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

TECHNICAL SESSIONS - 23 APRIL 2024

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

Tuesday, 23 April - 9:00 - 10:30

Tuesday, 23 April - 14:00 - 15:30

Tuesday, 23 April - 16:00 - 17:30


Tuesday, 23 April - 9:00 - 10:30

TR1-11: Low-Latency Communications
Room: Grand Ballroom A, 2nd Floor

Freshness-aware Resource Allocation for Non-orthogonal Wireless-powered IoT Networks
Yunfeng Chen (South China Normal University, China); Yong Liu (South China Normal University, USA); Jinhao Xiao, Qunying Wu and Zhang Han (South China Normal University, China); Fen Hou (University of Macau, Macao)

Link-Adaptation for Downlink MIMO URLLC Transmissions
Ugrasen Singh and Olav Tirkkonen (Aalto University, Finland)

Age of Information in Multipath Multihop Networks
Sepehr Asvadi and Farid Ashtiani (Sharif University of Technology, Iran)

Age of Information Analysis for Full Duplex Cooperative SWIPT NOMA System
Simon Kaboyo (Egypt Japan University of Science and Technology, Egypt); Ahmed Hassan Abd El-Malek (Egypt-Japan University for Science and Technology (E-JUST), Egypt); Osamu Muta (Kyushu University, Japan); Mohammed Abo-Zahhad (Ejust, Egypt); Maha Elsabrouty (Egypt Japan University for Science and Technology, Egypt)

Joint Resource Allocation and Reliability Maximization in NOMA-Assisted Cooperative URLLC Networks 
Xiaopeng Yuan, Boyao Li, Yao Zhu, Yulin Hu and Anke Schmeink (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)

Stochastic Geometry Analysis of URLLC Services in Dual Connectivity THz-mmWave Heterogeneous Networks
Elaheh Ataeebojd, Mehdi Rasti and Matti Latva-aho (Center for Wireless Communications, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland)

TR1-12: Integrated Sensing and Communication III
Room: Grand Ballroom B, 2nd Floor

Optimal Precoding Design for Monostatic ISAC Systems: MSE Lower Bound and DoF Completion
Yuanhao Cui, Fan Liu and Weijie Yuan (Southern University of Science and Technology, China); Junsheng Mu and Xiao jun Jing (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Derrick Wing Kwan Ng (University of New South Wales, Australia)

Dynamic Target Sensing for ISAC Systems in Clutter Environment
Yucong Wang, Hongliang Luo and Feifei Gao (Tsinghua University, China); Jianwei Zhao (Rocket Force University of Engineering, China); Huihui Wu (Tsinghua University, China); Shaodan Ma (University of Macau, China)

Offset Constant Envelope OFDM for mmWave Integrated Sensing and Communications
Zhiping Zhang, Lilin Dan and Pengyang Gao (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China)

Phase-clipping CE-OFDM: a waveform for integrated sensing and communication
Chunlin Yan and Fei Xu (ZGC Institute of Ubiquitous-X Innovation and Applications, China)

Interplay between Sensing and Communication in Cell-Free Massive MIMO with URLLC Users
Zinat Behdad (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden); Özlem Tuğfe Demir (TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Turkey); Ki Won Sung and Cicek Cavdar (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)

Enhancing Sensing-Assisted Communications in Cluttered Indoor Environments through Background Subtraction 
Andrea Ramos (Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain); Musa Furkan Keskin and Henk Wymeersch (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden); Saúl Inca (iTEAM Research Institute, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain); Jose F Monserrat (Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain)

TR1-13: Coding and Coded Caching
Room: Ballroom A, 4th Floor

Joint CRC Aided Soft-GRAND for Decoding of Polar Codes over an Interference Channel with NOMA Protocol
Rahim Umar (Institute of Communication Systems, 5G / 6G Innovation Centre University of Surrey, Guildford, GU2 7XH, UK); Atta Ul Quddus and Yi Ma (University of Surrey, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

Improve Polar/PAC codes via Efficient Estimation on Weight Distribution
Junhua You (Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen), China); Shaohua Wu (Harbin Institute of Technology, China); Yajing Deng (Harbin Institute of Technology(Shenzhen), China); Ye Wang (Peng Cheng Laboratory, China); Qinyu Zhang (Shenzhen Graduate School, Harbin Institute of Technology, China)

A Parallel Concatenated Coding Scheme and List-based Decoding Algorithm for URLLC
Fatemeh Namadchi (The University of Sydney, Australia); Mahyar Shirvanimoghaddam and Hesham El Gamal (University of Sydney, Australia)
Optimizing Reported Age of Information with Short Error Correction and Detection Codes
Sumanth Raikar (IIT Dharwad, India); Rajshekhar Vishweshwar Bhat (Indian Institute of Technology Dharwad, India)

BLER Analysis of HARQ-IR-Aided Short Packet Communications Over Correlated Fading Channels
Zheng Shi and Yang Chen (Jinan University, China); Hong Wang (Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Yaru Fu (Hong Kong Metropolitan University, China); Guanghua Yang (Jinan University, China); Hongjiang Lei (Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Shaodan Ma (University of Macau, China)

Multi-Antenna Coded Caching for Multi-Access Networks with Cyclic Wrap-Around 
Elizabath Peter, K. K. Krishnan Namboodiri and B. Sundar Rajan (Indian Institute of Science, India)

TR1-14: OTFS Systems
Room: Ballroom B, 4th Floor

Spectrum Efficient Anti-jamming for OTFS Systems
Ajay Kumar and Sudhan Majhi (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India)

RIS-aided OTFS with Index Modulation
Vighnesh S Bhat (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India); A. Chockalingam (Indian Institute of Science, India)

An RFSoC-Based Scalable ISAC Prototyping Platform with OTFS Waveform
Ming Ouyang, Yucong Wang, Tengyu Zhang and Feifei Gao (Tsinghua University, China)

OTFS Fractional Doppler Channel Estimation Method Based on Super-Resolution Networks
Cheng Guo and Lidong Zhu (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China)

A Modified MRC Receiver for OTFS Systems with Oversampling
Narendra Deconda (Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India); Nambirajan Seshadri (UCSD, India); David Koilpillai (Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India)

Deep Unfolding Network for Target Parameter Estimation in OTFS-based ISAC Systems 
Weizhi Lin, Haifeng Zheng, Xinxin Feng and Youjia Chen (Fuzhou University, China)

TR1-15: Massive MIMO
Room: Ballroom C, 4th Floor

Impact of Number of RF Chains on Spectral and Energy Efficiency of Massive MIMO Systems
Siti Aisyah, Angela Doufexi, Simon Armour and Waqas Abbas (University of Bristol, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

Beam Domain Channel Estimation for Spatial Non-Stationary Massive MIMO Systems
Lin Hou (Southeast University, China); Hengtai Chang (The Purple Mountain Laboratories Southeast University, China); Cheng-Xiang Wang (Southeast University, China & Purple Mountain Laboratories, China); Jie Huang (Southeast University, China); Songjiang Yang (Purple Mountain Laboratories, China)

Matrix Manifold Precoder Design for Massive MIMO Downlink
Rui Sun, Chen Wang and An-An Lu (Southeast University, China); Xiao Fu (Soueast University, China); Xiaofeng Liu (Southeast University, Nanjing, China); Yuxuan Zhang (National Mobile Communications Research Laboratory, Southeast University, Nanjing & Purple Moutain Laborataries, Nanjing, China); Xiqi Gao (Southeast University, China); Xiang-Gen Xia (University of Delaware, USA)

Deep Learning Beamspace Channel Estimation for mmWave Massive MIMO with Switch-Based Selection Network
Zhixi Li (Beijing University of Post and Telecommunication, China); Qiulin Xue, Chao Dong, Kai Niu and Hao Wang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Qiuping Huang (CICT Mobile Communications Technology, China); Qiubin Gao (CICT Mobile Communication Technology, China); Yongqiang Fei (CICT Mobile Communications Technology, China); Jun Zuo (CICT Mobile Communication Technology, China)

Measurement-Based Massive MIMO Channel Characterization in 6 GHz Band for 6G
Haiyang Miao, Pan Tang and Jianhua Zhang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Lei Tian (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications & Wireless Technology Innovation Institute, China); Huixin Xu, Shuo Liu, Tianyang Gao and Yi Li (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)

Symbol Error Probability Minimization for Symbol-Level Precoding in Massive MIMO Communications
Yu Wang, Chen Sun and Xiqi Gao (Southeast University, China)

TR2-10: Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces
Room: Ballroom D, 4th Floor

Exploiting Mode-Switching between Aerial-RIS and Active Radio in UAV-Assisted Wireless Networks
Songhan Zhao and Yusi Long (Sun Yat-Sen University, China); Bo Gu (Sun Yat-sen University, China); Nguyen Cong Luong (Phenikaa University, Vietnam); Bin Lyu (Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Shimin Gong (Sun Yat-Sen University, China)

Beam-Based Multiple Access for IRS-Aided Millimeter-Wave and Terahertz Communications
Wei Jiang (German Research Center for Artifitial Intelligence (DFKI GmbH), Germany); Hans D. Schotten (University of Kaiserslautern, Germany)

An Energy-Efficient MU-MIMO and IRS BackCom Symbiotic Radio Network Resource Allocation
Derek Kwaku Pobi Asiedu (IMT-Atlantique, France); Samuel Kwamena Menanor (Hanbat National University, Korea (South)); Mustapha Benjillali (INPT, Morocco); Kyoung-Jae Lee (Hanbat National University, Korea (South)); Ji-Hoon Yun (Seoul National University of Science and Technology, Korea (South)); Samir Saoudi (IMT Atlantique, France)

A Three-Party Repeated Coalition Formation Game for PLS in Wireless Communications with IRSs 
Haipeng Zhou, Ruoyang Chen, Changyan Yi and Juan Li (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China); Jun Cai (Concordia University, Canada)

Substitute Presenter: Zhibo Liu (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China)

Location Optimization and Resource Allocation of IRS in a Multi-User Indoor mmWave VR Network 
Jalal Jalali (JuliaSpace, USA); Maria Bustamante Madrid (University of Antwerp - imec, Belgium); Filip Lemic (i2Cat Foundation, Spain); Hina Tabassum (York University, Canada); Jakob Struye (University of Antwerp - imec, Belgium); Jeroen Famaey (University of Antwerp & Imec, Belgium); Xavier Costa Pérez (i2CAT, ICREA, Spain)

Energy-efficient Resource Allocation Design for Active IRS-aided C-RSMA Systems
Wenhao Wang (East China Normal University & University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China); Lei Yang (University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China); Yueying Zhan (Technology and Engineering Center for Space Utilization, Chinese Academy of Science, China); Deli Qiao (East China Normal University, China); Derrick Wing Kwan Ng (University of New South Wales, Australia)

TR2-11: Privacy
Room: Ballroom E, 4th Floor

Protecting Personalized Trajectory with Differential Privacy under Temporal Correlations
Mingge Cao (China University of Mining and Technology, China); Haopeng Zhu (China University of Mining and Technolgy, China); Minghui Min, Yulu Li and Shiyin Li (China University of Mining and Technology, China); Hongliang Zhang (Peking University, China); Zhu Han (University of Houston, USA)

HPAC-IDS: A Hierarchical Packet Attention Convolution for Intrusion Detection System
Anass Grini and Btissam El Khamlichi (Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, Morocco)

MTLSAuth: Secured Host Discovery and Authentication Technique in SDNs
Mahmoud Said Elzoghbi (Harbin Institute of Technology, China & Menoufia University, Egypt); Hui He (Harbin Institute of Technology, China)

Privacy-Preserving Edge Intelligence: A Perspective of Constrained Bandits
Tianyi Zhang and Shangshang Wang (ShanghaiTech University, China); Yinxu Tang (Washington University in St. Louis, USA); Ziyu Shao (ShanghaiTech University, China); Yang Yang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), China)

Knock-knock: De-anonymise Hidden Services by Exploiting Service Answer Vulnerability
Qingfeng Zhang (Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China); Muqian Chen (National Internet Emergency Center, China); Xuebin Wang, Can Zhao and Qingyun Liu (Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China); Jinqiao Shi (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)

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

mQUIET: Maximum Quantum Communication Network Transmission under Reliability Constraint 
Wei An, Yanni Han and Ying Ding (Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China); Bo An (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China); Xu Haiyong, Jibin Wang and Xin Wang (China Mobile Information Technology Center, China)

TR3-10: Generative Neural Networks
Room: Ballroom F, 4th Floor

Intelligent Interference Management in VANETs through Dynamic Resource Allocation based on Graph Isomorphism Networks 
SeyedMohammad Mortazavi and Elvino Silveira Sousa (University of Toronto, Canada)

Learning User Scheduling and Hybrid Precoding with Sequential Graph Neural Network
Shengjie Liu and Chenyang Yang (Beihang University, China)

Decentralized Training of Graph Neural Networks in Mobile Systems for Power Control
Jianyu Zhao, Hao Ling, Chenyang Yang and Tingting Liu (Beihang University, China)

Graph Convolution Network based State Space Model for Wireless Traffic Prediction
Hao Zhou and Dunyuan Yao (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Binbin Chen (Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore); Ke Yu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, China); Xiaofei Wu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)

GNN-Aided Distributed GAN with Partially Observable Social Graph
Ming Chen, Shangshang Wang, Tianyi Zhang and Ziyu Shao (ShanghaiTech University, China); Yang Yang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), China)

Transnet: A High-accuracy Network Delay Prediction Model via Transformer and GNN in 6G
Ding Shengyi (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Jin Li (BUPT, China); Min Zhang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)

TR3-11: Communication systems I
Meeting Room 8, 4th Floor

STAR-RIS Assisted Covert Multicasting with Hardware Impairment
Jifa Zhang and Wei Wang (Dalian University of Technology, China); Gao Yuan (Tsinghua University, China); Weidang Lu (Zhejiang University of Technology, China); Nan Zhao (Dalian University of Technology, China); Dusit Niyato (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

Green Task Offloading in Computing STAR-RIS-Aided Wireless Networks
Chao Fang and Hang Xu (Beijing University of Technology, China); Tianyi Zhang (Beihang University, China); Jining Chen (Guangxi Key Laboratory of Digital Infrastructure, China); Zhuwei Wang (Beijing University of Technology, China); Qingqing Wu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China)

RIS-Assisted Multi-Device Edge AI Inference
Jiayi Yang (Shanghaitech University, China); Yijie Mao, Dingzhu Wen, Yong Zhou and Yuanming Shi (ShanghaiTech University, China)

Power Allocation for 6G Sub-networks in Industrial Wireless Control
Dong Li (Nokia Shanghai Bell, China); Saeed Reza Khosravirad (Nokia - Bell Labs, USA); Tao Tao (Nokia Bell Labs, China); Paolo Baracca (Nokia, Germany); Pingping Wen (Nokia Shanghai Bell, China)

AI-enabled Priority and Auction-Based Spectrum Management for 6G
Mina Khadem (Tarbiat Modares University, Iran); Farshad Zeinali (Pasargad Institute for Advanced Innovative Solutions & Tarbiat Modares University, Iran); Nader Mokari (Tarbiat Modares University, Iran); Hamid Saeedi (University of Doha for Science and Technology, Qatar)

Unsupervised Graph-based Learning Method for Sub-band Allocation in 6G Subnetworks
Daniel Ohizimede Abode, Gilberto Berardinelli and Ramoni O. Adeogun (Aalborg University, Denmark); Lou Salaun (Nokia Bell Labs, France); Renato Barbosa Abreu (Nokia, Denmark); Thomas Haaning Jacobsen (Nokia Bell Labs & Device / Modems Standardization Research Expert, Denmark)

TR3-12: Communication systems II
Meeting Room 9, 4th Floor

Joint beam-hopping pattern scheduling and power allocation for LEO satellite network
Rong Gao, Ke Wang, WenLiang Lin and Heng Kang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)

Spatio-Temporal Multi-View Based Short-Term Traffic Forecasting for Incomplete Time Series in LEO Satellite Networks
Liang Peng (Beijing University of Post and Telecommunication, China); Jie Yan (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Binquan Guo (Xidian University, China); Xiaoxiang Wang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)

User Mapping and Radio Resource Management in Demand-based GEO Satellite Systems
Haoyu Du (Southeast University, China); Yaoming Huang, Tianyang Cao and Tianxiang Ji (China Mobile Group Design Institute Co., Ltd., China); Jiangtao Liu, Shihan Jin, Xinyue Peng and Ming Chen (Southeast University, China)

A GAT Based Robust Beamforming Method in Satellite-Terrestrial Integrated Network
Renpeng Liu, Yiyang Fu and Bo Hu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Heng Wang (China Telecom Research Institute, China); Shanzhi Chen (China Academy of Telecommunication Technology & Datang Telecom Technology & Industry Group, China)

Delay Alignment Modulation with Hybrid Beamforming for Spatially Sparse Communications
Jieni Zhang and Yong Zeng (Southeast University, China)

Semantic Communication-Empowered Vehicle Count Prediction for Traffic Management
Sachin Kadam (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India); Dong In Kim (Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), Korea (South))

TR4-17: Edge Computing, Edge Intelligence, and Fog Networks
Meeting Room 3, 2nd Floor

Diffusion Model-based Metaverse Rendering in UAV-Enabled Edge Networks With Dual Connectivity
Guoquan Wu (Southern University of Science and Technology, China); Jiangtian Nie (Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore); Jianhang Tang (Guizhou University, China); Yuling Chen (Gui Zhou University, China); Yang Zhang (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China); Luchao Han (National Natural Science Foundation of China, China); Zehui Xiong (Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore)

Can Vehicular Cloud Replace Edge Computing? 
Rosario Patanè (University Paris-Saclay, France); Andrea Araldo (Institut Polytechnique de Paris & Télécom SudParis, France); Nadjib Achir (INRIA TRiBE, France); Lila Boukhatem (Paris-Sud&LRI/CNRS, France)

RedgeX: Meta-learning based Optimal Analytical Model for Programmable Edge Intelligence
Mehbub Alam (Indian Institute of Information Technology Guwahati, India); Nurzaman Ahmed (Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, USA); Rakesh Matam (Indian Institute of Information Technology Guwahati, India); Ferdous Barbhuiya (Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India)

A Robust Optimization Approach for Resource Allocation in Edge Computing-enabled Networks
Yuxia Cheng (Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications & School of Communication and Information Engneering, China); Chengchao Liang (Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China & Carleton University, Canada); Qianbin Chen (Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); F. Richard Yu (Carleton University, Canada)

A Centralized Edge Cooperative Caching Strategy for VANETs
Zhu Jin (Southeast University, China); Tiecheng Song (National Mobile Communications Research Laboratory, Southeast University, China); Wei Jiang (Southeast University, China); Jing Hu (Southest University, PRC, China)

Freshness-Aware Task Offloading and Resources Scheduling for Satellite Edge Computing
Haoneng Cai (University of Chinese Academy of Science, China); Xiumei Yang and Haonan Wu (Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China); Zhiyong Bu (Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, CAS, China)

TR4-20: Energy Efficiency and Green Communications
Meeting Room 4, 2nd Floor

Energy-Efficient Design for Hybrid RIS Transmitter Enabled Multi-User Communications
Ao Huang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Xidong Mu (Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Li Guo and Guangyu Zhu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)

Towards Secrecy Energy-Efficient RIS aided UAV Network: A Lyapunov-guided Reinforcement Learning Approach
Yushun Yao 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, Singapore); Dusit Niyato (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

An Energy Optimization Algorithm for UAV-Assisted Satellite Mobile Edge Computing System
Chih Hung Lu, Jang-Ping Sheu and Chi Yu Hsieh (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan)

A Green Base Station Dual Power Supply Strategy
Jiahao He, Bo Li, Jiaxing Dai and Yonghao Wang (School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Ningxia University, Yinchuan 750021, China)

An Adaptive Duty Cycling Mechanism for Energy Efficiency in Bluetooth Mesh Networks
Sheyda Mehrazi (Isfahan University of Technology, Iran); Majid Nabi (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands)

Energy-Efficient Anti-Jamming Metaverse Resource Allocation Based on Reinforcement Learning 
Yiwen Zhan, Jinming Zhang, Zhiping Lin and Liang Xiao (Xiamen University, China)

TR4-23: Vision and Network Technologies
Meeting Room 5, 4th Floor

Consistent Fusion for Distributed Multi-Object Tracking with Different Limited Fields-of-View
Ci Wang, Chengping Ma, Dongxu Song, Xiaoxiao Zhuo and Zhanya Li (Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China); Liang Tang (Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, Chinese Academy of Science, China)

Substitute Presenter: Kequan Zhou (Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China)

TrackFed: An Efficient Connection Tracking protocol for Federated Identity Management in Heterogeneous Fog computing
Imine Youcef (Univ Polytechnique Hauts-De-France LAMIH CNRS, France); Imine Omar El Farouk (University of oran 1 Ahmed Ben Bella, Algeria); Bouabdellah Kechar (University of Oran1, Algeria)

Microscopic Traffic Information Collection based on a Lightweight MTMC Tracking Network
Guan-Wen Chen (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University & Industrial Technology Research Institute, Taiwan); Zi-Jun Su and Tsì-Uí İk (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan)

Performance of Linear Coding and Transmission in Low-Latency Computer Vision Offloading
Jakub Žádník (Tampere University, Finland); Anthony Trioux (Xidian University, China); Michel Kieffer (CentraleSupelec, France); Markku Mäkitalo (Tampere University, Finland); Francois-Xavier Coudoux (Université Polytechnique Hauts-De-France, France); Patrick Corlay (Hauts-de-France Polytechnical University, France); Pekka Jääskeläinen (Tampere University, Finland)

Energy Efficient NOMA Aided FD C-U2U Communications system for FTR Channel 
Afraj Shabbir Shaikh and Dhritiman Sinha (BITS-Pilani KK Birla Goa Campus, India); Rahul Bajpai (BITS-Pilani, KK Birla Goa Campus, India); Naveen Gupta (BITS Pilani Goa, India)

Individual Behavior Clustering with Sensors Using Graph Convolutional Networks
XingChi Peng, Yunuo Cao, Leilei Lin, Yingming Zhou and Wenlong Chen (Capital Normal University, China)

Substitute Presenter: Yuhao Qi (Southeast University, China)

TR4-24: Indoor Localization
Meeting Room 6, 4th Floor

Joint RSS and ranging fingerprint for LoRa indoor localization
Dany Merhej (CNAM, Lebanon); Iness Ahriz (CNAM, France); Lounis Zerioul (Conservatoire Nation Des Arts et Metiers, France); Samuel Garcia and Michel Terré (CNAM, France)

Generative Adversarial Networks based Data Recovery for Indoor Localization
Celine Serbouh (CNAM, France); Wafa Njima (Institut Superieur d Electronique de Paris, France); Iness Ahriz (CNAM, France)

Millimeter Accuracy Indoor Localization System Using an Attention Convolution Model
Jiteng Ma, Liang Qiao, Zhiyu Wang, Shuping Dang and Mark Beach (University of Bristol, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

A Hybrid Binary Grey Wolf Optimiser for WSN Deployment in Indoor Environments Based on BIM database
Khaoula Zaimen Zaimen (University of Haute-Alsace & CESI Engineering School, France); Laurent Moalic (University of Haute-Alsace, France); Mohamed-el-Amine Brahmia (CESI LINEACT UR 7527, France); Abdelhafid Abouaissa (University of Haute Alsace, France); Lhassane Idoumghar (University of Haute Alsace & IRIMAS Institute, France)

Heterogeneous Feature Fusion Approach for Multi-Modal Indoor Localization
Junyi Zhou, Kaixuan Huang, Siyu Tang and Shunqing Zhang (Shanghai University, China)

An Intelligent Indoor Positioning Algorithm Based on Wi-Fi and Bluetooth Low Energy
Karamat Beigi (Sharif University of Technology, Canada); Hamed Shah-Mansouri (Sharif University of Technology, Iran)


Tuesday, 23 April - 14:00 - 15:30

TR1-16: Cell-Free Massive MIMO
Room: Grand Ballroom A, 2nd Floor

Joint Power Optimization and AP Selection for Secure Cell-Free Massive MIMO 
Yasseen Sadoon Atiya, Zahra Mobini, Hien Ngo and Michail Matthaiou (Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

Cell-Free Massive MIMO-OFDM: Asynchronous Reception and Uplink Performance Analysis 
Guoyu Li (Harbin Institute of Technology, China); Changsheng You (Southern University of Science and Technology, China); Shaochuan Wu, Wenbin Zhang, Guanyu Shang and Xiaokang Zhou (Harbin Institute of Technology, China)

A Probabilistic QoS-Aware User Association in Cell-Free Massive MIMO for Industry 4.0
Sanyasi Vishnu Vardhan Rachuri, Carles Navarro Manchón and Gilberto Berardinelli (Aalborg University, Denmark); Abolfazl Amiri (Nokia, Denmark)

Unknown Interference Modeling for Rate Adaptation in Cell-Free Massive MIMO Networks
Mahmoud Zaher and Emil Björnson (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden); Marina Petrova (RWTH Aachen University, Germany & KTH Royal Institute of Technolgy, Sweden)

Joint P-FZF Combining and NLD cancellation for Uplink Cell-Free Massive MIMO-OFDM
Asma Mabrouk (CEA- LETI, France); Rafik Zayani (CEA-LETI, France)

Joint PZF Precoding and PAPR Reduction for Downlink Cell-Free massive MIMO-OFDM
Asma Mabrouk (CEA- LETI, France); Rafik Zayani (CEA-LETI, France)

TR1-17: Machine Learning for Communications
Room: Grand Ballroom B, 2nd Floor

Deep Learning-based Multiuser Physical Layer Communication Without Known Channel
Jiequ Ji (Singapore University of Technology Design, Singapore); Zehui Xiong (Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore); Kun Zhu (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China); Tony Q. S. Quek (Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore)

Joint Beamforming Design for Distributed RIS-Aided Broadcast Communications with Deep Learning
Son Van Dinh (University of Warwick, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Huan X Nguyen (Middlesex University, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Matthew D Higgins (University of Warwick, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

Learning the Discrete Maximum a Posteriori Distribution for Soft MIMO Detection 
Jiankun Zhang and Hao Wang (Huawei Technologies, China); Yan Li (Huawei Technologies Co Ltd, China); Jing Qian (Huawei Technologies, China)

On the Achievable Rate of TeraHertz Backhaul Systems with Low-Resolution ADCs using Neural Networks
Sahar Molla Aghajanzadeh (Huawei Canada, Canada); Ming Jian (Huawei Technologies Co. LTD., Canada)

A Robust and Efficient Angle Estimation Method via Field-Trained Neural Network for UAV Channels
Taiya Lei, Kai Mao, Yuxin Yang, Hanpeng Li and Qiuming Zhu (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China); Farman Ali (Qurtuba University of Science and Information Technology, Pakistan); Zhipeng Lin (NanJing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China); Maozhong Song (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China)

Clutter Loss Prediction Models for Satellite-Ground Communication Based on Neural Networks
Xinhua Liu, Yi Jiang, Ruonan Zhang and Bin Li (Northwestern Polytechnical University, China); Daosen Zhai (Northwestren Polytechnical University, China); Xiao Tang (Northwestern Polytechnical University, China)

TR1-18: Wireless Channel Modeling
Room: Ballroom A, 4th Floor

Properties of the Capacity-Achieving Input of Non-Coherent Rayleigh Fading Channels
Antonino Favano and Luca Barletta (Politecnico di Milano, Italy); Alex Dytso (Qualcomm Inc., USA); Gerhard Kramer (Technical University of Munich, Germany)

Shadowing, Multi-Path, and Line-of-Sight Effects: Are They Friends or Foes?
Osamah S. Badarneh (German Jordanian University, Jordan); Daniel Benevides da Costa (King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Saudi Arabia)

Rytov variance of adaptive optics applied modified von-Karman spectrum
Mert Bayraktar, Luis Manuel Garcés-Socarrás, Juan Duncan and Symeon Chatzinotas (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)

A Mobility Analysis of UE-Side Beamforming for Multi-Panel User Equipment with Hand Blockage
Subhyal Bin Iqbal (Technische Universität Dresden & Nokia Solutions and Networks, Munich, Germany); Salman Nadaf and Umur Karabulut (Nokia Standardization and Research Lab, Germany); Philipp Schulz (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany); Anna Prado (Technical University of Munich, Germany); Gerhard P. Fettweis (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany); Wolfgang Kellerer (Technische Universität München, Germany)

Cooperative Magnetic Induction Communications: Performance Analysis and Power-Location Optimization
Yixin Zhang (National University of Defense Technology, China)

Substitute Presenter: Ximing Wang (National University of Defense Technology, China)

A Stochastic Geometry Model and Analysis Scheme for SCMA Aided Mobile Edge Computing
Pengtao Liu and Jing Lei (National University of Defense Technology, China); Haotong Cao (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong); Sahil Garg (Ultra Electronics, Canada); Kuljeet Kaur (École de Technologie Supérieure, Canada); Georges Kaddoum (ETS Engineering School, University of Québec, Canada)

Substitute Presenter: Haoran Yin (Sun Yat-sen University, China)

TR1-19: Antennas and Antenna Arrays
Meeting Room 6, 4th Floor

Super-Directive Antenna Arrays: How Many Elements Do We Need? 
Ihsan Kanbaz (Gazi University, Turkey); Okan Yurduseven and Michail Matthaiou (Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

A Study on the Performance of Sleeve Dipole Antenna for Rashid Rover
Rida Gadhafi (University of Dubai, United Arab Emirates); Elham Serria (University of Dubai, United Arab Emirates & United Arab Emirates University, United Arab Emirates); Sara Ahmed AlMaeeni (Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Center, United Arab Emirates); Husameldin Mukhtar and Abigail Copiaco (University of Dubai, United Arab Emirates); Raed Abd-Alhameed (University of Bradford, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Frederic Lemieux (Georgetown University, USA); Wathiq Mansoor (Universithy OF Dubai, United Arab Emirates)

Antenna Configuration and Carrier Frequency Dependence of System Capacity in Parabolic Reflector-based OAM-MIMO
Shuhei Saito (Waseda University, Japan); Yasunori Yagi and Doohwan Lee (NTT, Japan); Fumiaki Maehara (Waseda University, Japan)

On the Roles of Sparse Array Configuration and Weights in Optimum Beamforming
Syed Ali Hamza (Widener University, USA); Moeness G. Amin and Kyle Juretus (Villanova University, USA)

Analysis of Quantization Noise Suppression Gains in Digital Phased Arrays
Bengt Lindoff and Erik Kennerland (BeammWave AB, Sweden); Emil Björnson (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)

Symbol-Level Precoding for MU-MIMO system with RIRC Receiver
Xiao Tong and Ang Li (Xi'an Jiaotong University, China); Lei Lei (Xi‘an Jiaotong University, China); Fan Liu (Southern University of Science and Technology, China)

TR2-12: Energy Efficient and Green Networking
Room: Ballroom D, 4th Floor

ODESA: Load-Dependent Edge Server Activation for Lower Energy Footprint
Blas Gómez (University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain); Suzan Bayhan (University of Twente, The Netherlands); Estefania Coronado (Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha & Fundació i2CAT, Internet i Innovació Digital a Catalunya, Spain); José Villalón (UCLM, Spain); Antonio Garrido (University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain)

HENO-MAC: Hybrid Energy Harvesting-based Energy Neutral Operation MAC Protocol for Delay-Sensitive IoT Applications
Sohail Sarang and Goran Stojanovic (University of Novi Sad, Serbia); Micheal Drieberg (Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, Malaysia); Varun Jeoti (University of Novi Sad, Serbia); Mikko Valkama (Tampere University, Finland)

Battery-Care Resource Allocation and Task Offloading in Multi-Agent Post-Disaster MEC Environment
Yiwei Tang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China & University of Glasgow, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Hualong Huang and Wenhan Zhan (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); Geyong Min (University of Exeter, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Zhekai Duan (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Yuchuan Lei (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China)

SWIPT-Enabled RSMA Downlink Networks with Imperfect CSI and SIC
Farjam Karim, Nurul Huda Mahmood, Arthur S. de Sena, Deepak Kumar, Onel L. A. López and Matti Latva-aho (University of Oulu, Finland)

Joint Network Slicing, Routing, and In-Network Computing for Energy-Efficient 6G
Zeinab Sasan (Amirkabir University of Technology, Iran); Masoud Shokrnezhad (University of Oulu, Finland); Siavash Khorsandi (Amirkabir University of Technology, Iran); Tarik Taleb (University of Oulu, Finland)

ICS Deployment Optimization with Time Delay Reduction and Energy-Efficiency in IWSNs
Muhammad Muzamil Aslam (Universiti Brunei Darussalam Brunei Darussalam, Brunei Darussalam & USTC, Brunei Darussalam); Ali Tufail Ali Tufail (Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Brunei Darussalam); Rosyzie Apong (University of Brunei Darussalam, Brunei Darussalam); Liyanage Chandratilake De Silva and Kassim Kalinaki (Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Brunei Darussalam); Abdallah Namoun (Faculty of Computer and Information Systems, Islamic University of Madinah, Saudi Arabia)

TR2-13: Delay Aware and Reliable Communications and Networks
Room: Ballroom E, 4th Floor

Multi-path CQF for Low-Jitter and High-Reliable Packet Delivery in Time-Sensitive Networks
Yudong Huang, Shuo Wang, Guizhen Li and Xinyuan Zhang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Dongran Xu (Jilin University, China); Tao Huang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)

On the Trade-off Between Communication Reliability and Latency in the Absence of Feedback
Zhicheng Zhu and Xiaoli Xu (Southeast University, China); Xinmei Huang (Jinling Institute of Technology, China); Yong Zeng (Southeast University, China)

Blaze: Delay-Aware Cloud-Edge Collaborative Service Function Chain Deployment with Network Calculus
Huimin Luo, Jiao Zhang, Yongchen Pan, Tian Pan and Tao Huang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)

Analysis on tail-distribution of end-to-end latency in MEC-based tactile teleoperation systems
Linlin Zhao, Jiayuan Zhang and Yinuo Hu (Jilin University, China); Lei Qian (Tiangong University, China)

New Radio Sidelink with Beam Selection for Reliable Communication in High-Density Dynamic Swarms
Carlos Santiago Morejón García, Rasmus Liborius Bruun, Filipa Fernandes and Troels B. Sørensen (Aalborg University, Denmark); Nuno K Pratas (Nokia, Denmark); Tatiana Madsen and Preben Mogensen (Aalborg University, Denmark)

Substitute Presenter: Masoumeh Mokhtari (Aalborg University, Denmark)

Analytical Optimal Blocklength Allocation in Multiuser URLLC Networks with Individual Latency Constraints 
Xiaopeng Yuan and Yulin Hu (RWTH Aachen University, Germany); Tong Wang (Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, China); Anke Schmeink (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)

TR3-13: Communication systems III
Room: Ballroom F, 4th Floor

Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models for Hardware-Impaired Communications
Mehdi Letafati (University of Oulu & 6G Flagship, Finland); Samad Ali and Matti Latva-aho (University of Oulu, Finland)

Attention-based UNet enabled Lightweight Image Semantic Communication System over Internet of Things
Guoxin Ma, Haonan Tong, Nuocheng Yang and Changchuan Yin (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)

Semantic Synchronization for Enhanced Reliability in Communication Systems
Xiaoyi Liu, Haotai Liang, Chen Dong and Xiaodong Xu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)

Semantic Feature-based Learning Framework for Energy-Limited Semantic Communication System
Zechuan Fang, Mengying Sun, Yining Wang and Xiaodong Xu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)

Chase Combining Hybrid ARQ Type II Cross-Layer Optimization for Underlay Cognitive Radio
Venkata Krishna Praneeth Vaddadi, Nour Mansour and Dirk Dahlhaus (University of Kassel, Germany)

Joint Model and Data-Driven Two-Stage Uplink Interference Prediction in URLLC Scenarios
Lan Wei (Southeast University, China); Zening Liu (Purple Mountain Laboratories, China); Cheng Zhang and Luoning Zhang (Southeast University, China); Yu Wang (China Mobile Research Institute, China); Yongming Huang (Southeast University, China)

TR3-14: Communications systems IV
Meeting Room 8, 4th Floor

Ultra-High-Speed Optimization for 5G Wireless Resource Allocation by Simulated Bifurcation Machine 
Haruka Obata, Toshihisa Nabetani, Hayato Goto and Kosuke Tatsumura (Toshiba Corporation, Japan)

Transformer-Driven Resource Allocation for Enhanced Multi-Carrier NOMA Downlink
Liang Dong (Baylor University, USA)

Opportunistic Downlink User Connectivity in NOMA Enhanced NB-IoT Systems, A Semi-matching Approach
Xuanke Jiang (Kyushu University, Japan); Sherief Hashima (Research Scientist & RIKEN-AIP Japan, Japan); Kohei Hatano (Kyushu University & RIKEN AIP, Japan); Eiji Takimoto (Kyushu University, Japan)

Delay Minimization for Hybrid Semantic-Shannon Communications
Nikos G. Evgenidis, Nikos Mitsiou, Sotiris A. Tegos and Panagiotis D. Diamantoulakis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece); Panagiotis Sarigiannidis (University of Western Macedonia, Greece); Ioannis Krikidis (University of Cyprus, Cyprus); George K. Karagiannidis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece)

FAST: Feature Arrangement for Semantic Transmission
Kequan Zhou, Guangyi Zhang, Yunlong Cai, Qiyu Hu and Guanding Yu (Zhejiang University, China)

GeTOA: Game-Theoretic Optimization for AOI of Ultra-Reliable eVTOL Collaborative Communication
Ishan Aryendu (Stevens Institute of Technology, USA); Sudhanshu Arya (Stevens Institute of Technology, USA & Pukyong National University, USA); Ying Wang (Stevens Institute of Technology, USA)

TR3-15: Communication Systems V
Meeting Room 5, 4th Floor

Regression-based Uplink Interference Modeling Using Area-Limited Information
Yijing Niu, Tao Peng, Yichen Guo, Yujie Zhao and Wenbo Wang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)

Learn to Stay Cool: Online Load Management for Passively Cooled Base Stations
Zhanwei Yu and Yi Zhao (Uppsala University, Sweden); Lei You (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark); Di Yuan (Uppsala University, Sweden)

End-to-End Learning for SLP-Based ISAC Systems
Yixian Zheng (Dalian University of Technology, China); Rang Liu (University of California, Irvine, USA); Ming Li and Qian Liu (Dalian University of Technology, China)

iSFA: Intelligent SF Allocation Approach for LoRa-based Mobile and Static End Devices
Anakhi Hazarika and Nikumani Choudhury (BITS Pilani Hyderabad Campus, India)

O-RAN and MEC Integration and Orchestration: An Optimization Approach
Esmaeil Amiri and Toktam Mahmoodi (King's College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) RF Dataset for Machine Learning in WBANs
SeyedMohammad Kashani, Syed Sherazi, Ashfaq Khokhar and Sang Wu Kim (Iowa State University, USA); Farid Nait-Abdesselam (University of Missouri Kansas City, USA)

TR4-15: Integrated Sensing and Communications 1
Meeting Room 9, 4th Floor

Joint Target Sensing and Channel Estimation for IRS-Aided mmWave ISAC Systems
Zijian Chen, Ming-Min Zhao and Min Li (Zhejiang University, China); Fan Xu (Peng Cheng Laboratory, China); Qingqing Wu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China); Minjian Zhao (Zhejiang University, China)

Virtual Aperture Design for Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC) System with Unified Antenna Structure
Wenjia Liu (DOCOMO Beijing Communications Laboratories Co., Ltd., China); Xiaolin Hou (DOCOMO Beijing Communications Laboratories Co., Ltd, China); Lan Chen (DOCOMO Beijing Communications Laboratories Co., Ltd., China)

Digital-Twin-Enabled Sensing Channel Estimation for 6G Cell-Free ISAC MIMO System
Jiexin Zhang, Shu Xu, Zhiming Zhu, Ruming Yang, Chunguo Li, Yongming Huang and Luxi Yang (Southeast University, China)

Efficient Receiver Design for Uplink NOMA-based ISaC Systems with Interference Cancellation
Haofeng Liu (University of Manchester, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Emad Alsusa (Manchester University, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Arafat Al-Dweik (Khalifa University, United Arab Emirates)

On the Waveform Design and Performance Enhancement of Multi-Target Detection in Dual-Function Radar-Communication System
Songning Gao, Mingjie Chen and Jiaxiang Geng (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Weichao Li (Peng Cheng Laboratory, China); Yanzhao Hou, Qimei Cui and Xiaofeng Tao (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface-Aided Dual-Function Radar and Communication System With MU-MIMO Communication
Yasheng Jin (National Mobile Communications Research Laboratory Southeast University Nanjing, China); Zhiyuan Yu (Southeast University, China); Ruisong Weng (National Mobile Communications Research Laboratory Southeast University Nanjing, China); Boshi Wang, Hong Ren and Cunhua Pan (Southeast University, China)

TR4-18: Advanced Beamforming and Antenna Technologies 1
Meeting Room 3, 2nd Floor

A Practical Beamforming Design for Active RIS-assisted MU-MISO Systems
Yun Yang (Dalian University of Technology, China); Zhiping Lu (CICT, China); Ming Li (Dalian University of Technology, China); Rang Liu (University of California, Irvine, USA); Qian Liu (Dalian University of Technology, China)

Beamforming Optimization for Multiuser ISAC With Transceiver Hardware Impairments
Zhenyao He (Southeast University, China); Zhaohui Yang (Zhejiang University, China); Wei Xu (Southeast University, China); Chongwen Huang (Zhejiang University, China); Jianfeng Wang (Lenovo Research, China); Xiaohu You (National Mobile communication Research Lab., Southeast University, China)

Effective Beamforming Design using DL-based Codebook Classification in RIS-Aided mmWave Systems
Guoning Wang, Gaoze Mu, Shuyue Guo and Yanzhao Hou (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Daquan Yang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications & State Key Laboratory of Information Photonics & Optical Communications, China); Na Li and Xiaofeng Tao (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)

Adaptive Modulus RF Beamforming for Enhanced Self-Interference Suppression in Full-Duplex Massive MIMO Systems
Mobeen Mahmood and Yuanxing Zhang (McGill University, Canada); Robert Morawski (McGill, Canada); Tho Le-Ngoc (McGill University, Canada)

Bounded CSI Error-Based Robust Beamforming Design for IOS-Assisted Multi-User MISO System
Xinyi Yao, Fengye Hu and Zhuang Ling (Jilin University, China)

Joint Optimization of Beamforming and 3D Array Steering for Multi-antenna UAV Communications
Lin Xiang and Fengcheng Pei (Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany); Anja Klein (TU Darmstadt, Germany)

TR4-21: UAV Communications and Control
Meeting Room 4, 2nd Floor

Analyzing the 3D Connected Region in UAV Assisted Wireless Sensor Networks
Yu Xia (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China); Wei Liu and Shunren Hu (Chongqing University of Technology, China); Daqing Huang (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China)

Navigating Data in UAV Networks: Harmonic Function-Based Potential Field for Interference-Aware Multi-Hop Routing
Hanze Liu, Hu Wang and Zhutian Yang (Harbin Institute of Technology, China); Nan Zhao (Dalian University of Technology, China); Yanfeng Gu (Harbin Institute of Technology, China); Chau Yuen (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

Aerial Data Transmission under Disasters: Multi-hop Network Exploiting UAV-enabled Virtual Antenna Arrays
Bingtian Li, Hui Kang, Geng Sun, Jiahui Li, Xinyu Bao and Bo Zhu (Jilin University, China)

An Efficient Hypergraph Based Clustering Technique for UAV-Enabled D2D Cellular Networks
Kanhu Charan Gouda (IIT ROORKEE, India); Rahul Thakur (IIT Roorkee, India)

A Secure and Robust Approach for Distance-Based Mutual Positioning of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles 
Bin Han (University of Kaiserslautern (RPTU), Germany); Hans D. Schotten (RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau, Germany)

Age-of-Information in UAV-assisted Networks: a Decentralized Multi-Agent Optimization
Mouhamed Naby Ndiaye (Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, Morocco); El Houcine Bergou (UM6P, Morocco); Hajar EL Hammouti (Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, Morocco)


Tuesday, 23 April - 16:00 - 17:30

TR1-20: Integrated Sensing and Communication IV
Room: Grand Ballroom A, 2nd Floor

YOLO: An Efficient Integrated Sensing and Communications Scheme with Beam Squint in Clutter Environment
Hongliang Luo and Feifei Gao (Tsinghua University, China); Hai Lin (Osaka Metropolitan University, Japan); Shaodan Ma (University of Macau, China); H. Vincent Poor (Princeton University, USA)

Cross-Domain Multicarrier Waveform Design for Integrated Sensing and Communication 
Fan Zhang (Tinghua University, China); Tianqi Mao (Beijing Institute of Technology, China); Ruiqi Liu (ZTE Corporation, China); Zhu Han (University of Houston, USA); Octavia A. Dobre (Memorial University, Canada); Sheng Chen (University of Southampton, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Zhaocheng Wang (Tsinghua University, China)

Target Detection in a Highway Scenario with Extended V2V Channel Model
Aamir Ullah Khan and Syed Najaf Haider Shah (Technical University Ilmenau, Germany); Joerg Robert (TU Ilmenau, Germany); Christian Schneider (Technische Universität Ilmenau, Germany)

Unlocking the Potential of Backscattering for Human Activity Pattern Recognition in Smart Environments
Nurilla Avazov (Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences, Norway); Rym Hicheri and Matthias Pätzold (University of Agder, Norway)
Joint Design for Communication Beamforming and Radar Waveform in MIMO Radar and MU-MIMO Communication Co-Existing System
Guanyu Zhang, Jiaqi Zou and Sun Songlin (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)

Integrated Localization and Communication in Cell-Free Massive MIMO with Zero Over-the-Air Communication Overhead
Mahdi Shakiba-Herfeh (Huawei, France); Mohamed Kamoun (Huawei France, France); Yun yaw Chu (Huawei, France); Stefano Buzzi (University of Cassino and Lazio Meridionale/CNIT, Italy)

TR1-21: Wireless Security II
Room: Grand Ballroom B, 2nd Floor

Achievable Rates for Physical-Layer Cooperative Key Generation with Correlated Eavesdropping Channels
Peng Xu and Jun Yang (Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Gaojie Chen (University of Surrey, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

Substitute Presenter: Yanshi Sun (Hefei University of Technology, China)

Trusted Transmission: Strengthening Security in CR-inspired RSMA Systems Amidst Untrusted Users
Hongjiang Lei and Dongjie Sang (Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Imran Shafique Ansari (Bharath Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai 600073, India); Nasir Saeed (United Arab Emirates University, United Arab Emirates); Gaofeng Pan (Beijing Institute of Technology, China); Mohamed-Slim Alouini (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia)

Experimental Evaluation of Jamming Waveforms Against WLAN Transmission from COTS Laptop
Jaakko Marin, Micael Bernhardt and Taneli Riihonen (Tampere University, Finland)

A Novel Group Secret Key Generation: Performance Analysis and Secrecy Improvement
Mahyar Ghasedi and Paeiz Azmi (Tarbiat Modares University, Iran); MohammadReza Yari (Tarbiat Modares University, unknown); Ali Kuhestani (Qum University of Technology, Iran); Hamid Saeedi (University of Doha for Science and Technology, Qatar)

NFC-RFAE: Semi-supervised RF Authentication for Mobile NFC Card System
Yang Yuwei, Yijie Xun, Tianhao Lv and Jiajia Liu (Northwestern Polytechnical University, China)

IRS-Assisted Covert Communication via Joint Prior Probability and Noise Power Design
Chao Wang (Dalian University of Technology, China); Zehui Xiong (Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore); Meng Zheng (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China); Nan Zhao (Dalian University of Technology, China); Dusit Niyato (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

TR1-22: Modulation and Detection
Room: Ballroom A, 4th Floor

Affine Frequency Division Multiplexing With Index Modulation
Yiwei Tao and Miaowen Wen (South China University of Technology, China); Yao GE (Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore); Jun Li (Guangzhou University, China)

Successive Interference Cancellation Detector for IM-OFDMA Systems
Moustafa Faraj, Mayar Mahmoud and Saud Althunibat (Texas A and M University at Qatar, Qatar); Khalid A. Qaraqe (Texas A&M University at Qatar, USA)

Bandwidth-BER Trade-off with Multi-symbol M-PSK for Index Coding with Prioritized Receivers
Anjana Ambika Mahesh (Samsung R&D Institute India, Bangalore, India); B. Sundar Rajan (Indian Institute of Science, India)

Substitute Presenter: Krishnan Namboodiri Karakkad Kesavan (Indian Institute of Science, India)

Fractional Delay Alignment Modulation for Spatially Sparse Wireless Communications
Zhiwen Zhou and Zhiqiang Xiao (National Mobile Communications Research Laboratory, Southeast University, China); Yong Zeng (Southeast University, China)

FBMC-based Massive Connectivity With Asynchronous Transmission and Frequency-selective Channels
Yuhao Qi (Southeast University, China); Jian Dang (Southeast University & National Mobile Communications Research Laboratory, China); Zaichen Zhang (National Mobile Communications Research Laboratory, Southeast University, China)

Mth power Carrier Phase Estimation with Wiener Phase Noise for MPSK Modulations
Qian Wang, Wenqiang Ma and Liping Qian (Zhejiang University of Technology, China); Suzhi Bi (Shenzhen University, China); Xinwei Du (BNU-HKBU United International College, China); Pooi-Yuen Kam (Chinese University of Hong Kong Shenzhen, China)

TR1-23: Estimation and Detection
Room: Grand Ballroom CD, 2nd Floor

A Synchronization Acquisition Algorithm in High Dynamic and Interfered Environments
Honghan She, Yufan Cheng, Wenzihan Zhang, Yuheng Zhao, Haoran Shen and Ying Mou (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China)

Substitute Presenter: Ping Yang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China)

A Robust Radio Frequency Fingerprint Extraction Method Based on Channel Reciprocity
Bingshu Dong and Hu Aiqun (Southeast University, China); Jiabao Yu (Purple Mountain Laboratories, China); Hongxia Chen (Huaxin Consulting and Designing Institute Co., L, China); Zhiyi Shi (Southeast University, China)

Time and Frequency Offset Estimation and Intercarrier Interference Cancellation for AFDM Systems
Yuankun Tang, Anjie Zhang and Miaowen Wen (South China University of Technology, China); Yu Huang (Guangzhou University, China); Fei Ji (South China University of Technology, China); Jinming Wen (Jinan University, China)

Dynamic Self-Interference Cancellation for Mitigating PLL Non-Ideality in Backscatter Communications
Ziqi Cui (Beijing Jiaotong University, China); Dian Fan (The China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, China); Daqing Chen (China Mobile Hangzhou Information Technology Co Ltd, China); Gongpu Wang and Bo Ai (Beijing Jiaotong University, China)

Minimum Eigenvalue Based Covariance Matrix Estimation with Limited Samples 
Jing Qian (Huawei Technologies, China); Juening Jin (Hisilicon, Huawei, China); Hao Wang (Huawei Technologies, China)

Angle estimation using mmWave RSS measurements with enhanced multipath information
Neharika Valecha and Michael Lentmaier (Lund University, Sweden); Joerg Widmer and Jesús O. Lacruz (IMDEA Networks Institute, Spain); Fredrik Tufvesson (Lund University, Sweden)

TR2-15: IoT
Room: Ballroom D, 4th Floor

Design of A Collaborative Ranging Aware UE Aggregation Transmission Mechanism for Future IoT Networks
Hua-Min Chen and Ruijie Fang (Beijing University of Technology, China); Tao Chen (MediaTek Inc., China); Hui Li and Shaofu Lin (Beijing University of Technology, China); Xin Wu (Beijing Shougang Construction Investment Corporation, China)

Substitute Presenter: Hang Xu (Beijing University of Technology, China)

Energy Conserved Failure Detection for NS-IoT Systems
Guojin Liu, Jianhong Zhou, Hang Su and Biaohong Xiong (Xihua University, China); Xianhua Niu (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China & Xihua University, China)

Age of Information Optimization for Multi-hop VLC/RF IoT Sensor Networks
Hossein Khodi, Paeiz Azmi and Nader Mokari (Tarbiat Modares University, Iran); Mohammad Reza Javan (Shahrood University, Iran); Hamid Saeedi (University of Doha for Science and Technology, Qatar); Murat Uysal (Ozyegin University, Turkey)

Probabilistic Covert Transmission in IoT Networks
Yahui Zhou and Rui Chen (China Three Gorges University, China); Zhongling Zhao (Beijing Institute of Technology, China)

Cost-AoI Aware Task Scheduling in Industrial IOT Based on Serverless Edge Computing
Mingchu Li (School of Software, Dalian University of Technology, China); Zhihua Wang (Dalian University of Technology, China)

Performance Comparison of EDHOC and DTLS 1.3 in Internet-of-Things Environments
Geovane Fedrecheski, Mališa Vučinić and Thomas Watteyne (Inria, France)

TR2-16: Aerial and Satellite Communications and Networks
Room: Ballroom E, 4th Floor

Multi-Armed Bandit-Based Secure Routing in Air-Ground Integrated Networks
Xiaoyuan Liu and Yang Xu (Xidian University, China); Jia Liu and Hiroki Takakura (National Institute of Informatics, Japan); Xiaoying Liu and Kechen Zheng (Zhejiang University of Technology, China); Norio Shiratori (Chuo University, Japan)

Optimal UAV Swarm Reconstruction Strategy Based on Minimum Cost Maximum Flow Algorithm
Ziming Zeng (Nanjing University of Aeronautics an Astronautics, China); Chao Dong, Jiajing Wu and Xiaojun Zhu (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China); Lei Zhang (NUAA, China)

Efficient Pipeline Collaborative DNN Inference in Resource-constrained UAV Swarm
Weiqing Ren and Yuben Qu (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China); Zhen Qin (The Army Engineering University of PLA, China); Chao Dong and Fuhui Zhou (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China); Lei Zhang (NUAA, China); Qihui Wu (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China)

A Multi-Slot Load Balancing Scheme for LEO Satellite Communication Handover Target Selection
Hongrui Chen and Gaofeng Nie (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Hui Tian (Beijng University of posts and telecommunications, China)

Study of Mobile Satellite Communications Employing PDMA with SIC
Keisuke Shindo and Kazutoshi Yoshii (Waseda University, Japan); Shigeru Shimamoto (Waseda University & Graduate School of Global Information and Telecommunication Studies, Japan)

Hermes: Fast Semi-Asynchronous Federated Learning in LEO Constellations
Yan Chen (Beihang University, China); Jun Liu (Tsinghua University, China); Jiejie Zhao (Zhongguancun Laboratory, China); Guanjun Jiang, Haiquan Wang and Bowen Du (Beihang University, China)

TR3-16: Networks I
Room: Ballroom F, 4th Floor

Energy Minimization via Joint Caching and Power Control in Wireless Heterogeneous Networks
Jinkun Zhang, Edmund Yeh and Faruk Volkan Mutlu (Northeastern University, USA); Andrea Goldsmith (Princeton University, USA)

Joint Rate Control and Secure Resource Allocation for User-Centric Networks
Xiangyun Meng (Harbin Institute of Technology, China); Xuanli Wu (Communication Research Center, Harbin Institute of Technology, China)

Multicast SFC Embedding in Software-defined SAGIN with Heterogeneous Network Resources
De yang Sun (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Hang Li (Changchun Institute of Optics Fine Mechanics and Physics, China); Zixuan Kong, Zhenghe Zhu and Yawen Chen (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Zhaoming Lu (BUPT, China); Xiang Ming Wen (Beijing University of posts and telecommunications, China)

Efficient Knowledge Base Synchronization in Semantic Communication Network: A Federated Distillation Approach
Xiaolan Lu, Kun Zhu, Juan Li and Yang Zhang (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China)

Federated Learning-based Resource Allocation in RSU assisted Moving Network
Saniya Zafar (Institute of Space Technology, Pakistan); Sobia Jangsher (Dublin City University, Ireland); Adnan Zafar (Institute of Space Technology, Pakistan)

Covert and Reliable Semantic Communication Against Cross-layer Privacy Inference over Wireless Edge Networks
Rui Xu (Shanghai Jiaotong University, China); Gaolei Li (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China); Zhaohui Yang (Zhejiang University, China); Mingzhe Chen (University of Miami, USA); Yuchen Liu (North Carolina State University, USA); Jianhua Li (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China)

TR3-17: Networks II
Meeting Room 8, 4th Floor

Stochastic Resource Allocation for Semantic Communication-aided Virtual Transportation Networks in the Metaverse
Wei Chong Ng (Nanyang Technological University & Alibaba-NTU JRI, Singapore); Hongyang Du (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore); Wei Yang Bryan Lim (Nanyang Technological University & Alibaba-NTU Joint Research Institute, Singapore); Zehui Xiong (Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore); Dusit Niyato and Chunyan Miao (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

Semantic-Aided Image Transmission System with Unequal Error Protection for Next-Generation Communication Networks
Nargis Fayaz and Aman Shreshtha (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India); Smruti Sarangi (IIT Delhi, India); Ranjan K. Mallik and Brejesh Lall (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India)

Comparative Analysis of Sub-band Allocation Algorithms in In-body Sub-networks Supporting XR Applications
Saeed Bagherinejad (Aalborg University & Nokia, Denmark); Thomas Haaning Jacobsen (Nokia Bell Labs & Device / Modems Standardization Research Expert, Denmark); Nuno K Pratas (Nokia, Denmark); Ramoni O. Adeogun (Aalborg University, Denmark)

Optimizing Vehicular Users Association in Urban Mobile Networks
Geymerson Ramos (INSA Lyon, France & LaCCAN, Brazil); Razvan Stanica (INSA Lyon, France); Rian Pinheiro and Andre Aquino (Universidade Federal de Alagoas, Brazil)

Resource Allocation for FeMBB and eURLLC Coexistence in RSMA-Based Cellular Networks
Shiva Kazemi, Taskou (Amirkabir University of Technology, Iran); Mehdi Rasti (University of Oulu, Finland)

DQL-MultiMDP: A Deep Q-Learning-based Algorithm for Load Balancing in Dynamic and Dense WiFi Networks
Mohamed Bellouch (L2S, CentraleSupélec, France); Lynda Zitoune (L2S Paris Saclay University, France); Iyad Lahsen-Cherif (Thales Group, France); Véronique Vèque (Université Paris-Saclay, France)

TR4-14: Optical and Visible Light Systems
Meeting Room 9, 4th Floor

A Novel Pre-equalization Scheme for Visible Light Communications with Direct Learning Architecture
Shupeng Li, Huantian Huang and Yi Zou (South China University of Technology, China)

A Fingerprint Based Indoor Visible Light Positioning System for Tilted Receivers Equipped with a Single Photodetector
Ibrahim Abou Shehada, Ali H Muqaibel and Wessam Mesbah (King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia); Ki-Hong Park and Mohamed-Slim Alouini (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia)

On the Energy Efficiency of RSMA-based VLC Systems with Confidential Private Messages
Thang K. Nguyen (The University of Aizu, Japan); Thanh Pham (Shizuoka University, Japan); Chuyen T. Nguyen (Hanoi University of Science and Technology, Vietnam); Anh T. Pham (The University of Aizu, Japan)

Comparative Study of Frequency-based Modulations for Visible Light Communication
Tilahun Z. Gutema (The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Jianhui Chen (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Trio Adiono (STEI ITB, Indonesia); Wasiu O. Popoola (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

Fronthaul Synchronization Requirements for Distributed MIMO in LiFi Systems
Anselm Ebmeyer and Lennert Bober (Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute, Germany); Malte Hinrichs and Volker Jungnickel (Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute & Technische Universität Berlin, Germany)

Layered Optical OFDM Schemes for IM/DD OWC Systems
Zuhang Geng (Tsinghua University, China); Xinke Tang (Peng Cheng Laboratory, China); Yuhan Dong (Tsinghua University, China)

TR4-16: Integrated Sensing and Communications 2
Meeting Room 3, 2nd Floor

Indoor THz N-LoS Communication and Radar Sensing Through Wall Reflections
Aman Batra (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany); Fawad Sheikh (Universität Duisburg-Essen & The Mobile Terahertz Company UG, ID4US GmbH, Germany); Michael Wiemeler (Universität Duisburg-Essen, Germany); Diana Goehringer (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany); Thomas Kaiser (Universität Duisburg-Essen, Germany)

BS Coordination Optimization in Integrated Sensing and Communication: A Stochastic Geometric View
Kaitao Meng and Christos Masouros (University College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Guangji Chen (Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China); Fan Liu (Southern University of Science and Technology, China)

Signal Subspace Tracking for AoA Estimation in ISAC Systems
Shixu Dong and Jingbo Zhao (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Zhaoming Lu (BUPT, China); J. Andrew Zhang (University of Technology Sydney, Australia); Tianpu Yang (China Mobile Group Design Institute Company Limited, China); Jiayin Deng (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)

Substitute Presenter: Sida Ling (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)

Joint Communication Beamforming and Sensing Waveform Design of LEO Satellite Constellations
Qi Wang and Xiaoming Chen (Zhejiang University, China); Qiao Qi (Hangzhou Normal University, China)

Joint Frame Structure and Beamwidth Optimization for Integrated Localization and Communication
Tianhao Liang, Zhaoyi Yu and Tingting Zhang (Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, China); Sheng Zhou (Tsinghua University, China); Wentao Liu (Macau University of Science and Technology, China); Li Dong (Macau University of Science and Technology, Macao); Zhisheng Niu (Tsinghua University, China)

Joint imaging and communication using sparse antenna arrays
Nusiebah Abu-sanad and Musab Ayasrah (Istanbul Medipol University, Turkey); Huseyin Arslan (Istanbul Medipol University, USA)

TR4-19: Advanced Beamforming and Antenna Technologies 2
Meeting Room 4, 2nd Floor

Optimal Discrete Beamforming of RIS-Aided Wireless Communications: An Inner Product Maximization Approach
Rujing Xiong, Xuehui Dong, Tiebin Mi, Kai Wan and Robert C. Qiu (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China)

Intelligent Block-Level Interference Exploitation Beamforming Design: An ADMM Approach
Yiran Wang (Xi An Jiaotong University, China); Yunsi Wen, Ang Li and Xiaoyan Hu (Xi'an Jiaotong University, China); Christos Masouros (University College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

Training-Free Energy Beamforming Assisted by Wireless Sensing
Li Zhang (University of Science and Technology of China, China); Yuan Fang (City University of Hong Kong, China); ZiXiang Ren (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China); Ling Qiu (University of Science and Technology of China, China); Jie Xu (The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen), China)

Near-Field Beam Training with DFT Codebook
Xun Wu, Changsheng You and Jiapeng Li (Southern University of Science and Technology, China); Yunpu Zhang (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong); Chen Li (University of Science And Technology of China, China); Kaifeng Han (China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, China)

Control-Oriented Beamforming Design for Satellite Internet of Things Systems
Qingming Wang and Hua Zhang (Southeast University, China); Xiao Liang (National Mobile Communication Research Lab., Southeast University, China); Linghui Ge (Southeast University, China); Baoyin Bian (State Grid Electric Power Research Institute, China); Lang Li (State Grid Zhengjiang Electric Corporation, China)

Bessel Constraint Method for OAM Waves in Short-Range Wireless Communication 
Yihong Zheng and Zhiqun Hu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Zhaoming Lu (BUPT, China); Luhan Wang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Wei Zheng (BUPT, China)

TR4-22: UAV Trajectory Tracking and Design
Meeting Room 5, 4th Floor

UAV Trajectory Tracking via RNN-enhanced IMM-KF with ADS-B Data
Yian Zhu, Ziye Jia, Qihui Wu and Chao Dong (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China); Zirui Zhuang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Huiling Hu and Qi Cai (Middle-south Regional Air Traffic Management Bureau of CAAC, China)

BROAD: Joint Beamwidth and Path Optimization for Energy-efficient UAV-Assisted Data Collection
Aolin Zhang, Di Liu, Tianhao Li, Xin Cui and Kuangyu Zheng (Beihang University, China)

Continuous UAV Trajectory Design with Uncertain User Location in ISAC Networks
Yiming Li (National University of Defense Technolgy, China); Xiaoshuai Li, Junan Yang, Jifei Pan, Rangang Zhu and Hui Liu (National University of Defense Technology, China)

Trajectory Design for Multi-UAV-Enabled Wireless Powered Communication Networks: A Multi-Agent DRL Approach
Honghao Qi, Wu Muqing, Zijian Zhang and Min Zhao (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)

Priority-based Dynamic Multi-UAV Positioning for Multi-Target Search and Connectivity
Hamid Majidi Balanji (Özyeğin University, Turkey); Evsen Yanmaz (Ozyegin University, Turkey)

UAV Trajectory Optimization based on Predicted User Locations
Lester Ho (Tyndall National Institute, Ireland); Sobia Jangsher (Dublin City University, Ireland)

 

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