(PLEASE NOTE: WHILE THE PROGRAM BELOW IS ALMOST FINAL, SOME SMALL CHANGES MAY STILL OCCUR)

MONDAY, MAY 5 

8:30 - 9:00 Opening

 

9:00 - 9:30 Award Talks Session: Technical Achievement Award 

Sennur Ulukus (University of Maryland)

Title: Timely Tracking and Utilization of Markov Machines

9:30 - 10:30 Keynote 1

Jakob Hoydis (NVIDIA) 

Title: Digital Twins for Communications: The Road Ahead

  

COFFEE BREAK 10:30 - 11:00 

  

11:00 - 13:00 Session 1: Digital Twins and 6G Wireless Networks

Organizer and Session chair: Ahmed Alkhateeb  (Arizona State University)

Speaker 1: Arash Behboodi (Qualcomm AI)

A Foundational Approach to Inverse Problems for Physical Layer

Speaker 2: Jeff Andrews (University of Texas at Austin)

Network Digital Twins for Site Specific Wireless Communication and Data Generation

Speaker 3: Saeed Khosravirad (Nokia Bell Labs)

Bits over Atoms: Challenges and Opportunities of Digital Twin-enabled Networking

Speaker 4: Ahmed Alkhateeb (Arizona State University)

Wireless Digital Twins: Motivation, Considerations, and Applications

 

13:00 - 14:00 LUNCH

 

14:00 - 15:00 Keynote 2

Holger Boche (Technical University of Munich) 

Title: Post Shannon Communications and Network Coding

 

15:00 - 16:30 POSTER SESSION 1 with COFFEE BREAK

 

16:30 - 18:30 Session 2: Innovations for Next-Generation Wireless Networks

Session chair: TBA

Speaker 1: Erik Larsson (Linkoping University)

Decentralized Optimization and Learning over Communication Networks

Speaker 2: Petros Elia (EURECOM)

Revolutionizing VoD Delivery: Unlocking Spectral Efficiency and Energy Savings with Next-Generation PHY Transceivers

Speaker 3: Monisha Ghosh (University of Notre Dame)

A New Paradigm: Mid-Band, Sharing-Native 6G

Speaker 4: Tim O’Shea (DeepSig)

Deep Learning for Communications and Sensing: From Lab to Field

 

 

TUESDAY, MAY 6 

  

8:30 - 9:30 Keynote 3

Robert Calderbank (Duke University) 

Title: Zak-OTFS - How to Make Communication and Radar Sensing More Predictable in 6G

 

9:30 - 10:30 Keynote 4

Slim Alouini (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology) 

Title: Towards Connecting the Remaining Unconnected

  

COFFEE BREAK 10:30 - 11:00 

  

11:00 - 13:00 Session 3: Non-Terrestrial Networks and Beyond

Session chair: TBA

Speaker 1: Riccardo De Gaudenzi (European Space Agency)

Non Terrestrial Networks: Current Status, Trends and Challenges

Speaker 2: Symeon Chatzinotas (University of Luxembourg)

Direct-to-X in 6G NTN

Speaker 3: David Gesbert (EURECOM)

Sensing from the Sky with Connected Flying Robots

Speaker 4: TBA

 

13:00 - 14:00 LUNCH

 

14:00 - 15:00 Keynote 5

Sundeep Rangan (New York University) 

Title: Spectrally Agile Systems for the Upper Mid-Band

 

15:00 - 16:30 POSTER SESSION 2 with COFFEE BREAK

 

16:30 - 18:00 Panel: “6G spectrum: cm is the new mm”

Moderator: Angel Lozano (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)

Panelist 1: Erik Dahlman (Ericsson Research)

Panelist 2: Monisha Ghosh (University of Notre Dame)

Panelist 3: Reinaldo Valenzuela (Nokia Bell Labs)

Panelist 4: Danijela Cabric (University of California, Los Angeles)

Panelist 5: Sofie Pollin (KU Leuven)

 

19:00 - 22:00 BANQUET

 

 

 

WEDNESDAY, MAY 7 

  

8:30 - 9:00 Award Talks Session: Andrea Goldsmith Young Scholar Awards 

Zhaolin Wan (Queen Mary University of London, London)

Title: Next-Generation MIMO: Three Promising Directions

Heedong Do (Korea University)

Title: Channel Estimation for Near-Field MIMO: A Middle Way

9:00 - 10:00 Keynote 6

Angela Sara Cacciapuoti (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II) 

Title: Towards the Quantum Internet Protocol Suite

  

COFFEE BREAK 10:00 - 10:30 

10:30 - 12:30 Session 4: Quantum technologies for communications: Signal processing, networking, and sensing

Organizer and Session chair: Osvaldo Simeone (King’s College London)

Speaker 1: Kyle Jamieson (Princeton University)

Quantum Computing-based Signal Processing for Wireless Systems

Speaker 2: Petar Popovski (Aalborg University)

On the Interplay between Classical and Quantum Communications

Speaker 3: Michèle Wigger (Telecom Paris)

Quantum Sensing and Quantum Information Theory

Speaker 4: Dar Gilboa (Google) 

Distributed Quantum Computing

 

12:30 - 13:30 Keynote 7

Wen Tong (HUAWEI Technologies)

Title: Advances in AI Communications 

 

13:30 - 14:30 LUNCH

 

 

Poster session 1 (Monday, May 5th)

 

• Channel Estimation for Near-Field MIMO: A Middle Way (Heedong Do, Namyoon Lee, and Angel Lozano)

• Beamforming scheme for near-field XL-MIMO: Should we choose MRC? (Xiangyu Cui, Ki-Hong Park, and Mohamed-Slim Alouini)

• Connectivity Analysis of HAPS-based Solutions for Large-scale IoT Coverage (Hao Lin, Mustafa A. Kishk, and Mohamed-Slim Alouini)

• Direct RF Subsampling of Multicarrier Waveforms (James E. Kain)

• Deep Joint Source-Channel Coding using Advanced Convolutional Neural Networks (Po-Hsiang Huang and Chia-Han Lee)

• Adaptive Beam Focusing for content dissemination in ICN based UAVs Networks Using Q-Learning (Ihsan Ullah, Sultan Cogay, Gokhan Secinti, and Byung-Seo Kim)

• CrossMPT: Cross-Attention Message-Passing Transformer for Error Correcting Codes (Seong-Joon Park, Hee-Youl Kwak, Sang-Hyo Kim, Yongjune Kim, and Jong-Seon No)

• Robust Deep Joint Source Channel Coding (Taewoo Park, Eunhye Hong, Yo-Seb Jeon, Namyoon Lee, and Yongjune Kim)

• A Blind Source Separation Solution for ALOHA Massive Machine Type Communications (Michele Godeas, Alberto Carini, and Fulvio Babich)

• Analog-digital Scheduling for Federated Learning: A Communication-Efficient Approach (Muhammad Faraz Ul Abrar and Nicolò Michelusi)

• Optimizing Metasurface-Parametrized Channels for Over-the-Air Task-Oriented Communications (Kyriakos Stylianopoulos and George Alexandropoulos)

• Importance Sampling in Digital Twin Networks (Taekyun Lee, Hyeji Kim, and Jeffrey G. Andrews)

• Joint mmWave and Cell Free Massive MIMO for Reliable Broadband Low-Latency Communications (Soumyadeep Datta, Rohit Budhiraja, Pei Liu, and Shivendra S. Panwar)

• A Microbubble-based Approach for Intra-Body Communication (Annika Tjabben, Lea Bergkemper, Carolin Conrard, Christoph Lipps, and Hans Dieter Schotten)

• 6G Prototyping in the Upper Mid-Band (7-24 GHz) (Marco Mezzavilla, Michael Zappe, Elijah Zappe, Aditya Dhananjay, and Sundeep Rangan)

• Structured Coded Matrix Multiplication (Ahmad Tanha, Mohammad Reza Deylam Salehi, and Derya Malak)

• A CNN-Based Approach for NLOS/LOS Classification in Ultra-Wideband Networks Using CIR Characteristics (Nadir Bouzar, Luca De Nardis, and Maria-Gabriella Di Benedetto)

• Deep Autoencoder-Based Interference Channels (Seyed Reza Razavi Pour and Mojtaba Vaezi)

• A New Simulation Framework for Non-Terrestrial Networks in ns-3 (Marco Giordani and Michele Zorzi)

• On the detection of the CLTU termination for short LDPC-Coded Transmissions (Rebecca Giuliani, Massimo Battaglioni, Franco Chiaraluce, and Marco Baldi)

• On the Optimality of Gaussian Code-books for Signaling over a Two-Users Weak Gaussian Interference Channel (Amir K. Khandani)

Poster session 2 (Tuesday, May 6th)

• A Generalized Design Framework for Integrated Communication and Computing Receivers (Kuranage Roche Rayan Ranasinghe, Kengo Ando, and Giuseppe Thadeu Freitas de Abreu)

• Enhanced Trilateration Positioning Using Sigma Based RSSI Annular Sections and Two-Way Ranging Scheme (Chao Sun and Youngok Kim)

• Egoistic MDS-based Rigid Body Localization (Niclas Führling and Giuseppe Abreu)

• Coexistence of HAPS and 5G Terrestrial Network: Modeling and Performance Analysis (Safa khemiri, Mustafa A. Kishk, and Mohamed-Slim Alouini)

• Near-Field Wideband Localization: Performance Analysis Based on the Ambiguity Function (Laurence Defraigne, Luc Vandendorpe, and Jerome Louveaux)

• Practical and Robust antenna downtilt Optimisation Approach in 5G Network (Golnar Behzadi, Michael J. O’Sullivan, and Geoff Tunnicliffe)

• Sensing-enabled Tone Reservation for PAPR Reduction in OFDM Systems (Getuar Rexhepi, Kuranage Roche, Rayan Ranasinghe, Giuseppe Thadeu Freitas de Abreu, and David Gonzalez G.)

• From OTFS to AFDM: Next-Generation Waveforms for ISAC in Doubly-Dispersive Environments (Hyeon Seok Rou, Giuseppe Thadeu Freitas de Abreu, Junil Choi, and Marios Kountouris)

• Advanced Chirp Modulation for Doubly Selective Channels (Rawan Alghamdi, Mohamed Siala, Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri, and Mohamed-Slim Alouini)

• User Activity, Channel, CFO, and Data Estimation for Initial Access of Cell-Free MIMO Systems (Ryoji Kanzaki, Kohei Ueda, Takumi Takahashi, and Koji Ishibashi)

• A Mirror-based Jamming scheme against eavesdropping in Underwater Optical Communication (Andrea Petroni, Muhammad Shoaib Khan, Valeria Loscri, and Mauro Biagi)

• Continual Learning for Generalizable and Resilient Digital Twins Over Wireless Networks (Omar Hashash and Walid Saad)

• A Low-Cost Software Defined Modem to Take Underwater Acoustic Communication Mainstream (Federico Marin, Diego Spinosa, Antonio Montanari, and Filippo Campagnaro)

• Novel Insights into OTFS: from Double Cyclic Prefix to Pulse Shaping and Virtual Carriers (Michele Mirabella, Pasquale Di Viesti, and Giorgio Matteo Vitetta)

• Physical Layer Challenge Response Authentication with IRS and Multi-Antenna Devices (Anna V. Guglielmi, Laura Crosara, and Stefano Tomasin)

• Channel-Optimized Strategic Quantization (Anju Anand and Emrah Akyol)

• The Effect of Communication Constellation Design on Radar Performance in ISAC (Amirhossein Keshavarzchafjiri and Mojtaba Vaezi)

• Using Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface to Synthesize Massive MIMO Downlink: A Spatial Sigma-Delta Modulation Approach (Wai-Yiu Keung, Hei Victor Cheng, Wing-Kin Ma)

• Study of Cross-Correlation for Discrete Zadoff-Chu Sequences of Different Prime Lengths (Andrea Novero and Michele Zorzi)