IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference
21–24 April 2024 // Conrad Hotel in Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Wireless Communications for Growing Opportunities

Technical Sessions - 22 April 2024

*All times are in Gulf Standard Time - Dubai - United Arab Emirates (GMT+4)

Monday, 22 April - 9:00 - 10:30

Monday, 22 April - 14:00 - 15:30

Monday, 22 April - 16:00 - 17:30


Monday, 22 April - 9:00 - 10:30

TR1-01: Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces I
Room: Grand Ballroom A, 2nd Floor

Throughput Maximization for Movable Antenna and IRS enhanced Wireless Powered IoT Networks
Jinhao Xiao (South China Normal University, China); Yong Liu (South China Normal University, USA); Yunfeng Chen and Xianda Wu (South China Normal University, China); Fen Hou (University of Macau, Macao)

Performance Analysis of IRS-empowered 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)

Multi-User Indoor-to-Outdoor Communication Enhancement with Transparent Amplifying Intelligent Surface
Bin Liu and Sofie Pollin (KU Leuven, Belgium)

Integer-Based Pattern Synthesis for Asymmetric Multi-Reflection RIS
Wei Wang, Angela Doufexi and Mark Beach (University of Bristol, United Kingdom)

Single versus Double IRS-Assisted Networks: A Comparative Analysis using Practical Phase Shifting 
Muhammad Bilal (National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Pakistan); Syeda Fatima Zahra (National University of Science and Technology (NUST), Pakistan); Hassan Rizwan (National University of Sciences & Technology, Pakistan); Tariq Umar (National University of Science and Technology, Pakistan); Syed Ali Hassan (National University of Sciences and Technology, Pakistan); Haejoon Jung (Kyung Hee University, Korea (South)); Kapal Dev (Munster Technological University & IEEE, Ireland)

TR1-02: Wireless Power Transfer and Energy Harvesting
Room: Grand Ballroom B, 2nd Floor

Polar Codes for Joint Energy and Information Transfer
Meijia Ren, Bolin Wu and Kai Niu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)

Energy Efficient Design for Backscatter-Assisted Wireless Powered IRS-NOMA Networks 
Reza Jafari and Abraham O Fapojuwo (University of Calgary, Canada)

On the Radio Stripe Deployment for Indoor RF Wireless Power Transfer 
Amirhossein Azarbahram and Onel L. A. López (University of Oulu, Finland); Petar Popovski (Aalborg University, Denmark); Matti Latva-aho (University of Oulu, Finland)

On Efficient Resource Allocation Strategies for Multi-RIS Enhanced V2I SWIPT Systems
Manojkumar Kokare, Sumit Gautam and Swaminathan Ramabadran (Indian Institute of Technology Indore, India)

Latency Analysis of an RF Energy Harvesting System with a Backscatter Symbiotic Radio 
Syed Fasih Ali Gardezi (Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan); Jawwad Nasar Chattha (University of Management and Technology, Pakistan); Momin Uppal (Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan)

TR1-03: Integrated Sensing and Communication I
Room: Ballroom A, 4th Floor

Successive Interference Cancellation for ISAC in a Large Full-Duplex Cellular Network 
Konpal Ali, Roberto Bomfin and Marwa Chafii (New York University Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates)

Integrated Coordinated Multi-Point Sensing and Communication: Design and Experiment
Jianzhi Li, Baolong Chen, Shengli Ding, Jian Yao, Dajie Jiang and Fei Qin (vivo Mobile Communication Co., Ltd., Beijing, China)

Moving Target Sensing for ISAC Systems in Clutter Environment
Dongqi Luo, Huihui Wu, Hongliang Luo, Bo Lin and Feifei Gao (Tsinghua University, China)

IRS-Assisted Integrated Localization and Communication for Multiuser mmWave Massive MIMO Systems
Xingyu Peng (Zhejiang University, China); Xiaoling Hu (Beijing University of Post and Telecommunication, China); Jiabao Gao, Richeng Jin and Xiaoming Chen (Zhejiang University, China)

RIS-Enabled Integrated Sensing and Communication for 6G Systems
Ahmad Bazzi and Dexin Wang (New York University Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates); Marwa Chafii (New York University Abu Dhabi and NYU WIRELESS, United Arab Emirates)

Active RIS-aided Wireless Localization System with Power Splitting
Yidan Zhao, Ruizhe Long and Ying-Chang Liang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China)

TR2-01: Mobile and Wireless Networks
Room: Ballroom B, 4th Floor

Mobility Performance Analysis for Mixed Handover
Zhining Yin (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)

Substitute Presenter: Liang Zhao (China Three Gorges University, China)

Shaped Quota: More Efficient and More Versatile Congestion Control
Zhefan Fan, Zhang Wei and Chen Yunfang (Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Wanting Tian and Chao Tu (Jiangsu Viscore Technologies Co., Ltd., China); Yunqu Liu (Viscore Technologies Inc., Canada)

An AUV-Assisted Data Collection Approach for UASNs Based on Hybrid Clustering and Matrix Completion
Qihang Jiang (Hainan University, China); Rongxin Zhu and Azzedine Boukerche (University of Ottawa, Canada); Qiuling Yang (Tianjin University, China)

Substitute Presenter: Liang Peng (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)

Novel BWP Schemes for Multi-Numerology and Multi-Slice Radio Access Networks
Joe Saad (University of Versailles & Orange Labs, France); Mohamad Yassin and Salvatore Costanzo (Orange Labs, France); Kinda Khawam (Université de Versailles, France)

Performance on Mobile Edge Computing-enabled HetNets with mmWave Small Cells
Congshan Fan (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China); Tiankui Zhang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Xu Zhou (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)

Performance Analysis of 2G ALE HF Networks 
Paul Hirschausen and Brian Ng (University of Adelaide, Australia); Jack V Sudarev (Codan Ltd., Australia)

TR2-02: AI in Mobile and Wireless Networks
Room: Ballroom C, 4th Floor

Maximizing Group-Based Vehicle Communications and Fairness: A Reinforcement Learning Approach
Pronab Ghosh and Thiago Eustaquio Alves de Oliveira (Lakehead University, Canada); Fadi Alzhouri (Concordia University, Canada); Dariush Ebrahimi (Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada)

FineNet: Few-shot Mobile Encrypted Traffic Classification via a Deep Triplet Learning Network based on Transformer
Shengbao Li (School of Cyber Security, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences); Qian Qiang (National Computer Network Emergency Response Technical Team Coordination Center, China); Zang Tianning (Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China); Lanqi Yang (University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China); Gao Tianye (Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences & School of Cyber Security, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)

Substitute Presenter: Liang Zhao (China Three Gorges University, China)

Advanced Conditional Handover in 5G and Beyond using Q-Learning
Sathia Chandrane Sundararaju (Samsung Semiconductor India R&D Center, India); Shrinath Ramamoorthy Madhurantakam (Samsung Semiconductor India Research, India); Prasad Basavaraj Dandra (Samsung Semiconductor & International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore, India); Phanindhar Vanama (Samsung Semiconductor India Research, India)

Collaborative DNNs Inference with Joint Model Partition and Compression in Mobile Edge-Cloud Computing Networks 
Yaxin Tang (Chongqing University, School of Big Data and Software Engineering, China); Xiuhua Li, Hui Li and Zhengyi Yang (Chongqing University, China); Xiaofei Wang (Tianjin University, China); Victor C.M. Leung (Shenzhen University, China & The University of British Columbia, Canada)

Local Differential Private Spatio-Temporal Dynamic Graph Learning for Wireless Social Networks
Jiani Zhu (ShangHai Jiao Tong University, China); Xi Lin, Yuxin Qi and Gaolei Li (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China); Chaofeng Zhang (Advanced Institute of Industrial Technology, Japan); Jianhua Li (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China)

NetMind: Adaptive RAN Baseband Function Placement by GCN Encoding and Maze-solving DRL
Haiyuan Li (University of Bristol, United Kingdom); Peizheng Li (Toshiba Europe Ltd., United Kingdom); Karcius Assis (Federal University of Bahia, Brazil); Adnan Aijaz (Toshiba Research Europe Ltd, United Kingdom); Sen Shen, Reza Nejabati, Shuangyi Yan and Dimitra Simeonidou (University of Bristol, United Kingdom)

TR2-03: Resource Management
Room: Ballroom D, 4th Floor

Joint Transmission and Transcoding in Computing Power Networks for Livecast: A Quantum-inspired Optimization Approach
Xin Zou and Renchao Xie (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Qinqin Tang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecom, China); Tao Huang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)

Joint User Pairing and Resource Allocation Optimization in Downlink 2-layer Cooperative RSMA Networks
Shreya Khisa, Chadi Assi and Mohamed Elhattab (Concordia University, Canada); Sanaa Sharafeddine (American University of Beirut, Lebanon)

Joint Route Selection and Power Allocation in Multi-hop Cache-enabled Networks
Emre Gures and Pavel Mach (Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic)

BIJO: Bilevel Interactive Joint Optimization for Resource Allocation and Routing Generation
Jitong Li and Ye Tian (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Yuan Yang (Tsinghua University, China); Wendong Wang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Gong Xiangyang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications P.R. China, China); Xirong Que (Institute of Networking Technology, China)

Relay Selection and Load Allocation for LT Coded Distributed Computing in Two-Hop Heterogeneous Computation Network
Kai Qin and Shushi Gu (Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, China); Zhikai Zhang (Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen & Peng Cheng Laboratory, China); Qinyu Zhang (Shenzhen Graduate School, Harbin Institute of Technology, China); Wei Xiang (La Trobe University, Australia)

Joint and dynamic optimization of functional split selection and slice configuration in vRAN
Neco Villegas and Sofía Pérez (Universidad de Cantabria, Spain); Luis Diez and Ramon Aguero (University of Cantabria, Spain)

TR3-01: Federated Learning I
Room: Ballroom E, 4th Floor

Hierarchical Over-the-Air Federated Learning with Awareness of Interference and Data Heterogeneity 
Seyed Mohammad Azimi-Abarghouyi (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden); Viktoria Fodor (KTH NSE, Sweden)

Portfolio-Based Incentive Mechanism Design for Cross-Device Federated Learning
Jiaxi Yang and Sheng Cao (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); Cui-Fang Zhao (National Taiwan University, Taiwan); Weina Niu (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); Li-Chuan Tsai (Jiangxi University of Finance and Economics, China)

FedNC: A Secure and Efficient Federated Learning Method with Network Coding
Yuchen Shi, Zheqi Zhu and Pingyi Fan (Tsinghua University, China); Khaled B. Letaief (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong); Chenghui Peng (Huawei Technologies co., China)

Resource-Constrained Client Selection via Cluster-Driven Federated Learning for Internet of Things
Liusha Jiang, Xiangping Bryce Zhai, Jing Zhu and Juan Li (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China)

Substitute Presenter: Jiajing Wu (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China)

Asynchronous Federated Learning with Incentive Mechanism Based on Contract Theory
Danni Yang (Tsinghua University & Tsinghua, China); Yun Ji (Graduate School at Shenzhen, Tsinghua University, China); Zhoubin Kou (Tsinghua University, China); Xiaoxiong Zhong (Graduate School at Shenzhen, Tsinghua University, China); Zhang Sheng (Tsinghua University, China)

A Communication-Efficient Federated Learning by Dynamic Quantization and Free-Ride Coding
Junjie Chen and Qianfan Wang (Sun Yat-Sen University, China); Hai Wan and Xiao Ma (Sun Yat-sen University, China)

TR3-02: Federated Learning II
Room: Ballroom F, 4th Floor

A Clustered Federated Learning Paradigm with Model Ensemble in O-RAN
Jingyi Wang and Bei Yang (China Telecom Research Institute, China); Wei Li (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Ziyang Zhang (China Telecom Research Institute, China)

Substitute Presenter: Ruizhe Long (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China)

A Blockchain-based Trustworthy Federated Learning Privacy Protection Scheme
Xiaowei Liu and Xiaohui Li (Xidian University, China); Ai Gu (China Electronic Product Reliability and Environment Testing Research Institute, China); Siting Lv and Jianan Su (Xidian University, China)

Delay Minimization for NOMA-Assisted Federated Learning
Meng Wu (ShanghaiTech University, China); Zheng Dong (Shandong University, China); Zhibin Wang, Qiaochu An, Yuanming Shi and Yong Zhou (ShanghaiTech University, China)

Adaptive Model Pruning for Hierarchical Wireless Federated Learning 
Xiaonan Liu (The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom); Shiqiang Wang (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA); Yansha Deng (King's College London, United Kingdom); A Nallanathan (QMUL, United Kingdom)

FedDS: Data Selection for Streaming Federated Learning with Limited Storage
Yongquan Wei (Sun Yat-Sen University, China); Xijun Wang (Sun Yat-sen University, China); Kun Guo (East China Normal University, China); Howard Yang (Zhejiang University, China & University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (UIUC), USA); Xiang Chen (Sun Yat-Sen University, China)

Model Selection Based on DRL: Improving Personal Model Performance in Federated Learning
Zishang Chen, Juan Li, Kun Zhu and Changyan Yi (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China); Tianzi Zang (NanJing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China)

TR3-03: Federated Learning III
Meeting Room 8, 4th Floor

How Robust is Federated Learning to Communication Error? A Comparison Study Between Uplink and Downlink Channels
Linping Qu (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong); Shenghui Song (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong); Cy Tsui (HKUST, Hong Kong); Yuyi Mao (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong)

Joint Scheduling for Federated Learning in Battery-Powered IIoT with Multiple Services
Wu Jianbo (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Hao Wu (OPPO Inc., China); Shaoshuai Fan (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Hui Tian (Beijng University of posts and telecommunications, China)

A Novel Federated Transfer Learning Framework Based on Collaborative GAN for Smart Manufacturing
Shijie Li, Qimei Cui, Xiong Li, Yaxin Liao, Xiyu Zhao and Xiaofeng Tao (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)

Temporal Partitioned Federated Learning for IoT Intrusion Detection Systems
Mohannad Abu Issa, Mohamed Ibnkahla, Ashraf Matrawy and AbdelRahman Eldosouky (Carleton University, Canada)

EMDG-FL: Enhanced Malicious Model Detection based on Genetic Algorithm for Federated Learning
Okba Ben Atia, Mustafa Al Samara and Ismail Bennis (University of Haute Alsace, France); Jaafar Gaber (UTBM, France); Abdelhafid Abouaissa and Pascal Lorenz (University of Haute Alsace, France)

Performance Evaluation of Distance-Statistical based Byzantine-robust algorithms in Federated Learning
Francesco Colosimo and Floriano De Rango (University of Calabria, Italy)

TR4-01: Intelligent Transportation and Connected Vehicles 1
Meeting Room 9, 4th Floor

Security-Reliability Tradeoff for Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request-Assisted NR V2X Communication
Qiang Fu, Jiajia Liu and Jiadai Wang (Northwestern Polytechnical University, China); Junhua Ma (National University of Defense Technology, China)

Joint Optimization of Transit Signal Priority and Safety-Critical Longitudinal Control of Connected Autonomous Vehicles
Sirui Li (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Chengyu Wang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Singapore); Luhan Wang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Zhaoming Lu (BUPT, China); Wenpeng Jing (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Xiang Ming Wen (Beijing University of posts and telecommunications, China)

UAV-Assisted Routing Algorithm for Truck Parcel Delivery
Tsai Chung-yi (Taiwan); Jang-Ping Sheu and Pi-Yu Yi (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan)

A Joint Sensing, Communication, and Task Offloading Framework for Vehicular Metaverse
Maryam Alghfeli (MBZUAI, United Arab Emirates); Latif U. Khan (Mohamed Bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, United Arab Emirates); Mohsen Guizani (MBZUAI, United Arab Emirates); Bassem Ouni (Technology Innovation Institute, United Arab Emirates)

A Comparative Analysis of Open-source Software in an E2E 5G Standalone Platform
Maryam Amini and Catherine Rosenberg (University of Waterloo, Canada)

An Efficient (t, n) Threshold Authentication Scheme for Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks
Wenhui Kong, Pengfei Wen, Xinran Zheng and Shuo Yang (Tsinghua University, China); Ning Hu (Pengcheng Laboratory, China); Xingjun Wang (Tsinghua University, China)

TR4-04: RIS-Enhanced Communication Systems and Optimization
Meeting Room 3, 2nd Floor

Two-way Optimization for RIS Empowered FDD MIMO Communication Systems
Gyoseung Lee (KAIST, Korea (South)); Hyeongtaek Lee (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Korea (South)); Lee Swindlehurst (University of California at Irvine, USA); Junil Choi (KAIST, Korea (South))

User Association Optimization for IRS-aided Terahertz Networks: A Matching Theory Approach
Muddasir Rahim (École de Technologie Supérieure ÉTS, Canada); Thanh Luan Nguyen (The École de Technologie Supérieure (ÉTS), Université Du Québec, Canada); Georges Kaddoum (ETS Engineering School, University of Québec, Canada); Tri Nhu Do (Polytechnique Montréal, Canada)

Mixed Static and Reconfigurable Metasurface Deployment in Indoor Dense Spaces: How Much Reconfigurability is Needed?
Zhenyu Li and Ozan Alp Topal (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden); Özlem Tuğfe Demir (TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Turkey); Emil Björnson and Cicek Cavdar (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)

Near-Field Beam Training for Extremely Large-Scale IRS
Tao Wang (Beijing Unversity of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Jie Lv and Haonan Tong (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Changsheng You (Southern University of Science and Technology, China); Changchuan Yin (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)

Symbol Error Rate Analysis of Multi-IRS-Aided Distributed Space-Time Block Coding in MISO Wireless Communication Systems
Xudong Wang, Lei Feng, Fanqin Zhou and Li Wenjing (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)

Transmission Design for Double Cooperative Active RIS-Aided Communication
Boshi Wang (China); Cunhua Pan and Hong Ren (Southeast University, China); Gui Zhou (Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany); Wang Liu (University of Southeast & National Mobile Communications Research Laboratory, China); Zhiyuan Yu (Southeast University, China)

TR4-07: Positioning, Tracking and Sensing Techniques 1
Meeting Room 4, 2nd Floor

Unified Near-field and Far-field Localization with Holographic MIMO
Mengyuan Cao, Haobo Zhang, Boya Di and Hongliang Zhang (Peking University, China)

Accurate and Efficient Range Estimation for IEEE 802.15.4z-Compliant UWB System
Alireza Sheikh (IMEC Nederland, The Netherlands); Mohieddine El Soussi and Sharada Prasad Shantharam (Imec, The Netherlands)

Road-Aware Localization With Salient Feature Matching in Heterogeneous Networks
Lele Cong and Deshi Li (Wuhan University, China); Kaitao Meng (University College London, United Kingdom); Shuya Zhu (Wuhan University, China)

Reconfigurable Holographic Surface Aided Wireless Simultaneous Localization and Mapping
Haobo Zhang, Ziang Yang, Hongliang Zhang, Boya Di and Lingyang Song (Peking University, China)

A Novel Distance Tracking Framework for Estimating User Position in MmWave WLANs
Likhith Ayinala (Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur, India); Karan Jadhav (Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur (IIT Jodhpur), India); Pavana Ravi Sai Kiran Malyala (Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur, India)

2D+Depth RF Localization via a Low-Cost Receiver
Tianyuan Du, Yang-Hsi Su and Alanson Sample (University of Michigan, USA)

TR4-10: Antennas and Propagation
Meeting Room 5, 4th Floor

Using Existing Base Station Sites for 5G Millimeter-wave Fixed Wireless Access: Antenna Height and Coverage Analysis
Norshahida Saba (Aalto University, Finland)

Flexible Thin Film Multi-antenna Integrated Backscatter Device
Boxuan Xie, Juho Kerminen, Jari Lietzen, Lauri Mela, Kalle Ruttik, Alp Karakoç and Riku Jäntti (Aalto University, Finland)

Radio propagation measurement in 38-GHz band from lower stratosphere actualizing HAPS communication system 
Yuki Hokazono, Hinata Kohara, Yuto Muroki, Kenji Fukasawa and Yoshihisa Kishiyama (NTT DOCOMO, INC., Japan); Jun Suzuki and Hiromu Kitanozono (SKY Perfect JSAT Corporation, Japan)

Impact of UAV Body Dynamics on Coverage Probability in 5G FR2
Pawan Srivastava (Indian Institute of Technology, Jodhpur, India); Rajesh Kumar Samantaray and Pavana Ravi Sai Kiran Malyala (Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur, India)

Complete Coverage Path Planning for Data Collection with Multiple UAVs
Yuhong Chen, Zhiyu Mou, Bo Lin, Tengyu Zhang and Feifei Gao (Tsinghua University, China)

Low-complexity Phase Shifter Design for Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface Aided mmWave MIMO Systems
Xingyu Chen, Prabhat R Gautam and Li Zhang (University of Leeds, United Kingdom)

 


Monday, 22 April - 14:00 - 15:30

TR1-04: Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access
Room: Grand Ballroom A, 2nd Floor

Novel Hybrid Long- and Short-Packet based NOMA for Heterogeneous Data Collection in IWSNs
Haiyong Zeng (Guangxi Normal University & Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen), China); Xu Zhu (Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, China & University of Liverpool, United Kingdom); Rui Zhang (Guangxi Normal University, China); Yufei Jiang (Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, China); Zhongxiang Wei (Tongji University & School of Electronics and Information Engineering, China); Chen Wang (Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, China)

A Novel Rotated Constellation-based LLR Detector for Flexible NOMA based OFDM-IM Scheme
Subham Sabud (Indian Institute of Technology Patna, India); Preetam Kumar (IIT Patna, India)

Unified BER Analysis of Downlink NOMA With an Arbitrary Number of Users and Modulation Orders 
Abdulkarim Al Hanif and Ahmad Massud Tota Khel (The University of Manchester, United Kingdom); Khairi A. Hamdi (University of Manchester, United Kingdom)

OP Analysis of Alamouti/MRC NOMA System with SDR-Based Real-Time Implementation
Lütfullah Özkan, Büşra Demirkol, Saliha Büyükçorak and Oğuz Kucur (Gebze Technical University, Turkey); Gunes Karabulut Kurt (Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Canada)

On Cooperative Double-IRS Aided Downlink NOMA System with Multiple Channels
Zaichen Zhu, Hong Wang and Peiyu Wang (Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Zheng Shi (Jinan University, China)

Differential Modulation-Based Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access
Surjeet Kumar and Manav Bhatnagar (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India)

TR1-05: Extremely Large MIMO
Room: Grand Ballroom B, 2nd Floor

Fast Beam Training for Extremely Large-Scale MIMO Based on Geometric Beam Patterns
Jiazhe Li, Zhuoming Li, Xiaojie Fang, Xinbo Gao and Siyi Li (Harbin Institute of Technology, China)

Dynamic Hybrid-field Channel Estimation for Extremely Large-scale Massive MIMO
Xingyun Yan and Jide Yuan (Soochow University, China)

Efficient Beacon User Selection for Visibility Region Recognition in XL-MIMO Systems
Kai Li, Jue Wang, Daohua Liu and Ruifeng Gao (Nantong University, China); Jun Zhang (Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Yu Han and Shi Jin (Southeast University, China)

Low Complexity Interference Rejection Combining Equalizer for Extreme Massive MIMO
Krishna Kumar (Samsung R&D Institute India-Bangalore (SRI-B), India); Hari Krishna Boddapati (IIT Delhi, India); Ashok Kumar Reddy Chavva (Samsung Electronics, India)

Beam Training for Multiuser XL-MIMO Systems: A Graph Neural Network Approach
Wang Liu (University of Southeast & National Mobile Communications Research Laboratory, China); Cunhua Pan and Hong Ren (Southeast University, China); Jiangzhou Wang (University of Kent, United Kingdom)

Energy-Efficient Hybrid Beamforming Design for Wideband Terahertz Ultra-Massive MIMO Systems
Shan Shan and Yong Li (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Gaojie Chen (University of Surrey, United Kingdom)

TR1-06: Integrated Sensing and Communication II
Room: Ballroom A, 4th Floor

Integrating Sensing, Energy, and Communication in 6G Wireless Networks
Jianxin Dai and Cunzhen Liu (Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Cunhua Pan (Southeast University, China); Kezhi Wang (Brunel University London, United Kingdom); Jin Ge (Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)

An Energy-efficient ISAC Beam Management Scheme in UAV Communications
Zhishan Bai (Beijing University of Post and Telecommunications, China); Jiupeng Zhang, Qiu Ouyang and Shi Yan (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)

Cooperative Cell-Free ISAC Networks: Joint BS Mode Selection and Beamforming Design
Sifan Liu (Dalian University of Technology, China); Rang Liu (University of California, Irvine, USA); Zhiping Lu (CICT, China); Ming Li and Qian Liu (Dalian University of Technology, China)

Spatial Path Index Modulation To Combat Beam-Squint Effect in THz-ISAC Systems
Ahmet M Elbir (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg); Asmaa Abdallah (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia); Abdulkadir Celik (King Abdullah University of Science & Technology, Saudi Arabia); Ahmed M. Eltawil (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia)

A System Level Analysis for Integrated Sensing and Communication 
Roberto Bomfin, Konpal Ali and Marwa Chafii (New York University Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates)

Performance of MIMO-NOMA-ISAC Based on Signal Alignment
Boqun Zhao (University of Alberta, Canada); Chongjun Ouyang (University College Dublin, Ireland & School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Ireland); Xingqi Zhang (University of Alberta, Canada); Yuanwei Liu (Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom)

TR2-04: Semantic and Goal-Oriented Communications
Room: Ballroom B, 4th Floor

On the Age of Information in CR-NOMA Assisted Status Updating Systems with Random Arrivals
Yanshi Sun and Yanglin Ye (Hefei University of Technology, China); Zhiguo Ding (University of Manchester, United Kingdom)); Momiao Zhou and Zhizhong Ding (Hefei University of Technology, China)

Goal-oriented Tensor: Beyond AoI Towards Semantics-Empowered Goal-Oriented Communications
Aimin Li (Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen), China); Shaohua Wu (Harbin Institute of Technology, China); Sumei Sun (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore)

Free-Ride Transmission of Semantic Features in Wireless Video Surveillance Systems
Junjie Chen, Yinchu Wang and Qianfan Wang (Sun Yat-Sen University, China); Hai Wan and Xiao Ma (Sun Yat-sen University, China)

Semantic Redundancy-Aware Multi-View Edge Inference Based on Rate-Distortion in IoT Systems
Zhe Liu, Caili Guo and Meiyi Zhu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)

Adaptive Privacy Budget-based Differential Privacy Co-Training for Wireless Semantic Communication
Honghao Liu, Bizhu Wang, Rui Meng, Shujun Han and Xiaodong Xu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)

High Altitude Platform Stations: the New Network Energy Efficiency Enabler in the 6G Era
Tailai Song (Politecnico di Torino, Italy); David López-Pérez (Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, France); Michela Meo (Politecnico di Torino, Italy); Nicola Piovesan (Huawei Technologies, France); Daniela Renga (Politecnico di Torino, Italy)

TR2-05: Security
Room: Meeting Room 6, 4th Floor

ComChain: An Efficient and Secure Reputation-driven Blockchain for Collaborative Edge-end Computing with Sharding
Zhen Zhang and Bing Guo (Sichuan University, China); Li Chengjie (Southwest Minzu University, China)

Runtime Anomaly Detection for MEC Services with Multi-Timescale and Dimensional Feature
Qian Yang (Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China); Hongjia Li (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China); Kai Chen, Jiankai Wang, Liming Wang and Zhen Xu (Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)

Substitute Presenter: Chao Xu (Tsinghua University, China)

Game Theory for 5G Cloud-Edge-Terminal Distributed Networks under DoS Attacks
Yu Ke (BUPT, China); Shen Wang and Xiaofeng Tao (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)

A Federated Continual Learning Framework for Sustainable Network Anomaly Detection in O-RAN
Chafika Benzaid (University of Oulu, Finland & University of Sciences and Technology Houari Boumediane (USTHB), Algeria); Fahim Muhtasim Hossain and Tarik Taleb (University of Oulu, Finland); Pedro Merino Gomez (University of Malaga, Spain); Michael Dieudonné (Keysight Technologies, Belgium)

Substitute Presenter: Masoud Shokrnezhad (University of Oulu, Finland)

Adaptive Weight XgBoost: Detecting and Mitigating Low-rate DoS Attack in Network Slicing
Xin Rong (BUPT, China); Shen Wang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Chaojie Guo (Beijing University of Post and Telecommunication, China); Xiaofeng Tao (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)

TR2-06: Edge Computing and Edge Intelligence
Room: Ballroom D, 4th Floor

TD3-based Collaborative Computation Offloading and Charging Scheduling in Multi-UAV-Assisted MEC Networks
Liang Zhao and Yujun Yao (China Three Gorges University, China); Huan Zhou (Northwestern Polytechnical University, China); Hao Wang (China Three Gorges University, China); Victor C.M. Leung (Shenzhen University, China & The University of British Columbia, Canada)

GNN-Based QoE Optimization for Dependent Task Scheduling in Edge-Cloud Computing Network
Yani Ping, Kun Xie and Xiaohong Huang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Chengcheng Li (The 54th Research Institute of CETC, China); Yasheng Zhang (CETC, China)

Delay-aware Distributionally Robust Trajectory UAV-assisted MEC with Uncertain Task Size
Mengdi Zhan (University of Science and Technology of China, China); Shubin Xu (The 54th Research Institute of China Electronics Technology Group Corporation, China)

Substitute Presenter: Weishu Zhan (Dartmouth College, USA)

TriStack: Efficient Stackelberg Game-Based Offloading for Cloud-Edge-Terminal Computing
Yue Shi, Tianqi Zhao, Xin Cui, Tianhao Li and Kuangyu Zheng (Beihang University, China)

Cooperative Model Dissemination Strategy for Hierarchical Clustering Learning in Edge Computing
Long Zhang, Gang Feng, Zheng Qin, Xiaoqian Li, Shuang Qin and Jian Wang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China)

An Efficient QoS-based Task Scheduling Scheme for Edge Server
Rui Huang, Yongmin Zhang, Qing Yao, Wei Wang and Zhaohui Li (Central South University, China)

TR3-04: Reinforcement Learning I
Room: Ballroom E, 4th Floor

Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Cooperative Task Offloading in Internet-of-Vehicles
Yuchen Lei, Jiang Kai, Zhenning Wang and Yue Cao (Wuhan University, China); Hai Lin (WuHan University, China); Liang Chen (Wuhan University, China)

Lightweight Reinforcement Learning with State Abstraction for Dynamic Spectrum Anti-Jamming Communications
Xin Liu (Guilin University of Technology, China); Ximing Wang (National University of Defense Technology, China); Yuhua Xu (College of Communications Engineering, PLA University of Science and Technology, China); Zhiyong Du (National University of Defence Technology, China); Yifan Xu and Hao Han (Army Engineering University of PLA, China)

Dual-layer Deep Reinforcement Learning for Joint Beam Management and Resource Allocation
Xinye Yang, Xinxin He, Xu Chen and Youcheng Zeng (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Zhaohui Yang (Zhejiang University, China); Tao Luo (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)

Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning for Computation Offloading in Multi-IRS Assisted Mobile Edge Computing Networks 
Lingxiao Chen and Xiuhua Li (Chongqing University, China); Chuan Sun (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore); Qilin Fan (Chongqing University, China); Xiaofei Wang (Tianjin University, China); Victor C.M. Leung (Shenzhen University, China & The University of British Columbia, Canada)

Deep Reinforcement Learning Based Two-phase Proactive Caching for Collaborative Edge Networks
Ming Zhao and Mohammad Reza Nakhai (King's College London, United Kingdom)

Substitute Presenter: Dongzhu Liu (University of Glasgow, United Kingdom)

Unveiling the Effects of Experience Replay on Deep Reinforcement Learning-based Power Allocation in Wireless Networks
Amna Kopic (RWTH Aachen University, Germany); Erma Perenda (RWTH Aachen, Germany); Haris Gacanin (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)

TR3-05: Reinforcement learning II
Room: Ballroom F, 4th Floor

Action Space-independent Exploration Methods in Multi-agent Deep Reinforcement Learning for Wireless Power Allocation
Amna Kopic (RWTH Aachen University, Germany); Erma Perenda (RWTH Aachen, Germany); Haris Gacanin (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)

Reinforcement Learning Based QoS-Aware Anti-jamming Underwater Video Transmission 
Shiyu Sun and Chen Shun (Xiamen University, China); Shaoxuan Li (Xiamen, China); Zefang Lv, Liang Xiao and Wei Su (Xiamen University, China)

Substitute Presenter: Yiwen Zhan (Xiamen University, China)

Intelligence-based Reinforcement Learning for Continuous Dynamic Resource Allocation in Vehicular Networks
Yuhang Wang (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (GZ), China); Ying He (Shenzhen University, China); Richard Yu (Carleton University, Canada); Kaishun Wu (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China)

Energy Efficiency Relaying Election Mechanism for 5G Internet of Things: A Deep Reinforcement Learning Technique
Clément Dutriez (University of Gustave Eiffel, France); Omar Sami Oubbati (University Gustave Eiffel, France); Cedric Gueguen (University of Rennes 1 & CNRS, France); Abderrezak Rachedi (University Gustave Eiffel, France)

Joint Optimization of Spectrum and Power for Vehicular Networks: A MAPPO Based Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach
Weiteng Cai (University of Jinan,guangdong, China); Xiujie Huang, Quanlong Guan and Yuhao Chen (Jinan University, China)

TR3-06: Reinforcement Learning III
Meeting Room 8, 4th Floor

A Reinforcement Learning Approach to Wi-Fi Rate Adaptation Using the REINFORCE Algorithm
Ye Tao and Wee Lum Tan (Griffith University, Australia)

Exploiting Deep Reinforcement Learning for Stochastic AoI Minimization in Multi-UAV-assisted Wireless Networks
Yusi Long, Jialin Zhuang and Shimin Gong (Sun Yat-Sen University, China); Bo Gu (Sun Yat-sen University, China); Jing Xu (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China); Jing Deng (UNC Greensboro, USA)

Risk-Aware Reinforcement Learning Based Federated Learning Framework for IoV
Yuhan Chen, Zhibo Liu and Xiaozhen Lu (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China); Liang Xiao (Xiamen University, China)

Efficient Federated Learning in 6G-Satellite Systems: Deep Reinforcement Learning Based Multi-Objective Optimization
Yu Zhou (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China); Jingjing Guo (Central South University, China); Haohui Li, Jinjin Tian and Xiaohui Zhao (Xi'an Jiaotong University, China); Lei Lei (Xi‘an Jiaotong University, China)

PPOSWC: Proximal Policy Optimization Scheduling for Wireless Communication in Multi-UAV Aided Networks
Youssef Osrhir and Btissam El Khamlichi (Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, Morocco)

TR4-02: Intelligent Transportation and Connected Vehicles 2
Meeting Room 9, 4th Floor

RSU-Aided Energy-Efficient Collaborative Perception for Connected Autonomous Vehicles
Minh David Thao Chan, Zhaojun Nan, Yukuan Jia, Sheng Zhou and Zhisheng Niu (Tsinghua University, China)

Latency-Aware Server Deployment in Internet of Vehicles Based on Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
Xinran Liu, Yaqiong Liu, Mu Junsheng and Guochu Shou (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)

Vehicle-to-Vehicle Optical Camera Communications for Platoon Verification
Michael Plattner and Gerald Ostermayer (University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria, Austria)

Dynamic Graph Neural Networks for Joint Terahertz based Sensing and Communication Optimization in Vehicular Networks
Xuefei Li (Beijng University of Posts and Commmunications, China); Mingzhe Chen and Ye Hu (University of Miami, USA); Zhilong Zhang and Danpu Liu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Shiwen Mao (Auburn University, USA)

Computer Vision Based Link Scheduling in mmWave Multi-Hop V2X Communications
Weihua Xu and Feifei Gao (Tsinghua University, China); Ling Xing (Henan University Of Science And Technology, China); Shaodan Ma (University of Macau, China); Xiaoming Tao (Tsinghua University, China)

Hybrid RF-VLC Technology for V2X in Platooning Applications under Different Weather Conditions
Saikrishnan S (College of Engineering Guindy Chennai India, India); Priyanka Singh (IIIT Delhi, India); Anand Singh (Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, India); Anand Srivastava (Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi, India)

TR4-05: RIS in Signal Processing, Sensing, and Positioning
Meeting Room 3, 2nd Floor

RIS-Enabled Cooperative Sidelink Positioning Under Partial Blockage
Mustafa Ammous and Shahrokh Valaee (University of Toronto, Canada)

User-Centric Monostatic Sensing Aided by Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces
Abdolvakil Fazli (Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute Berlin, Germany); Ehsan Tohidi and Zoran Utkovski (Fraunhofer HHI, Germany); Slawomir Stanczak (Technische Universität Berlin & Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute, Germany)

Substitute Presenter: Ramez Askar (Fraunhofer HHI, Germany)

RIS-Aided NLoS Monostatic Sensing under Mobility and Angle-Doppler Coupling 
Mahmut Kemal Ercan and Sinan Gezici (Bilkent University, Turkey); Henk Wymeersch and Musa Furkan Keskin (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)

Demonstration of Direct-to-Satellite IoT for Monitoring Water Reservoirs in Remote Areas to Prevent Wildfires
Marcel Marin-de-Yzaguirre, Oscar Baselga Lahoz and Joan Pagès (i2CAT Foundation, Spain); Anna Calveras (Universidad Politecnica de Catalunya (UPC), Spain); Pol Guixé and Joan Adria Ruiz-de-Azua (i2CAT Foundation, Spain)

Near Field Computational Imaging with RIS Generated Virtual Masks
Yuhua Jiang, Feifei Gao and Yimin Liu (Tsinghua University, China); Shi Jin and Tie Jun Cui (Southeast University, China)

RIS-Aided LEO SatCom with LEO-GEO Inter-System Interference Mitigation: Joint Multi-Satellite Multi-RIS Beamforming 
Ziyuan Zheng and Wenpeng Jing (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Zhaoming Lu (BUPT, China); Xiangming Wen (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Wei Li (The State Radio Monitoring Center Testing Center, China)

TR4-08: Positioning, Tracking and Sensing Techniques 2
Meeting Room 4, 2nd Floor

Fundamental Limits Analysis of Multiband Sensing
Yubo Wan and An Liu (Zhejiang University, China); Rui Du (Huawei Techologies Co., Ltd., China); Tony Xiao Han (Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., China); Tony Q. S. Quek (Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore)

Cooperative Multi-Monostatic Sensing for Object Localization in 6G Networks
Maximiliano Rivera (RWTH Aachen University, Germany); Pradyumna Kumar Bishoyi (RWTH Aachen University Germany, Germany); Marina Petrova (RWTH Aachen University, Germany & KTH Royal Institute of Technolgy, Sweden)

Motion Compensation for Synthetic Aperture Passive Localization Based on Weather Radar Signals
Jiayu Sun, Hao Huan, Ran Tao and Yue Wang (Beijing Institute of Technology, China); Xiaogang Tang (School of Space Information, Space Engineering University, China)

Transformer-based Environment-aware Localization in the NLoS Scenarios
Jinwoo Son, Inkook Keum, Hyunsoo Kim, Hyung Joon Cho and Byonghyo Shim (Seoul National University, Korea (South))

A Novel Cross-band CSI Prediction Scheme for Multi-band Fingerprint Based Localization
Ruihao Yuan (Shanghai Institute for Advanced Communication and Data Science & School of Information and Communication Engineering, Shanghai University, China); Kaixuan Huang, Shunqing Zhang and Yuru Duan (Shanghai University, China)

Stepsize-Adaptive SAMP Algorithm for Fast mmWave Radar Imaging
Chuanzhi Zhang, Zhaoyang Zhang, Zirui Chen and Zhaohui Yang (Zhejiang University, China)

TR4-11: Blockchain and Cryptography 1
Meeting Room 5, 4th Floor

A Novel Endorsement Protocol to Secure BFT-Based Consensus in Permissionless Blockchain
Ziqiang Xu, Ahmad Salehi Shahraki and Naveen Chilamkurti (La Trobe University, Australia)

DART: a Low-cost and Secure Cross-chain scheme for Popular Digital Assets
Hui Zhao (Inner Mongolia University & College of Computer Science, China); Xiaodong Zhang (Inner Mongolia University of Technology, China); Ru LI and Jinshan Shi (Inner Mongolia University, China)

Accommodation Smoothing Method and Performance Regarding UE Placement in Blockchain-RAN
Takeru Fukushima (NTT Corporation & Kanagawa, Yokosuka-Shi, Japan); Motoharu Sasaki (NTT Corporation, Japan); Toshiro Nakahira (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, Japan); Daisuke Murayama (NTT, Japan); Tomoki Ogawa and Yasushi Takatori (NTT Corporation, Japan)

Distributionally Robust Mining for Proof-of-Work Blockchain Under Resource Uncertainties
Xunqiang Lan, Xiao Tang, Ruonan Zhang and Bin Li (Northwestern Polytechnical University, China); Daosen Zhai (Northwestren Polytechnical University, China); Wensheng Lin (Northwestern Polytechnical University, China); Zhu Han (University of Houston, USA)

DeLoRaN: Decentralize LoRaWAN Network Server through Blockchain
Pierluigi Locatelli (University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy); Francesca Cuomo (University of Rome Sapienza, Italy)

Real-time Cyberattack Detection with Collaborative Learning for Blockchain Networks 
Tran Viet Khoa (University of Technology Sydney, Australia); Do Hai Son (VNU University of Engineering and Technology, Vietnam); Hoang Thai Dinh (University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Australia); Nguyen Linh Trung (Vietnam National University, Hanoi, Vietnam); Tran Thi Thuy Quynh (VNU University of Engineering and Technology, Vietnam); Diep N. Nguyen (University of Technology Sydney, Australia); Nguyen Viet Ha (VNU Ha Noi, Vietnam); Eryk Dutkiewicz (University of Technology Sydney, Australia)


Monday, 22 April - 16:00 - 17:30

TR1-07: Cell-Free MIMO
Room: Grand Ballroom A, 2nd Floor

Spectral Efficiency Analysis for RISs-Aided Wireless-Powered Cell-Free Massive MIMO
Xiaojiao Yu, Qiang Sun and Xiaomin Chen (Nantong University, China); Jiayi Zhang (Beijing Jiaotong University, China); Chen Xu (Nantong Unviersity, China); Yong-Jie Yang (Nan Tong University, China)

The Effect of Spatial Correlation and Mutual Coupling on Cell-Free Massive MIMO
Jun Qian (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong); Chi Zhang and Khaled B. Letaief (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong); Ross Murch (HKUST, Hong Kong)

Secure Spatial Signal Design for ISAC in a Cell-Free MIMO Network 
Steven Rivetti, Emil Björnson and Mikael Skoglund (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)

Downlink Pilots are Essential for Cell-Free Massive MIMO with Multi-Antenna Users
Eren Berk Kama (KTH, Sweden); Junbeom Kim (Gyeongsang National University, South Korea); Emil Björnson (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)

Inband and Out-of-Band Performance Evaluation of Downlink CF-mMIMO-OFDM under Low-resolution DACs
Antoine Durant (CEA-Leti & Université Grenoble Alpes, France); Rafik Zayani (CEA-LETI, France); Asma Mabrouk (CEA- LETI, France); David Demmer (CEA-LETI, France)

Sequential Hardware-aware Precoding for CF-mMIMO-OFDM with Serial Fronthaul
Antoine Durant (CEA-Leti & Université Grenoble Alpes, France); Rafik Zayani and David Demmer (CEA-LETI, France)

TR1-08: mmWave and THz Communications
Room: Grand Ballroom B, 2nd Floor

On The Error Analysis of Two-Way Relaying in mmWave-based Aerial Links
Heyam Hassan (Texas A&M University at Qatar, Qatar); Saud Althunibat (Texas A and M University at Qatar, Qatar); Mohammad Taghi Dabiri and Mazen Omar Hasna (Qatar University, Qatar); Khalid A. Qaraqe (Texas A&M University at Qatar, USA)

Wideband mmWave/THz Beam Alignment: Exploiting Beam Split Effect via Posterior Matching
Yang Yang, Xiaoxia Xu and Qimei Chen (Wuhan University, China); Guo Wan (Wuhan Fiberhome Technical Services, China); Jian Zhang (Wuhan Univerisity, China)

Sub-6GHz Aided Hybrid Beamforming for mmWave System
Hongyao Li (Xi'an High Tech Institute, China); Bo Lin, Feifei Gao and Yuantao Gu (Tsinghua University, China); Jianxiang Xi (Xi'an High Tech Institute, China)

Fast MmWave Beam Alignment Method With Adaptive Discounted Thompson Sampling
Yi Wang, Keke Zu, Weichang Zheng and Linchao Zhang (Yangtze Delta Region Institute (Quzhou) University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China)

Performance Analysis of Multi-Connectivity Based Self-Backhauled Millimeter Wave Mobile Networks
Behrouz Maham (Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan)

ResNet Based Multi-Target Range and Velocity Estimation Method for Millimeter-Wave OFDM System
Yiyang Bai and Yanbo Zhao (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); Chengxiang Liu (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China & University of Glasgow, China); Fuchen Xu and Guanghui Liu (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China)

TR1-09: Wireless Security I
Room: Ballroom A, 4th Floor

Achieving Covertness and Secrecy in Wireless Communications with Active Attackers
Huihui Wu and Feifei Gao (Tsinghua University, China); Ling Xing (Henan University Of Science And Technology, China); Tengyu Zhang (Tsinghua University, China); Wei Su (Beijing Jiaotong University, China)

Joint Beamforming Design for Secure Communications over An IRS-Aided Untrusted Relay Network
Chang Liu, Deli Qiao and Haifeng Qian (East China Normal University, China)

Covert Communications for Cognitive Satellite Terrestrial Networks
Pengpeng Liu (Xidian University, China); JiangBo Si (Xi'dian, China); Zan Li (Xidian University, China); Naofal Al-Dhahir (University of Texas at Dallas, USA)

Spoofing Attack Detection in the Physical Layer with Robustness to User Movement
Daniel Romero and Tien Ngoc Ha (University of Agder, Norway); Peter Gerstoft (University of California, San Diego, USA)

Covert Communication With a Ginibre Field of Interferers
Justin Kong and Fikadu Dagefu (US Army Research Laboratory, USA)

A Lightweight CIR-Based Physical Layer Key Generation Scheme for UWB
Eshagh Dehmollaian, Bernhard Etzlinger and Andreas Springer (Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria)

TR1-10: Channel Estimation
Room: Ballroom B, 4th Floor

An Analogue Channel Estimation Method Suitable for DigiLogue Receivers
Mahmoud Mojarrad Kiasaraei, Konstantinos Nikitopoulos and Rahim Tafazolli (University of Surrey, United Kingdom)

Near-Field Channel Estimation for Ultra-Massive MIMO Antenna Array with Hybrid Architecture
Ahmed Hussain, Asmaa Abdallah and Ahmed M. Eltawil (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia)

Substitute Presenter: Abdulkadir Celik (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia)

A Hybrid Network based on MLP-Mixer for OFDM Channel Estimation
Sirui Liu, Chen Dong, Zhi Zhang, Xiaoqi Qin and Xiaodong Xu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)

Newtonized Near-Field Channel Estimation for Ultra-Massive MIMO Systems
Ruoxiao Cao (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong & Southern University of Science and Technology, China); Wentao Yu and Hengtao He (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong); Xianghao Yu (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong); Shenghui Song and Jun Zhang (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong); Yi Gong (Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China); Khaled B. Letaief (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)

Pilot Length Optimization with RS-LS Channel Estimation for Extremely Large Aperture Arrays
Mert Alıcıoğlu (TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Sweden); Özlem Tuğfe Demir (TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Turkey); Emil Björnson (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)

Semi-blind Channel Estimation Leveraging Frequency Correlation
Yuzhi Yang, Zhaoyang Zhang, Zirui Chen and Zhaohui Yang (Zhejiang University, China)

TR2-07: Multiple Access
Room: Ballroom C, 4th Floor

On the Use of Multiple Grants for Contention-Based Uplink Transmissions in 5G NR
Giampaolo Cuozzo (National Inter-University Consortium for Telecommunications (CNIT) & National Laboratory of Wireless Communications (WiLab), Italy); Massimo Condoluci (Ericsson Research, Sweden)

Improve IEEE 802.15.4 Network Reliability by Suspendable CSMA/CA 
Yukimasa Nagai (Mitsubishi Electric Corp., Japan); Jianlin Guo (Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, USA); Takenori Sumi (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Japan); Kieran Parsons and Philip Orlik (Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, USA); Benjamin Rolfe (Blind Creek Associates, USA); Pu Wang (Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL), USA)

Modeling and Performance Analysis of CSMA-Based JCAS Networks
Navid Keshtiarast (RWTH Aachen University, Germany); Pradyumna Kumar Bishoyi (RWTH Aachen University Germany, Germany); Marina Petrova (RWTH Aachen University, Germany & KTH Royal Institute of Technolgy, Sweden)

A Semantic-Aware Multiple Access Scheme for Distributed, Dynamic 6G-Based Applications
Hamidreza Mazandarani (IEEE Member, Iran); Masoud Shokrnezhad and Tarik Taleb (University of Oulu, Finland)

A New Collision Resolution Mechanism Based on the Discovery of Colliding Sources
Sebastià Galmés (University of the Balearic Islands & Health Research Institute of the Balearic Islands (IdISBa), Spain)

On the Ergodic Rate of Uplink Rate-Splitting Multiple Access 
Athanasios Chrysologou, Sotiris A. Tegos, Panagiotis D. Diamantoulakis and Nestor Chatzidiamantis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece); Paschalis C. Sofotasios (Khalifa University & Tampere University, Finland); George K. Karagiannidis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece)

TR2-09: Machine Learning in Wireless Networks
Room: Ballroom D, 4th Floor

Deep Reinforcement Learning-Based Adaptive Offloading Algorithm for Wireless Power Transfer-Aided Mobile Edge Computing
Xiaojun Wu and Xinya Yan (Xi'an Jiaotong University, China); Sheng Yuan (China); Chenhao Li (Xi'an Jiaotong University, China)

Graph Reinforcement Learning Based Multi-Hotspot Region UAV Dynamic Scheduling in Mobile Edge Computing
Xiaowei Zhao and Hua Yang (Dalian University of Technology, China); Mingchu Li (School of Software, Dalian University of Technology, China)

Intelligent Decentralized Multiple Access via Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning
Yuxuan He, Xinyuan Gang and Yayu Gao (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China)

Data Augmentation Aided Automatic Modulation Recognition Using Diffusion Model 
Jingqian Chen, Caidan Zhao and Xiangyu Huang (Xiamen University, China); Zhiqiang Wu (Peking University-Wuhan, China)

Substitute Presenter: Yiwen Zhan (Xiamen University, China)

A Novel Link Adaptation Approach for URLLC: A DRL-based Method with OLLA 
Wei Gao (Wuhan University, China); Paul Zheng and Yulin Hu (RWTH Aachen University, Germany); Chao Shen (Shenzhen Research Institute of Big Data, China); Bo Ai (Beijing Jiaotong University, China); Anke Schmeink (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)

Spiking-UNet: Spiking Neural Networks for Spectrum Occupancy Monitoring
Kosta Dakic (University of Sydney, Australia); Bassel Al Homssi (UNSW, Australia); Akram Al-Hourani (RMIT University, Australia)

TR3-07: Deep Learning I
Room: Ballroom E, 4th Floor

Deep Learning-Based Radio Estimation Using a Semi-Automatically Created Indoor Building Information
Chang-Woo Pyo (NICT, Japan); Hirokazu Sawada (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan); Takeshi Matsumura (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) & Kyoto University, Japan)

Enhancing mmWave Beam Prediction through Deep Learning with Sub-6 GHz Channel Estimate
Weicao Deng, Min Li, Yongcheng Liu, Ming-Min Zhao and Ming Lei (Zhejiang University, China)

Deep Learning Based Adaptive Joint mmWave Beam Alignment
Daniel Tandler and Marc Gauger (University of Stuttgart, Germany); Ahmet Serdar Tan (InterDigital Europe, United Kingdom); Sebastian Dörner and Stephan ten Brink (University of Stuttgart, Germany)

DL-NA-SBD: An Unsupervised Online Deep Learning Approach for Blind Channel Equalization
Yantao Chen and Binhong Dong (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); Pengyu Gao (University of Surrey, United Kingdom); J. Su (UESTC, China); Wenhui Xiong (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China)

Adversarial Robustness of Distilled and Pruned Deep Learning-based Wireless Classifiers
Nayan Moni Baishya (IIT Guwahati, India); Manoj B. R. (Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India)

Edge-Efficient Deep Learning Models for Automatic Modulation Classification: A Performance Analysis
Nayan Moni Baishya (IIT Guwahati, India); Manoj B. R. (Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India); Prabin Kumar Bora (Indian Instituite of Technology, India)

TR3-08: Deep Learning II
Room: Ballroom F, 4th Floor

LAGNet: A Hybrid Deep Learning Model for Automatic Modulation Recognition
Zhuo Li (Xi'an University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Guangyue Lu (Xi'an University of Posts & Telecommunications, China); Yuxin Li (Xi'an University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Hao Zhou (Guangzhou University, China); Huan Li (Xi'an University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)

Improved Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient Algorithm based on PER for Partial Task Offloading
Jiahui Mao (University of Chinese Academy of Sciences & Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, China); Chong Tan (Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology & Chinese Academy of Sciences, China); Liu Hong (Shanghai Institute of Microsystem And Information Technology, CAS, China); Jichen Bian (University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China); Peiyao Tang (Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, China); Min Zheng (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)

Deep Learning and Compressed Sensing Based Fast Beam Training for Cell-Free Millimeter Wave System
Yangye Sheng, Weiliang He, Cheng Zhang and Yongming Huang (Southeast University, China)

On the Robustness of Deep Learning-aided Symbol Detectors to Varying Conditions and Imperfect Channel Knowledge
Chin-Hung Chen and Boris Karanov (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands); Wim van Houtum (Tu/e, The Netherlands); Yan Wu and Alex Young (NXP Semiconductors, The Netherlands); Alex Alvarado (Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), The Netherlands)

Joint Source-Channel Coding for Wireless Image Transmission: A Deep Compressed-Sensing Based Method
Mohammad Amin Jarrahi (University of Essex, United Kingdom); Eirina Bourtsoulatze (Imperial College London, United Kingdom); Vahid Abolghasemi (University of Essex, United Kingdom)

Codebook-Agnostic Separate Training for DL-based CSI Feedback Enhancement
Yihang Huang (Nokia Shanghai Bell, China); Chenhui Ye and Yijia Feng (Nokia Bell Labs China, China)

TR3-09: Deep Learning III
Meeting Room 8, 4th Floor

Patronus: Countering Model Poisoning Attacks in Edge Distributed DNN Training
Zhonghui Wu, Changqiao Xu, Mu Wang and Yunxiao Ma (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Zhongrui Wu (Zhejiang Financial College, China); Zhenyu Xiahou (Jiangxi Academy of Cyber Security, China); Luigi Alfredo Grieco (Politecnico di Bari, Italy)

Channel-configurable Deep Wireless Speech Transmission
Mohammad Bokaei (Aalborg University, Denmark); Jesper Jensen (Aalborg University Denmark & Oticon A/S, Denmark); Simon Doclo (University of Oldenburg, Germany); Jan Østergaard (Aalborg University, Denmark)

DDPG-based Wireless Resource Allocation for Time-Constrained Applications
Hang Hu (City College of New York, USA); Myung Lee (City University of New York, City College, USA); Marco Hernandez (University of Oulu, Finland); Yang G. Kim (New York City College of Technology of the City University of New York, USA); Kazi Ahmed (New York Institute of Technology, USA); Kazuya Tsukamoto (Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan)

AirFL-Mem: Improving Communication-Learning Trade-Off by Long-Term Memory 
Haifeng Wen (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology - Guangzhou, China); Hong Xing (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), China & The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong); Osvaldo Simeone (King's College London, United Kingdom)

Deep Refinement-Based Joint Source Channel Coding over Time-Varying Channels
Junyu Pan, Hanlei Li, Guangyi Zhang, Yunlong Cai and Guanding Yu (Zhejiang University, China)

Neural Multiple Description Image Coding with Semantic Polarization for Lossy Channels
Yajing Liu, Weicheng Zhang, Lingyu Chen and Xuemin Hong (Xiamen University, China); Xianbin Wang (Western University, Canada)

TR4-03: Sensing for Health and Environment
Meeting Room 9, 4th Floor

CSI-based Passenger Counting on Public Transport Vehicles with Multiple Transceivers
He Wang and Ivan Wang-Hei Ho (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong)

Cost-efficient Vehicular Edge Computing Deployment for Mobile Air Pollution Monitoring
Qixia Zhang (UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Norway); Hao Chen (University of Twente, The Netherlands); Phuong Hoai Ha (UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Norway)

Vision-aided Reference Signal Receiving Power Prediction for Smart Factory
Yuan Feng, Feifei Gao and Xiaoming Tao (Tsinghua University, China); Shaodan Ma (University of Macau, China); H. Vincent Poor (Princeton University, USA)

Subband and Sensing Task Allocation for Next-Generation Mobile Crowdsensing Networks: An Optimal Framework
Yaru Fu (Hong Kong Metropolitan University, China); Yue Zhang (Shantou University, China); Zheng Shi (Jinan University, China); Hong Wang (Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Yalin Liu (Hong Kong Metropolitan University, Hong Kong)

MiKey: Human Key-points Detection Using Millimeter Wave Radar
Lili Xie (Fujitsu Research and Development Center CO., LTD., China); Hongchun Li (Fujitsu Research and Development Center Co., Ltd, China); Tian Jun (Fujitsu R&D Center CO., LTD., China); Qian Zhao (Fujitsu Research and Development Center CO., LTD., China); Masahiro Shiraishi, Kenta Ide, Takahiro Yoshioka and Takeshi Konno (Fujitsu Limited, Japan)

5G Edge Vision: Wearable Assistive Technology for People with Blindness and Low Vision
Tommy Azzino and Marco Mezzavilla (NYU Tandon School of Engineering, USA); Sundeep Rangan (New York University, USA); Yao Wang (Polytechnic School of Engineering, New York University, USA); John-Ross Rizzo (NYU Langone Medical Center, USA)

TR4-06: RIS in Advanced Wireless Networks and Practical Challenges
Meeting Room 3, 2nd Floor

Contamination by Idle RIS in Cellular Systems - Impacts and Solutions
Mohammed Saquib Khan and Ashok Kumar Reddy Chavva (Samsung Electronics, India)

Substitute Presenter: Dr. Krishna Kumar (Samsung R&D Institute, India)

RIS-Empowered Relays for Cooperative NOMA
Mostafa Samy, Hayder Al-Hraishawi, Konstantinos Ntontin, Symeon Chatzinotas and Björn Ottersten (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)

Statistical Results of Multivariate Fox-H Function for Exact Performance Analysis of RIS-Assisted Wireless Communication 
Vinay Kumar Chapala and Syed Mohammad Zafaruddin (BITS Pilani, India)

Flexible Coverage Control of Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface with Ring-type Codebook
Fan Wang and Xiaolin Hou (DOCOMO Beijing Communications Laboratories Co., Ltd, China); Xiang Li (NTT Docomo Beijing Labs, China); Lan Chen (DOCOMO Beijing Communications Laboratories Co., Ltd., China)

Active Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface for the Millimeter-Wave Frequency Band: Design and Measurement Results
Hamed Radpour and Markus Hofer (AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, Austria); Lukas Walter Mayer (Siemens Aktiengesellschaft Oesterreich, Austria); Andreas Hofmann (Siemens, Austria); Martin Schiefer (Siemens Aktiengesellschaft Oesterreich, Austria); Thomas Zemen (AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH, Austria)

Low-complexity Phase-shift Configuration in RIS-aided Distributed MU-MIMO Networks 
Zhihan Ren, Angela Doufexi and Mark Beach (University of Bristol, United Kingdom)

TR4-09: Positioning, Tracking and Sensing Techniques 3
Meeting Room 4, 2nd Floor

Doppler-only Wireless Positioning for High-speed Railway based on Fractional Doppler Estimation
Yuchen Wu, Hao Jia, Yusho Nakawaki and Zhenni Pan (Waseda University, Japan); Shigeru Shimamoto (Waseda University & Graduate School of Global Information and Telecommunication Studies, Japan)

PoM: RFID Positioning for Real-World Application Using the Power of Mobility
Shixian Ding and Haoxiang Guan (University of Science and Technology of China, China); Amiya Nayak (University of Ottawa, Canada); Wei Gong (University of Science and Technology of China, China)

IM-TLP: An Integrity Monitoring Algorithm for Two-stage LCX Positioning Systems
Tianzhu Song, Lu Yin, Yuan Sun and Wenfang Guo (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)

UAV Detection with the Variance of Higher-Order Cumulants
Nanzhou Hu (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); Jian Yang (Beijing Institute of Technology, China); Wensheng Pan, Qiang Xu, Shihai Shao and Youxi Tang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China)

Model for Advanced Sensor Placement in Wildfire Detection Systems
Vishalya Panchalinee Sooriarachchi and Dushantha Nalin K. Nalin.K. Jayakody (Lusofona University, COPELABS)

Proactive Base Station Selection Empowered by Multi-View Images
Bo Lin and Feifei Gao (Tsinghua University, China); Yong Zhang (Beijing University of Technology, China); Chengkang Pan (China Moible Research Institute, China); Guangyi Liu (China Mobile Research Institute, China)

TR4-12: Blockchain and Cryptography 2
Meeting Room 5, 4th Floor

FinBlock: Secure and Fast Transaction Confirmation with High Throughput for FinTech Application
Lokendra Vishwakarma (Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India); Amritesh Kumar (Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur, India); Jeevan Kumar Madugunda (Indian Institute of Technology, Jodhpur, India); Debasis Das (IIT Jodhpur, India)

A Secure and Efficient State Channels-based Network Service Business Settlement Scheme
Wei Chen (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Ru Huo (Beijing University of Technology, China); Shuo Wang and Tao Huang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)

MetaCrowd: Blockchain-Empowered Metaverse via Decentralized Machine Learning Crowdsourcing
Hung Duy Le, Vu Tuan Truong and Duc N. M. Hoang (INRS, University of Quebec, Canada); Le Bao Long (University of Québec, Canada); Thai Vu Nguyen (INRS, University of Quebec, Canada)

DHBN: An Efficient Broadcast Protocol for Blockchain Networks in Highly Dynamic Heterogeneous Environment 
Runze Zheng, Haoxiang Luo, Gang Sun and Hongfang Yu (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China)

Analytical Modeling of Denial-of-Service Attacks in Blockchain Shardings
Pourya Soltani and Farid Ashtiani (Sharif University of Technology, Iran)

TR4-13: Experiments, Prototypes, and Testbeds
Meeting Room 6, 4th Floor

An Experiment on 5G Open-RAN Platform with sub-THz Backhauling
Norshahida Saba (Aalto University, Finland); Nikolaos Lyras (National Technical University of Athens, Greece)

Third-party Camera Aided Beam Alignment Real-world Prototype for mmWave Communications
Tengyu Zhang, Yucong Wang and Ming Ouyang (Tsinghua University, China); Ling Xing (Henan University Of Science And Technology, China); Feifei Gao (Tsinghua University, China)

Sky5G: Prototyping 5G Aerial Base Station (UAV-BS) for On-demand Connectivity from Sky
Debashisha Mishra (Université de Lorraine, France); Himank Gupta (Université Libre de Bruxelles & Technology Innovation Institute, United Arab Emirates); Enrico Natalizio (University of Lorraine/Loria & Technology Innovation Institute, France)

SI-AMC: Integrating DL-Based Scenario Identification into Adaptive Modulation and Coding in Vehicular Communications
Zhengpeng Wang (Sun Yat-Sen University, China); Yanqun Tang (Sun Yat-sen University, China); Shiyu Song, Haibo Chen and Xianjie Lu (Sun Yat-Sen University, China); Fan Liu (Southern University of Science and Technology, China)

Full-Stack End-to-End Sub-THz Simulations at 140 GHz using NYUSIM Channel Model in ns-3
Hitesh Poddar (New York University & NYU WIRELESS, USA); Akhileswar Chowdary Gaddam (New York University & NYU WIRELESS, United Arab Emirates); Theodore Rappaport (New York University & NYU WIRELESS, USA); Marwa Chafii (New York University Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates)

P-Box Design in Lightweight Block Ciphers: Leveraging Nonlinear Feedback Shift Registers
Muhammad Rana, Quazi Ehsanul Kabir Mamun and Rafiqul Islam (Charles Sturt University, Australia)

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