: Keynote 2 and Paper Session

Room:N

Chair:Gunes Karabulut Kurt (Polytechnique Montréal)

Keynote 2: Prof. Murat Uysal (Ozyegin University), 11:30-12:15
Two-tier User Association and Resource Allocation Design for Integrated Satellite-Terrestrial Networks: Hung Nguyen-Kha, Vu Nguyen Ha, Eva Lagunas and Symeon Chatzinotas (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg); Joel Grotz (SES, Luxembourg)
Large-Scale Beam Placement and Resource Allocation Design for MEO-Constellation SATCOM: Vu Nguyen Ha, Eva Lagunas, Tedros Salih Abdu, Haythem Chaker and Symeon Chatzinotas (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg); Joel Grotz (SES, Luxembourg)
Efficient Content Caching for Delivery Time Minimization in the LEO Satellite Networks: Sovit Bhandari, Thang X. Vu, Symeon Chatzinotas and Björn Ottersten (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)

13:00 – 14:30 Lunch break

Thursday, June 01, 14:30 - 16:00

WS15-S3 6GSatComNet23: Paper Session

Room: N

Chair:Peng Hu (NRC, Canada)

DDPG-Based Task Offloading in Satellite-Terrestrial Collaborative Edge Computing Networks: Qing Dong (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Xiaodong Xu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications & Wireless Technology Innovation Institute, China); Shujun Han, Rui Liu and Xuefei Zhang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
Channel and Power Allocation for Uplink Multibeam LEO Satellite System with IoT Services: Shuang Zheng (Beijing University of Posts&Telecommunications, China); Xing Zhang (BUPT, China); Peng Wang (Beijing University of Post and Telecommunications, China); Wenbo Wang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
Throughput and Coverage Trade-Off in Integrated Terrestrial and Non-Terrestrial Networks: an Optimization Framework: Henri Alam (Huawei Technologies & Eurecom, France); Antonio De Domenico (Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., France Research Center, France); David López-Pérez (Huawei Technologies France, France); Florian Kaltenberger (Eurecom, France)

16:00 – 16:30 Coffee break

Thursday, June 01, 16:30 - 18:00

WS15-S4 6GSatComNet23: Paper Session and Launch Panel for the IEEE Space Cybersecurity Standard

Room:N

Chair:Gunes Karabulut Kurt (Polytechnique Montréal)

Panel: Gregory Falco (Cornell University), 16:30-17:05
Max-Min Beamformer for THz Wideband Communications: Boyu Ning and Weidong Mei (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); Lipeng Zhu (National University of Singapore, Singapore); Zhi Chen (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); Rui Zhang (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Wavefront Sensing and Correction via Compressive Sensing and Advanced Photonic Devices: Haitham Khallaf and Aydin Amini (McMaster University, Canada); Antony Orth and Oliver J Pitts (National Research Council Canada, Canada); Rafael Kleiman and Steve Hranilovic (McMaster University, Canada)
Quantum Optimization Algorithm for LEO Satellite Communications based on Cell-Free Massive MIMO: Hayder Al-Hraishawi, Junaid ur Rehman and Symeon Chatzinotas (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)Back to Top

WS-16: 2nd Workshop on SIGNIS: Softwarized Next Generation Networks for IoT Services

Room: D

Organizers:

Sudip Misra, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India
Paolo Bellavista, DISI - University of Bologna, Italy
Ayan Mondal, Indian Institute of Technology Indore, India
Arijit Roy, Indian Institute of Information Technology Sri City, India

Detailed Program

Time	Room O
Thursday, Jun. 1 2023
09:00 - 09:30	WS16-O1 SIGNIS: Opening session
09:30 - 11:00	WS16-K1 SIGNIS: Keynote
11:00 - 11:30	Coffee Break
11:30 - 13:00	WS16-S1 SIGNIS: Paper Session
13:00 - 14:30	Lunch Break
14:30 - 16:00	WS16-S2 SIGNIS: Paper Session
16:00 - 16:30	Coffee Break
16:30 - 17:45	WS16-PD SIGNIS: Panel Discussion
17:45 - 18:00	WS16-CS SIGNIS: Closing Session

Thursday, June 1, 09:00 - 09:30

WS16-O1 SIGNIS: Opening Session

Room:O

Thursday, June 1, 09:30 - 11:00

WS16-K1 SIGNIS: Keynote

Room:O

Chair:Prof. Paolo Bellavista, DISI - University of Bologna, Italy

Keynote: Keynote Speaker: TBA

11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break

Thursday, June 1, 11:30 - 13:00

WS16-S1 SIGNIS: Paper Session

Room:O

Chair:Paolo Bellavista, DISI - University of Bologna, Italy

Autoencoder and Matching-based Resource Allocation Scheme for D2D Communication: Tejal Rathod (Nirma University, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India); Sudeep Tanwar (Institute of Technology Nirma University Ahmedabad Gujarat, India)
Sustainable Application Support in Battery-less IoT Sensing Network System: Chetna Singhal (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India)
D-Schedule: Dependency-Aware VNF Scheduling in Satellite-Terrestrial Networks: Ilora Maity (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg), Thang X. Vu (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg); Symeon Chatzinotas (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)
Performances of M2M Protocols in Internet of Medical Things: Kunal Das and Tridib Lochan Dutta (Tezpur University, India); Kumarjit Ray (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India); Rajdeep Ghosh, Debangee Goswami, Adittya Dey, Prabhatangshu Phukan, Pritindra Das, Vicky Kumar Deka and Nabajyoti Medhi (Tezpur University, India)
Applying Federated Learning on Decentralized Smart Farming: A Case Study: Ilias Siniosoglou (University of Western Macedonia, Greece); Konstantinos Xouveroudis (Metamind Innovations PC, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Vasileios Argyriou (Kingston University, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Thomas Lagkas (International Hellenic University, Kavala Campus & South-East European Research Centre, Greece); Dimitrios Margounakis (Sidroco Holdings Ltd, Cyprus); Alexandros-Apostolos A Boulogeorgos (University of Western Macedonia, Greece & University of Piraeus, Greece); Panagiotis Sarigiannidis (University of Western Macedonia, Greece)

13:00 – 14:30 Lunch Break

Thursday, June 1, 14:30 - 16:00

WS16-S2 SIGNIS: Paper Session

Room:O

Chair:Paolo Bellavista, DISI - University of Bologna, Italy

Intrusion Detection in Critical SD-IoT Ecosystem: Hammam Algamdi and Gagangeet Singh Aujla (Durham University, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Anish Jindal (Durham University & University of Essex, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Amitabh Trehan (Durham University, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Mutualistic Compute Continuum: A Network Economics Analysis: Aisha B Rahman, Md Sadman Siraj and Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou (University of New Mexico, USA); Symeon Papavassiliou (National Technical University of Athens, Greece)
Evaluating SDN Applicability in the Edge: Athanasios Liatifis (University of Western Macedonia, Greece); Thomas Lagkas (International Hellenic University, Kavala Campus & South-East European Research Centre, Greece); Georgios P. Katsikas (UBITECH, Greece); Armir Bujari (University of Bologna, Italy); Vasileios Argyriou (Kingston University, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Anna Triantafyllou (UOWM, Greece); Anastasios Lytos (Sidroco Holdings, Cyprus); Alexandros-Apostolos A Boulogeorgos (University of Western Macedonia, Greece & University of Piraeus, Greece); Panagiotis Sarigiannidis (University of Western Macedonia, Greece)
FLEC: Federated Learning for Cloud/Edge-based Smart Industry via Batch Normalization: Vidushi Agarwal and Sujata Pal (Indian Institute of Technology Ropar, India)
A Vehicle-to-Vehicle Wireless Energy Sharing Scheme using Blockchain: Aparna Kumari (Institute of Technology, Nirma University, India & Ganpat University, India); Sudeep Tanwar (Institute of Technology Nirma University Ahmedabad Gujarat, India)

16:00 – 16:30 Coffee break

Thursday, June 1, 16:30 - 17:45

WS16-PD SIGNIS: Panel Discussion

Room: O

Chair:Prof. Paolo Bellavista, DISI - University of Bologna, Italy

Topic TBD: Speakers: TBA

WS-17: Workshop on Metaverse-based Networking and Computing (MetaNC)

Room: G

Organizers:

Muhammad Atif Ur Rehman (m.atif.ur.rehman@mmu.ac.uk), Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, United Kingdom
Pietro Manzoni (pmanzoni@disca.upv.es), Universitat Politècnica de València, Valencia, Spain
Spyridon Mastorakis (smastorakis@unomaha.edu), University of Nebraska at Omaha, United States

Detailed Program

Time	Room G
Thursday, June 01, 2023
09:00 - 11:00	WS17-S1 MetaNC: Immersive Video Streaming
11:00 - 11:30	Coffee Break
11:30 - 13:00	WS17-S2 MetaNC: MR/AR/VR

Thursday, June 01, 09:00 - 11:00

WS17-S1 MetaNC: Immersive Video Streaming

Room: G

Chair: Muhammad Atif Ur Rehman, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, United Kingdom and Spyridon Mastorakis, University of Nebraska at Omaha, United States

Introduction: Workshop Welcome, Thursday, June 01, 09:00 – 09:15 AM
Keynote: Metaverse-ready wireless communications and computing systems: Prof. Haris Gačanin, RWTH Aachen University
MAIVS: Machine Learning Based Adaptive UHD 360-degree Immersive Video Streaming: Chetna Singhal (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India); Monalisa Ghosh (IIT Kharagpur, India); Himanshu Mittal (IIT Kharagpur, India); Pravartya Dewangan (IIT Kharagpur, India)
SweeTile: Efficient Tiling for 360° Video Streaming on Light-Weight VR Devices: Cheng-Yeh Chen (Graduate Institute of Communication Engineering, Department of Electrical Engineering National Taiwan University); Hung-Yun Hsieh (Graduate Institute of Communication Engineering, Department of Electrical Engineering National Taiwan University)

11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break

Thursday, June 01, 11:30 - 01:00

WS17-S2 MetaNC: MR/AR/VR

Room: G

Chair:Pietro Manzoni, Universitat Politècnica de València, Valencia, Spain

LARR: A Localization-Assisted Method to Conceal Latency-Induced Position Errors in MR Remote Rendering: Hong-Lin Zeng(Huang Department of Communication Engineering, National Central University, Taoyuan, Taiwan); Zheng-Ting Huang (Huang Department of Communication Engineering, National Central University, Taoyuan, Taiwan); Chih-Wei Huang (Huang Department of Communication Engineering, National Central University, Taoyuan, Taiwan)
Investigating the Characteristics and Performance of Augmented Reality Applications on Head-Mounted Displays: A Study of the Hololens Application Store: Pubudu Wijesooriya (University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA); Sheikh Muhammad Farjad (University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA); Nikolaos Stergiou (University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA); Spyridon Mastorakis (University of Notre Dame, USA)
DIBR-Based Collaborative Computation in Edge Network for Multiplayer Online VR Game: Heng Shen (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications Beijing, P.R. China); Xi Li (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications Beijing, P.R. China); Hong Ji (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications Beijing, P.R. China); Heli Zhang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications Beijing, P.R. China)

WS-18: 5th Workshop on Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC)

Room: E, B

Organizers:

Fan Liu, Southern University of Science and Technology, China
Jie Xu, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen), China
J. Andrew Zhang, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Christos Masouros, University College London, UK

Detailed Program

Time	Room E
Sunday, May 28 2023
09:00 - 09:30	Keynote 1
09:30 - 11:00	WS18-S1 ISAC: Paper Session
11:00 - 11:30	Coffee Break
11:30 - 13:00	WS18-S2 ISAC: Paper Session
13:00 - 14:30	Lunch Beak
14:30 - 16:00	WS18-S3 ISAC: Paper Session
16:00 - 16:30	Coffee Break
16:30 - 18:18	WS18-S4 ISAC: Paper Session
Thursday, June 1 2023
Time	Room B
09:00 - 09:30	Keynote 2
09:30 - 11:00	WS18-S5 ISAC: Paper Session
11:00 - 11:30	Coffee Break
11:30 - 13:00	WS18-S6 ISAC: Paper Session

Sunday, May 28, 09:00 - 11:00

WS18-S1 ISAC: Keynote 1 and Paper Session

Room: E

Chair:J. Andrew Zhang, University of Technology Sydney; Christos Masouros, University College London

Keynote 1: Dr. Peiying Zhu, Huawei Technologies, 09:00 – 09:30
Joint Clock Synchronization and Localization for 6G Integrated Communication and Sensing: JJunda Wei (Sun Yat-Sen University, China); Xin Wang (Sun Yet-sen University, China); Bingpeng Zhou (Sun Yat-Sen University, China)
Communication-Efficient Personalized Federated Edge Learning for Decentralized Sensing in ISAC: Yonghui Zhu and Ronghui Zhang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Yuanhao Cui (Beijing University of Post and Telecommunications, China); Sheng Wu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Chunxiao Jiang (Tsinghua University, Beijing, China); Xiaojun Jing (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
A Co-hardware and Co-waveform THz Integrated Sensing and Communication System for High-rate Communication and Millimeter-level Imaging: Yaoyao Zheng (Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., China); Qiao Liu (Huawei Technologies co. ltd., China); Xianfeng Du (Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., China); Oupeng Li (Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd, China); Jia He and Guangjian Wang (Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., China)
Is the Performance of NOMA-aided Integrated Sensing and Multicast-Unicast Communications Improved by IRS?: Yang Gou and Yinghui Ye (Xi'an University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Guangyue Lu (Xi'an University of Posts & Telecommunications, China); Lu Lv (Xidian University, China); Rose Qingyang Hu (Utah State University, USA)
Integrated Sensing and Communication: Prototype and Key Processing Algorithms: Shengli Ding (vivo Mobile Communication Co., Ltd., China); Baolong Chen (vivo Mobile Communication Co., Ltd., Hong Kong); Jianzhi Li (vivo Mobile Communication Co., Ltd., China); Jian Yao (vivo Communication Institute, China); Yannan Yuan (vivo Mobile Communication Co., Ltd., Hong Kong); Dajie Jiang (vivo Mobile Communication Co., Ltd, China); Fei Qin (vivo Mobile Communication Technology Co., Ltd, Beijing, China)

11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break

Sunday, May 28, 11:30 - 13:00

WS18-S2 ISAC: Paper Session

Room: E

Chair:Andrew Zhang, University of Technology Sydney; Christos Masouros, University College London

Integrated Sensing, Communication, and Computation Over-the-Air: Beampattern Design: Sai Wang (Southern University of Science and Technology, China); Xiaoyang Li (Shenzhen Research Institute of Big Data, China); Fan Liu (Southern University of Science and Technology, China); Yi Gong (Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China)
Hypothesis Testing on FMCW and OFDM for Joint Communication and Radar in IEEE 802.11bd: Shahab Ehsanfar (Technische Universität Chemnitz, Germany); Ahmad Bazzi (New York University Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates); Klaus Mößner (Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany); Marwa Chafii (New York University Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates)
High Reliability Radar and Communications Based on Random Stepped Frequency Waveforms: Shalanika Dayarathna, Rajitha Senanayake and Jamie S Evans (University of Melbourne, Australia); Peter J Smith (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand)
Waveform Synthesis for Joint Communications and Sensing: Bits Through Filter Design: Husheng Li (Purdue University, USA)
Integrated Sensing and Communication Resource Allocation for Latency Sensitive Services of Connected Automated Vehicles: Nannan Ren (BUPT, China); Qixun Zhang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Zheng Jiang and Shengnan Liu (China Telecom Corp. Ltd, China); Jiaxiang Liu (China Telecom, China)

13:00 – 14:30 Lunch break

Sunday, May 28, 14:30 - 16:00

WS18-S3 ISAC: Paper Session

Room: E

Chair:Weijie Yuan, Southern University of Science and Technology; Jie Xu, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen)

Full-Duplex Communication in Bidirectional ISAC: Zhaolin Wang, Xidong Mu and Yuanwei Liu (Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Crowd Size Estimation with Passive Electromagnetic Sensing: Dennis Joosens (University of Antwerp - imec, IDLab Research Group, Belgium); Abdil Kaya (University of Antwerp - imec & Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek - Vlaanderen, Belgium); Maarten Weyn and Rafael Berkvens (University of Antwerp - imec, Belgium)
Beam Alignment with an Intelligent Reflecting Surface for Integrated Sensing and Communication: Florian Muhr and Lorenzo Zaniboni (Technical University of Munich, Germany); Saeid Khalili Dehkordi (TU Berlin, Germany); Fernando Pedraza and Giuseppe Caire (Technische Universität Berlin, Germany)
Experimental Demonstration of ISAC Waveform Design Exploring Out-of-Band Emission: Davide Scazzoli, Francesco Linsalata, Dario Tagliaferri and Marouan Mizmizi (Politecnico di Milano, Italy); Damiano Badini (Huawei Technologies Italia, Italy); Maurizio Magarini and Umberto Spagnolini (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
ISAC-Enabled V2I Networks Based on 5G NR: How Much Can the Overhead Be Reduced?: Yunxin Li and Fan Liu (Southern University of Science and Technology, China); Zhen Du (Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, China); Weijie Yuan (Southern University of Science and Technology, China); Christos Masouros (University College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

16:00 – 16:30 Coffee break

Sunday, May 28, 16:30 - 18:18

WS18-S4 ISAC: Paper Session and Panel

Room: E

Chair:Weijie Yuan, Southern University of Science and Technology; Jie Xu, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen)

ESPRIT-Oriented Precoder Design for mmWave Channel Estimation: Musa Furkan Keskin (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden); Alessio Fascista (University of Salento, Italy); Fan Jiang (Halmstad University, Sweden); Angelo Coluccia (University of Salento, Italy); Gonzalo Seco-Granados (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain); Henk Wymeersch (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)
A Low-complexity Noise Reduction Scheme for Target Detection in the Integrated Sensing And Communication System: Luoyan Zhu (Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, China); Yinsheng Liu and Danping He (Beijing Jiaotong University, China); Sergiy A. Vorobyov (Aalto University, Finland); Zhangdui Zhong (Beijing Jiaotong University, China)
Specific Emitter Identification for Integrated Sensing and Communication: Boxiang He and Fanggang Wang (Beijing Jiaotong University, China)
Super-Resolution Delay-Doppler Estimation for OTFS Radar: Zhihan Gong and Shengheng Liu (Southeast University, China); Lei Li (Hella Shanghai Electronics, China); Yongming Huang (Southeast University, China); Jinhong Yuan (University of New South Wales, Australia)
Multi-UAV Enabled Sensing: Cramér-Rao Bound Optimization: Jun Wu (SUSTech, China); Weijie Yuan (Southern University of Science and Technology, China); Lin Bai (Beihang University, China)
Target Sensing in Wideband Massive MIMO-ISAC Systems in the Presence of Beam Squint: Ruoyu Zhang (Ministerial Key Laboratory of JGMT, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China); Lei Cheng (Zhejiang University, China); Shuai Wang (Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences & Center for Cloud Computing, China); Yi Lou (Harbin Institute of Technology Weihai, China); Chen Miao and Wen Wu (Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China); Derrick Wing Kwan Ng (University of New South Wales, Australia)

Thursday, June 1, 09:00 - 11:00

WS18-S5 ISAC: Keynote 2 and Paper Session

Room: B

Chair:J. Andrew Zhang, University of Technology Sydney; Christos Masouros, University College London

Keynote 2: Prof. Marco Lops, Università di Napoli Federico II, 09:00 – 09:30
LDPC Encoder Identification via Belief Propagation for Integrated Sensing and Communication Systems: JHongyu Wang, Fanggang Wang and Yu Liu (Beijing Jiaotong University, China)
Decentralized Multiagent Reinforcement Learning-based Cooperative Perception with Dual-functional Radar-Communication V2V links: Chonghao Zhao, Gang Wu and Wenhui Xiong (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China)
Device Free Human Gesture Recognition With Incremental Learning: Hengyuan Zhou (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Yuanhao Cui (Beijing University of Post and Telecommunications, China); Zexuan Jing, Xiao jun Jing, Quan Zhou and Mu Junsheng (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
Wireless Sensing Privacy Protection via Multi-Carrier Chirp Waveform: Jiaxin Jin and Hui-Ming Wang (Xi'an Jiaotong University, China); Peng Liu (Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., China); Yi-Yan Zhang (Huawei Technologies, China)
Privacy Performance of MIMO Dual-Functional Radar-Communications with Internal Adversary: Isabella W. G. da Silva, Diana Pamela Moya Osorio and Markku Juntti (University of Oulu, Finland)

11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break

Thursday, June 1, 11:30 - 13:00

WS18-S6 ISAC: Paper Session

Room: B

Chair:Weijie Yuan, Southern University of Science and Technology; Jie Xu, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen)

Integrated Sensing and Communication in Distributed Antenna Networks: Dongfang Xu (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong); Ata Khalili (Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen, Germany); Xianghao Yu (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong); Derrick Wing Kwan Ng (University of New South Wales, Australia); Robert Schober (Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany))
Bayesian Learning-based ISAC in RIS-aided MmWave Systems with Superimposed Symbols: Xu Gan, Zhaohui Yang, Chongwen Huang, Caijun Zhong and Zhaoyang Zhang (Zhejiang University, China)
Active Beamforming for Integrated Sensing and Communication: Kareem M. Attiah (University of Toronto & Faculty of Engineering, Canada); Wei Yu (University of Toronto, Canada)
A New Technique to Form Steerable Multibeams for Integrated Communications and Sensing: Charles Guo (UNSW, Australia); Y. Jay Guo and Kai Wu (University of Technology Sydney, Australia); Jinhong Yuan (University of New South Wales, Australia)
AmBC-aided Integrated Sensing and Communication Systems for V2X Networks: Songmin Li (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); Jie Chen (Western University, Canada); Xiaoyan Kuai and Ying-Chang Liang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China)

WS-19: 5th Workshop on ULMC6GN: Ultra-high Speed, Low-latency and Massive Communication for Futuristic 6G Network

Room: E

Organizers:

Lina Mohjazi, University of Glasgow, UK
Haris Pervaiz, University of Essex, UK
Hanaa Abumarshoud, University of Glasgow, UK
Majid Butt, Nokia Standards, Naperville IL, USA
Muhammad Ali Imran, University of Glasgow, UK

Detailed Program

Time	Room E
Thursday, June 1 2023
09:00 - 11:00	WS19-S1 ULMC6GN: Keynote 1 and Paper Session
11:00 - 11:15	Coffee Break
11:15 - 13:00	WS19-S2 ULMC6GN: Keynote 2 and Paper Session
13:00 - 14:30	Lunch Break
14:30 - 16:15	WS19-S3 ULMC6GN: Keynote 3 and Paper Session
16:15 - 16:30	Coffee Break
16:30 - 18:36	WS19-S4 ULMC6GN: Paper Session

Thursday, June 1, 09:00 - 11:00

WS19-S1 ULMC6GN: Keynote 1 and Paper Session

Room: E

Chair:Lina Mohjazi, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom

Keynote 1: Wireless Moves to the Speed of Light: Prof. Mérouane Debbah, Technology Innovation Institute, UAE, 09:00 – 09:30
A Lower Bound on Latency Spikes for Capacity-Seeking Network Traffic: Bjørn Ivar Teigen (Domos, Norway); Neil J Davies (Predictable Network Solutions Limited, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Kai Olav Ellefsen (University of Oslo, Norway); Tor Skeie (Simula Research Lab, Norway); Carlo Augusto Grazia (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy); Jim Tørresen (University of Oslo, Norway)
Beamforming on Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface: A Codebook Design for Spatial Coverage with Beam Squint Effect: Xinyi Lin, Yihong Liu and Lei Zhang (University of Glasgow, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Anvar Tukmanov (BT, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Qammer H Abbasi and Muhammad Ali Imran (University of Glasgow, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Performance Scaling of mmWave Personal IoT Networks (PINs) for XR Applications: Asad Ali and Olga Galinina (Tampere University, Finland); Jiri Hosek (Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic); Sergey Andreev (Tampere University, Finland)
Resource Allocation and Cooperation Scheduling for Reliability Maximization in Cluster Head Based Cooperative URLLC Networks: Xiaopeng Yuan, Boyao Li, Yulin Hu, Yao Zhu and Anke Schmeink (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)
Efficient Multiuser Detection for Uplink Grant-Free NOMA via Weighted Block Coordinate Descend: Pengyu Gao, Jing Zhu and Gaojie Chen (University of Surrey, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Zilong Liu (University of Essex, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Pei Xiao and Chuan Heng Foh (University of Surrey, United Kingdom (Great Britain)

11:00 – 11:15 Coffee break

Thursday, June 1, 11:15 - 13:00

WS19-S2 ULMC6GN: Keynote 2 and Paper Session

Room: E

Chair:Hanaa Abumarshoud, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom

Keynote 2: Dimensioning and Greening the Network Edge: Prof. Fabrizio Granelli, University of Trento, Italy, 11:15-11:45
A Robust and Compact Non-Imaging Angle Diversity Receiver for 6G Optical Wireless Communications: Elham Sarbazi and Hossein Kazemi (University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Majid Safari (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Harald Haas (The University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom (Great Britain)
On the Design and Optimization of SLIPT Systems for Aerial Base Stations: Vasilis K. Papanikolaou, Nikos Mitsiou, Prodromos-Vasileios Mekikis, Sotiris A. Tegos, Panagiotis D. Diamantoulakis and George K. Karagiannidis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Energy-Efficient STAR-RIS-aided MU-MIMO System for Next-Generation Green URLLC: Rasika Sanjay Deshpande (National Sun Yat Sen University, Taiwan); Mayur Vitthalrao Katwe (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore); Keshav Singh (National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan); Cunhua Pan (Southeast University, China); Mark F. Flanagan (University College Dublin, Ireland)
IRS-Assisted Rate-Splitting Multiple Access for Overloaded Multiuser MISO Transmission: Taissir Y. Elganimi (University of Tripoli Libya, Libya); Hamza M. Mahmodi (University of Tripoli, Libya); Hosam Almqadim (College of Electronic Technology, Libya); Khaled M. Rabie (Manchester Metropolitan University, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

13:00 – 14:30 Lunch break

Thursday, June 1, 14:30 - 16:15

WS19-S3 ULMC6GN: Keynote 3 and Paper Session

Room: E

Chair:Lina Mohjazi, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom

Keynote 3: Integrated Communication and Sensing: Prof. Rahim Tafazolli, University of Surrey, United Kingdom, 14:30 – 15:00
Dynamic Reliability: Reliably Sending Unreliable Data: Omar Nassef (King's College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Federico Chiariotti (University of Padova, Italy); Stephen H Johnson (BT, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Toktam Mahmoodi (King's College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)
Capacity Analysis of an IRS-aided NOMA system in the Presence of Co-Channel Interference: Salah Almaghthawi (The University of Manchester, United Kingdom (Great Britain) & Islamic University of Madinah, Saudi Arabia); Emad Alsusa (Manchester University, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
ARQ Assisted Short-Packet Communications with Rate Splitting Multiple Access: Mohsen Naseri and Sonia Aissa (INRS, University of Quebec, Canada); Leila Musavian (University of Essex, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Puncturing-Based Resource Allocation for URLLC and eMBB services via Unsupervised Deep Learning: Bing Shi (Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen), China); Fu-Chun Zheng (Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, China & University of York, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Changyang She (The University of Sydney, Australia)

16:15 – 16:30 Coffee break

Thursday, June 1, 16:30 - 18:36

WS19-S4 ULMC6GN: Paper Session

Room: E

Chair:Hanaa Abumarshoud, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom

Power-Optimal HARQ Protocol for Reliable Free Space Optical Communication: Georgios Chondrogiannis, Nikos Mitsiou and Nestor Chatzidiamantis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece); Alexandros-Apostolos A Boulogeorgos (University of Western Macedonia, Greece & University of Piraeus, Greece); George K. Karagiannidis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece)
Terabit Optical Wireless Link Design for Inter-Rack Communication in 6G Data Center Networks: Hossein Kazemi and Elham Sarbazi (University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Majid Safari (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Harald Haas (The University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
VISTA: Video Transmission over A Semantic Communication Approach: Chengsi Liang (University of Glasgow, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Xiangyi Deng (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China & University of Glasgow, China); Yao Sun, Runze Cheng and Le Xia (University of Glasgow, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Dusit Niyato (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore); Muhammad Ali Imran (University of Glasgow, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Statistical URLLC Provisioning in 6G Network over Fading Channels: Roya Alipour Lashkarian and Azadeh Pourkabirian (Qazvin Azad University, Iran); Amir Hossein Moshfeghi (Qazvin Islamic Azad University, Iran); Mohammad Hossein Anisi (University of Essex, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Millimeter Wave Channel Estimation for Lens based Hybrid MIMO with Low Resolution ADCs: Evangelos Vlachos (Athena Research Center, Greece); Aryan Kaushik (University of Sussex, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Muhammad Zeeshan Shakir (University of the West of Scotland, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Short-Packet Cooperative NOMA Communications with K-Means User Clustering: Thi My Chinh Chu and Hans-Juergen Zepernick (Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden); Trung Q. Duong (Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Outage Probability Analysis of MRC Detection in OFDM-MMIMO System Utilizing Incomplete Gamma Function: Ditsapon Chumchewkul (Newcastle University, United Kingdom (Great Britain) & School of Engineering, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Charalampos C. Tsimenidis (Nottingham Trent University, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Shahid Mumtaz (Aveiro, Portugal)

WS-20: Workshop on Scalable and Trustworthy AI for 6G Wireless Networks (6GSTRAIN)

Room: Q

Organizers:

Dr. Hatim Chergui, i2CAT, Spain (Contact: chergui[at]ieee[dot]org)
Dr. Kamel Tourki, Ericsson R&D, France
Prof. Mustapha Benjillali, INPT, Morocco
Dr. Bouziane Brik, Bourgogne University, France
Prof. Adlen Ksentini, Eurecom, France

Detailed Program

Time	Room Q
Thursday, June 1 2023
09:00 - 11:00	WS20-S1 6GSTRAIN: Keynote 1 and Paper Session
11:00 - 11:30	Coffee Break
11:30 - 13:00	WS20-S2 6GSTRAIN: Keynote 2 and Paper Session

Thursday, June 1, 09:00 - 11:00

WS20-S1 6GSTRAIN: Keynote 1 and Paper Session

Room: Q

Chair:Hatim Chergui (i2CAT Foundation)

Keynote 1: Dr. Marwa Chafii, NYU Abu Dhabi and NYU WIRELESS, 09:00 – 09:35
Uplink Scheduling in Federated Learning: an Importance-Aware Approach via Graph Representation Learning: Marco Skocaj; Pedro E Iturria Rivera; Roberto Verdone; Melike Erol-Kantarci
On Reward Shaping Methods in Deep Reinforcement Learning for Radio Resource Management in Wireless Networks: Amna Kopic; Kenan Turbic; Haris Gacanin
Explanation-Guided Deep Reinforcement Learning for Trustworthy 6G RAN Slicing: Farhad Rezazadeh; Hatim Chergui; Josep Mangues-Bafalluy
Modular Model-Based Bayesian Learning for Uncertainty-Aware and Reliable Deep MIMO Receivers: Tomer Raviv; Sangwoo Park; Osvaldo Simeone; Nir Shlezinger

11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break

Thursday, June 1, 11:30 - 13:00

WS20-S2 6GSTRAIN: Keynote 2 and Paper Session

Room: Q

Chair:Hatim Chergui (i2CAT Foundation)

Keynote 2

Prof. Merouane Debbah, Centrale-Supélec, France/TII, UAE, 11:30 – 12:05

Poisoning Attacks in Federated Edge Learning for Digital Twin 6G-enabled IoTs: An Anticipatory Study: Mohamed Amine Ferrag; Burak Kantarci; Lucas Cordeiro; Mérouane Debbah; Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo
Mining classification algorithms to identify flooding attacks through the HTTP/3 protocol: Adam Kadi; Lyes Khoukhi; Jouni Viinikka; Pierre-Edouard Fabre
Intelligent Processing of Data Streams on the Edge Using Reinforcement Learning: Shubham Vaishnav; Sindri Magnùsson

WS-21: 5th International Workshop on IoT Enabling Technologies in Healthcare (IoT-Health 2023)

Room: Q

Organizers:

Kamran Sayrafian - National Institute of Standards & Technology, USA
Hamed Ahmadi - University of York, UK
Konstantinos Katzis - European University Cyprus, CY
Slawomir Ambroziak - Gdansk University of Technology, PL

Detailed Program

Time	Room Q
Thursday, June 1
14:30 - 16:00	WS21-S1 IoT-Health: Paper Session
16:00 - 16:30	Coffee Break
16:30 - 18:00	WS21-S2 IoT-Health: Paper Session

Thursday, June 1, 14:30 - 16:00

WS21-S1 IoT-Health: Session Title: IoT-Health Applications & Services

Room: Q

Chair: Dr. Kamran Sayrafian (National Institute of Standards & Technology, USA)

On the use of ultrasonic transmission to bypass neural injured regions: Laura Galluccio; Alfio Lombardo; Giacomo Morabito; Salvatore Quattropani; Carmelo Ricci
Epileptic seizures prediction of pediatric subjects in health-care pervasive environments: Tamara Ceranic; Dragana D. Bajić
Band-of-Interest-based Channel Impulse Response Fusion for Breathing Rate Estimation with UWB: Sitian Li; Alexios Balatsoukas-Stimming; Andreas Burg
Impact of the Exposure Time and Distance Thresholds on the Performance of Automatic Contact Tracing: Brian D Cloteaux; Kamran Sayrafian; Vladimir Marbukh
Enhancing Vital Sign Estimation Performance of FMCW MIMO Radar by Prior Human Shape Recognition: Hadi Alidoustaghdam; Min Chen; Ben Willetts; Kai Mao; Andre Kokkeler; Yang Miao

16:00 – 16:30 Coffee break

Thursday, June 1, 16:30 - 18:00

WS21-S2 IoT-Health: Session Title: Supporting IoT-Health Technology and Infrastructure

Room: Q

Chair: Prof. Tamara Ceranic (University of Novi Sad, Serbia)

A Joint Opportunistic Energy Harvesting and Communication System Using VLC for Battery-Less PV-equipped IoT: Khodr Hammoud; Dominique Schreurs; Sofie Pollin; Zhuangzhuang Cui
Hybrid Channel Access Towards Real-Time Applications in Healthcare: Wenchao Xia; Changwei Zhang; Xinghua Sun; Ruochen Huang; Hongbo Zhu
Modeling and Joint Optimization of Security, Latency, and Computational Cost in Blockchain-based Healthcare Systems: Zukai Li; Wei Tian; Jingjin Wu
Anomaly Detection for Internet of Medical Things: Alan V. Reji; Bernardi Pranggono; Alex Shenfield; Jims Ningshen Marchang
An Efficient GDPR-Compliant Data Management for IoHT Applications: I-Hsun Chuang; ShihHao Huang; Wan. Hsuan Hong; Yau-Hwang Kuo

WS-22: Workshop on Holographic MIMO Communications

Room: P

Organizers:

George C. Alexandropoulos
Daniel Benevides da Costa
Carlos-Faouzi Bader
Chongwen Huang

Detailed Program

Time	Room P
Thursday, June 1 2023
09:00 - 11:00	WS22-S1 MIMOComm: Keynote 1 and Session 1
11:00 - 11:30	Coffee Break
11:30 - 13:30	WS22-S2 MIMOComm: Keynote 2 and Session 2
13:30 - 14:30	Lunch Break
14:30 - 16:00	WS22-S3 MIMOComm: Keynote 3 and Session 3
16:00 - 16:30	Coffee Break
16:30 - 18:20	WS22-S4 MIMOComm: Keynote 4 and Session 4

Thursday, June 1, 09:00 - 11:00

WS22-S1 MIMOComm: Keynote 1 and Paper Session

Room: P

Chair:George Alexandropoulos (University of Athens)

Keynote 1: Multi‐mode MIMO communications: The near‐field multiplexing paradigm: Prof. Emil Bjornson, 09:00 – 09:50
Globally Optimal Resource Allocation Design for IRS-Assisted Multiuser Networks with Discrete Phase Shifts: Y. Wu, D. Xu, D. W. K. Ng, R. Schober, and W. Gerstacker
A Generalized Electromagnetic- Domain Channel Modeling for LOS Holographic MIMO with Arbitrary Surface Placements: T. Gong, L. Wei, Z. Yang, M. Debbah, and C. Yuen
Holographic MIMO: How Many Antennas Do We Need for Energy Efficient Transmission?: S. Bahanshal, Q.-U.-A. Nadeem, and M. J. Hossain

11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break

Thursday, June 1, 11:30 - 13:30

WS22-S2 MIMOComm: Keynote 2 and Paper Session 2

Room: P

Chair:George Alexandropoulos (University of Athens)

Keynote 2: Electromagnetic information theory: From Mathematical to physical channel: Prof. Linglong Dai, 11:30 – 12:20
A New Channel Subspace Characterization for Channel Estimation in RIS-Aided Communications: M. Haghshenas, P. Ramezani, M. Magarini, and E. Björnson
Secrecy Rate Maximization in RIS-Enabled OFDM Wireless Communications: The Circuit-Based Reflection Model Case: D. Kompostiotis, D. Vordonis, V. Paliouras, and G. C. Alexandropoulos
Randomized Control of Wireless Temporal Coherence via Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface: J. H. I. de Souza, V. Croisfelt, F. Saggese, T. Abrão, and P. Popovski

13:30 – 14:30 Lunch break

Thursday, June 1, 14:30 - 16:00

WS22-S3 MIMOComm: Keynote 3 and Paper Session 3

Room: P

Chair:George Alexandropoulos (University of Athens)

Keynote 3: Holographic communications: when electromagnetism meets signal processing: Prof. Davide Dardari, 14:30 – 15:20
System Level Simulation Method and Performance of RIS-Assisted Wireless Networks: F. Yang, C. Ma, Y. Chen, Z. Yu, J. Li, and P. Zhu
Performance Analysis of XL- MIMO-OFDM Systems for High-Speed Train Communications: Q. Liu, Y. Lin, J. Zheng, Z. Wang, J. Zhang, and B. Ai

16:00 – 16:30 Coffee break

Thursday, June 1, 16:30 -18:20

WS22-S4 MIMOComm: Keynote 4 and Paper Session 4

Room: P

Chair:George Alexandropoulos (University of Athens)

Keynote 4: Wave shaping using metasurfaces: The road towards reconfigurable intelligent surfaces for 5G and beyond: Prof. Geoffroy Lerosey, 16:30 – 17:20
Localization-based OFDM framework for RIS-aided systems: F. Saggese, K. Kansanen, and P. Popovski
Demo 1: Cost effective reconfigurable intelligent surface demo for holographic MIMO: Greenerwave, France
Demo 2: A holographic MIMO prototype solution for integrated communications and sensing: Zhejiang University, China

WS-23: 2nd Workshop on CyberNet: Cyber-Physical Security in Mission-Critical Tactical Networks

Room: A

Organizers:

Sahil Garg, Ultra Communications, Montreal (Sahil.Garg@ultra-tcs.com)
Susan Watson, Defence R&D Canada, Ottawa (susan.watson@forces.ga.ca)
Satinder Singh, Ultra Communications, Montreal (Satinder.Singh@ultra-tcs.com)
Fabrizio Granelli, University of Trento, Italy (fabrizio.granelli@unitn.it)

Detailed Program

Time	Room A
Thursday, June 1 2023
09:00 - 11:00	WS23-S1 CyberNet: Paper Session I
11:00 - 11:30	Coffee Break
11:30 - 12:20	WS23-S2 CyberNet: Keynote Session I
12:30 - 13:00	WS23-S3 CyberNet: Paper Session II
13:00 - 14:30	Lunch Break
14:30 - 15:30	WS23-S4 CyberNet: Keynote Session II
15:30 - 16:00	Industrial Talk
16:00 - 16:30	Coffee Break
16:30 - 18:00	WS23-S5 CyberNet: Paper Session II

Thursday, June 1, 09:00 - 11:00

WS23-S1 CyberNet: PAPER SESSION I

Room:A

Chair:Sahil Garg, Ultra Communications, Montreal

EC-DDPG: DDPG-based Task Offloading Framework of Internet of Vehicle for Mission Critical Applications: Hongbo Sun (Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications Nanjing, China); Derui Ma (Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications Nanjing, China); Hao She (Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications Nanjing, China); Yongan Guo (Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications Nanjing, China)
Power Control and Trajectory Optimization for a THz-Enabled UAV-relay in Cognitive Radio Network: Abdulaziz Alali (Howard University, Washington, DC, USA); Danda B. Rawat (Howard University, Washington, DC, USA); Chunmei Liu (Howard University, Washington, DC, USA)
Security Strategies for Unmanned Aircraft Systems Networks: Marco Hernandez (Center for Wireless Communications, Oulu University, Finland and Yokosuka Research Park-International Alliance Institute (YRP-IAI), Japan); Gürkan Gür (Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW), Switzerland); Kamesh Namuduri (University of North Texas, USA)
AI-based Accident Severity Detection Scheme for V2X Communication beyond 5G Networks: Anuja Nair (Nirma University, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India); Sudeep Tanwar (Nirma University, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India)
Cross-chain Transaction Validation using Lock-and-Key Method for Multi-System Blockchain: Gaurav Kumar (BITS Pilani, Pilani, India); Samarthi Lahiri (BITS Pilani, Pilani, India); Amit Dua (BITS Pilani, Pilani, India); Gagangeet Singh Aujla (Durham University, UK)

11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break

THURSDAY, JUNE 1, 11:30 - 12:20

WS23-S2 CyberNet: KEYNOTE SESSION I

Room:A

Chair:Kuljeet Kaur

Keynote I: Securing Tactical Communications in Uncrewed Aircraft System Networks: Kamesh Namuduri, University of North Texas, USA

THURSDAY, JUNE 1, 12:20 - 13:00

WS23-S3 CyberNet: Paper Session II

Room:A

Chair:Satinder Singh, Ultra Communications, Montreal

On the Ratio of Generalized-K Random Variables with Application to BAC-NOMA-enabled Mission-Critical IoBT Systems: Sarah Basharat (National University of Sciences & Technology (NUST), Islamabad, Pakistan) ; Syed Ali Hassan (National University of Sciences & Technology (NUST), Islamabad, Pakistan); Haejoon Jung (Kyung Hee University, Yongin, South Korea)
A Hybrid Federated Learning Model for Insurance Fraud Detection: Supriya Y (Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India); Nancy Victor (Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India); Gautam Srivastava (Brandon University, Brandon, Canada); Thippa Reddy Gadekallu (Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India)

13:00 – 14:30 Lunch Break

THURSDAY, JUNE 1, 14:30 - 15:30

WS23-S4 CyberNet: KEYNOTE SESSION II

Room: A

Chair:Sahil Garg, Ultra Communications, Montreal

Keynote II: AI-Enabled Secure Wireless Virtualization for Tactical Networks: Danda B. Rawat, Howard University, Washington, DC, USA

THURSDAY, JUNE 1, 15:30 - 16:00

WS23-S5 CyberNet: INDUSTRIAL TALK

Room: A

Chair:Satinder Singh, Ultra Communications, Montreal

Industrial Talk: AI/ML-Driven Intrusion and Misbehavior Detection in Networked Autonomous Systems: Fabrizio Granelli, University of Trento, Italy

16:00 – 16:30 Coffee break

THURSDAY, JUNE 1, 16:30 - 18:00

WS23-S6 CyberNet: Paper Session III

Room:A

Chair:Fabrizio Granelli, University of Trento, Italy

Model Pruning for Efficient Over-the-Air Federated Learning in Tactical Networks: Fazal Muhammad Ali Khan (National University of Sciences & Technology (NUST), Pakistan and University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada); Hatem Abou-Zeid (University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada); Syed Ali Hassan (National University of Sciences & Technology (NUST), Pakistan)
Priority-based Efficient Deployment of UAVs with Resource Constraints in Mission-Critical Networks: Rooha Masroor (COMSATS University Islamabad, Wah Campus, Pakistan); Muhammad Naeem (COMSATS University Islamabad, Wah Campus, Pakistan); Talha Akram (COMSATS University Islamabad, Wah Campus, Pakistan); Alagan Anpalagan (Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto, Canada); Waleed Ejaz (Lakehead University, Canada)
Time-Frequency Robust Cooperative Jamming Cancellation for Physical Security in Tactical Networks: Wenbo Guo, Mingyue Jin, Yi Fang, Yimin He, Hongzhi Zhao, Shihai Shao (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China and Laboratory of Electromagnetic Space Cognition and Intelligent Control, China)
An Efficient Distributed Intrusion Detection System in IoT: GAN-based Attacks and a Countermeasure: Neha Gupta (University of Surrey, Guildford, UK); Mohammad Shojafar (University of Surrey, Guildford, UK); Chuan Heng Foh (University of Surrey, Guildford, UK); Rahim Tafazolli (University of Surrey, Guildford, UK)
Physical-Layer Security in Short-Packet NOMA Systems with Untrusted Near User: Thai-Hoc Vu (University of Ulsan, Republic of Korea); Quoc-Viet Pham (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland); Daniel Benevides da Costa (Technology Innovation Institute, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates); Merouane Debbah (Technology Innovation Institute, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates); Sunghwan Kim (University of Ulsan, Republic of Korea)

WS-24: 1st Workshop on Underwater Communication, Access and Networking (UCAN)

Room: Q

Organizers:

Mauro Biagi, University of Rome, La Sapienza, Italy
Valeria Loscrì, INRIA, Lille, France
Anna Maria vegni, University of Roma Tre, Italy

Detailed Program

Time	Room Q
Sunday, May 28 2023
14:30 - 16:00	WS24-S1 UCAN: Paper Session
16:00 - 16:30	Coffee Break
116:30 - 18:00	WS24-S2 UCAN: Paper Session

Sunday, May 28, 14:30 - 16:00

WS24-S1 UCAN: Underwater Acoustic Communications

Room:Q

Chair:Valeria Loscrì, INRIA, Lille, France

Contextual Bandits: Band of Operation Selection in Underwater Acoustic Communications: Zachary A Schutz (Virginia Tech, USA); Daniel Jakubisin (Virginia Tech, USA);
ML-Based Advantage Distillation for Key Agreement in Underwater Acoustic Channels: Amedeo Giuliani (University of Padua, Italy); Francesco Ardizzon (University of Padova, Italy); Stefano Tomasin (University of Padova, Italy)
Feasibility and Performance Analysis of Underwater Acoustic LoRa Modulation: Andrea Petroni (Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, Italy); Gaetano Scarano (Università La Sapienza di Roma, Italy); Roberto Cusani (Università La Sapienza di Roma, Italy); Mauro Biagi (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy)
Adversarial Learning for Advantage Distillation in Secret Key Agreement Over UWAC: Amedeo Giuliani (University of Padua, Italy); Francesco Ardizzon (University of Padova, Italy); Nicola Laurenti (University of Padova & CNIT, Italy); Stefano Tomasin (University of Padova, Italy)
Underwater Acoustic Channel Models for SNR Prediction in a Real Shallow Water Environment: Fabio Busacca (University of Catania, Italy); Laura Galluccio (University of Catania, Italy); Sergio Palazzo (University of Catania, Italy); Andrea Panebianco (University of Palermo, Italy)

16:00 – 16:30 Coffee break

Sunday, May 28, 16:30 - 18:00

WS24-S2 UCAN: RF and Optical Underwater Communication

Room:Q

Chair:Anna Maria Vegni (University of Roma Tre, Italy)

Performance Analysis of PS-enabled SLIPT in an Underwater-RF Communication Network: Gulshan Rai (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India); Kamal Agrawal (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India); Shankar Prakriya (Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India); Vimal Bhatia (Indian Institute of Technology Indore, India); Kamal Garg (Indian Institute of Technology Indore, India)
Channel Estimation for Underwater Visible Light Communication: A Sparse Learning Perspective: Younan Mou (Xiamen University, China); Sicong Liu (Xiamen University, China)
Performance Evaluation of Underwater Visible Light Positioning Algorithms using Realistic Propagation Model: Ruqin Xiao (XLIM CNRS 7252 - University of Poitiers, France); Anna Maria Vegni (Roma Tre University, Italy); Pierre Combeau (XLIM CNRS 7252 - University of Poitiers, France); Valeria Loscrí (Inria Lille-Nord Europe, France); Lilian Aveneau (University of Poitiers, France & Laboratoire XLIM, CNRS, France)
Spatial Channel Modeling for Multiple-source Underwater Wireless Optical Links: Xiaoqian Liu (Tsinghua University, China); Yize Zhang (Tsinghua University, China); Xinke Tang (Peng Cheng Laboratory, China); Yuhan Dong (Tsinghua University, China)
Mitigation of Vessel Motion Effects for MIMO Underwater Optical Wireless Communication System using Spatial Coding: Hitoshi Ando (Graduate School of Engineering & Nagoya University, Japan); Chedlia Ben Naila (Nagoya University, Japan); Hiraku Okada (Nagoya University, Japan); Masaaki Katayama (Nagoya University, Japan)

Workshops

Workshops at a Glance

Sunday Full-Day, 28 May 2023, 9:00-18:00

Sunday Half-Day, 28 May 2023, 9:00-13:00

Sunday Half-Day, 28 May 2023, 14:30-18:00

Thursday Full-Day, 1 June 2023, 9:00-18:00

Thursday Half-Day, 1 June 2023, 9:00-13:00

Thursday Half-Day, 1 June 2023, 14:30-18:00

Detailed Program (Coming soon)

Detailed Program

Time

Room F

Sunday, May 28 2023

Sunday, May 28, 09:00 - 11:00

WS01-S1 DigTwinWC: Keynote 1 and Paper Session

11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break

Sunday, May 28, 11:30 - 13:00

WS01-S2 DigTwinWC: Paper Session

13:00 – 14:30 Lunch break

Sunday, May 28, 14:30 - 16:00

WS01-S3 DigTwinWC: Panel

16:00 – 16:30 Coffee break

Sunday, May 28, 16:30 - 18:00

WS01-S4 DigTwinWC: Paper Session

Detailed Program

Time

Room B

Sunday, May 28 2023

Sunday, May 28, 08:30 - 11:00

WS02-S1 DDINS: Keynote 1 and Paper Session

11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break

Sunday, May 28, 11:30 - 13:00

WS02-S2 DDINS: Paper Session

Sunday, May 28, 14:30 - 16:00

WS02-S3 DDINS: Paper Session

16:00 – 16:30 Coffee break

Sunday, May 28, 16:30 - 18:36

WS02-S4 DDINS: Paper Session

Detailed Program

Time

Room N

Sunday, May 28 2023

Sunday, May 28, 09:00 - 11:00

WS03-S1 OTFS-DDMC-6G: Keynote 1 and Panel

11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break

Sunday, May 28, 11:30 - 13:00

WS03-S2 OTFS-DDMC-6G: Channel Model and Estimation

13:00 – 14:30 Lunch Break

Sunday, May 28, 14:30 - 16:00

WS03-S3 OTFS-DDMC-6G: Equalization and Detection

16:00 – 16:30 Coffee break

Sunday, May 28, 16:30 - 17:45

WS03-S4 OTFS-DDMC-6G: MIMO and Massive MIMO

Sunday, May 28, 18:00 - 18:30

WS03-S5 OTFS-DDMC-6G: Keynote 2 and Conclusion

Detailed Program

Time

Room O

Sunday, May 28 2023

Sunday, May 28, 09:00 - 11:00

WS04-S1 5GBeyondWN: Keynote and Paper Session

11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break

Sunday, May 28, 11:30 - 13:00

WS04-S2 5GBeyondWN: Paper Session

13:00 – 14:30 Lunch Break

Sunday, May 28, 14:30 - 16:00

WS04-S3 5GBeyondWN: Paper Session

16:00 – 16:30 Coffee break

Sunday, May 28, 16:30 - 18:00

WS04-S4 5GBeyondWN: Paper Session

Detailed Program

Time

Room Q

Sunday, May 28 2023

Sunday, May 28, 08:50 - 11:00

WS05-S1 OAMT: Keynote 1, Keynote 2 and Paper Session

11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break

Sunday, May 28, 11:30 - 12:40

WS05-S2 OAMT: Paper Session

Detailed Program