IEEE International Conference on Communications
28 May – 01 June 2023 // Rome, Italy
Sustainable Communications for Renaissance

Workshops

 

Workshops at a Glance

 

 


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

WS-01: Workshop on The Evolution of Digital Twin Paradigm in Wireless Communications

Room: TBD

Organizers: Lina Bariah, Mérouane Debbah

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

Room: TBD

Organizer: Jinsong Wu

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

Room: TBD

Organizers: Hai Lin, Jinhong Yuan, Jingxian Wu, Yi Hong

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

Room: TBD

Organizers: Kyeong Jin Kim, David López-Pérez, Miaowen Wen, Kwang-Cheng Chen, Petar Popovski, Theodoros A. Tsiftsis

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

Room: TBD

Organizers: Changsheng You, Mingzhe Chen, Nguyen Hoang Tran, Zhaohui Yang

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

Room: TBD

Organizers: Roberto Bruschi, Franco Davoli, Hesham ElBakoury, Timothy O'Farrell, Tobias, Hossfeld, Frank Loh

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

Room: TBD

Organizers: Guangyi Liu, Chenghui Peng, Yang Yang, Rongpeng Li

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

Room: TBD

Organizers: Gagangeet Singh Aujla, Anish Jindal, Neeraj Kumar, Harpreet S Dhillon

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

Room: TBD

Organizers: Fan Liu, Jie Xu, Andrew Zhang, Christos Masouros

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

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

Room: TBD

Organizers: Chao Zhang, Doohwan Lee, Marco Moretti

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

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

Room: TBD

Organizers: Mauro Biagi, Valeria Loscrì, Anna Maria Vegni

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


WS-12: 2nd Workshop on Semantic Communications

Room: TBD

Organizers: Rong Li, Wen Tong, Geoffrey Ye Li, Tolga M. Duman, Zhijin Qin

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

Room: TBD

Organizers: Henk Wymeersch, Stefania Bartoletti, Liesbet Van der Perre, Angeliki Alexiou, George C. Alexandropoulos

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

Room: TBD

Organizers: David López-Pérez, Qingqing Wu, Jie Xu, Giovanni Geraci, Yong Zeng

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

Room: TBD

Organizers: Gunes Karabulut Kurt and Halim Yanikomeroglu

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

Room: TBD

Organizers: Sudip Misra, Paolo Bellavista, Ayan Mondal, Arijit Roy

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

Room: TBD

Organizers: Lina Mohjazi, Hanaa Abumarshoud, Haris Pervaiz, Majid Butt, Muhammad Ali Imran

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

Room: TBD

Organizers: Sahil Garg, Susan Watson, Satinder Singh, Fabrizio Granelli

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

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

Room: TBD

Organizers: Federico Chiariotti, Zhongxiang Wei, Nikolaos Pappas, Jie Cao, Sumei Sun

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

Room: TBD

Organizers: Haiyang Zhang, Anna Guerra, Francesco Guidi, Nir Shlezinger, George C. Alexandropoulos

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

Room: TBD

Organizers: Muhammad Atif Ur Rehman, Pietro Manzoni, Spyridon Mastorakis

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

Room: TBD

Organizers: Fan Liu, Jie Xu, Andrew Zhang, Christos Masouros

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

Room: TBD

Organizers: Hatim Chergui, Kamel Tourki, Mustapha Benjillali, Bouziane Brik, Adlen Ksentini

WS-22: Workshop on Holographic MIMO Communications

Room: TBD

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

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

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

Room: TBD

Organizers: Roberto Bruschi, Franco Davoli, Hesham ElBakoury, Timothy O'Farrell, Tobias, Hossfeld, Frank Loh

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

Room: TBD

Organizers: Kamran Sayrafian, Hamed Ahmadi, Konstantinos Katzis, Slawomir Ambroziak

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WS-01: Workshop on The Evolution of Digital Twin Paradigm in Wireless Communications

Room: TBD

Organizers:

  • Merouane Debbah, Technology Innovation Institute, UAE
  • Lina Bariah, Technology Innovation Institute, UAE

Detailed Program

Time

Room TBD

Sunday, May 28 2023

09:00 - 11:00 WS01-S1: Keynote 1 and Paper Session
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 - 13:00 WS01-S2: Paper Session
13:00 - 14:30 Lunch Break
14:30 - 16:00 WS01-S3: Panel and Paper Session
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee Break
16:30 - 18:00 WS01-S4: Paper Session

 

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

WS01-S1: Keynote 1 and Paper Session

Room: TBD
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: Paper Session

Room: TBD
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: Panel & Paper Session

Room: TBD
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)
Digital Twin Empowered Optimal Configuration for IRS-Assisted 6G Networks
Muhammad Tariq (National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences); Sohail Ahmad (National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences); Faisal Naeem (Ecole de Technologie Superieure Montreal)

16:00 – 16:30 Coffee break

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

WS01-S4: Paper Session

Room: TBD
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)

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

Organizers(s): Jinsong Wu

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

Organizers(s): Hai Lin, Jinhong Yuan, Jingxian Wu, Yi Hong

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

Organizers(s): Kyeong Jin Kim, David López-Pérez, Miaowen Wen, Kwang-Cheng Chen, Petar Popovski, Theodoros A. Tsiftsis

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

Organizers(s): Chao Zhang, Doohwan Lee, Marco Moretti

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

Organizers(s): Changsheng You, Mingzhe Chen, Nguyen Hoang Tran, Zhaohui Yang

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

Organizers(s): Roberto Bruschi, Franco Davoli, Hesham ElBakoury, Timothy O'Farrell, Tobias, Hossfeld, Frank Loh

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

Organizers(s): Federico Chiariotti, Zhongxiang Wei, Nikolaos Pappas, Jie Cao, Sumei Sun

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

Organizers(s): Guangyi Liu, Chenghui Peng, Yang Yang, Rongpeng Li

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

Organizers(s): Haiyang Zhang, Anna Guerra, Francesco Guidi, Nir Shlezinger, George C. Alexandropoulos

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

Organizers(s): Gagangeet Singh Aujla, Anish Jindal, Neeraj Kumar, Harpreet S Dhillon

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WS-12: 2nd Workshop on Semantic Communications

Organizers(s): Rong Li, Wen Tong, Geoffrey Ye Li, Tolga M. Duman, Zhijin Qin

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

Room: TBD

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 TBD

Thursday, June 1 2023

09:00 - 11:00 WS13-S1: Keynote 1 and Paper Session
11:00 - 11:30 Coffed Break
11:30 - 13:00 WS13-S2: Paper Session
13:00 - 14:30 Lunch Break
14:30 - 16:00 WS13-S3: Keynote 2 and Paper Session
16:00 - 16:30 Coffed Break
16:30 - 18:00 WS13-S4: Paper Session and Panel

 

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

WS13-S1: Keynote 1 and Paper Session

Room: TBD
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: Paper Session

Room: TBD
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: Keynote 2 and Paper Session

Room: TBD
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 Framework for 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: Paper Session and Panel

Room: TBD
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

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

Organizers(s): David López-Pérez, Qingqing Wu, Jie Xu, Giovanni Geraci, Yong Zeng

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

Organizers(s): Gunes Karabulut Kurt and Halim Yanikomeroglu

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

Organizers(s): Sudip Misra, Paolo Bellavista, Ayan Mondal, Arijit Roy

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

Room: TBD

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 TBD

Thursday, June 01, 2023

09:00 - 11:00 WS17-S1: Keynote and Paper Session 1
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 - 13:00 WS17-S2: Paper Session 2

 

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

WS17-S1: Keynote and Paper Session 1

Room: TBD
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: Paper Session 2

Room: TBD
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)

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

Room: TBD

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 TBD

Sunday, May 28 2023

09:00 - 11:00 WS18-S1: Keynote 1 and Paper Session
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 - 13:00 WS18-S2: Paper Session
13:00 - 14:30 Lunch Beak
14:30 - 16:00 WS18-S3: Paper Session
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee Break
16:30 - 18:00 WS18-S4: Paper Session

Thursday, June 1 2023

09:00 - 11:00 WS18-S5: Keynote 2 and Paper Session
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 - 13:00 WS18-S6: Paper Session

 

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

WS18-S1: Keynote 1 and Paper Session

Room: TBD
Chair:J. Andrew Zhang, University of Technology Sydney; Christos Masouros, University College London
Keynote
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: Paper Session

Room: TBD
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: Paper Session

Room: TBD
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 - 18:00

WS18-S4: Paper Session and Panel

Room: TBD
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: Keynote 2 and Paper Session

Room: TBD
Chair:J. Andrew Zhang, University of Technology Sydney; Christos Masouros, University College London
Keynote
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: Paper Session

Room: TBD
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
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)
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)

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

Organizers(s): Lina Mohjazi, Hanaa Abumarshoud, Haris Pervaiz, Majid Butt, Muhammad Ali Imran

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

Room: TBD

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 TBD

Thursday, June 1 2023

09:00 - 11:00 WS20-S1: Keynote 1 and Paper Session
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 - 13:00 WS20-S2: Keynote 2 and Paper Session

 

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

WS20-S1: Keynote 1 and Paper Session

Room: TBD
Chair:Hatim Chergui (i2CAT Foundation)
Keynote 1
Prof. Melike Erol-Kantarci, University of Ottawa/Ericsson R&D, Canada (REMOTELY), 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: Keynote 2 and Paper Session

Room: TBD
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

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

Room: TBD

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 TBD

Thursday, June 1

14:30 - 16:00 WS21-S1: Paper Session
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee Break
16:30 - 18:00 WS21-S2: Paper Session

 

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

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

Room: TBD
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: Session Title: Supporting IoT-Health Technology and Infrastructure

Room: TBD
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

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WS-22: Workshop on Holographic MIMO Communications

Organizers(s): George C. Alexandropoulos, Daniel Benevides da Costa, Carlos-Faouzi Bader, Chongwen Huang

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

Organizers(s): Sahil Garg, Susan Watson, Satinder Singh, Fabrizio Granelli

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

Organizers(s): Mauro Biagi, Valeria Loscrì, Anna Maria Vegni

 

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