Day 3

ICC 2024 - 2024 IEEE ICC (Day 3)

Subject to change

Denver time	Wednesday, June 12
11:30 ‑ 13:00	AC-5: Communication Architectures for UAVs CCNS-3: Edge Computing Optimization CISS-11: Federated Learning Robustness CISS-12: Wireless Security CQRM-6: Edge Computing CRAIN-3: Cognition in Wireless Networks CSM-2: Multimedia Security and Privacy CT-6: Information Theory GCSN-4: Signal Processing for Green Communications IoTSN-IS: Topics in IoTSN (Interactive) Mag-4: Frontiers in Propagation and Channels MLCN-9: Privacy and Security II MWN-11: Medium Access Control NGNI-8: Network Sensing and Wireless Communications ONS-IS: Topics in ONS (Interactive) RISSE-3: Optimization and Performance Analysis SPC-5: Sensing SSC-4: Low Earth Orbit II WC-11: Channel Modeling and Equalization WC-12: Beamforming
13:00 ‑ 14:30
14:30 ‑ 16:00	AC-6: Distributed Computing for UAVs BD-5: Big Data with Edge Computing CCNS-4: Security and Data Integrity CISS-13: Federated Learning Security CISS-14: IoT Security CQRM-IS: Topics in CQRM (Interactive) CSM-IS: Topics in CSM (Interactive) CT-7: Coded Systems and Caching GCSN-5: AI for Green Networks IoTSN-10: Protocols, Architectures and Applications for IoT Mag-5: Next-Gen Connectivity MBMC-1: Molecular and Biological Communications MLCN-10: Radio Environment Awareness MWN-IS: Topics in MWN (Interactive) NGNI-9: Edge Computing ONS-4: Quantum, Metro, and Access RISSE-4: Deep Learning SPC-6: Massive MIMO and mmWave Communications SSC-5: Communications II WC-13: Integrated Sensing and Communication WC-14: Channel State Information in MIMO
16:00 ‑ 16:30
16:30 ‑ 18:00	AC-7: Applications of Aerial Communications CISS-15: Privacy-preserving Federated Learning CISS-16: Vehicular Network Security CQRM-8: Security and Reliability CSM-3: Virtualization Technologies and Techniques CT-8: Multiple Access and Multi-user MIMO GCSN-6: Performance Optimization for Green Networks IoTSN-11: Connected Automated Vehicles IoTSN-12: Underwater and Underground Sensor and IoT Networks Mag-6: Evolution of Telecom Business MLCN-11: Resource Allocation MLCN-12: Sensing Platforms and IoT MWN-12: Multiple Access and Computation Offloading NGNI-10: Semantic Communications and Applications RISSE-5: Advanced Applications SPC-7: Machine Learning for Communications SSC-6: Platform and Performance Evaluation WC-15: Edge AI WC-16: Resource Allocation

Wednesday, June 12

Wednesday, June 12 11:30 - 13:00

AC-5: Communication Architectures for UAVs 

Room: Director's Row E, Lobby Level

Chair: Swades De (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India)

Merging in Air Corridors using Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communications

Batool Dalloul, Jaya Sravani Mandapaka and Logan McCorkendale (University of North Texas, USA); Shane Nicoll (Unmanned Experts, USA); Kamesh Namuduri (University of North Texas, USA)

Predictive QoS for Cellular-Connected UAV Communications

Ann Varghese and Antti Heikkinen (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Finland); Petri Mähönen (Aalto University, Finland); Tiia Ojanperä (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Finland); Ijaz Ahmad (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland & VTT Technical Research Center of Finland, Finland)

Joint Communication and Computing Optimization for Digital Twin Synchronization with Aerial Relay

Yi Wang (TU Darmstadt, Germany); Markus Krantzik and Lin Xiang (Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany); Anja Klein (TU Darmstadt, Germany)

UAV Formation Optimization for Communication-assisted InSAR Sensing

Mohamed-Amine Lahmeri (Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany); Victor Mustieles-Perez (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg & German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany); Martin Vossiek (LHFT, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany); Gerhard Krieger (DLR, Germany); Robert Schober (Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany)

Cooperative Intelligence-based UAV Swarm for Establishing Emergency Communication

Shan Huang, Haipeng Yao, Tianle Mai and Di Wu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Zehui Xiong (Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore); Mohsen Guizani (MBZUAI, United Arab Emirates)

CCNS-3: Edge Computing Optimization 

Room: Plaza Court 6, Concourse Level

Chair: William W Howard (Virginia Tech, USA)

Inter-user Dependent Task Offloading and Resource Allocation in Dynamic MEC Networks

Tianyi Shi and Tiankui Zhang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Ruikang Zhong and Yuanwei Liu (Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Rong Huang (Network Technology Research Institute of China Unicom, China)

Delay-Optimal Service Chain Forwarding and Offloading in Collaborative Edge Computing

Jinkun Zhang and Edmund Yeh (Northeastern University, USA)

Joint DNN Partitioning and Resource Allocation for Multiple Machine Learning-based Mobile Applications at the Network Edge

Cheng-Yu Cheng (The Catholic University of America, USA); Robert Gazda (InterDigital, LLC, USA); Hang Liu (The Catholic University of America, USA)

Resource-Aware On-board Content Caching in Multi-Layer Satellite Edge Networks

Haftay Gebreslasie Abreha (University of Luxembourg & SIGCOM, Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT ), Luxembourg); Ilora Maity and Hocuine Chougrani (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg); Christos Politis (SES, Luxembourg); Symeon Chatzinotas (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)

Joint Network Slicing and Computation Offloading for Multi-access Edge Computing: A Bi-level Game Approach

Fengsheng Wei (Yangtze Delta Region Institute (Huzhou) University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China & University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); Shuang Qin and Gang Feng (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); Yatong Wang (Beijing Institute of Technology, China)

CISS-11: Federated Learning Robustness 

Room: Governor's Square 10, Concourse Level

Chair: Ahmad Alsharif (University of Alabama, USA & Benha University, Egypt)

Breakwater: Securing Federated Learning from Malicious Model Poisoning via Self-Debiasing

Yeawon You (Ewha Womans University, Korea (South)); JinYi Yoon (Virginia Tech, USA); HyungJune Lee (Ewha Womans University, Korea (South))

Poisoning Attack Mitigation for Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning-based Energy Theft Detection

Mahmoud Srewa (The University of Alabama, USA); Michaela F Winfree (University of Kentucky, USA); Mohamed I Ibrahem (Augusta University, USA); Mahmoud Nabil (North Carolina A, USA); Rongxing Lu (University of New Brunswick, Canada); Ahmad Alsharif (University of Alabama, USA & Benha University, Egypt)

Explore Patterns to Detect Sybil Attack during Federated Learning in Mobile Digital Twin Network

Wenmiao Zhang (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA); Chong Yu (University of Cincinnati, USA); Zhenyu Meng (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA); Shuaiqi Shen (University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, USA); Kuan Zhang (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA)

Credit-Based Client Selection for Resilient Model Aggregation in Federated Learning

Mohammadreza Khorramfar (University of Winnipeg, Canada); Yaser Al Mtawa (The University of Winnipeg, Canada); Adel Abusitta (Polytechnique Montreal, Canada); Talal Halabi (Laval University, Canada)

A GAN-Based Data Poisoning Framework Against Anomaly Detection in Vertical Federated Learning

Xiaolin Chen (Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences,China,); Daoguang Zan, Wei Li, Bei Guan and Yongji Wang (Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)

CISS-12: Wireless Security 

Room: Governor's Square 11, Concourse Level

Chair: Alireza Vahid (Rochester Institute of Technology, USA)

Secrecy Power Allocation Using Successive Convex Approximation For In-band Full Duplex Two-way MIMO Wiretap Channel

Navneet Garg (The LNM Institute of Information Technology, Jaipur, India); Haifeng Luo (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Tharmalingam Ratnarajah (The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

Countering RF Side-Channel Sniffing in Optical Wireless Communication

Yue Zhang and Nan Cen (Saint Louis University, USA)

Joint Intelligent Reflecting Surface-Aided Frequency-Hopping Anti-Jamming for Tactical Wireless Systems

Le Van Hau and Nguyen Ti Ti (University of Quebec, Canada); Kim Khoa Nguyen (École de Technologie Supérieure, Canada)

Physical-Layer Spoofing in WiFi 6 to Steer the Beam Toward the Attacker

Tiep M. Hoang and Alireza Vahid (Rochester Institute of Technology, USA); Douglas Sicker (Carnegie Mellon University, USA); Ashutosh Sabharwal (Rice University, USA)

Reliability and Latency of Wireless Communication Systems with a Secret-Key Budget

Karl-Ludwig Besser (Princeton University, USA); Rafael F. Schaefer (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany); H. Vincent Poor (Princeton University, USA)

CQRM-6: Edge Computing 

Room: Director's Row H, Lobby Level

Chair: Chenlu Zhang (Kyoto University, Japan)

On the Interplay Between Network Metrics and Performance of Mobile Edge Offloading

Parisa Fard Moshiri, Murat Simsek and Burak Kantarci (University of Ottawa, Canada)

Dynamic Edge/Cloud Resource Allocation for Distributed Computation under Semi-Static Demands

Ippokratis Sartzetakis (National Technical University of Athens-NTUA, Institute of Communication and Computer Systems-ICCS & Institute of Communication and Computer Systems - ICCS, Greece); Panagiotis Pantazopoulos and Konstantinos V. Katsaros (Institute of Communication and Computer Systems (ICCS), Greece); Vasilis Sourlas (ICCS-NTUA, Greece); Emmanouel Varvarigos (National Technical University of Athens & Computer Technology Institute, Greece)

Reactive vs Predictive Live Migration in Edge Cloud

Daisy Rani, Saptarshi Ghosh and Tasos Dagiuklas (London South Bank University, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

Joint Optimization of Service Caching Task Offloading and Resource Allocation in Cloud-Edge Cooperative Network

Chaogang Tang (College of Computer Science and Technology, CUMT, Xuzhou, Jiangsu, China); Yao Ding and Shuo Xiao (China University of Mining and Technology, China); Huaming Wu (Tianjin University, China); Ruidong Li (Kanazawa University, Japan)

An Optimized Channel Resource Utilization Scheme in Wireless Field Networks for IIoT

Yingchao Zhao (Saint Francis University, China); Wang Hanwu and Xiao Zhang (Caritas Institute of Higher Education, China)

CRAIN-3: Cognition in Wireless Networks 

Room: Plaza Court 5, Concourse Level

Chair: Yao Ma (NIST, USA)

Lightweight Spiking Neural Network based Detector for Interweave Cognitive Radios

Md Mehedi Hassan Galib and Mohamed Younis (University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA); Sultan Ahmed (UMBC, USA)

The Price of Forgetting: Data Redemption Mechanism Design for Machine Unlearning

Yue Cui and Man Hon Cheung (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)

Convolutional Block Attention Module-based Neural Network for Enhanced IQ Imbalance Estimation in Low Signal-to-Noise Ratio Environments

Xiao Deng and Yuan Ma (Shenzhen University, China); Xingjian Zhang (Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen), China); Hao Zhu (Shenzhen University & College of Electronic and Information Engineering, China)

AIGC for Wireless Data: The Case of RFID-based Human Activity Recognition

Ziqi Wang and Shiwen Mao (Auburn University, USA)

Unleashing the Full Potential of Active RIS in Cognitive Radio

Ruizhe Long, Hao Chen and Ying-Chang Liang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China)

CSM-2: Multimedia Security and Privacy 

Room: Plaza Court 7, Concourse Level

Chair: Hung-Yun Hsieh (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)

TrustEvent: Cross-Platform IoT Trigger Event Verification Using Edge Computing

Trent Reichenbach (Stevens Institute of Technology, USA); Chenglong Fu (University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA); Xiaojiang Du (Stevens Institute of Technology, USA); Jia Di (University of Arkansas, USA); Yuede Ji (University of North Texas, USA)

DiNATrAX: a Network Anomalies Detection Framework

Christophe Maudoux and Selma Boumerdassi (Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, France)

Towards Optimal Multiview Transcoding for Edge-Assisted Wireless Volumetric Streaming

Yi-Pao Wu (National Taiwan University, Taiwan); Cheng-Yeh Chen (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA); Tsung-Yu Li (Taiwan); Hung-Yun Hsieh (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)

SRFC: Scalable Radiance Fields Streaming with Planar Codec

Quanlu Jia, Haodan Zhang, Haoyang Wang, Liming Liu, Jiangkai Wu, Xinggong Zhang and Zongming Guo (Peking University, China)

QoE Maximization for Video Streaming in Cache-Enable Satellite-UAV-Terrestrial Network

Zhibo Yang and Jiansong Miao (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Tao Zhang (Beijing Jiaotong University, China); Xiangyun Tang (Minzu University of China, China); Jiawen Kang (Guangdong University of Technology, China); Dusit Niyato (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

CT-6: Information Theory 

Room: Governor's Square 17, Concourse Level

Chair: Mojtaba Vaezi (Villanova University, USA)

On the Solvability of Resource Allocation Problems for Wireless Systems on Digital Computers

Holger Boche (Technical University Munich, Germany); Andrea Grigorescu (Technical University of Munich, Germany); Rafael F. Schaefer (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany); H. Vincent Poor (Princeton University, USA)

Characterization of the Complexity of Computing the Capacity of Colored Noise Gaussian Channels

Holger Boche (Technical University Munich, Germany); Andrea Grigorescu (Technical University of Munich, Germany); Rafael F. Schaefer (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany); H. Vincent Poor (Princeton University, USA)

On the Low-SNR Asymptotic Capacity of Optical Wireless Channels with Average-Intensity Constraints

Longguang Li (East China Normal University, Shanghai, China)

On the Capacity of Zero-Drift First Arrival Position Channels in Diffusive Molecular Communication

Yen-Chi Lee (Hon Hai (Foxconn) Research Institute, Taiwan); Min-Hsiu Hsieh (University of Technology Sydney, Australia)

Capacity-Achieving Input of Non-Coherent Rayleigh Fading Channels: Bounds on the Number of Mass Points

Antonino Favano and Luca Barletta (Politecnico di Milano, Italy); Alex Dytso (Qualcomm Inc., USA); Gerhard Kramer (Technical University of Munich, Germany)

GCSN-4: Signal Processing for Green Communications 

Room: Plaza Court 8, Concourse Level

Chair: Seyyedali Hosseinalipour (University at Buffalo, USA)

Blind Timing Estimation and Signal Detection for RIS-Assisted Symbiotic Radio with Imperfect Symbol Synchronization

Hao Chen, Ruizhe Long and Ying-Chang Liang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); Robert Schober (Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany)

Simultaneous Information and Energy Transfer in Large-Scale FA-enabled Cellular Networks

Christodoulos Skouroumounis and Ioannis Krikidis (University of Cyprus, Cyprus)

Performance Analysis of Receive Diversity RIS and RPM Assisted Index Modulated Communication System

Aritra Basu (INRS- EMT, Canada); Soumya P. Dash (Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar, India); Aryan Kaushik (University of Sussex, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Ranjan K. Mallik (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India); Sonia Aissa (INRS, University of Quebec, Canada)

Integrated Sensing, Communications, and Powering for Statistical-QoS Provisioning Over 6G Massive-MIMO Mobile Wireless Networks Using FBC

Xi Zhang and Qixuan Zhu (Texas A&M University, USA)

Resource Scheduling for Timely Wireless Powered Crowdsensing with the aid of Average Age of Information

Guoxin Zhang, Yali Zheng, Yusha Liu and Jie Hu (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); Kun Yang (University of Essex, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

IoTSN-IS: Topics in IoTSN (Interactive) 

Room: Exhibit Hall, Concourse Level

Chair: Hina Tabassum (York University, Canada)

A Time-Varying and Time-Invariant RF Fingerprint Extraction Approach for IoT Device Identification

Qiexiang Wang, Yazhou Sun, Longhui Wang and Jian Wang (Tsinghua University, China); Xudong Zhang (Tsinghua University, Algeria)

Battery-Free Sensor Array for Wireless Multi-Depth In-Situ Sensing

Hongzhi Guo (University of Nebraska Lincoln, USA); Adam Kamrath (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA)

RSCNet: Dynamic CSI Compression for Cloud-based WiFi Sensing

Borna Barahimi, Hakam Singh and Hina Tabassum (York University, Canada); Omer Waqar (University of the Fraser Valley, Canada); Mohammad Omer (Cognitive Systems Corp., Canada)

WiFi Sensing Based Textile Wetness Monitoring

Yirui Deng, Jiajun Xie, Cong Liu and Xuan Men (University of New South Wales, Australia); Deepak Mishra (University of New South Wales (UNSW) Sydney, Australia); Aruna Seneviratne (University of New South Wales, Australia)

A Weighted Cluster Networking Mechanism for UANET Assisted IoT Networks

Lei Zhao, Wenbin Sun, Xin Yang, Qian Xu and Ling Wang (Northwestern Polytechnical University, China)

On the Convergence of Gossip Learning in the Presence of Node Inaccessibility

Tian Liu (Zhejiang Laboratory, China); Yue Cui (Auburn University at Montgomery, USA); Xueyang Hu (Auburn University, USA); Yecheng Xu (Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China); Bo Liu (DBAPPSecurity Co Ltd, China)

GeoFed: A Geography-Aware Federated Learning Approach for Vehicular Visual Crowdsensing

Xinli Hao (Beijing Institute of Technology, China); Wenjun Zhang and Xiaoli Liu (University of Helsinki, Finland); Chao Zhu (Beijing Institute of Technology, China); Sasu Tarkoma (University of Helsinki, Finland)

Assessment of Optimal Time Scheduled Channel Access in LoRaWAN

Frank Loh (University of Wuerzburg, Germany); David Raunecker (Universität Würzburg, Germany); Tobias Hoßfeld (University of Würzburg, Germany)

Smart Pilot Assignment for IoT in Massive MIMO Systems: A Path Towards Scalable IoT Infrastructure

Muhammad Kamran Saeed and Ashfaq Khokhar (Iowa State University, USA)

Efficient and Economical UAV-facilitated Wireless Charging and Data Relay Trajectory Planning for WRSNs

Jiaxuan Li and Xilong Liu (Yunnan University, China); Xiaoqi Qin (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)

Design, Modelling and Analysis of Underwater Acoustic Backscatter Communications

Na Tang (The University of Sheffield, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Yang Liu (Nokia Bell Labs, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Xiaoli Chu (University of Sheffield, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Ian Fuat Akyildiz (Editor in Chief for ITU-Journal for FET, International Telecom Union & Truva Inc., USA)

Improving the Transmission Rate by A Two-Phase Hybrid Duplex Scheme for Gaussian Relay Channel

Jianxin Duan, Zhengchuan Chen and Zhong Tian (Chongqing University, China); Min Wang (Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Li Zhen (Xi'an University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Dapeng Oliver Wu (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong); Tony Q. S. Quek (Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore)

Global Positioning of Underwater Nodes Using Airborne-formed Visual Light Beams and Acoustic Ranging

Jaeed Bin Saif and Mohamed Younis (University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA); Fow-Sen Choa (UMBC, USA); Akram Ahmed (University of Maryland Baltimore County & King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, USA)

Deep Dict: Deep Learning-based Lossy Time Series Compressor for IoT Data

Jinxin Liu (University of Ottawa, Canada); Petar Djukic (Ciena, Canada); Michel Kulhandjian (Rice University, USA & University of Ottawa, USA); Burak Kantarci (University of Ottawa, Canada)

Mag-4: Frontiers in Propagation and Channels 

Room: Terrace Room, Terrace Level

Chair: Ammar El Falou (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia)

Lessons Learned from a Decade of THz Channel Sounding

Johannes M. Eckhardt and Tobias Doeker (Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany)

Towards Terabit Receivers for Optical and Wireless Communications

Thomas. Schneider (Institut für Hochfrequenztechnik, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany)

Toward Integrated Sensing and Communications in IEEE 802.11bf Wi-Fi Networks

Francesca Meneghello (University of Padova, Italy); Cheng Chen and Carlos Cordeiro (Intel Corporation, USA); Francesco Restuccia (Northeastern University, USA)

LTE I/Q Data Set for UAV Propagation Modeling, Communication, and Navigation Research

Sung Joon Maeng (Hanyang University, ERICA Campus, Korea (South)); Özgür Özdemir, Ismail Güvenç, Mihail Sichitiu, Magreth J Mushi and Rudra Dutta (North Carolina State University, USA)

MLCN-9: Privacy and Security II 

Room: Governor's Square 12, Concourse Level

Chair: Hossam S. Hassanein (Queen's University, Canada)

AI on the Defensive and Offensive: Securing Multi-Environment Networks from AI Agents

Furqan Rustam, Pasika Ranaweera and Anca Delia Jurcut (University College Dublin, Ireland)

A Secure Stackelberg Game Framework for Profit Maximization in Vehicle-to-Grid Systems using 5G

Aparna Kumari (Institute of Technology, Nirma University, India & Ganpat University, India); Anushka Nehra (Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, India); Pronaya Bhattacharya (Amity School of Engineering and Technology, Amity University, India); Sudeep Tanwar (Institute of Technology Nirma University Ahmedabad Gujarat, India); Rajesh Gupta (Institute of Technology, Nirma University, India); Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues (Senac Fac of Ceará, Brazil & Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal)

Jamming Attacks and Mitigation in Transfer Learning Enabled 5G RAN Slicing

Shavbo Salehi and Hao Zhou (University of Ottawa, Canada); Medhat Elsayed (Ericsson, Canada); Majid Bavand (Queen's University, Canada); Raimundas Gaigalas (Ericsson, Sweden); Yiğit Özcan (Ericsson, Canada); Melike Erol-Kantarci (University of Ottawa & Ericsson, Canada)

Towards Well-trained Model Robustness in Federated Learning: An Adversarial-Example-Generation-Efficiency Perspective

Jianhua Wang and Xuyang Lei (Beijing Jiaotong University, China); Min Liang (Renmin University of China, China); Jelena Mišić and Vojislav B. Mišić (Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada); Xiaolin Chang (Beijing Jiaotong University, China)

6G mmWave Security: Next-Gen Protection with Federated Learning

Ammar Kamal Abasi, Moayad Aloqaily and Mohsen Guizani (MBZUAI, United Arab Emirates)

MWN-11: Medium Access Control 

Room: Plaza Court 4, Concourse Level

Chair: Randall A Berry (Northwestern University, USA)

Enabling LEO Satellite Vertical Handover for Massive 6G IoT Random Access

Luis Tello-Oquendo (National University of Chimborazo & IEEE, Ecuador); Faisal Ahmed, Chia-Hung Lin and Shih-Chun Lin (North Carolina State University, USA); Myungjin Lee (Cisco Research, USA)

Experimental Hardware Implementation of Trigger Based Scheduled MAC for Next Generation Wi-Fi

Óscar Seijo (Ikerlan Technology Research Centre, Basque Research and Technology Alliance (BRTA), Spain); Javier Perez-Ramirez (INTEL Corporation, USA); Inaki Val (IKERLAN, Spain); Drake Rastorfer, Dmitry Akhmetov and Dibakar Das (Intel Corporation, USA); Vesh Raj Sharma Banjade (Intel Corporation & Intel Labs, USA); Dave A Cavalcanti (Intel Corporation, USA)

Dynamic Cooperative MAC Optimization in RSU-Enhanced VANETs: A Distributed Approach

Zhou Zhang (Tianjin Artificial Intelligence Innovation Center (TAIIC), China); Saman Atapattu (RMIT University, Australia); Yizhu Wang (Tianjin Artificial Intelligence Innovation Center (TAIIC), China); Sumei Sun (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore); Sithamparanathan Kandeepan (RMIT University, Australia)

Tunable Weighted Kernel k-Means for Clustered Cell-Free Networking Acceleration and Beam On-Off Control

Xiankun Zeng, Junyuan Wang and Ke Yue (Tongji University, China); Miaomiao Dong (Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., China); Bo Bai (Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Hong Kong)

HARQ Retransmissions in C-V2X: A BSM Latency Analysis

Abdurrahman Fouda (Nokia Standards, USA); Randall A Berry (Northwestern University, USA); Ivan Vukovic (Ford Motor Company, USA)

NGNI-8: Network Sensing and Wireless Communications 

Room: Governor's Square 9, Concourse Level

Chair: John S Vardakas (Iquadrat Informatica, Spain)

Two-Sided Learning: A Techno-Economic View of Mobile Crowdsensing under Incomplete Information

Sumedh Jitendra Dongare (Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany); Bernd Simon, Andrea Ortiz and Anja Klein (TU Darmstadt, Germany)

GENESIS: Green Energy Efficiency Optimization in Integrated Sensing and Communication Networks

Arianna Santamaria Penafiel, Md Sadman Siraj and Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou (University of New Mexico, USA); Symeon Papavassiliou (National Technical University of Athens, Greece)

Enhancing Sensing Capabilities in RSMA Downlink Networks through User-Assisted Beamforming

Ali Mahdi Amhaz, Mohamed Elhattab and Chadi Assi (Concordia University, Canada); Sanaa Sharafeddine (American University of Beirut, Lebanon)

A Thorough Analysis of Radio Resource Assignment for UAV-Enhanced Vehicular Sidelink Communications

Francesca Conserva (University of Bologna & WiLab/CNIT, Italy); Francesco Linsalata, Marouan Mizmizi, Maurizio Magarini and Umberto Spagnolini (Politecnico di Milano, Italy); Roberto Verdone and Chiara Buratti (University of Bologna, Italy)

Delay Distribution Analysis for Multi-hop Relay Transmission in a Platoon with C-V2X Sidelink Communication

Kosuke Sanada, Hiroyuki Hatano and Kazuo Mori (Mie University, Japan)

ONS-IS: Topics in ONS (Interactive) 

Room: Exhibit Hall, Concourse Level

New Paradigm For Fiber Optics Communication

Valentin Laurent (University of Nebraska, USA); Jitender Singh Deogun and Dennis Alexander (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA)

SLIPT in Joint Dimming Multi-LED OWC Systems with Rate Splitting Multiple Access

Sepideh Javadi (Pasargad Institute for Advanced Innovative Solutions (PIAIS), Iran); Sajad Faramarzi (Iran University of Science and Technology, Iran); Farshad Zeinali (Pasargad Institute for Advanced Innovative Solutions & Tarbiat Modares University, Iran); Hosein Zarini (Sharif University of Technology, Iran); Mohammad Robat mili (Pasargad Institute for Advanced Innovative Solutions (PIAIS), Iran); Panagiotis D. Diamantoulakis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece); Eduard A Jorswieck (Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany); George K. Karagiannidis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece)

RISSE-3: Optimization and Performance Analysis 

Room: Director's Row J, Lobby Level

Chair: Charles Vanwynsberghe (Technology Innovation Institute, United Arab Emirates)

Off-center Optimization for Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface: Design and Experiments

Yuan Cao (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China); Jianfeng Li (Lishui University, China); Wei Peng (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China)

On the MIMO Channel Capacity for Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface Assisted Symbiotic Radios

Qianqian Zhang, Hu Zhou and Ying-Chang Liang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China)

A Zero-Forcing Approach for the RIS-Aided MIMO Broadcast Channel

Dominik Semmler, Michael Joham and Wolfgang Utschick (Technische Universität München, Germany)

Diversity and SEP Analysis of IRS-Assisted Systems in Correlated Rayleigh Fading Channels

Ashna K K and Jobin Francis (Indian Institute of Technology Palakkad, India)

On the Sum Secrecy Rate of Multi-User Holographic MIMO Networks

Arthur S. de Sena (University of Oulu, Finland); Jiguang He (Technology Innovation Institute, United Arab Emirates); Ahmed Ali Al Hammadi (TII & Technology Innovation Institute, United Arab Emirates); Chongwen Huang (Zhejiang University, China); Faouzi Bader (Technology Innovation Institut -TII, United Arab Emirates); Mérouane Debbah (Khalifa University of Science and Technology, France); Mathias Fink (ESPCI PSL Paris, France)

SPC-5: Sensing 

Room: Plaza Court 1, Concourse Level

Chair: Aydin Sezgin (RUB, Germany)

High-Resolution Wideband DOA Estimation Based on Multi-Frequency Cyclic Rank-Minimization

Hedeng Yu, Zhenlong Xiao and Xinghao Ding (Xiamen University, China); Xianbin Wang (Western University, Canada)

Optimizing Vehicle Positioning via Multi-model Image and Radio Frequency Fusion

Ouwen Huan (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Mingzhe Chen (University of Miami, USA); Tao Luo (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)

Deep Learning-Based Pulse-Shaping Filter Estimation for Fine-Grained WiFi Sensing

Han Hu, Ruiqi Kong, Ke Xu and He Chen (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)

Dynamic Spectrum Cartography via Emitter Separation-based Tensor Completion

Xiaonan Chen and Jun Wang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China)

Scalable Near-Field Localization Based on Array Partitioning and Angle-of-Arrival Fusion

Yuqing Zheng, Mingchen Zhang, Boyu Teng and Xiaojun Yuan (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China)

SSC-4: Low Earth Orbit II 

Room: Director's Row I, Lobby Level

Chair: Bassel F Beidas (Hughes, USA)

On the Impact of Orbital Motion on Handoff and Coverage in Multi-antenna LEO Satellite Systems

Munzir Mohamed (University of Manitoba, Canada); Hina Tabassum (York University, Canada); Hesham ElSawy (School of Computing, Queen's University, Canada); Ekram Hossain (University of Manitoba, Canada)

Spectrum Sharing in Low-Earth Orbit Satellite Systems under an Interference Protection Constraint

Eunsun Kim (The University of Texas at Austin, USA); Ian P Roberts (UCLA, USA); Jeffrey Andrews (The University of Texas at Austin, USA)

Measuring the Satellite Links of a LEO Network

Jianping Pan, Jinwei Zhao and Lin Cai (University of Victoria, Canada)

Gaia: Ground Station-Centric Mobility Management for LEO Satellite Networks

Xiaxin Zhou, Tian Pan and Zhaokun Yang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Sirui Su (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunication, China); Jun Hu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Guohao Ruan (China); Junkai Huang, Tao Huang and Yunjie Liu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)

Inter-satellite Link Planning for High Capacity in LEO Mega-Constellations

Tianyu Lan, Di Zhou, Min Sheng and Jiandong Li (Xidian University, China)

WC-11: Channel Modeling and Equalization 

Room: Plaza Court 3, Concourse Level

Chair: Abby R Anderson (US Naval Research Laboratory, USA)

Two-Dimensional ICI-ISI Turbo Equalization for Doubly-Dispersive High-Spread Channels

Jorge A Pires, Benjamin Belzer, Krishnamoorthy Sivakumar and Thomas Fischer (Washington State University, USA)

Towards Bridging the Gap between Near and Far-Field Characterizations of the Wireless Channel

Navneet Agrawal (Technische Universität Berlin, Germany); Ehsan Tohidi (Fraunhofer HHI, Germany); Renato L. G. Cavalcante (Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute, Germany); Slawomir Stanczak (Technische Universität Berlin & Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute, Germany)

Effects of Terrain on 3.5 GHz Propagation Modeling of Diffraction in an Urban Environment

Abby R Anderson (US Naval Research Laboratory, USA); Chris Anderson (National Telecommunications and Information Administration & Institute for Telecommunication Sciences, USA)

Near-Optimal Detection of Zak-OTFS Signals

Fathima Jesbin (Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, India); A. Chockalingam (Indian Institute of Science, India)

Space-Time Consistency Modeling for Non-Stationary Massive MIMO Environments

Xiaokang Xiang and Wei Peng (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China); Li Dong (Macau University of Science and Technology, Macao); Gan Zheng (University of Warwick & Loughborough University, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

WC-12: Beamforming 

Room: Plaza Court 2, Concourse Level

Chair: Nitin Jonathan Myers (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)

Beamforming Design for Multi-User MIMO-OFDM Integrated Sensing and Communication Systems

Zhe-Ting Liao, Ming-Chun Lee and Shou-Fan Wu (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan); Ta-Sung Lee (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan)

A Novel Dynamic Hybrid Beamforming Design for ELAA Systems

Mengzhen Liu and Ming Li (Dalian University of Technology, China); Rang Liu (University of California, Irvine, USA); Qian Liu (Dalian University of Technology, China)

Near-Field Wideband Beamforming Design with Short-Range True-Time Delayers

Zhaolin Wang, Xidong Mu, Yixuan Zou and Yuanwei Liu (Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

Cell-Free Massive MIMO Beamforming Based on Radio Map

Bin Yang (The University of New South Wales, Australia); Wei Wang (Peng Cheng Laboratory, China); Wei Zhang (The University of New South Wales, Australia)

Joint Active and Passive Beamforming Design for Intelligent Reflecting Surface Assisted Integrated Sensing and Communications Systems

Yongze Wang, Ang Gao, Qian Zhang and Xiaoyu Ren (Northwestern Polytechnical University, China); Jiankang Zhang (Bournemouth University, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

Wednesday, June 12 14:30 - 16:00

AC-6: Distributed Computing for UAVs 

Room: Director's Row E, Lobby Level

Chair: Waleed Ejaz (Lakehead University, Canada)

A Traffic Control Framework for Uncrewed Aircraft Systems

Ananay Vikram Gupta (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA); Aaditya Prakash Kattekola (National Institute of Technology Warangal, India); Ansh Vikram Gupta (Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, USA); Abhiram Venkata Dacharla (Indian Institute of Information Technology, Design and Manufacturing, Kancheepuram, India); Kamesh Namuduri (University of North Texas, USA); Ravi Subramanian (Hermes Autonomous Air Mobility Solutions Corp.)

Interference-Aware Queuing Analysis for Distributed Transmission Control in UAV Networks

Masoud Ghazikor (University of Kansas, USA); Keenan Roach and Kenny Cheung (Universities Space Research Association, USA); Morteza Hashemi (University of Kansas, USA)

Adaptive Model Predictive Control-Driven Approach for Visual Detection of Micro-UAVs

Gunasekaran Raja (Anna University, India); Selvam Essaky (Anna University, MIT Campus & NGNLab, India); Deepak Suresh Rajendran (NGNLab Anna University MIT Campus, India); Sai Ganesh Senthivel (Carnegie Mellon University, USA); Sebastian Knorr (Ernst Abbe University Jena Germany & Technical University of Berlin, Germany); Kapal Dev (Munster Technological University & IEEE, Ireland)

Parameterize Deep Q Network for Backscattering Data Capture with Multiple UAVs

Deepak Gupta (Bennett University, India); Ishan Budhiraja (Bennett University, Greater Noida, India); Rajat Chaudhary (Bennett University, India); Neeraj Kumar (Thapar University Patiala, India)

Message Passing Assisted Scalable Distributed Link Management for Ubiquitous Network

Mengke Yang (Northwestern Polytechnical University, China); Daosen Zhai (Northwestren Polytechnical University, China); Haotong Cao (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong); Bin Li (Northwestern Polytechnical University, China); Mubarak Alrashoud (King Saud University, Saudi Arabia)

BD-5: Big Data with Edge Computing 

Room: Director's Row H, Lobby Level

Chair: Ting Zhou (Shanghai University, China)

Large-Scale Decentralized Asynchronous Federated Edge Learning with Device Heterogeneity

Xuan Liang and Jianhua Tang (South China University of Technology, China); Tony Q. S. Quek (Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore)

MEC-Enabled Cooperative Rendering in Metaverse: A Coalition Formation Game Approach

Mengzhen Cheng (Shanghai University, China); Zhou Su (Xi'an Jiaotong University, China); Yuan Wu (University of Macau, Macao); Qichao Xu (Shanghai University, China); Minghui Dai (University of Macau, Macao); Dongfeng Fang (California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo, USA)

Online Data Trading for Cloud-Edge Collaboration Architecture

Shijing Yuan and Yusen Wang (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China); Jie Li (Shanghai Jiaotong University, China); Jiong Lou and Chentao Wu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China); Song Guo (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong); Yang Yang (Terminus Group and Peng Cheng Laboratory, China)

Enhancing Vehicular Edge Intelligence through Distributed Collaborative Generative AI Inference

Gaochang Xie, Renchao Xie and Xinyuan Zhang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Jiangtian Nie (Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore); Qinqin Tang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecom, China); Qian Chen (Xidian University, China); Dusit Niyato (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

CrossLearning: Vertical and Horizontal Learning for Request Scheduling in Edge-Cloud Systems

Xiaoyun Shi (TianJin University, China); Yunfeng Zhao and Chao Qiu (Tianjin University, China); Xiaofei Wang (Tianjin Key Laboratory of Advanced Networking, Tianjin University, China); Xiuhua Li (Chongqing University, China); Wenyu Wang (Shanghai Zhuichu Networking Technologies Co., Ltd., China)

CCNS-4: Security and Data Integrity 

Room: Plaza Court 6, Concourse Level

Chair: Humphrey Rutagemwa (Communications Research Centre (CRC), Canada)

Secret Sharing for DNA Probability Vectors

Wenkai Zhang (University of California, Irvine, USA); Zhiying Wang (UC Irvine, USA)

Scale Wisely, Secure Wholly: P2P Swarm Learning over Consortium Blockchain in Edge Networks

Feng Gao, Lixing Chen, Quanhai Zhang, Gaolei Li, Xi Lin, Yang Bai and Jianhua Li (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China)

Optimized Denial-of-Service Threats on the Scalability of LT Coded Blockchains

Harikrishnan K (IIT Delhi, India); J Harshan (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India); Anwitaman Datta (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

An Efficient and Scalable Auditing Scheme for Cloud Data Storage using an Enhanced B-Tree

Tariqul Islam and Faisal Haque Bappy (Syracuse University, USA); Md Nafis Ul Haque Shifat (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA); Farhan Ahmad (New Gov. Degree College, USA); Kamrul Hasan (Tennessee State University, USA); Tarannum Shaila Zaman (SUNY Polytechnic Institute, USA)

SR-SL: A Secure and Low-Cost Path Validation Based on SRv6

Xiaotian Ge and Xiaoliang Wang (Capital Normal University, China); Songtao Fu (Tsinghua University, China); Wenlong Chen (Capital Normal University, China)

CISS-13: Federated Learning Security 

Room: Governor's Square 10, Concourse Level

Chair: Zhenyu Meng (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA)

Fairness-aware Federated Learning Framework on Heterogeneous Data Distributions

Ye Li and Jiale Zhang (Yangzhou University, China); Yanchao Zhao and Bing Chen (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China); Shui Yu (University of Technology Sydney, Australia)

Secure Interaction-based Feature Selection for Vertical Federated Learning

Zhenyu Meng and Wenmiao Zhang (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA); Shuaiqi Shen (University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, USA); Chong Yu (University of Cincinnati, USA); Kuan Zhang (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA)

Adaptive Backdoor Attacks Against Dataset Distillation for Federated Learning

Ze Chai, Zhipeng Gao and Yijing Lin (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Chen Zhao (Ningbo University of Technology, China); Xinlei Yu and Zhiqiang Xie (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)

FedSV: Byzantine-Robust Federated Learning via Shapley Value

Khaoula Otmani (Avignon University, France); Rachid El-Azouzi and Vincent Labatut (University of Avignon, France)

DRNet: Efficient Few-Shot Learning Model for Regenerating Restricted-Access Area Maps

Van-Linh Nguyen (National Chung Cheng University & College of Engineering, Taiwan); Lan-Huong Nguyen and Yu-Hao Liu (National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan)

CISS-14: IoT Security 

Room: Governor's Square 11, Concourse Level

Chair: Wenmiao Zhang (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA)

Securing IoT Malware Classifiers: Dynamic Trigger-Based Attack and Mitigation

Yefei Zhang and Jun Yan (Concordia University, Canada); Sadegh Torabi (George Mason University, USA); Chadi Assi (Concordia University, Canada)

Generative Adversarial Networks for Robust Anomaly Detection in Noisy IoT Environments

Adel Abusitta (Polytechnique Montreal, Canada); Talal Halabi (Laval University, Canada); Ahmed Bataineh (Queens University, Canada); Mohammad Zulkernine (Queen's University, Canada)

Game-theoretic Modeling of Hybrid Defense Strategies against DRDoS Traffic in 5G Networks

Chaojie Guo (Beijing University of Post and Telecommunication, China); Shen Wang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Xin Rong (BUPT, China); Xiaofeng Tao (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)

Blockchain-aided Collaborative Threat Detection for Securing Digital Twin-based IIoT Networks

Ahmad Zainudin (Kumoh National Institute of Technology, Korea (South) & Politeknik Elektronika Negeri Surabaya, Indonesia); Made Adi Paramartha Putra (Primakara University, Indonesia); Revin Naufal Alief, Dong Seong Kim and Jae Min Lee (Kumoh National Institute of Technology, Korea (South))

PressHeart: A Two-Factor Authentication Mechanism via PPG Signals for Wearable Devices

Weihao Zhang (Ningbo University, China); Xinyan Zhou (Ningbo Univeisity, China); Haiming Chen (Ningbo University, China)

CQRM-IS: Topics in CQRM (Interactive) 

Room: Exhibit Hall, Concourse Level

EMPRN: Reinforcement Learning-based ECN Tuning Using Message Passing Graph Recurrent Networks for Datacenters

Kasra Zaeri (University of Tehran, Iran); Ahmed M. Abdelmoniem (Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom (Great Britain) & Assiut University, Egypt)

Blockchain-enabled Energy Trading and Battery-based Sharing in Microgrids

Abdulrezzak Zekiye (Koç University, Turkey); Ouns Bouachir (Zayed University & ENAC, United Arab Emirates); Oznur Ozkasap (Koc University, Turkey); Moayad Aloqaily (MBZUAI, United Arab Emirates)

A Robust Routing Protocol for Interconnected Vehicles through Symmetric Secret Key Exchange

Umesh Bodkhe (Institute of Technology, Nirma University, India); Sudeep Tanwar (Institute of Technology Nirma University Ahmedabad Gujarat, India); Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues (Senac Fac of Ceará, Brazil & Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal)

Bandwidth Allocation for Multiple Functional Splitting Options over TWDM-EPON Networks with Multi-ONU Customers

Oscar Ciceri (State University of Campinas, Brazil); Carlos A. Astudillo (University of Campinas, Brazil); Zuqing Zhu (University of Science and Technology of China, China); Nelson L. S. da Fonseca (State University of Campinas, Brazil)

CSM-IS: Topics in CSM (Interactive) 

Room: Exhibit Hall, Concourse Level

Chair: Lingzhi Zhao (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA)

Revisiting MARS: Storing Coded Packets In-Advance for IPFS

Paul Schwenteck and Sandra Zimmermann (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany); Caspar von Lengerke (Technical University Dresden, Germany); Juan A. Cabrera (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany); Frank H.P. Fitzek (Technische Universität Dresden & ComNets - Communication Networks Group, Germany)

Subjective QoE Assessment for Virtual Reality Cloud-based First-Person Shooter Game

Henrique Souza Rossi (Lulea University of Technology, Sweden); Karan Mitra and Samuel Larsson (Luleå University of Technology, Sweden); Christer Åhlund (Lulea University of Technology, Sweden); Irina Cotanis (Infovista, Sweden)

Spatial-temporal Semantic Communications for Point Cloud-based Volumetric Media

Jingxuan Men, Ning Wang, Yi Ma, Peng Qian and Carl Udora (University of Surrey, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Mike E Nilsson (Nilsson & BT, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

Position Aware 60 GHz mmWave Beamforming for V2V Communications Utilizing Deep Learning

Muhammad Baqer Mollah (University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, USA); Honggang Wang (University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth & College of Engineering, USA); Hua Fang (University of Massachusetts Medical School & Dartmouth, USA)

CT-7: Coded Systems and Caching 

Room: Governor's Square 17, Concourse Level

Chair: Bho Matthiesen (University of Bremen, Germany)

Over-the-Air Histogram Estimation

Henrik Hellström (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden); Jiwon Jeong, Wei-Ning Chen and Ayfer Özgür (Stanford University, USA); Viktoria Fodor (KTH NSE, Sweden); Carlo Fischione (KTH, Sweden)

Resource-Aware Hierarchical Federated Learning for Video Caching in Wireless Networks

Md Ferdous Pervej and Andreas F. Molisch (University of Southern California, USA)

Uncoded Storage Coded Transmission Elastic Computing with Straggler Tolerance in Heterogeneous Systems

Xi Zhong (University of Utah, USA); Joerg Kliewer (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA); Mingyue Ji (University of Utah, USA)

Cost-aware Joint Caching and Forwarding in Networks with Heterogeneous Cache Resources

Faruk Volkan Mutlu and Edmund Yeh (Northeastern University, USA)

New Optimal Trade-off Point for Coded Caching Systems with Limited Cache Size

Yinbin Ma and Daniela Tuninetti (University of Illinois Chicago, USA)

GCSN-5: AI for Green Networks 

Room: Plaza Court 8, Concourse Level

Chair: Swades De (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India)

Deep Reinforcement Learning for Joint Energy Saving and Traffic Handling in xG RAN

Anh Khoa Dang (Cnam & Ericsson, France); Hicham Khalife (Ericsson, France); Mathias Sintorn (Expert, Sweden); Dag Lindbo (Ericsson, Sweden); Stefano Secci (Cnam, France)

Optimized Artificial Intelligence and Econometric Model Empowered Virtual-Fiat Settled Price Prediction in Green Cryptocurrency Networks

Xiaotong Jiang and Jun Wu (Waseda University, Japan); Qianqian Pan (The University of Tokyo, Japan)

Information Freshness Optimization in UAV-aided Vehicular Metaverse: A PPO-based Learning Approach

Wenqian Zhang (Zhengzhou University, China); Xianfu Chen (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Finland); Rui Yin (Zhejiang University, China); Celimuge Wu (The University of Electro-Communications, Japan); Yangjie Cao (Zhengzhou University, China)

A Q-Learning based Transmission Management Strategy for Energy Harvesting Sensors

Sachitha Kusaladharma (University College Dublin, Ireland); Raviraj Adve (University of Toronto, Canada); Madhusanka Liyanage (University College Dublin, Ireland)

AI in Energy Digital Twining: A Reinforcement Learning-based Adaptive Digital Twin Model for Green Cities

Lal Verda Cakir (Istanbul Technical University, Turkey); Kübra Duran, Craig J Thomson, Matthew Broadbent and Berk Canberk (Edinburgh Napier University, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

IoTSN-10: Protocols, Architectures and Applications for IoT 

Room: Plaza Court 5, Concourse Level

Chair: Sumit Chakravarty (Kennesaw State, USA)

Multipath TCP Over Multi-Hop Heterogeneous Wireless IoT Networks

Jianlin Guo and Kieran Parsons (Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, USA); Yukimasa Nagai (Mitsubishi Electric Corp., Japan); Takenori Sumi and Naotaka Sakaguchi (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Japan); Hikaru Tsuchida (Mitsubishi Electric Corp., Japan); Pu Wang (Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL), USA); Philip Orlik (Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, USA)

Functional Data Analysis Assisted Cross-Domain Wi-Fi Sensing Using Few-Shot Learning

Tianya Zhao and Ningning Wang (Florida International University, USA); Guanqun Cao (Michigan State University, USA); Shiwen Mao (Auburn University, USA); Xuyu Wang (Florida International University, USA)

DRL-enabled Moving Target Defense for Multicast in Software-Defined Satellite Networks

Yibo Lian (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Tao Zhang (Beijing Jiaotong University, China); Changqiao Xu and Wei Dong (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Minrui Xu (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore); Zhenyu Xiahou (Jiangxi Academy of Cyber Security, China); Jiawen Kang (Guangdong University of Technology, China); Jiqiang Liu (Beijing Jiao Tong University, China); Dusit Niyato (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

Optimizing Video Surveillance in IoT 6G with Edge/Fog Computing

Sonia Ben Rejeb (Sup'com, Tunisia); Nidal Nasser (Alfaisal University, Saudi Arabia)

Location-Based Medium Access Control for Next-Generation Industrial IoT Networks

Ahmed Ajeena (Marquette University, USA); Jie Gao (Carleton University, Canada); Majeed Hayat (Marquette University, USA); Lian Zhao (Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada); Xuemin Sherman Shen (University of Waterloo, Canada)

Mag-5: Next-Gen Connectivity 

Room: Terrace Room, Terrace Level

Chair: Cheng Chen (Intel Corporation, USA)

Filter Bank UWB Communications

Behrouz Farhang-Boroujeny (University of Utah, USA); Hussein Moradi and Tom Holschuh (Idaho National Laboratory, USA)

Enhancement of Rural Connectivity by Recycling TV Towers with Massive MIMO Techniques

Ammar El Falou and Mohamed-Slim Alouini (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia)

Multi-Band Wireless Networks: Architectures, Challenges, and Comparative Analysis

Mohammad Amin Saeidi and Hina Tabassum (York University, Canada); Mohamed-Slim Alouini (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia)

Multi-Symbol Rate NOMA for Improving Connectivity in 6G Communications Networks

Arafat Al-Dweik (Khalifa University, United Arab Emirates); Emad Alsusa (Manchester University, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Octavia A. Dobre (Memorial University, Canada); Ridha Hamila (Qatar University, Qatar)

MBMC-1: Molecular and Biological Communications 

Room: Plaza Court 4, Concourse Level

Chairs: Ilangko Balasingham (Norwegian Institute of Science and Technology, Norway), Mladen Veletić (Oslo University Hospital, Norway)

Closed Loop Molecular Communication Testbed: Setup, Interference Analysis, and Experimental Results

Lukas Brand, Maike Scherer, Teena tom Dieck and Sebastian Lotter (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany); Maximilian Schäfer (Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Germany); Andreas Burkovski (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany); Heinrich Sticht (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany); Kathrin Castiglione and Robert Schober (Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany)

DBMC-NOMA: Evaluating NOMA for Diffusion-Based Molecular Communication Networks

Alexander Wietfeld, Sebastian Schmidt and Wolfgang Kellerer (Technical University of Munich, Germany)

Neural Communication Based on the Oscillatory Characteristics of Membrane Potential

Huiyu Luo and Yi Huang (Tongji University, China); Baiping Xiong (Southeast University, China); Hao Jiang (Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, China); Lin Lin (Tongji University, China)

Molecular Nano Neural Networks (M3N): In-Body Intelligence for the IoBNT

Stefan Angerbauer and Tobias Pankratz (Johannes Kepler University, Austria); Franz Enzenhofer, Andreas Springer, Roya Khanzadeh and Werner Haselmayr (Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria)

Ultrasound-enabled SIMO Channel for Targeted Brain Cancer Chemotherapy

Mohamad Zoofaghari (Yazd University, Iran); Martin Damrath (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway); Mladen Veletić (Oslo University Hospital, Norway); Ilangko Balasingham (NTNU, Norway)

MLCN-10: Radio Environment Awareness 

Room: Governor's Square 12, Concourse Level

Chair: Petros Spachos (University of Guelph, Canada)

UWB/IMU-assisted Gesture Recognition using Learning Approaches for VR/XR Applications

Hyunseob Oh (Samsung Electronics, Korea (South)); Sagnik Bhattacharya (Stanford University, USA); Seungbeom Seo (Samsung Electronics, Korea (South))

HRL-based Joint Band Assignment and Beam Management in 4G/5G Multi-Band Networks

Dohyun Kim (Seoul National University, USA); Miguel R Castellanos (North Carolina State University, USA); Robert Heath (University of California, San Diego, USA)

Deep Learning-Based Real-Time Quality Control of Standard Video Compression for Live Streaming

Matin Mortaheb (University of Maryland, USA); Mohammad Ali Khojastepour (NEC Laboratories America, USA); Srimat Chakradhar (NEC Research Labs, USA); Sennur Ulukus (University of Maryland, USA)

KGAMC: A Novel Knowledge Graph Driven Automatic Modulation Classification Scheme

Yike Li, Lu Yuan, Fuhui Zhou and Qihui Wu (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China); Naofal Al-Dhahir (University of Texas at Dallas, USA); Kai Kit Wong (University College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

Simulation-Enhanced Data Augmentation for Machine Learning Pathloss Prediction

Ahmed Mohamed, Byunghyun Lee and Yaguang Zhang (Purdue University, USA); Max Hollingsworth (University of Colorado Boulder, USA); Christopher R. Anderson (Virginia Tech, USA); James Krogmeier and David Love (Purdue University, USA)

MWN-IS: Topics in MWN (Interactive) 

Room: Exhibit Hall, Concourse Level

Chair: Rui Dinis (Instituto de Telecomunicações, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, University Nova de Lisboa & Nova IT, FCT-UNL, Portugal)

The Benefits of Electromagnetic Information Theory for Channel Estimation

Jieao Zhu, Xiaofeng Su, Zhongzhichao Wan and Linglong Dai (Tsinghua University, China); Tie Jun Cui (Southeast University, China)

Swarm-RE: Hierarchical Opportunistic Routing and Fast Terrain Exploration in Planetary Surface

Yijie Wang, Ziping Yu and Jingxuan Chen (Beihang University, China); Zhongliang Zhao (Beihang University, China & Pengcheng Lab, China); Xianbin Cao (Beihang University, China)

High Speed and Low Cost One-to-Many VLC Using Polymer-Dispersed Liquid Crystals

Yuehu Jiang, Haonan Wu, Yi-Chao Chen and Guangtao Xue (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China)

GemNet: Analysis and Prediction of Building Materials for Optimizing Indoor Wireless Networks

Zhijin Yang, Zhizhen Li, Yi Wang and Jianqing Liu (North Carolina State University, USA); Mingzhe Chen (University of Miami, USA); Yuchen Liu (North Carolina State University, USA)

TRACTOR: Traffic Analysis and Classification Tool for Open RAN

Joshua B Groen, Mauro Belgiovine, Utku Demir, Brian Kim and Kaushik Chowdhury (Northeastern University, USA)

A Sequential Min K-Cut Approach for Sum Rate Maximization of Clustered Cell-free Networking

Boxiang Ren, Chaowen Deng, Han Hao and Hao Wu (Tsinghua University, China); Junyuan Wang (Tongji University, China)

Beam Switching for Intra- and Inter-cell Mobility in mmWave Networks

Ayah Abusara (Queen's University, Canada); Hesham ElSawy (School of Computing, Queen's University, Canada); Hossam S. Hassanein (Queen's University, Canada); Aboelmagd Noureldin (Royal Military College of Canada & School of Computing, Queen's University, Canada); Akram Bin Sediq (Ericsson, Canada)

Using RIS to Support/Prevent Passive Sensing: RIS-enabled Passive Sensing Performance and RIS Configuration Study

Lihua Ruan (Peng Cheng Laboratory, Shenzhen, China); Hongyi Zhu (Shanghai Engineering Research Center for Broadband Technologies and Applications, China)

Performance Analysis of Near-Field ISAC Based on an Accurate Channel Model

Boqun Zhao (University of Alberta, Canada); Chongjun Ouyang (Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom (Great Britain) & University College Dublin, Ireland); Xingqi Zhang (University of Alberta, Canada); Yuanwei Liu (Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

NGNI-9: Edge Computing 

Room: Governor's Square 9, Concourse Level

Chair: Raffaele Bruno (IIT-CNR, Italy)

On using the Edge Application Server Discovery Function to Enforce Edge Computing in 5G Networks and Beyond

Giulio Carota and Karim Boutiba (EURECOM, France); Adlen Ksentini (Eurecom, France)

Real-time and Low-Overhead Graph Task Scheduling over Vehicular Computing-assisted Edge Networks

Bingshuo Guo, Minghui Liwang and Fan Yang (Xiamen University, China); Seyyedali Hosseinalipour (University at Buffalo, USA); Xianbin Wang (Western University, Canada); Huaiyu Dai (NC State University, USA)

MARBLE: Multi-Player Multi-Armed Bandit for Lightweight and Efficient Job Offloading in UAV-Based Mobile Networks

Fabio Busacca, Sergio Palazzo, Raoul Raftopoulos and Giovanni Schembra (University of Catania, Italy)

MEC-Intelligent Agent Support for Low-Latency Data Plane in Private NextG Core

Shalini Choudhury (Rutgers University, USA); Sushovan Das (Rice University, USA); Sanjoy Paul (Accenture Technology Labs, India); Prasanthi Maddala (Rutgers University, USA); Ivan Seskar (WINLAB, Rutgers University, USA); Dipankar Raychaudhuri (Rutgers University, USA)

Service Function Chain Placement in Edge Computing: A Topological Dependency-Informed Approach

Weibin Ma and Lena Mashayekhy (University of Delaware, USA)

ONS-4: Quantum, Metro, and Access 

Room: Plaza Court 7, Concourse Level

Chair: Vincent Chan (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)

Routing and Spectrum Allocation in Broadband Degenerate EPR-Pair Distribution

Rohan Bali, Ashley Tittelbaugh and Shelbi L Jenkins (University of Arizona, USA); Anuj Agrawal (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland); Jerry Horgan (Walton Institute, Ireland); Marco Ruffini (CONNECT, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland); Daniel Kilper (Trinity College Dublin & CONNECT Centre, Ireland); Boulat A. Bash (University of Arizona, USA)

Joint QoT-Aware Optimization of OTN and WDM Layers for Low-Cost Optical Metro Networks

Aryanaz Attarpour, Memedhe Ibrahimi, Nicola Di Cicco and Francesco Musumeci (Politecnico di Milano, Italy); Andrea Castoldi and Mario Ragni (SM-Optics, Italy); Massimo Tornatore (Politecnico di Milano & University of California, Davis, Italy)

Fronthaul Network Architecture and Design For Optically Powered Passive Optical Networks

Egemen Erbayat (The George Washington University, USA); Shrinivas Petale (George Washington University, USA); Shih-Chun Lin (North Carolina State University, USA); Motoharu Matsuura (The University of Electro-Communications, Japan); Hiroshi Hasegawa (Nagoya University, Japan); Suresh Subramaniam (George Washington University, USA)

Energy-Efficient Integrated O-RAN/PON Access Network

Luca Valcarenghi (Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy); Andrea Marotta and Carlo Centofanti (University of L'Aquila, Italy & WEST Aquila SRL, Italy); Fabio Graziosi (University of l'Aquila, Italy); Koteswararao Kondepu (Indian Institute of Technology Dharwad, India)

Secret Key Generation in Multi-Mode Fiber Channels: Channel Measurements and Achievable Rates

Pin-Hsun Lin, Paul Nowitzki and Eduard A Jorswieck (Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany); Dennis Pohle (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany); Jürgen Czarske (TU Dresden, Germany)

RISSE-4: Deep Learning 

Room: Director's Row J, Lobby Level

Chair: George C. Alexandropoulos (University of Athens, Greece)

Enabling Urban MmWave Communications with UAV-Carried IRS via Deep Reinforcement Learning

Geng Sun, Bei Liu and Jiahui Li (Jilin University, China); Shuang Liang (Northeast Normal University, China); Hongyang Pan and Xiaoya Zheng (Jilin University, China)

DRL-Based Orchestration of Multi-User MISO Systems with Stacked Intelligent Metasurfaces

Hao Liu (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); Jiancheng An (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore); Derrick Wing Kwan Ng (University of New South Wales, Australia); George C. Alexandropoulos (University of Athens, Greece); Lu Gan (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China)

Beamforming and Load-Balanced User Association in RIS-Aided Systems via Graph Neural Networks

Kun-Lin Chan and Feng-Tsun Chien (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan); Ronald Y. Chang (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)

Genetic Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Multiple Double-Sided STAR-RISs in Full-Duplex MIMO Networks

Yu-Ting Li (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan); Li-Hsiang Shen (National Central University, Taiwan); Kai-Ten Feng (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan); Ching-Yao Chan (California University, Berkeley, USA)

Fairness-Driven Optimization of RIS-Augmented 5G Networks for Seamless 3D UAV Connectivity Using DRL Algorithms

Yu Tian (Technology Innovation Institute, United Arab Emirates); Ahmed Ali Al Hammadi (TII & Technology Innovation Institute, United Arab Emirates); Jiguang He (Technology Innovation Institute, United Arab Emirates); Aymen Fakhreddine (Technology Innovation Institute and University of Klagenfurt, Austria); Faouzi Bader (Technology Innovation Institut -TII, United Arab Emirates)

SPC-6: Massive MIMO and mmWave Communications 

Room: Plaza Court 1, Concourse Level

Chair: Yuchen Liu (North Carolina State University, USA)

Training and Feedback for Two-stage Angles Estimation of mmWave Systems

Yuan-Pei Lin (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan); Yu-Tai Chiew (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan)

Efficient Hybrid Distributed Detectors for Cell-Free Massive MIMO Systems

Yuan Yuan Dong (Zhejiang Lab, China); Zhaohui Yang (Zhejiang University, China); Hua Wang and Nan Hao (Zhejiang Lab, China)

Sparse Estimation for XL-MIMO with Unified LoS/NLoS Representation

Xu Shi, Xuehan Wang, Jingbo Tan and Jintao Wang (Tsinghua University, China)

Grid Mismatch in MmWave Sparse Channel Estimation: Analysis & Implications

Negar Daryanavardan (University of Texas at Dallas, USA); Aria Nosratinia (University of Texas, Dallas, USA)

Resource Efficient Over-the-Air Fronthaul Signaling for Uplink Cell-Free Massive MIMO Systems

Zakir Hussain Shaik and Sai Subramanyam Thoota (Linköping University, Sweden); Emil Björnson (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden); Erik G. Larsson (Linköping University, Sweden)

SSC-5: Communications II 

Room: Director's Row I, Lobby Level

Chair: Wei-Ping Zhu (Concordia University, Canada)

V-band Radio Channel Modeling for Mega Satellite Networks

Bassel Al Homssi (UNSW, Australia); Chiu Chun Chan (Australian National University, Australia); Kosta Dakic (University of Sydney, Australia); Jawad Al Attari (Xeos Space, Canada); Akram Al-Hourani (RMIT University, Australia)

Interference Mitigation in LEO Constellations with Limited Radio Environment Information

Fernando Moya Caceres, Akram Al-Hourani, Saman Atapattu, Michael Aygur, Sithamparanathan Kandeepan, Jing Fu, Ke Wang and Wayne Rowe (RMIT University, Australia); Mark Bowyer (Airbus Defence and Space Ltd, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Zarko Krusevac (Defense Science Technology and Group, Australia); Edward Arbon (Defense Science and Technology Group, Australia)

Terrestrial-Satellite Spectrum Sharing in the Upper Mid-Band with Interference Nulling

Seongjoon Kang (New York University Tandon School of Engineering, USA); Giovanni Geraci (Telefonica Research & Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain); Marco Mezzavilla (Politecnico di Milano, Italy); Sundeep Rangan (New York University, USA)

Secure and Efficient Group Handover Protocol in 5G Non-Terrestrial Networks

Bohan Zhang (University of Waterloo, Canada); Peng Hu (University of Manitoba, Canada); Ahmad Akbari Azirani, Mohammad Ali Salahuddin, Diogo Barradas, Noura Limam and Raouf Boutaba (University of Waterloo, Canada)

Energy-Efficient Precoding and Feeder-Link-Beam Matching Design for Bent-Pipe SATCOM Systems

Vu Nguyen Ha, Juan Duncan, Eva Lagunas, Jorge Querol and Symeon Chatzinotas (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)

WC-13: Integrated Sensing and Communication 

Room: Plaza Court 2, Concourse Level

Chair: Gayan Amarasuriya (Southern Illinois University, USA)

Joint Beamforming Design for Secure Transmission in STAR-RIS Aided ISAC

Wenjing Wei and Xiaowei Pang (Dalian University of Technology, China); Chengwen Xing (Beijing Institute of Technology, China); Nan Zhao (Dalian University of Technology, China); Dusit Niyato (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

Low Complexity Precoding Design for Multi-user and Multi-target ISAC

Leonardo Leyva (University of Aveiro & Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal); Daniel Castanheira (Instituto de Telecomunicações (IT)/University of Aveiro, Portugal); Adão Silva (Instituto de Telelcomunicações, Portugal); Atílio Gameiro (Instituto de Telecomunicações / Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal)

Outlier Rejection for 5G-Based Indoor Positioning in Ray-Tracing-Enabled Industrial Scenario

Karthik Muthineni (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya & Robert Bosch GmbH, Germany); Alexander Artemenko (Robert Bosch GmbH, Germany); Josep Vidal and Montse Nájar (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain)

Joint Transmit Signal and Beamforming Design for Integrated Sensing and Power Transfer Systems

Kenneth Mayer (Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany); Nikita Shanin (Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany); Zhenlong You (Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany); Sebastian Lotter (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany); Stefan Brückner (LHFT, Freidrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany); Martin Vossiek (LHFT, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany); Laura Cottatellucci (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany); Robert Schober (Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany)

On the Study of Success Serving Probability for Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC) Based on Stochastic Geometry

Wentao Cheng and Zhongyuan Zhao (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Howard Yang (Zhejiang University, China & University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (UIUC), USA); Wei Hong (Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software, China); Tony Q. S. Quek (Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore); Zhiguo Ding (University of Manchester, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

WC-14: Channel State Information in MIMO 

Room: Plaza Court 3, Concourse Level

Chair: Marco Martalò (University of Cagliari, Italy)

ReDBeam: Real-time MU-MIMO Beamforming with Limited CSI Data Samples

Shaoran Li (NVIDIA Corp, USA); Nan Jiang (Georgia Tech, USA); Chengzhang Li (The Ohio State University, USA); Thomas Hou and Wenjing Lou (Virginia Tech, USA); Weijun Xie (Georgia Tech, USA)

A Reconstructed Autoencoder Design for CSI Processing in Massive MIMO Systems

Venkataramani Kumar (University of Dayton, USA); Dalyana Mercado-Perez and Feng Ye (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA); Rose Qingyang Hu (Utah State University, USA); Yi Qian (University of Nebraska - Lincoln, USA)

Joint vs. Separate Source-Channel Coding in CSI Feedback for Massive MIMO

Yi Song (Technische Universität Berlin, Germany); Tianyu Yang (Technical University of Berlin, Germany); Mahdi Barzegar Khalilsarai (Lenovo Research, Germany); Giuseppe Caire (Technische Universität Berlin, Germany)

Discovering CSI Evolution using Radio Map for Massive MIMO Channel Estimation

Yuanshuai Zheng, Mu Jia and Junting Chen (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China)

Learning Variable-Rate CSI Compression with Multi-Stage Vector Quantization

Junho Lee, Jaein Kim and Yoojin Choi (Samsung Electronics, South Korea)

Wednesday, June 12 16:30 - 18:00

AC-7: Applications of Aerial Communications 

Room: Director's Row E, Lobby Level

Chair: Uttam Ghosh (Meharry Medical College, USA)

Surrogate Data Source Transfer (SDST): An Efficient Transfer Learning Approach for Time Series Forecasting

Mostafa Korashy (ETS, Canada & Samsung AI Center, Canada); Mohamed Shoaib (Kynoby.AI, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Di Wu (McGill University, Canada); Kim Khoa Nguyen (École de Technologie Supérieure, Canada); Mohamed Cheriet (Ecole de technologie superieure (University of Quebec), Canada)

Digital Twin-assisted Offloading for Low-Latency and Energy-Efficient Multi-Layer Network

Muhammad Adnan Qadir (Lakehead University, Canada); Muhammad Naeem (COMSATS University Islamabad, Wah Campus, Pakistan & Ryerson University, Canada); Waleed Ejaz (Lakehead University, Canada)

Two-Stage Solutions via Semidefinite Relaxation for Object Localization Using UAVs

Luchun Ye and Xiaoping Wu (Huzhou University, China); Kai Fang (School of Mathematics and Computer Science, Zhejiang Agricultural and Forestry University); Marwan Omar (Illinois Institute of Technology & IIT, USA); Ali Kashif Bashir (Manchester Metropolitan University, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Wei Wang (Beijing Institute of Technology, China)

Secrecy Outage Probability for RSMA-based ISATNs with Imperfect Hardware

Kefeng Guo (School of Space Information, Space Engineering University, China); Xingwang Li (Henan Polytechnic University, China); Muhammad Bilal (Lancaster University, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Ali Nauman (Yeungnam University, Korea (South)); Min Wu (Space Engineering University, China); Feng Zhou (Yancheng Institute of Technology, China)

Impact of Modulation Schemes on Joint Estimation of Range and Velocity for UAV-to-Ground Scenario

Xiaobo Yang (Northwestern Polytechnical University, China); Daosen Zhai (National Mobile Communications Research Laboratory, Southeast University, China); Ruonan Zhang (Northwestern Polytechnical University, China); Shengchen Wu and Yiyang Ni (Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Mubarak Alrashoud (King Saud University, Saudi Arabia)

CISS-15: Privacy-preserving Federated Learning 

Room: Governor's Square 10, Concourse Level

Chair: Xiangman Li (Queen's University, Canada)

Balancing Centralized and Local Differential Privacy in Pneumonia Diagnosis

Bingbing Zhang, Xin Zhang, Liwei Luo, Heyuan Huang and Chi Zhang (University of Science and Technology of China, China)

Adaptive Privacy Budget Allocation in Federated Learning: A Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Approach

Zejian Chen and Guocheng Liao (Sun Yat-Sen University, China); Qian Ma and Xu Chen (Sun Yat-sen University, China)

Enabling Privacy-Preserving and Publicly Auditable Federated Learning

Huang Zeng, Anjia Yang and Jian Weng (Jinan University, China); Minrong Chen (South China Normal University, China); Fengjun Xiao (Hangzhou Dianzi University, China); Yi Liu (Jinan University, China); Ye Yao (Hangzhou Dianzi University, China)

ADP-VFL: An Adaptive Differential Privacy Scheme for VPPs based on Federated Learning

Yanbo Zhang and Mi Wen (Shanghai University of Electric Power, China); Weiwei Li (Shanghai University, China); Ben Niu (Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China); Weidong Qiu (Shanghai Jiaotong University, China); Fenghua Li (Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)

Federated Unlearning with Multiple Client Partitions

Weipeng Zhu and Juncheng Jia (Soochow University, China); Bing Luo (Duke Kunshan University, China); Xiaodong Lin (University of Guelph, Canada)

CISS-16: Vehicular Network Security 

Room: Governor's Square 11, Concourse Level

Chair: Shun-Ren Yang (NTHU, Taiwan)

A Grid-based Misbehavior Detection System for Vehicular Communication Networks

Chamath Gunawardena and Owana Marzia Moushi (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA); Feng Ye (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA); Rose Qingyang Hu (Utah State University, USA); Yi Qian (University of Nebraska - Lincoln, USA)

Machine Learning-Based Detection of Data Replay and Data Replay Sybil Attacks for Vehicular Communication Networks

Owana Marzia Moushi and Chamath Gunawardena (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA); Feng Ye (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA); Rose Qingyang Hu (Utah State University, USA); Yi Qian (University of Nebraska - Lincoln, USA)

GAN Augmentation-Based Continuous Authentication for Vehicular Digital Twin

Chengzhe Lai, Xinwei Zhang and Haodi Zhang (Xi'an University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Guanjie Li (Xidian University, China); Yong Yu (Shaanxi Normal University, China); Dong Zheng (Xi'an University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)

EADD: An Intelligent Edge-Based Anomaly Detection Platform for Car Driving

En-Hau Yeh, Yu-Ming Chen and Phone Lin (National Taiwan University, Taiwan); Shun-Ren Yang (NTHU, Taiwan); Rongxing Lu (University of New Brunswick, Canada)

Efficient Privacy-Preserving Multi-Location Task Allocation in Fog-Assisted Vehicular Crowdsourcing

Yantao Yu (Tongji University & University of New Brunswick, China); Yunguo Guan (Eastern Michigan University, USA); Xiaoping Xue and Jingxiao Ma (Tongji University, China); Ellen Z. Zhang and Rongxing Lu (University of New Brunswick, Canada)

CQRM-8: Security and Reliability 

Room: Director's Row H, Lobby Level

Chair: Hiroki Ikeuchi (NTT Corporation, Japan)

Bypassing a Reactive Jammer via NOMA-Based Transmissions in Critical Missions

Mohammadreza Amini and Ghazal Asemian (University of Ottawa, Canada); Michel Kulhandjian (Rice University, USA & University of Ottawa, USA); Burak Kantarci and Claude D'Amours (University of Ottawa, Canada); Melike Erol-Kantarci (University of Ottawa & Ericsson, Canada)

Efficient Learning Framework for Failure Identification Model based on Failure Injection

Hiroki Ikeuchi and Akio Watanabe (NTT Corporation, Japan); Yousuke Takahashi (NTT, Japan)

Federated Learning with Dual Attention for Robust Modulation Classification under Attacks

Han Zhang (University of Ottawa, Canada); Medhat Elsayed (Ericsson, Canada); Majid Bavand (Queen's University, Canada); Raimundas Gaigalas (Ericsson, Sweden); Yiğit Özcan (Ericsson, Canada); Melike Erol-Kantarci (University of Ottawa & Ericsson, Canada)

Macroscopic Insights of IoT Botnet Dynamics via AS-level Tolerance Assessment

Hatem Aied Almazarqi (University of Glasgow & King Abdulaziz University, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Mathew Woodyard (Okta, Inc., USA); Angelos K. Marnerides (University of Cyprus, Cyprus)

Deep Reinforcement Learning-Based Adversarial Defense in Vehicular Communication Systems

Roshan Sedar and Charalampos Kalalas (Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC), Spain); Francisco Vázquez-Gallego and Jesus Alonso-Zarate (i2CAT Foundation, Spain)

CSM-3: Virtualization Technologies and Techniques 

Room: Plaza Court 7, Concourse Level

Chair: Aris Leivadeas (École de Technologie Supérieure, Canada)

A Novel Lightweight Attention Network for Fall Detection in Internet of Medical Things

Dapeng Wu (CQUPT, China); Shiguang Li, Peng He, Yaping Cui and Ruyan Wang (Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)

Fragmentation-Aware VNF Placement: A Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach

Ramy Mohamed (Carleton University, Canada); Marios Avgeris (Carleton University, Canada & École de Technologie Supérieure (ÉTS), Canada); Aris Leivadeas (École de Technologie Supérieure, Canada); Ioannis Lambadaris (Carleton University, Canada)

State and Computing Decoupled Service Function Chaining for Scalable Cloud RANs

Zecheng Fang and Jianing Cao (University of Chinese Academy of Sciences & Institute of Computing Technology, China); Chunjing Yuan (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Science, China); Lin Tian (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)

Energy-Efficient User Allocation and Content Updating in Mobile Edge Computing Networks

Jingchao Tan and Tiancheng Zhang (Tianjin University, China); Chenyang Wang (Shenzhen University, China); Xiuhua Li (Chongqing University, China); Xiaofei Wang (Tianjin University, China)

Intent Profiling and Translation through Emergent Communication

Salwa Said Hamed Mostafa (University of Oulu, Finland); Mohammed S. Elbamby and Mohamed K. Abdel-Aziz (Nokia Bell Labs, Finland); Mehdi Bennis (Centre of Wireless Communications, University of Oulu, Finland)

CT-8: Multiple Access and Multi-user MIMO 

Room: Governor's Square 17, Concourse Level

Chair: Yao Ma (NIST, USA)

Double Splitting Model and Generalized Moment Passing Method for Network Capacity Computation

Han Hao, Boxiang Ren and Chaowen Deng (Tsinghua University, China); Junyuan Wang (Tongji University, China); Hao Wu (Tsinghua University, China)

Compressed Sensing Inspired User Acquisition for Downlink Integrated Sensing and Communication Transmissions

Yi Song and Fernando Pedraza (Technische Universität Berlin, Germany); Shuangyang Li (Technical University of Berlin, Germany); Siyao Li (Technische Universität Berlin, Germany); Han Yu (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden); Giuseppe Caire (Technische Universität Berlin, Germany)

Bit Error Rate Analysis for 5G New Radio Interface Augmented by a Spread Spectrum Underlay

Kumar Sai Bondada, Daniel Jakubisin, Nishith Tripathi and Jeffrey Reed (Virginia Tech, USA)

Deep Learning-Based mmWave Beam Alignment with Only Pilot Channel Measurements

Taekyun Lee and Hyeji Kim (University of Texas at Austin, USA); Jeffrey Andrews (The University of Texas at Austin, USA)

A Cluster-Based NOMA Framework for Integrated Sensing and Communications

Boqun Zhao (University of Alberta, Canada); Chongjun Ouyang (Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom (Great Britain) & University College Dublin, Ireland); Xingqi Zhang (University of Alberta, Canada); Yuanwei Liu (Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

GCSN-6: Performance Optimization for Green Networks 

Room: Plaza Court 8, Concourse Level

Chair: Andreas J. Kassler (Deggendorf Institute of Technology (DIT) & Karlstad University, Sweden)

Resource Allocation for Semantic Relay Aided Wireless Networks with Probability Graph

Jiahui Zhao and Ming Chen (Southeast University, China); Zhaohui Yang (Zhejiang University, China); Changsheng You (Southern University of Science and Technology, China); Mingzhe Chen (University of Miami, USA)

Minimizing the Age of Incorrect Information for Status Update Systems with Energy Harvesting

Sumedh Jitendra Dongare (Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany); Aleksandar Jovovic (TU Darmstadt, Germany); Wanja de Sombre (Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany); Andrea Ortiz and Anja Klein (TU Darmstadt, Germany)

Near-Optimal Battery Swapping Algorithm in Dockless Electric Bike Sharing Systems

Chun-An Yang (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan); Shih-Chieh Chen and Yi-Hsuan Peng (National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan); Yu-Wen Chen (New York City College of Technology (CUNY), USA); Jian-Jhih Kuo (National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan); Ming-Jer Tsai (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan)

Basestation Switch On/Off Strategy for Energy Efficiency in Ultra-Narrowband IoT Networks

Vidhya Prabhu and Enes Krijestorac (University of California, Los Angeles, USA); Danijela Cabric (University of California Los Angeles, USA)

An Evolution-Affinity Propagation-based Global Rate Maximization Clustering Policy in D2D Multicast Communication

Qinglou Zhang (Southwest University of Science and Technology, China); Xueling Wang (Southwest University of Science and Technology & Information Engineering Institute in Southwest University of Science and Technology, China); Ying Luo (SouthWest University of Science and Technology, China); Min Zeng (Southwest University of Science and Technology, China); Hong Jiang (SouthWest University of Science and Technology, China)

IoTSN-11: Connected Automated Vehicles 

Room: Plaza Court 5, Concourse Level

Chair: Amr El-Wakeel (West Virginia University, USA)

A Novel Transformer-Based Model for Motion Forecasting in Connected Automated Vehicles

Mozhgan Nasr Azadani and Azzedine Boukerche (University of Ottawa, Canada)

On The Performance of Perception Systems of Autonomous Vehicles

Alireza Najafi and Azzedine Boukerche (University of Ottawa, Canada)

SK-SVR-CNN: A Hybrid Approach for Traffic Flow Prediction with Signature PDE Kernel and Convolutional Neural Networks

Gezhi Wang (Duke Kunshan University, China); Zepu Wang (University of Pennsylvania, China); Peng Sun (Duke Kunshan University, China); Azzedine Boukerche (University of Ottawa, Canada)

PAPR Analysis and Reduction for OTFS Signal with Large Delay-Doppler Domain

Wang Yu (Harbin Insititute of Technology, China); Shuai Han (Harbin Institute of Technology, China); Abderrahim Benslimane (University of Avignon & LIA/CERI, France); Cheng Li (Simon Fraser University, Canada & Memorial University, Canada)

A Review of Dynamic Wireless Charging and Reservations for CAEV and UAV in 5G/6G ITS

Palwasha Waheed Shaikh and Hussein Mouftah (University of Ottawa, Canada)

IoTSN-12: Underwater and Underground Sensor and IoT Networks 

Room: Plaza Court 6, Concourse Level

Chair: Sarah Kate Wilson (Santa Clara University, USA)

Sparse Vector Coding Based Massive Grant-Free Access for Short-Packet Communication in IIoT

Yingzhe Luo (Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, China); Xu Zhu (Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, China & University of Liverpool, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Yanfeng Zhang (Dongguan University of Technology, China); Ziming Guo (Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, China)

Combating Multi-path Interference to Improve Chirp-based Underwater Acoustic Communication

Wenjun Xie (Xiamen University, China); Enqi Zhang (Fuzhou University, China); Lizhao You and Deqing Wang (Xiamen University, China); Zhaorui Wang (The Chinese University of Hong Kong Shenzhen, China); Liqun Fu (Xiamen University, China)

On Identifying Optimal Shortcut Edge Locations in a Linear Small-World Wireless Sensor Network

Abhishek Chakraborty (UC San Diego, USA); Vineeth Bala Sukumaran (Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology, Trivandrum, India); Manoj Bs (Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology, India); Ramesh R. Rao (UCSD, USA)

HA-MARL: Heuristic and APF Assisted Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning for Wireless Data Sharing in AUV Swarms

Zonglin Li (Tsinghua University, China); Jun Du and Chunxiao Jiang (Tsinghua University, Beijing, China); Weishi Mi (Tsinghua University, China); Yong Ren (Tsinghua University, Beijing, China)

Energy-Efficient Unmanned Underwater Vehicles Networking Design: A Topological Perspective

Kun Qian (Xi'an Jiaotong University, China); Lei Wang (Dalian University of Technology, China); Yuntao Wang, Nan Liu and Zhou Su (Xi'an Jiaotong University, China)

Mag-6: Evolution of Telecom Business 

Room: Terrace Room, Terrace Level

Chair: Kenneth Baker (University of Colorado at Boulder, USA)

Uberization of Telecom Networks for Cost-Efficient Communication and Computing

Hanna Bogucka and Bartosz Kopras (Poznan University of Technology, Poland)

Pricing eSIM Services: Ecosystem, Challenges, and Opportunities

Ramneek Ramneek (Korea University, Korea (South)); Patrick Hosein (The University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago); Sangheon Pack (Korea University, Korea (South))

On the Importance of Resilience Engineering for Networked Systems in a Changing World

David Hutchison (Lancaster University & InfoLab21, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Dimitrios P Pezaros (University of Glasgow, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Jacek Rak (Gdansk University of Technology, Poland); Paul Smith (Lancaster University, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

Radio Dynamic Zones: Motivations, Challenges, and Opportunities to Catalyze Spectrum Coexistence

Mariya Zheleva (UAlbany SUNY, USA); Chris Anderson (National Telecommunications and Information Administration & Institute for Telecommunication Sciences, USA); Joel T. Johnson (Ohio State University, USA); Mustafa Aksoy (University of Albany, USA); Chris De Pree (National Radio Astronomy Observatory, USA)

MLCN-11: Resource Allocation 

Room: Governor's Square 12, Concourse Level

Chair: M. Cenk Gursoy (Syracuse University, USA)

AIaaS for ORAN-based 6G Networks: Multi-time scale slice resource management with DRL

Suvidha Mhatre (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya); Ferran Adelantado (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain); Kostas Ramantas (Iquadrat Informatica, Greece); Christos Verikoukis (University of Patras, Greece)

Leveraging Explainable AI for Reducing Queries of Performance Indicators in Open RAN

Chinenye M Tassie, Brian Kim, Joshua B Groen, Mauro Belgiovine and Kaushik Chowdhury (Northeastern University, USA)

A Graph Reinforcement Learning Routing Scheme based on Nodes and Edges Co-Embedding

Yuanhao He, Geyang Xiao, Yuan Liang, Donghui Lu and Xiaofeng Cheng (Zhejiang Lab, China)

SDNQ: A Novel SDN Controller for the Management of IoT Video Flows in the Edge/Cloud Continuum

Pouria Pourrashidi Shahrbabaki, Rodolfo W. L. Coutinho and Yousef R. Shayan (Concordia University, Canada)

Is Machine Learning the Best Option for Network Routing?

Liou Tang, Prashant Krishnamurthy and Mai Abdelhakim (University of Pittsburgh, USA)

MLCN-12: Sensing Platforms and IoT 

Room: Governor's Square 16, Concourse Level

Chair: Berk Canberk (Edinburgh Napier University, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

Joint Exponential Window-Kalman Filter and Weight Normalized ReLU-Memristor Activation Function-LSTM-based Proactive Content Caching framework in IoV using Asynchronous Federated Learning

Sunitha Safavat and Danda B. Rawat (Howard University, USA)

GANFed: GAN-based Federated Learning with Non-IID Datasets in Edge IoTs

Xin Fan (Beijing Forestry University, China); Yue Wang (Georgia State University, USA); Weishan Zhang (George Mason University, USA); Yingshu Li and Zhipeng Cai (Georgia State University, USA); Zhi Tian (George Mason University, USA)

Decentralized Semantic Traffic Control in AVs Using RL and DQN for Dynamic Roadblocks

Emanuel Figetakis and Yahuza Bello (University of Guelph, Canada); Ahmed Refaey (University of Guelph, Canada & Western University, Canada); Abdallah Shami (Western University, Canada)

VISIT: Virtual-Targeted Sequential Training with Hierarchical Federated Learning on Non-IID Data

Kung-Hao Chang, Te-Chuan Chiu and Jang-Ping Sheu (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan)

Deep Reinforcement Learning for Multi-Functional RIS-Aided Over-the-Air Federated Learning in Internet of Robotic Things

Xinran Zhang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Hui Tian (Beijng University of posts and telecommunications, China); Wanli Ni (Tsinghua University, China); Zhaohui Yang (Zhejiang University, China)

MWN-12: Multiple Access and Computation Offloading 

Room: Plaza Court 4, Concourse Level

Chair: Lin Dai (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)

Energy-Aware Service Offloading for Semantic Communications in Wireless Networks

Hassan Abdulrahman Saadat and Abdullatif Albaseer (Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar); Mohamed M. Abdallah (Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU), Qatar); Amr Mohamed (Qatar University, Qatar); Aiman Erbad (Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar)

Enhancing QoE Diversity in HetNets through Interference Mitigation with ML-based xAPP in a 5G O-RAN Architecture

Devanshu Anand (Dublin City University & NA, Ireland); Mohammed Amine Togou and Gabriel-Miro Muntean (Dublin City University, Ireland)

O-RAN-Oriented Approach for Dynamic VNF Placement Focused on Interference Mitigation

Victor Hugo Lázaro Lopes (Federal Institute of Education, Science, and Technology of Goiás - IFG & IFG, Brazil); Gabriel Almeida (Universidade Federal de Goiás, Brazil); Aldebaro Klautau (Universidade Federal do Para, Brazil); Kleber V Cardoso (Universidade Federal de Goiás, Brazil)

Transmission Control for Stability of Aloha Networks with Multiple Transmitter-Receiver Pairs

Yunshan Yang and Lin Dai (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)

Competitive and Cooperative Computation Offloading for Intensive Heterogeneous Tasks in Vehicular Edge Computing Networks

Yuan Chen, Xiuhua Li, Guozeng Xu and Ling Liu (Chongqing University, China); Xiaofei Wang (Tianjin University, China); Victor C.M. Leung (Shenzhen University, China & The University of British Columbia, Canada)

NGNI-10: Semantic Communications and Applications 

Room: Governor's Square 9, Concourse Level

Chair: Halima Elbiaze (University of Quebec at Montreal, Canada)

Understanding Delays in AF_XDP-based Applications

Killian Castillon du Perron (Université Côte d'Azur, CNRS, I3S, France); Dino Lopez Pacheco (University Côte d'Azur, France); Fabrice C. Huet (Universite Cote dAzur, France)

AI Model Placement for 6G Networks under Epistemic Uncertainty Estimation

Liming Huang, Yulei Wu, Juan M. Parra, Reza Nejabati and Dimitra Simeonidou (University of Bristol, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

Latency-minimizing Semantic Communication with Dynamic Model Partitioning

Yuxuan Yan, Yuhao Chen, Qianqian Yang and Zhiguo Shi (Zhejiang University, China)

Novel Concept Drift Detection and Adaptation (CDDA) Framework for Human-to-Machine (H2M) Applications over Future Communication Networks

Xiangyu Yu (University of Melbourne, Australia); Lihua Ruan (Peng Cheng Laboratory, Shenzhen, China); Jamie S Evans (University of Melbourne, Australia); Elaine Wong (The University of Melbourne, Australia)

Performance Optimization of Semantic Communications for Users with Heterogeneous Knowledge

Jiantong Zhang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Mingzhe Chen (University of Miami, USA); Yujiao Zhu, Shihao Hu, Tao Luo and Zhilong Zhang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)

RISSE-5: Advanced Applications 

Room: Director's Row J, Lobby Level

Chair: Xidong Mu (Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

Dual-Sided Active Intelligent Reflecting Surface-Enhanced Multi-Cell Communications

Chenxi Liu (Northwestern Polytechnical University, China); Li Yong (Shaanxi, xi'an, China); Derrick Wing Kwan Ng and Jinhong Yuan (University of New South Wales, Australia); Limeng Dong (Northwestern Polytechnical University, China)

Intelligent Reflecting Surface-assisted Hybrid THz/RF System Over Generalized Fading

Rithwik Premanand (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore); Narendra Vishwakarma (Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore); Ranjan Singh and A S Madhukumar (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

Spatially Selective Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces Through Element Permutation

Fredrik Rusek (Lund University, unknown); Jose Flordelis (Lund University, Sweden & Sony Europe, Sweden); Erik L Bengtsson (Sony Europe (Lund), Sweden); Kun Zhao and Olof Zander (Sony Europe, Sweden)

A Power Allocation Framework for Holographic MIMO-Aided Energy-Efficient Cell-Free Networks

Apurba Adhikary, Avi Deb Raha, Yu Qiao and Yu Min Park (Kyung Hee University, Korea (South)); Zhu Han (University of Houston, USA); Choong Seon Hong (Kyung Hee University, Korea (South))

Wireless Communications in Cavity: A Reconfigurable Boundary Modulation based Approach

Xuehui Dong (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China); Xiang Ren (Huazhong University of Science and Techonology, China); Bokai Lai, Rujing Xiong, Tiebin Mi and Robert C. Qiu (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China)

SPC-7: Machine Learning for Communications 

Room: Plaza Court 1, Concourse Level

Chair: Ali Gorcin (Istanbul Techical University, Turkey)

Deep Unfolding-Assisted Fully Decentralized Projected Gradient MIMO Detection Algorithm

Masaya Kumagai, Tadashi Wadayama and Ayano Nakai-Kasai (Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan)

An Autoencoder-Based Constellation Design for AirComp in Wireless Federated Learning

Yujia Mu, Xizixiang Wei and Cong Shen (University of Virginia, USA)

Over-the-air Federated Policy Gradient

Huiwen Yang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong); Lingying Huang (Nanyang Technological University & NTU, Singapore); Subhrakanti Dey (Uppsala University, Sweden); Ling Shi (HKUST, China)

Successive Resource Allocation in Multi-User ISAC System through Deep Reinforcement Learning

Biwei Li and Xianbin Wang (Western University, Canada); Sungjun Ahn (ETRI, Korea (South)); Sung Ik Park (Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), Korea (South)); Yiyan Wu (Communications Research Centre Canada, Canada)

Data-Aided MU-MIMO Channel Estimation Utilizing Gaussian Mixture Models

Franz Weißer, Dominik Semmler, Nurettin Turan and Wolfgang Utschick (Technische Universität München, Germany)

SSC-6: Platform and Performance Evaluation 

Room: Director's Row I, Lobby Level

Chair: Gunes Karabulut Kurt (Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Canada)

Systematic Performance Evaluation Framework for LEO Mega-Constellation Satellite Networks

Yu Wang (Huawei Technologies, China); Chuili Kong (Huawei Technologies, Co. Ltd., China); Xian Meng (Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Hong Kong); Hejia Luo and Ke-Xin Li (Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., China); Jun Wang (Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd, China)

Space Networking Kit: A Novel Simulation Platform for Emerging LEO Mega-constellations

Xiangtong Wang (Sichuan University, China); Xiaodong Han (China Academy of Space Technology, China); Menglong Yang, Songchen Han and Wei Li (Sichuan University, China)

Crowdsourced Starlink Performance Measurements from https://starlinkstatus.space

Manuel Bülo (Individual, Germany); Jörg Deutschmann and Kai-Steffen J. Hielscher (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany); Reinhard German (University of Erlangen, Germany)

A VLAN-based Network Testbed for Lightweight Satellite Constellation Emulation

Yan Zheng (Purple Mountain Laboratories, China); Tian Pan (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Yan Zhang (Purple Mountain Laboratories, China); Jiang Liu, Tao Huang and Yunjie Liu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)

Accelerating Mega-Scale Satellite Network Simulation in NS-3 via MPI-based Parallelization

Haibin Song and Tian Pan (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Guohao Ruan (China); Yan Zheng (Purple Mountain Laboratories, China); Ying Wan (China Mobile (Suzhou) Software Technology Co., Ltd, China); Jiao Zhang, Tao Huang and Yunjie Liu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)

WC-15: Edge AI 

Room: Plaza Court 2, Concourse Level

Chair: Marco Martalò (University of Cagliari, Italy)

Intelligent and Cooperative Computing Offloading in the LEO Constellation Assisted IoV Networks

Haixia Peng, Zihao Zhang, Zhou Su, Yiliang Liu and Tom H. Luan (Xi'an Jiaotong University, China); Nan Cheng (Xidian University, China)

Task-Oriented Communication for Multi-Device Edge Inference: A Maximal Coding Rate Reduction Approach

Chang Cai (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong); Xiaojun Yuan (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); Ying Jun (Angela) Zhang (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)

Over-the-Air Decentralized Federated Learning Under MIMO Noisy Channel

Zhiyuan Zhai (Fudan University, China); Xiaojun Yuan (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); Xin Wang (Fudan University, China)

Learning-based Deterministic Scheduling for TSN and 5G Integrated Networks

Ruibin Guo, Dong Yang and Weiting Zhang (Beijing Jiaotong University, China); Qingyu Cai (China Unicom Digital Technology Co., Ltd, China); Hongke Zhang (Beijing Jiaotong University, China); Xuemin Sherman Shen (University of Waterloo, Canada)

Digital Twin-Based User-Centric Edge Continual Learning in Integrated Sensing and Communication

Shisheng Hu (University of Waterloo, Canada); Jie Gao (Carleton University, Canada); Xinyu Huang (University of Waterloo, Canada); Mushu Li (Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada); Kaige Qu, Conghao Zhou and Xuemin Sherman Shen (University of Waterloo, Canada)

WC-16: Resource Allocation 

Room: Plaza Court 3, Concourse Level

Chair: Karl-Ludwig Besser (Princeton University, USA)

Organic Photovoltaic Cell-Powered Backscatter Communication System: A Compact Design

Adrian Salustri, Alexander Williams, Mathew Salas, Hassan Khaniani and Mostafa Hassanalian (New Mexico Tech, USA); Pedram Roghanchi (University of Kentucky, USA); Sihua Shao (New Mexico Tech, USA)

Resource Allocation for STAR-IRS-Aided UAV secure communication

Haijun Zhang, Xiaoqi Zhang, Keping Long and Chao Ren (University of Science and Technology Beijing, China); A Nallanathan (QMUL, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

Over-the-Air Computation Assisted Federated Learning With Progressive Training

Ge Gao, Qiaochu An and Zhibin Wang (ShanghaiTech University, China); Zixin Wang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China); Yuanming Shi and Yong Zhou (ShanghaiTech University, China)

Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for User Scheduling in Coordinated Beamforming

Jingyuan Zhang and Douglas Blough (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)

Queue Slicing Based Dynamic Cross-Layer Scheduling for Wireless Deterministic Network with Heterogeneous Traffic

Jiaying Zhou (School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, China); Xu Zhu (Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, China & University of Liverpool, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Jie Cao (HITSZ, China); Yufei Jiang (Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, China)