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All paper presentations are poster-based, with the exception of the keynotes, SPAWC talks, and tutorials. See https://spawc2024.org/information-for-presenters/
Tuesday, September 10
9:30 – 11:00
Room: Plenary, Chair: Elza Erkip (New York University, USA)
Tutorial 1: Fundamental limits of distributed computation over networks (first part)
Derya Malak (EURECOM, France)
Room: Capitolo, Chair: Nikolaos Kolomvakis (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)
Tutorial 2: An information-theoretic view of integrated sensing and communication (first part)
Michèle Wigger (Telecom Paris, France)
11:00 – 11:30
Venue: Cloister
Coffee break
11:30 – 13:00
Room: Plenary, Chair: Elza Erkip (New York University, USA)
Tutorial 1: Fundamental limits of distributed computation over networks (second part)
Derya Malak (EURECOM, France)
Room: Capitolo, Chair: Nikolaos Kolomvakis (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)
Tutorial 2: An information-theoretic view of integrated sensing and communication (second part)
Michèle Wigger (Telecom Paris, France)
13:00 – 14:00
Venue: Cloister
Lunch
14:00 – 15:30
Room: Plenary, Chair: Luca Sanguinetti (University of Pisa, Italy)
Tutorial 3: THz wireless sensing and communication (first half)
Yasaman Ghasempour (Princeton University, USA), Vitaly Petrov (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)
Room: Capitolo, Chair: Emil Björnson (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)
Tutorial 4: Electromagnetic signal and information theory: Beyond diagonal reconfigurable intelligent surfaces and holographic surfaces (first half)
Marco Di Renzo (L2S-CentraleSupelec, France), and Bruno Clerckx, Hongyu Li, and Matteo Nerini (Imperial College London, United Kingdom).
15:30 – 16:00
Venue: Cloister
Coffee break
16:00 – 17:30
Room: Plenary, Chair: Luca Sanguinetti (University of Pisa, Italy)
Tutorial 3: THz wireless sensing and communication (second half)
Yasaman Ghasempour (Princeton University, USA), Vitaly Petrov (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)
Room: Capitolo, Chair: Emil Björnson (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)
Tutorial 4: Electromagnetic signal and information theory: Beyond diagonal reconfigurable intelligent surfaces and holographic surfaces (second half)
Marco Di Renzo (L2S-CentraleSupelec, France), and Bruno Clerckx, Hongyu Li, and Matteo Nerini (Imperial College London, United Kingdom).
19:30 – 21:30
Venue: Cloister
Welcome cocktail
Wednesday, September 11
8:30 – 9:00
Plenary Room, Chair: Luca Sanguinetti (University of Pisa, Italy)
Opening ceremony
Emil Björnson (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden) and Osvaldo Simeone (King’s College London, United Kingdom)
9:00 – 9:45
Plenary Room, Moderator: Osvaldo Simeone (King’s College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Keynote 1: Towards the Quantum internet: Entanglement meets classical communications
Angela Sara Cacciapuoti (University of Naples Federico II, Italy)
9:45 – 10:45
Room: Cloister – Yellow, Chair: Zihang Song (King’s College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Regular Session 01 (RS01): Energy-efficient wireless systems (Wednesday, September 11, 9:45 – 10:45):
- Neuromorphic In-Context Learning for Energy-Efficient MIMO Symbol Detection
Zihang Song, Osvaldo Simeone and Bipin Rajendran (King’s College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)) - Keeping Energy-Neutral Devices Operational: a Coherent Massive Beamforming Approach
Jarne Van Mulders and Bert Cox (KU Leuven, Belgium); Benjamin J. B. Deutschmann (Graz University of Technology, Austria); Gilles Callebaut, Lieven De Strycker and Liesbet Van der Perre (KU Leuven, Belgium) - Power-Efficient Transceiver Design for Full-Duplex Dual-Function Radar Communication Systems
Mahnoor Anjum (UNSW, Australia); Deepak Mishra (University of New South Wales (UNSW) Sydney, Australia); Aruna Seneviratne (University of New South Wales, Australia) - Optimization of Waveforms for Energy-Efficient Communication
Morteza Barzegar Astanjin and Thomas Eriksson (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden) - An ALOHA-type Network Game with Trade-off Between Throughput and Energy Saving
Andrey Garnaev (Rutgers University, USA); Wade Trappe (WINLAB, Rutgers University, USA)
Room: Cloister – Green, Chair: Bho Matthiesen (University of Bremen, Germany)
Regular Session 02 (RS02): Federated and decentralized learning (Wednesday, September 11, 9:45 – 10:45):
- Optimizing Efficiency through Adaptive Model Pruning in Fully Distributed Federated Learning
Yuchen Mu (The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Xiaonan Liu (The University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Tharmalingam Ratnarajah (The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom (Great Britain)) - Partial Model Pruning and Personalization for Wireless Federated Learning
Xiaonan Liu (The University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Tharmalingam Ratnarajah (The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Mathini Sellathurai (Heriot-Watt University, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Yonina C. Eldar (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel) - Uplink Over-the-Air Aggregation for Multi-Model Wireless Federated Learning
Chong Zhang (University of Toronto, Canada); Min Dong (Ontario Tech University, Canada); Ben Liang (University of Toronto, Canada); Ali Afana (Ericsson, Canada); Yahia Ahmed (Ericsson Canada, Canada) - Sparse Incremental Aggregation in Multi-Hop Federated Learning
Sourav Mukherjee, Nasrin Razmi and Armin Dekorsy (University of Bremen, Germany); Petar Popovski (Aalborg University, Denmark); Bho Matthiesen (University of Bremen, Germany) - Scale-Robust Timely Asynchronous Decentralized Learning
Purbesh Mitra and Sennur Ulukus (University of Maryland, USA)
Room: Cloister – Blue, Chair: TBD
Regular Session 03 (RS03): MIMO communications (Wednesday, September 11, 9:45 – 10:45):
- User-to-User Interference Mitigation in Dynamic TDD MIMO Systems with Multi-Antenna Users
Martin Andersson (Linköping University, Sweden); Tung T. Vu (Macquarie University, Australia); Pål Frenger (Ericsson Research, Ericsson AB, Sweden); Erik G. Larsson (Linköping University, Sweden) - Joint Constellation Shaping Using Gradient Descent Approach for MU-MIMO Broadcast Channel
Maxime Vaillant (Inria, France & INSA Lyon, France); Alix Jeannerot (INSA Lyon & Inria, France); Jean-Marie Gorce (INSA-Lyon & CITI, Inria, France) - Enhanced Achievable DoF Bounds for Cache-Aided MIMO Communication Systems
Mohammad NaseriTehrani (Centre for Wireless Communications, University of Oulu, Finland); MohammadJavad Salehi and Antti Tölli (University of Oulu, Finland) - Multi-band Active Arrays for Gridless DoA and Spectral Response Sensing
Nuofan Mao (Imperial College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Wei Dai (Imperial College, United Kingdom (Great Britain)) - A Cyclostationary Perspective on Noncoherent SIMO Communications
Marc Vilà-Insa (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Spain); Jaume Riba (UPC, Spain)
10:45 – 11:15
Venue: Cloister
Coffee break
11:15 – 12:00
Plenary Room, Moderator: Emil Björnson (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)
Keynote 2: Radio localization and sensing towards 6G: The carrier pendulum swing
Henk Wymeersch (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)
12:00 – 13:00
Room: Cloister – Yellow, Chair: TBD
Regular Session 04 (RS04): Machine learning for communications I (Wednesday, September 11, 12:00 – 13:00):
- SHARE: A Distributed Learning Framework For Multivariate Time-Series Forecasting
Wei Ye (University of Minnesota Twin Cities, USA); Prashant Khanduri (Wayne State University, USA); Jiangweizhi Peng (University of Minnesota Twin Cities, USA); Feng Tian (University of Minnesota, USA); Jun Gao (Meta Platforms, Inc, USA); Jie Ding, Zhi-Li Zhang and Mingyi Hong (University of Minnesota, USA) - Neural Augmented Particle Filtering with Learning Flock of Particles
Itai Nuri and Nir Shlezinger (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel) - A Lossless Compression Technique for the Downlink Control Information Message
Bryan Liu (Nokia Bell-Labs, France); Alvaro Valcarce (Nokia Bell Labs, France); Pavan Koteshwar Srinath (Nokia Bell Labs France, France) - Neuromorphic Semantic Communications with Wake-Up Radios
Jiechen Chen and Sangwoo Park (King’s College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Petar Popovski (Aalborg University, Denmark); H. Vincent Poor (Princeton University, USA); Osvaldo Simeone (King’s College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)) - DCS-JSCC: Leveraging Deep Compressed Sensing into JSCC for Wireless Image Transmission
Mohammad Amin Jarrahi (University of Essex, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Eirina Bourtsoulatze (Imperial College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Vahid Abolghasemi (University of Essex, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Room: Cloister – Green, Chairs: Nuria González-Prelcic (University of California San Diego, USA), Henk Wymeersch (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)
Special Session 01 (SS01): Integrated sensing and communications (Wednesday, September 11, 12:00 – 13:00):
- Bistatic Sensing at THz Frequencies via a Two-Stage Ultra-Wideband MIMO-OFDM System
Tommaso Bacchielli and Lorenzo Pucci (University of Bologna, Italy); Davide Dardari (University of Bologna & CNIT, Italy); Andrea Giorgetti (University of Bologna, Italy) - Bistatic mmWave Mapping in Obstructed Environments Using Double-bounce Signals
Ossi Kaltiokallio (Tampere University, Finland); Yu Ge (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden); Jukka Talvitie and Elizaveta Rastorgueva-Foi (Tampere University, Finland); Henk Wymeersch (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden); Mikko Valkama (Tampere University, Finland) - Joint Estimation of Channel, Range, and Doppler for FMCW Radar with Sparse Bayesian Learning
Mehdi Ashury (TU Wien, Austria); Fangqing Xiao (EURECOM, France); José Rodríguez Piñeiro (Tongji University, China); Dirk Slock (EURECOM, France); Peter Gerstoft (University of California, San Diego, USA); Christoph F Mecklenbräuker (TU Wien, Austria); Dominik Lungenschmied (Infineon Technologies Linz, Austria) - Truly Full-Duplex Integrated Sensing and Single-User Communication at mmWave
Murat Bayraktar and Nuria González-Prelcic (University of California San Diego, USA); Hao Chen (Samsung Research America, USA); Jianzhong Zhang (Samsung, USA) - Context-aware Codebook Design for 6G Extreme MIMO
Ryan M. Dreifuerst (North Carolina State University, USA); Ibrahim Kilinc (University of California San Diego, USA); Robert Heath (University of California, San Diego, USA)
Simultaneous Near-Field THz Communications and Sensing with Full Duplex Metasurface Transceivers
Ioannis Gavras (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece); George C. Alexandropoulos (University of Athens, Greece)
Room: Cloister – Blue, Chair: Hien Ngo (Queen’s University Belfast, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Special Session 15 (SS15): Cell-free massive MIMO for 6G (Wednesday, September 11, 12:00 – 13:00):
- Energy-Efficient Cell-Free Massive MIMO in Ultra-Dense LEO Networks: A Semi-Centralized Clustering Approach
Reza Mahin Zaeem, Juan Duncan, Vu Nguyen Ha, Liz Martínez Marrero, Symeon Chatzinotas and Björn Ottersten (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg) - From Cellular to Cell-Free Massive MIMO: a Progressive Approach Towards 6G
Guillem Femenias and Felip Riera-Palou (University of the Balearic Islands, Spain) - A Flexible Framework for Grant-Free Random Access in Cell-Free Massive MIMO Systems
Sai Subramanyam Thoota and Erik G. Larsson (Linköping University, Sweden) - Uplink Rate-Splitting for Cell-Free Massive MIMO with Hardware Impairments
Xilai Feng, Jiakang Zheng, Jiayi Zhang and Bo Ai (Beijing Jiaotong University, China) - Joint Message Detection, Channel, and User Position Estimation for Unsourced Random Access in Cell-Free Wireless Networks
Eleni Gkiouzepi and Burak Çakmak (Technische Universität Berlin, Germany); Manfred Opper (KI / TU Berlin, Germany); Giuseppe Caire (Technische Universität Berlin, Germany) - On the Coexistence of eMBB and URLLC in the Cell-Free Massive MIMO Downlink
Giovanni Interdonato (University of Cassino and Southern Lazio, Italy & CNIT, Italy); Stefano Buzzi (University of Cassino and Lazio Meridionale/CNIT, Italy)
13:00 – 14:00
Venue: Cloister
Lunch
14:00 – 14:30
Plenary Room, Moderator: Angel Lozano (Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Spain)
SPAWC Talk 1: Modelling language mismatch in multi-user semantic communications
Emilio Calvanese Strinati (CEA LETI, France)
14:30 – 15:00
Plenary Room, Moderator: Angel Lozano (Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Spain)
SPAWC Talk 2: Quantum error correction for communications and computing
Marco Chiani (University of Bologna, Italy)
15:00 – 16:00
Room: Cloister – Yellow, Chair: Yunchuan Zhang (King’s College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Regular Session 05 (RS05): Radio resource management (Wednesday, September 11, 15:00 – 16:00):
- A Sequential UE Selection Scheme for User-Centric Communications Employing Radio Stripes
Ioannis Chiotis and Aris L. Moustakas (University of Athens, Greece) - Pilot Assignment based on AoA information using Channel Charting in Massive MIMO Systems
Bushra Shaikh (Aalto, Finland); Hanan Al-Tous and Pere Garau Burguera (Aalto University, Finland); Markku Juntti (University of Oulu, Finland); Bilal Muhammad Khan (National University of Sciences and Technology, Pakistan); Olav Tirkkonen (Aalto University, Finland) - EMF Exposure Mitigation via MAC Scheduling
Silvio Mandelli (Nokia Bell Labs, Germany); Lorenzo Maggi (Nokia Bell Labs, France); Bill Zheng (Nokia Shanghai Bell, China); Azra Zejnilagic (Nokia, Germany); Christophe Grangeat (Nokia, France) - Transferable Multi-Fidelity Bayesian Optimization for Radio Resource Management
Yunchuan Zhang, Sangwoo Park and Osvaldo Simeone (King’s College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)) - Optimal Blocklength Allocation in QoS-Constrained URLLC Networks with Personalised Latency Requirements
Xiaopeng Yuan, Yujia Zhou, Yulin Hu and Anke Schmeink (RWTH Aachen University, Germany) - QoS-Aware Optimal Power Control for Securing THz NOMA among Untrusted Heterogeneous Users
Prerna Devi (IIT JAMMU, India); Deepak Mishra (University of New South Wales (UNSW) Sydney, Australia); Ravikant Saini (Indian Institute of Technology Jammu, India)
Room: Cloister – Green, Chair: Onur Günlü (Linköping University, Sweden)
Special Session 06 (SS06): Privacy, security, and trust for future wireless communications (Wednesday, September 11, 15:00 – 16:00):
- Comparison of universal hash functions for physical layer security in wiretap channels
Johannes Voichtleitner (Technische Universität München, Germany); Moritz Wiese (Technical University of Munich, Germany); Holger Boche (Technical University Munich, Germany) - Practical Design of a Transmission with Latent Variable Secrecy
Jianping Zhang (TU Braunschweig, Germany); Pin-Hsun Lin (Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany); Karl-Ludwig Besser (Princeton University, USA); Eduard A Jorswieck (Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany) - One-Class Classification as GLRT for Jamming Detection in Private 5G Networks
Matteo Varotto (Hochschule Darmstadt, Germany); Stefan Valentin (Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences, Germany); Francesco Ardizzon, Samuele Marzotto and Stefano Tomasin (University of Padova, Italy) - Performance of Codebook-Aware Jamming Attacks
Ragnar Thobaben and Noor Schroen (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden); Carlo Fischione (KTH, Sweden) - Optimized Random Antenna Switching for Channel Measurement Based Secret Key Generation
Julius Nestler and Martin Mittelbach (Dresden University of Technology, Germany); Axel Schmidt (TU Dresden, Germany); Rafael F. Schaefer (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany) - Beam focusing in near-field communications: enhancing the physical layer security
Sotiris Droulias (University of Piraeus Greece, Greece); Giorgos Stratidakis and Angeliki Alexiou (University of Piraeus, Greece)
Room: Cloister – Blue, Chair: George C. Alexandropoulos (University of Athens, Greece)
Special Session 16 (SS16): Signal processing for near-field communications (Wednesday, September 11, 15:00 – 16:00):
- Fractional Fourier Transformation Based XL-MIMO Near-Field Channels Analysis
Mengnan Jian (ZTE, China); Anzheng Tang (Southeast University, China); Yijian Chen and Yajun Zhao (ZTE Corporation, China) - Antenna Position Optimization of Sparse Arrays for Near-Field Multiuser Communications
Kangjian Chen and Chenhao Qi (Southeast University, China); Geoffrey Ye Li (Imperial College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Octavia A. Dobre (Memorial University, Canada) - Analysis of Near-Field Effects, Spatial Non-Stationary Characteristics Based on 11-15 GHz Channel Measurement in Indoor Scenario
Haiyang Miao and Pan Tang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); WeiRang Zuo (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Singapore); Qi Wei (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Lei Tian (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications & Wireless Technology Innovation Institute, China); Jianhua Zhang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China) - Spatial Correlation Modeling and RS-LS Estimation of Near-Field Channels with Uniform Planar Arrays
Özlem Tuğfe Demir (TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Turkey); Alva Kosasih (KTH Royal Institute, Sweden); Emil Björnson (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden) - Beam-Focusing for Near-Field ISAC Systems
Ping Sun and Haiyang Zhang (Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Francesco Guidi (National Research Council of Italy (CNR) – IEIIT, Italy); Davide Dardari (University of Bologna & CNIT, Italy); Bao-Yun Wang (Nanjing University of Posts & Telecommunications, China); Yonina C. Eldar (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel) - Dictionary Learning Based Near-Field Channel Estimation for Wideband XL-MIMO Systems
Peicong Zheng (Southern University of Science and Technology, China); Xuantao Lyu and Ye Wang (Peng Cheng Laboratory, China); Yi Gong (Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China)
16:00 – 16:30
Venue: Cloister
Coffee break
16:30 – 17:00
Plenary Room, Moderator: Angel Lozano (Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Spain)
SPAWC Talk 3: UAV networks: Quantization for deployment not compression
Hamid Jafarkhani (University of California at Irvine, USA)
17:00 – 18:00
Room: Cloister – Yellow, Chair: Houcem Gazzah (ISEN Nantes, France)
Regular Session 06 (RS06): Near-field estimation and localization (Wednesday, September 11, 17:00 – 18:00):
- Aperture-Preserving DOA Estimation of Near-Field Sources Using Nonuniform Linear Arrays
Houcem Gazzah (ISEN Nantes, France) - Near-Field Channel Estimation for Uplink Multiuser XL-MIMO Systems
Kabuto Arai and Koji Ishibashi (The University of Electro-Communications, Japan); Hiroki Iimori, Paulo Valente Klaine and Szabolcs Malomsoky (Ericsson, Japan) - Performance Bounds for Near-Field Multi-Antenna Range Estimation of Extended Targets
Guillaume Thiran and François De Saint Moulin (UCLouvain, Belgium); Claude Oestges (Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium); Luc Vandendorpe (Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium) - Near-Field Channel Estimation for Extremely-Large Single-RF-Chain RIS Systems
Rafaela Schroeder (University of Oulu, Finland); Jiguang He (Technology Innovation Institute, United Arab Emirates); Markku Juntti (University of Oulu, Finland) - Near-field RIS-aided Localization Under Channel Non-Stationarity: A Mismatched Model Approach
Bo Sun (Tampere University, Finland); Musa Furkan Keskin (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden); Moustafa Rahal (University of Surrey, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Hui Chen (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden); Jukka Talvitie (Tampere University, Finland); Henk Wymeersch (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden); Mikko Valkama (Tampere University, Finland)
Room: Cloister – Green, Chair: Constantinos Psomas (University of Cyprus, Cyprus)
Special Session 05 (SS05): Reconfigurable antenna systems for 6G wireless communications (Wednesday, September 11, 17:00 – 18:00):
- Integrated Communication and Computation Empowered by Fluid Antenna Array
Sicong Ye (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden); Deyou Zhang (Beihang University, China); Ming Xiao (Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden); Mikael Skoglund (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden) - Switched Combining for Reconfigurable Fluid Antenna Systems
Constantinos Psomas and Ioannis Krikidis (University of Cyprus, Cyprus) - Compact Ultra Massive Array (CUMA) with 4 RF Chains for Massive Connectivity
Kai Kit Wong (University College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)) - Effective Diversity and Coding Gain over Fluid Antenna Channels
Nikoloz Vashakidze (Texas A&M University, Qatar); Joseph Jean Boutros (Texas A&M University, USA); Ghassan M. Kraidy (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway); Ioannis Krikidis (University of Cyprus, Cyprus)
Room: Cloister – Blue, Chairs: Marouan Mizmizi (Politecnico di Milano, Italy), Dario Tagliaferri (Politecnico di Milano, Italy), Henk Wymeersch (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)
Special Session 09 (SS09): Signal processing for integrated sensing and communication (Wednesday, September 11, 17:00 – 18:00):
- Position Error Bound for Cooperative Sensing in MIMO-OFDM Networks
Lorenzo Pucci and Andrea Giorgetti (University of Bologna, Italy) - Integrated Snapshot and Filtering-based Bistatic Radio SLAM in mmWave Networks
Ossi Kaltiokallio, Jukka Talvitie and Elizaveta Rastorgueva-Foi (Tampere University, Finland); Henk Wymeersch (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden); Mikko Valkama (Tampere University, Finland) - Generative AI for Sparse Antenna Array Design in ISAC Systems
Spilios Evmorfos (Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, USA); Athina Petropoulu (Rutgers, USA) - Multistatic Imaging in Vehicular Networks by Carrier Phase Synchronization
Marco Manzoni, Dario Tagliaferri, Marouan Mizmizi, Stefano Tebaldini and Umberto Spagnolini (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) - Fingerprint-Spectrum-Based Synchronization in Asynchronous Perceptive Mobile Networks
Xiao-Yang Wang and Shaoshi Yang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Mingyang Chen and Christos Masouros (University College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)) - Extended ARQ Protocol For Reliable Integrated Sensing and Communication Systems
Georgios Mylonopoulos (Consorzio Interuniversitario Delle Telecomunicazioni & University of Cassino and Southern Latium, Italy); Behrooz Makki (Ericsson Research, Sweden); Gabor Fodor (Ericsson Research & Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden); Stefano Buzzi (University of Cassino and Lazio Meridionale/CNIT, Italy) - Learning Beamforming in Cell-free Massive MIMO ISAC Systems
Umut Demirhan and Ahmed Alkhateeb (Arizona State University, USA)
Thursday, September 12
9:00 – 9:45
Plenary Room, Moderator: Emil Björnson (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)
Keynote 3: Wireless renaissance: AI’s transformative role in PHY
Sharad Sambhwani (Apple Inc., USA)
9:45 – 10:45
Room: Cloister – Yellow, Chair: Marouan Mizmizi (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Regular Session 07 (RS07): Integrated sensing and communications (Thursday, September 12, 9:45 – 10:45):
- Feasibility of Non-Line-of-Sight Integrated Sensing and Communication at mmWave
Paolo Tosi (Nokia Bell Labs & Politecnico di Milano, Germany); Marcus Henninger (University of Stuttgart & Nokia Bell Labs Stuttgart, Germany); Lucas Giroto de Oliveira (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany); Silvio Mandelli (Nokia Bell Labs, Germany) - Beamforming Design for Max-Min Fairness Performance Balancing in ISAC Systems
Tianyu Fang, Nhan Nguyen and Markku Juntti (University of Oulu, Finland) - Empowering 5G PRS-Based ISAC with Compressed Sensing
Esen Özbay (RWTH Aachen University, Germany); Pradyumna Kumar Bishoyi (RWTH Aachen University Germany, Germany); Marina Petrova (RWTH Aachen University, Germany & KTH Royal Institute of Technolgy, Sweden) - Waveform Design for Multi-Carrier Multi-User MIMO Joint Communications and Sensing
Mohammad Hatami, Nhan Nguyen and Markku Juntti (University of Oulu, Finland) - Low-latency Secure Integrated Sensing and Communication with Transmitter Actions
Truman Welling (The Ohio State University, USA); Onur Günlü (Linköping University, Sweden); Aylin Yener (The Ohio State University, USA)
Room: Cloister – Green, Chair: Ezgi Ozyilkan (New York University, USA)
Regular Session 08 (RS08): Machine learning for communications II (Thursday, September 12, 9:45 – 10:45):
- A Penalty-Dual Learning Framework for Multi-User QoS-Constrained Beamforming
Yang Li (Shenzhen Research Institute of Big Data, China); Ya-Feng Liu (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China); Fan Xu (Peng Cheng Laboratory, China); Qingjiang Shi (Tongji University, China); Tsung-Hui Chang (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China) - Enhancing Robustness Against Noisy CSI Data With a Single Uncertainty-Informed Model
Valentina Rizzello, Michael Joham and Wolfgang Utschick (Technische Universität München, Germany) - Neural Compress-and-Forward for the Relay Channel
Ezgi Ozyilkan, Fabrizio Carpi, Siddharth Garg and Elza Erkip (New York University, USA) - Concept Drift Detection for Deep Learning Aided Receivers in Dynamic Channels
Nicole Uzlaner, Tomer Raviv and Nir Shlezinger (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel); Koby Todros (Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel) - Coverage Analysis of Multi-Environment Q-Learning Algorithms for Wireless Network Optimization
Talha Bozkus and Urbashi Mitra (University of Southern California, USA)
Room: Cloister – Blue, Chair: Lorenzo Miretti (Technical University of Berlin & Fraunhofer Heinrich-Hertz Institute, Germany)
Regular Session 09 (RS09): MIMO communication analysis and optimization (Thursday, September 12, 9:45 – 10:45):
- Spatial separation of closely-spaced users in measured distributed massive MIMO channels
Yingjie Xu, Michiel Sandra and Xuesong Cai (Lund University, Sweden); Sara Willhammar (Lund University, Sweden & KU Leuven, Belgium); Fredrik Tufvesson (Lund University, Sweden) - UL-DL Duality for Cell-free Massive MIMO with Per-AP Power and Information Constraints
Lorenzo Miretti (Technical University of Berlin & Fraunhofer Heinrich-Hertz Institute, Germany); Renato L. G. Cavalcante (Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute, Germany); Emil Björnson (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden); Slawomir Stanczak (Technische Universität Berlin & Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute, Germany) - Superdirectivity in Linear Holographic MIMO
Andrea Pizzo (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain); Angel Lozano (Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Spain) - Creating Spatial Degrees of Freedom for Long-Range LoS MIMO using Reflect-arrays
Lalitha Giridhar (University of California Santa Barbara, USA); Upamanyu Madhow and Mark J W Rodwell (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA) - Handling Distance Constraint in Movable Antenna Aided System: A General Optimization Framework
Yichen Jin (The University of HongKong, Hong Kong); Qingfeng Lin (The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong); Yang Li (Shenzhen Research Institute of Big Data, China); Yik-Chung Wu (The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
10:45 – 11:15
Venue: Cloister
Coffee break
11:15 – 12:00
Plenary Room, Moderator: TBD
Keynote 4: Understanding power consumption in next-generation wireless receivers
Sundeep Rangan (New York University, USA)
12:00 – 13:00
Room: Cloister – Yellow, Chair: Itsik Bergel (Bar Ilan University, Israel)
Regular Session 10 (RS10): Communication with hardware impairments (Thursday, September 12, 12:00 – 13:00):
- Exploiting non-linearity in large relay networks using deep learning
Itsik Bergel (Bar Ilan University, Israel); Siddhartan Govindasamy (Boston College, USA) - Learned Pulse Shaping Design for PAPR Reduction in DFT-s-OFDM
Fabrizio Carpi (New York University, USA); Soheil Rostami (Huawei Technologies, Finland); Joonyoung Cho (Samsung Research America, USA); Siddharth Garg and Elza Erkip (New York University, USA); Charlie Zhang (Samsung Telecommunications America, USA) - Optimality of the Bussgang Linear MMSE Channel Estimator for MIMO Systems with 1-Bit ADCs
Minhua Ding, Italo Atzeni and Antti Tölli (University of Oulu, Finland); Lee Swindlehurst (University of California at Irvine, USA) - Analyzing SNR Degradation Due to Jitter in Practical Direct RF Sampling Systems
Dennis Osterland and Andreas Benzin (Technische Universitaet Berlin, Germany); Giuseppe Caire (Technische Universität Berlin, Germany) - Timing Synchronization and Detection for Systems with 1-bit Quantization and Runlength Coding
Stephan Zeitz and Florian Roth (TU Dresden, Germany); Florian Gast (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany); Meik Dörpinghaus (TU Dresden, Germany); Gerhard P. Fettweis (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany)
Room: Cloister – Green, Chairs: Zheng Chen (Linköping University, Sweden), Erik G. Larsson (Linköping University, Sweden)
Special Session 07 (SS07): Decentralized optimization and learning with resource-constrained communication (Thursday, September 12, 12:00 – 13:00):
- FedDec: Peer-to-peer Aided Federated Learning
Marina Costantini (Eurecom, France); Giovanni Neglia (Inria, France); Thrasyvoulos Spyropoulos (Technical University of Crete, Greece & Eurecom, France) - Matching centralized learning performance via compressed decentralized learning with error feedback
Roula Nassif (Université Côte d’Azur & I3S Laboratory, CNRS, France); Marco Carpentiero (University of Salerno, Italy); Stefan Vlaski (Imperial College, UK); Vincenzo Matta (University of Salerno, Italy); Ali Sayed (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne EPFL, School of Engineering, Switzerland) - Fully-distributed optimization with Network Exact Consensus-GIANT
Alessio Maritan (University of Padova, Italy); Ganesh Sharma (Maynooth University, Ireland); Subhrakanti Dey (Uppsala University, Sweden); Luca Schenato (University of Padova, Italy) - Distributed Average Consensus in Wireless Multi-Agent Systems with Over-the-Air Aggregation
Themistoklis Charalambous (University of Cyprus, Cyprus & Aalto University, Finland); Zheng Chen (Linköping University, Sweden); Christoforos Hadjicostis (University of Cyprus, Cyprus)
Room: Cloister – Blue, Chair: Yanqing Xu (The Chinese University of HongKong (Shenzhen), China)
Special Session 13 (SS13): Distributed signal processing for MIMO-based communication and sensing systems (Thursday, September 12, 12:00 – 13:00):
- Cooperative Sensing and Communication for ISAC Networks: Performance Analysis and Optimization
Kaitao Meng and Christos Masouros (University College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)) - Fronthaul-Efficient Multiuser Equalization for Multi-Carrier Massive MIMO Systems with Decentralized Baseband Processing
Yanqing Xu (The Chinese University of HongKong (Shenzhen), China); Lin Zhu (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China); Rui Shi and Tsung-Hui Chang (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China) - Decentralized Massive MIMO Detection Using Mini-Batch Gradient-Based MCMC
Xingyu Zhou and Le Liang (Southeast University, China); Jing Zhang (Southeast University & National Mobile Communications Research Lab, China); Chao-Kai Wen (National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan); Shi Jin (Southeast University, China) - Wireless Image Semantic Cooperative Transmission in Distributed Edge Networks: An Information Disentanglement Method
Wei Wang, Donghong Cai and Zhiquan Liu (Jinan University, China); Zhiguo Ding (Khalifa University, UAE.); Pingzhi Fan (Southwest Jiaotong University, China) - Distributed Collaborative User Positioning for Cell-Free Massive MIMO with Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
Ziheng Liu, Jiayi Zhang, Enyu Shi and Yiyang Zhu (Beijing Jiaotong University, China); Derrick Wing Kwan Ng (University of New South Wales, Australia); Bo Ai (Beijing Jiaotong University, China) - Coordinated Sparse Precoding for Distributed Integrated Sensing and Communication Systems
R. S. Prasobh Sankar (Indian Institute of Science, India); Soumyadeep Chatterjee (Indian Institute of Science Bengaluru, India); Sundeep Prabhakar Chepuri (Indian Institute of Science, India) - Cell-Free Integrated Sensing and Communications With Hybrid Beamforming
Ahmet M Elbir (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Luxembourg); Kumar Vijay Mishra (United States DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory, USA); Abdulkadir Celik (King Abdullah University of Science & Technology, Saudi Arabia); Ahmed M. Eltawil (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia)
13:00 – 14:00
Venue: Cloister
Lunch
14:00 – 14:45
Plenary Room, Moderator: Luca Sanguinetti (University of Pisa, Italy)
Keynote 5: Emerging 6G wireless: Challenges and opportunities at base station and terminal sides
Mattias Gustafsson (Huawei Technologies Sweden AB, Sweden)
14:45 – 15:00
Plenary Room
SPAWC 2024 Best student paper award recipients
Emil Björnson (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden), Osvaldo Simeone (King’s College London, United Kingdom)
15:00 – 16:00
Room: Cloister – Yellow, Chair: Matteo Varotto (Hochschule Darmstadt, Germany)
Regular Session 11 (RS11): Secure communication and jamming (Thursday, September 12, 15:00 – 16:00):
- Coding-aware secure beamforming in cell-free networks
Guillaume Thiran (UCLouvain, Belgium); Luc Vandendorpe (Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium) - Vulnerability of 3GPP’s NB-IoT Standard in the Presence of Jamming: The Satellite Scenario
Giacomo Bacci (University of Pisa, Italy); Ottavio M. Picchi (MBI, Italy); Marco Luise (University of Pisa, Italy); Claudia Casali (M.B.I., Italy); Marco Andrenacci (MBI, Italy) - PyJama: Differentiable Jamming and Anti-Jamming with NVIDIA Sionna
Fabian Ulbricht, Gian Marti, Reinhard Wiesmayr and Christoph Studer (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) - AoA-Based Physical Layer Authentication in Analog Arrays under Impersonation Attacks
Muralikrishnan Srinivasan (Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), Varanasi, India); Linda Senigagliesi (Università Politecnica delle Marche, Italy); Hui Chen (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden); Arsenia Chorti (ETIS UMR 8051, CY University, ENSEA, CNRS & ETIS, France); Marco Baldi (Università Politecnica delle Marche, Italy); Henk Wymeersch (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)
Room: Cloister – Green, Chair: Erik G. Larsson (Linköping University, Sweden)
Special Session 10 (SS10): Signal processing for backscattering communications (Thursday, September 12, 15:00 – 16:00):
- Reducing Dynamic Range in Bistatic Backscatter Communication via Beamforming Design
Ahmet Kaplan, Diana Moya Osorio and Erik G. Larsson (Linköping University, Sweden) - Combined Wideband Channel Estimation and Direct Link Interference Mitigation in Bistatic Backscatter Systems
Lukas D’Angelo, Benjamin J. B. Deutschmann and Klaus Witrisal (Graz University of Technology, Austria) - Backscatter Communication with Selective FSK Modulation
Amus Chee Yuen Goay (The University of New South Wales, Australia); Deepak Mishra (University of New South Wales (UNSW) Sydney, Australia); Michail Matthaiou (Queen’s University Belfast, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Aruna Seneviratne (University of New South Wales, Australia) - End-to-End Waveform and Beamforming Optimization for RF Wireless Power Transfer
Abdul Basit Khattak, Onel L. A. López, Amirhossein Azarbahram, Deepak Kumar and Matti Latva-aho (University of Oulu, Finland) - Data Assistance Cellular Signal based Ambient Backscatter Receiver
Jingyi Liao, Kalle Ruttik and Riku Jäntti (Aalto University, Finland) - How to Perform Distributed Precoding to Wirelessly Power Shelf Labels: Signal Processing and Measurements
Gilles Callebaut, Jarne Van Mulders, Bert Cox, Liesbet Van der Perre, Lieven De Strycker and François Rottenberg (KU Leuven, Belgium)
Room: Cloister – Blue, Chairs: Laura Cottatellucci (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany), Dirk Slock (EURECOM, France)
Special Session 11 (SS11): PHY and MAC techniques for distributed antenna and surface systems (Thursday, September 12, 15:00 – 16:00):
- Distributed Joint User Activity Detection, Channel Estimation, and Data Detection via Expectation Propagation in Cell-Free Massive MIMO
Christian Forsch and Alexander Karataev (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany); Laura Cottatellucci (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany) - Optimal Design of RDARS-aided Multi-user Systems with Low-resolution DACs
Jintao Wang (University of Macau, Macao); Chengzhi Ma and Shaodan Ma (University of Macau, China) - Benign and Malicious Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces in MISO Wiretap Channels
Ya Gao (Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany); Sepehr Rezvani (Technische Universität Berlin, Germany); Pin-Hsun Lin and Eduard A Jorswieck (Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany) - User-Centric Cell-Free Massive MIMO With RIS-Integrated Antenna Arrays
Özlem Tuğfe Demir (TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Turkey); Emil Björnson (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden) - The Interference Broadcast Channel with Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces: A Cooperative Sum-Rate Maximization Approach
Konstantinos D. Katsanos (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece); Paolo Di Lorenzo (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy); George C. Alexandropoulos (University of Athens, Greece) - A Modular Pragmatic Architecture for Multiuser MIMO with Array-Fed RIS
Krishan Kumar Tiwari and Giuseppe Caire (Technische Universität Berlin, Germany)
16:00 – 16:30
Venue: Cloister
Coffee break
16:30 – 17:00
Plenary Room, Moderator: Angel Lozano (Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Spain)
SPAWC Talk 4: Integrated sensing and communications via uplink-downlink duality
Wei Yu (University of Toronto, Canada)
17:00 – 17:30
Plenary Room, Moderator: Angel Lozano (Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Spain)
SPAWC Talk 5: Scalable, robust, and distributed algorithms for large antenna array processing
Danijela Cabric (University of California at Los Angeles, USA)
17:30 – 18:30
Room: Cloister – Yellow, Chair: TBD
Regular Session 12 (RS12): MIMO channel estimation and detection (Thursday, September 12, 17:30 – 18:30):
- Graph Neural Networks versus Gated Recurrent Units Only for approximate bayesian MU-MIMO detectors
Arthur Michon (INP-ENSEEIHT, France); Charly Poulliat (INP – ENSEEIHT Toulouse, France); Antonio M. Cipriano (Thales Communications and Security, France) - Constellation Design for Quadratic Detection in Noncoherent Massive SIMO Communications
Aniol Martí (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain); Marc Vilà-Insa (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Spain); Jaume Riba (UPC, Spain); Meritxell Lamarca (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain) - Improved Downlink Channel Estimation in Time-Varying FDD Massive MIMO Systems
Sajad Daei and Mikael Skoglund (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden); Gabor Fodor (Ericsson Research & Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden) - Robust Estimation of Angular Power Spectrum in Massive MIMO Under Covariance Estimation Errors: Learning Centers and Scales of Gaussians
Naoto Kaneko and Masahiro Yukawa (Keio University, Japan); Renato L. G. Cavalcante (Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute, Germany); Lorenzo Miretti (Technical University of Berlin & Fraunhofer Heinrich-Hertz Institute, Germany) - Towards Neuromorphic Processing for Next-Generation MU-MIMO Detection
George Ntavazlis Katsaros, Juan C De Luna Ducoing and Konstantinos Nikitopoulos (University of Surrey, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Room: Cloister – Green, Chair: TBD
Special Session 12 (SS12): Proofs-of-concept of emerging PHY layer technologies (Thursday, September 12, 17:30 – 18:30):
- A Non-Orthogonal Waveform Enabled Spectrally Efficient Over-the-Air ISAC Transmission
Yu Zhang and Tongyang Xu (Newcastle University, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Christos Masouros and Izzat Darwazeh (University College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)) - Rate-Splitting Multiple Access for Non-Orthogonal Unicast Multicast: An Experimental Study
Xinze Lyu, Sundar Aditya and Bruno Clerckx (Imperial College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)) - A Practical Study of Rate-Splitting Multiple Access: Single vs. Multiple Common Messages
Robert-Jeron Reifert (Ruhr University Bochum, Germany); Yasemin Karacora (Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany); David Santiago Viracachá Suárez (Ruhr University Bochum, Germany); Daniel Santiago Robayo Rico and Diego Mauricio Aguilar Mosquera (Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Colombia); Aydin Sezgin (RUB, Germany) - An Experimental Proof of Concept for OFDM-based ISAC System Utilizing Stepped-Carrier and TDM MIMO scheme
Kyung In Lee (SungKyunKwan University, Korea (South)); Jaemyung Shin, Dong In Kim and Kae Won Choi (Sungkyunkwan University, Korea (South)) - Accurate Direct Positioning in Distributed MIMO Using Delay-Doppler Channel Measurements
Benjamin J. B. Deutschmann (Graz University of Technology, Austria); Christian Nelson (Lund University, Sweden); Mikael Henriksson (Linköping University, Sweden); Gian Marti (ETH Zurich, Switzerland); Alva Kosasih (KTH Royal Institute, Sweden); Nuutti Tervo (University of Oulu, Finland); Erik Leitinger (Graz University of Technology, Austria); Fredrik Tufvesson (Lund University, Sweden) - A Frequency Hopping Software-Defined Radio Platform for Communications and Sensing in the Upper Mid-Band
Marco Mezzavilla (Politecnico di Milano, Italy); Aditya Dhananjay (NYU Tandon School of Engineering, USA); Michael Zappe (Pi-Radio, USA); Sundeep Rangan (New York University, USA)
Room: Cloister – Blue, Chair: Riccardo De Gaudenzi (European Space Agency (ESA), The Netherlands)
Special Session 14 (SS14): The satellite role in the beyond 5G and 6G era (Thursday, September 12, 17:30 – 18:30):
- Performance Assessment of Sparse Satellite Swarms for 6G Direct-to-Cell Connectivity
Diego Tuzi (University of the Bundeswehr Munich, Germany); Thomas Delamotte and Andreas Knopp (Bundeswehr University Munich, Germany) - IoT Traffic Allocation in Hybrid LEO-GEO Satellite Networks for Latency Minimization
Marcel Grec (German Aerospace Center, Germany); Israel Leyva-Mayorga (Aalborg University, Denmark); Federico Clazzer and Andrea Munari (German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany); Petar Popovski (Aalborg University, Denmark) - Satellite FoA-based Mega-Antenna for User-Centric Mobile Communications: Performance Evaluation
Giacomo Bacci (University of Pisa, Italy); Riccardo De Gaudenzi (European Space Agency (ESA), The Netherlands); Marco Luise and Luca Sanguinetti (University of Pisa, Italy) - Cell-Free MIMO in 6G NTN with AI-predicted CSI
Bruno De Filippo and Riccardo Campana (University of Bologna, Italy); Alessandro Guidotti (National Inter-University Consortium for Telecommunications (CNIT), Italy); Carla Amatetti and Alessandro Vanelli-Coralli (University of Bologna, Italy) - Coherent vs. Non-Coherent Joint Transmission in Cell-Free User-Centric Non-Terrestrial Wireless Networks
Carmen D’Andrea (Università di Cassino e del Lazio Meridionale, Italy & Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario per Le Telecomunicazioni (CNIT), Italy); Tommaso Foggi, Amina Piemontese and Alessandro Ugolini (University of Parma, Italy); Stefano Buzzi (University of Cassino and Lazio Meridionale/CNIT, Italy); Giulio Colavolpe (University of Parma, Italy) - Performance Evaluation of Fractional Frequency Reuse in Multi-Beam Satellite System
Husnain Shahid (Centre Tecnologic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya -CTTC, Spain); Miguel Angel Ángel Vazquez (CTTC, Spain); Xavier Artiga (Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC/CERCA), Spain); Matilde Sánchez-Fernández and Álvaro Callejas-Ramos (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain)
19:30 – 22:00
Venue: Ristorante “Gli orti di Elisa”
Social dinner
Friday, September 13
9:00 – 9:45
Plenary Room, Moderator: Giacomo Bacci (University of Pisa, Italy)
Keynote 6: Statistical inference over networks: Decentralized optimization meets high-dimensional statistics
Gesualdo Scutari (Purdue University, USA)
9:45 – 10:45
Room: Cloister – Yellow, Chair: Özlem Tuğfe Demir (TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Turkey)
Regular Session 13 (RS13): Cell-free massive MIMO (Friday, September 13, 9:45 – 10:45):
- Cell-Free Multi-User MIMO Equalization via In-Context Learning
Matteo Zecchin (King’s College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Kai Yu (Nanjing University, China); Osvaldo Simeone (King’s College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)) - Sensitivity analysis of Scalable Cell-Free Massive MIMO systems with Finite Rate Feedback link
Chaima Beldi, Didier Le Ruyet and Hmaied Shaiek (CNAM, France) - Two-timescale weighted sum-rate maximization for large cellular and cell-free massive MIMO
Lorenzo Miretti (Technical University of Berlin & Fraunhofer Heinrich-Hertz Institute, Germany); Emil Björnson (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden); Slawomir Stanczak (Technische Universität Berlin & Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute, Germany) - A Deep Learning Approach for User-Centric Clustering in Cell-Free Massive MIMO Systems
Giovanni Di Gennaro (Università Degli Studi Della Campania, Italy); Amedeo Buonanno (ENEA, Italy); Gianmarco Romano (University of Campania “L. Vanvitelli”, Italy); Stefano Buzzi (University of Cassino and Lazio Meridionale/CNIT, Italy); Francesco A. N. Palmieri (Universita’ della Campania, Italy) - User-Centric Cell-Free Massive MIMO with Access Points Empowered by Fluid Antennas
Maryam Olyaee (Telecommunication Research Institute (TELMA), Universidad de Málaga, Spain); Stefano Buzzi (University of Cassino and Lazio Meridionale/CNIT, Italy)
Room: Cloister – Green, Chair: Chi Wang (Technische Universität Ilmenau & Huawei Munich Research Center, Germany)
Regular Session 14 (RS14): Advances in channel estimation (Friday, September 13, 9:45 – 10:45):
- Gridless Joint Phase Error and High-Resolution DoA Estimation in DFT Beamspace
Chi Wang (Technische Universität Ilmenau & Huawei Munich Research Center, Germany); Zhibin Yu and Ahmed Abdelkader (Huawei Technologies Duesseldorf GmbH, Germany); Martin Haardt (Ilmenau University of Technology, Germany); Xiaofeng Wu (Huawei Technol. Duesseldorf GmbH, Germany) - Enhancing Guessing Random Additive Noise Decoding using Channel Estimation
Jane A Millward (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA); Ken R. Duffy (Northeastern University, USA); Muralidhar Rangaswamy (AFRL, USA); Muriel Médard (MIT, USA) - Enhancing Channel Estimation in Quantized Systems with a Generative Prior
Benedikt Fesl and Aziz Banna (Technical University of Munich, Germany); Wolfgang Utschick (Technische Universität München, Germany) - Doppler Shift Estimation for Satellite Communications using Linear Estimators
André Bezerra de Freitas Diniz (Chalmers University & Ericsson Research, Sweden); Thomas Eriksson (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden); Ulf Gustavsson (Ericsson AB, Sweden) - Propagation Distance Estimation for Radio over Fiber with Cascaded Structure
Dexin Kong, Diana Moya Osorio and Erik G. Larsson (Linköping University, Sweden)
Room: Cloister – Blue, Chair: Alessio Zappone (University of Cassino and Southern Lazio, Italy)
Special Session 17 (SS17): Energy-efficient resource allocation in wireless communications (Friday, September 13, 9:45 – 10:45):
- Secrecy Energy Efficiency Maximization in RIS-Aided Wireless Networks with Statistical CSI
Robert Kuku Fotock and Agbotiname Lucky Imoize (CNIT, Italy); Alessio Zappone (University of Cassino and Southern Lazio, Italy); Marco Di Renzo (CentraleSupelec-University, France); Roberto Garello (Politecnico di Torino, Italy) - Energy Efficiency Comparison of RIS Architectures in MISO Broadcast Channels
Mohammad Soleymani (Universität Paderborn, Germany); Ignacio Santamaria (University of Cantabria, Spain); Eduard A Jorswieck (Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany); Marco Di Renzo (CNRS & Paris-Saclay University, France); Jesús Gutiérrez (IHP – Leibniz-Institut für Innovative Mikroelektronik, Germany) - Sharing RANs for energy efficiency
Daniela Renga and Maoquan Ni (Politecnico di Torino, Italy); Marco G Ajmone Marsan (IMDEA Networks Institute, Spain); Michela Meo (Politecnico di Torino, Italy) - Energy Efficiency Optimization in Integrated Satellite-Terrestrial UAV-Enabled Cell-Free Massive MIMO
Thong Nhat Tran (Hongik University, Korea (South)); Giovanni Interdonato (University of Cassino and Southern Lazio, Italy & CNIT, Italy) - Optimizing Energy Efficiency with RSMA: Balancing Low and High QoS Requirements
Srivardhan Sarma Sivadevuni (Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany); Kevin Weinberger (Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany); Aydin Sezgin (RUB, Germany)
10:45 – 11:15
Venue: Cloister
Coffee break
11:15 – 12:00
Plenary Room, Moderator: Osvaldo Simeone (King’s College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Keynote 7: Semantic communication networks: The next frontier for 6G and beyond
Aylin Yener (Ohio State University, USA)
12:00 – 13:00
Room: Cloister – Yellow, Chair: Michele Mirabella (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia & Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario per Le Telecomunicazioni (CNIT), Italy)
Regular Session 15 (RS15): Wireless sensing, localization, and communication (Friday, September 13, 12:00 – 13:00)
- Antenna Array Design for Monostatic ISAC
Alexander Felix (University of Stuttgart & Nokia Bell Labs, Germany); Silvio Mandelli (Nokia Bell Labs, Germany); Marcus Henninger (University of Stuttgart & Nokia Bell Labs Stuttgart, Germany); Stephan ten Brink (University of Stuttgart, Germany) - On the Use of a Double Cyclic Prefix in Orthogonal Time-Frequency Space Modulation for Communication and Sensing
Michele Mirabella (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia & Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario per Le Telecomunicazioni (CNIT), Italy); Pasquale Di Viesti (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy); Giorgio Matteo Vitetta (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy) - Leveraging the Doppler Effect for Channel Charting
Florian Euchner, Phillip Stephan and Stephan ten Brink (University of Stuttgart, Germany) - Multi-Frequency Upper Mid-Band Localization
Tomer Raviv (Ben Gurion University, Israel); Seongjoon Kang (New York University Tandon School of Engineering, USA); Marco Mezzavilla (Politecnico di Milano, Italy); Sundeep Rangan (New York University, USA); Nir Shlezinger (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel)
Room: Cloister – Green, Chair: Francesco Verde (University of Napoli Federico II & National Inter-University Consortium for Telecommunications, Italy)
Regular Session 16 (RS16): Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces and repeaters (Friday, September 13, 12:00 – 13:00):
- Array Pattern Synthesis with Discrete Phases for Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces
Xiao Cai and Hei Victor Cheng (Aarhus University, Denmark) - Asymptotically Optimal Closed-Form Phase Configuration of 1-bit RISs via Sign Alignment
Kyriakos Stylianopoulos, Panagiotis Gavriilidis and George C. Alexandropoulos (University of Athens, Greece) - Goal-Oriented Communication for Networked Control Assisted by Reconfigurable Meta-Surfaces
Mohamad Assaad (CentraleSupelec, France); Touraj Soleymani (University of London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)) - Stability Analysis of Interacting Wireless Repeaters
Erik G. Larsson and Jianan Bai (Linköping University, Sweden) - Cognitive backscatter metasurface
Francesco Verde (University of Napoli Federico II & National Inter-University Consortium for Telecommunications, Italy); Vincenzo Galdi (University of Sannio, Italy)
Room: Cloister – Blue, Chair: TBD
Special Session 03 (SS03): Spectrum frontiers (Friday, September 13, 12:00 – 13:00):
- Continuous Multi-Link Operation: A Contention-Free Mechanism for the Unlicensed Spectrum
Gianluca Fontanesi, Francesc Wilhelmi and Lorenzo Galati Giordano (Nokia Bell Labs, Germany) - Chirp Detection via Adaptive Beamforming for Radar-Communication Coexistence
Mehmetcan Gok (Northwestern University, USA); Aditya Wadaskar and Danijela Cabric (University of California Los Angeles, USA); Michael Honig (Northwestern University, USA) - Channel Modeling for FR3 Upper Mid-band via Generative Adversarial Networks
Yaqi Hu (NYU Tandon School of Engineering, USA); Mingsheng Yin (New York University & NYU Tandon School of Engineering, USA); Marco Mezzavilla (Politecnico di Milano, Italy); Hao Guo (New York University, USA & Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden); Sundeep Rangan (New York University, USA) - Accurate Channel Model for Near Field Terahertz Communications Beyond 6G
Vitaly Petrov (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden); Dmitri Moltchanov (Tampere University, Finland); Josep M Jornet (Northeastern University & Institute for the Wireless Internet of Things, USA) - Beamsharing in mixed near-field / far-field MIMO systems for the upper mid-band
Robert Heath (University of California, San Diego, USA); Nuria González-Prelcic (University of California San Diego, USA) - Spectrum Sharing in 6 GHz: How is it working out?
Seda Doğan-Tusha, Armed Tusha, Hossein Nasiri, Muhammad I Rochman and Monisha Ghosh (University of Notre Dame, USA) - Digital Twin for Spectrum Sharing and Coexistence: Coordinating the Uncoordinated
Sadjad Alikhani and Ahmed Alkhateeb (Arizona State University, USA)
13:00 – 14:00
Venue: Cloister
Lunch
14:00 – 14:30
Plenary Room, Moderator: Emil Björnson (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)
SPAWC Talk 6: In-memory computing – The key to efficient AI accelerators
Bipin Rajendran (King’s College London, United Kingdom)
14:30 – 15:00
Plenary Room, Moderator: Emil Björnson (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)
SPAWC Talk 7: Towards optimal pilot spacing and power control in multi-antenna systems operating over stationary and non-stationary aging channels
Gábor Fodor (Ericsson Research, Sweden)
15:00 – 16:00
Room: Cloister – Yellow, Chair: Derya Malak (EURECOM, France)
Regular Session 17 (RS17): Computing and network theory (Friday, September 13, 15:00 – 16:00)
- Controlling Age of Information in a Dual-Server System with Transmission Freezing and Preemption
Nail Akar (Bilkent University, Turkey); Sennur Ulukus (University of Maryland, USA) - Optimizing Profitability in Timely Gossip Networks
Priyanka Kaswan (University of Maryland CP, USA); Melih Bastopcu (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA); Sennur Ulukus (University of Maryland, USA); Seyed Rasoul Etesami and Tamer Başar (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA) - Secure Coded Distributed Computing
Shanuja Sasi and Onur Günlü (Linköping University, Sweden) - The Influence of Placement on Transmission in Distributed Computing of Boolean Functions
Ahmad Tanha (EURECOM & Sorbonne University, France); Derya Malak (EURECOM, France) - Social Opinion Formation and Decision Making Under Communication Trends
Mert Kayaalp and Virginia Bordignon (EPFL, Switzerland); Ali Sayed (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne EPFL, School of Engineering, Switzerland)
Room: Cloister – Green, Chair: TBD
Special Session 02 (SS02): AI-driven signal processing for advanced wireless communications (Friday, September 13, 15:00 – 16:00):
- Codebook Learning for Active Sensing with Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface
Zhongze Zhang and Wei Yu (University of Toronto, Canada) - Multi-Site Wireless Channel Charting Through Latent Space Alignment
Yamil E Vindas Yassine (INRIA Lyon & CITI Laboratory, France); Maxime Guillaud (Inria, France) - Layer-wise Efficient Federated Learning with Distributed Clustering and D2D Communications
Chen Sun (SONY, China); xiangnan liu and Xinyu Huang (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden); Carlo Fischione (KTH, Sweden) - Expectation Propagation based Analysis of Semi-Blind Channel Estimation in Cell-Free Systems
Zilu Zhao and Dirk Slock (EURECOM, France)
Room: Cloister – Blue, Chair: Emilio Calvanese Strinati (CEA-LETI, France)
Special Session 04 (SS04): Signal processing advances for semantic and goal-oriented communications (Friday, September 13, 15:00 – 16:00):
- Coexistence of Pull and Push Communication in Wireless Access for IoT Devices
Sara Cavallero (University of Bologna, Italy); Fabio Saggese, Junya Shiraishi and Shashi Raj Pandey (Aalborg University, Denmark); Chiara Buratti (University of Bologna, Italy); Petar Popovski (Aalborg University, Denmark) - Personalizing Semantic Communication: A Foundation Model Approach
Zihan Chen (Singapore University of Technology and Design & National University of Singapore, Singapore); Howard Yang (Zhejiang University, China & University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (UIUC), USA); Kai Fong Ernest Chong and Tony Q. S. Quek (Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore) - Wireless Point Cloud Transmission
Chenghong Bian (Imperial College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Yulin Shao (University of Macau & Imperial College London, Macao); Deniz Gündüz (Imperial College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)) - Analyzing α-divergence in Gaussian Rate-Distortion-Perception Theory
Martha V. Sourla (Technical University of Crete, Greece); Giuseppe Serra (EURECOM & Sorbonne Université, France); Photios A. Stavrou (EURECOM, France); Marios Kountouris (University of Granada, Spain & EURECOM, France) - Semantic Communications Services within Generalist Operated Networks
Quentin Lampin, Louis-Adrien Dufrène and Guillaume Larue (Orange Research, France) - Goal-Oriented State Information Compression for Linear Dynamical System Control
Li Wang (Khalifa University & Central South University, United Arab Emirates); Chao Zhang (Central South University, China); Samson E Lasaulce (CRAN (CNRS – University of Lorraine), France); Lina Bariah (Technology Innovation Institute, United Arab Emirates); Mérouane Debbah (Khalifa University of Science and Technology, France) - Quantum Semantic Communications for Graph-Based Models
Nikhitha Nunavath (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany); Muhammad Idham Habibie (INSA Lyon, France); Emilio Calvanese Strinati (CEA-LETI, France); Riccardo Bassoli (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany); Frank H.P. Fitzek (Technische Universität Dresden & ComNets – Communication Networks Group, Germany) - Semantic Communication Enhanced by Knowledge Graph Representation Learning
Nour Hello (CEA, France); Paolo Di Lorenzo (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy); Emilio Calvanese Strinati (CEA-LETI, France)
16:00 – 16:30
Venue: Cloister
Coffee break
16:30 – 17:00
Plenary Room, Moderator: Özlem Tuğfe Demir (TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Turkey)
SPAWC Talk 8: Near-field radio localization and mapping with intelligent surfaces
Anna Guerra (National Research Council, Italy)
17:00 – 18:00
Room: Cloister – Yellow, Chair: TBD
Regular Session 18 (RS18): Beamforming design (Friday, September 13, 17:00 – 18:00):
- Full-Duplex mmWave Communication with Partially-Connected Hybrid Beamforming
Andrea Guamo-Morocho (University of Vigo, Spain); Roberto López-Valcarce (Universidad de Vigo, Spain) - Two-Layer Time Delay Network Based Hybrid Beamforming for Terahertz Communication Systems
Jeonghyeon Kwon (SNU, Korea (South)); Jung Hoon Lee (Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Korea (South)); Wan Choi (Seoul National University, Korea (South)) - Low Complexity Precoder with Exploration for 1-bit MU-MISO: QAM constellations
Sungweon Hong (Hanyang University, Korea (South)); Sungyeal Park (Hyundai Motor Company, Korea (South)); Yunseong Cho (Samsung Research America, USA); Songnam Hong (Hanyang University, Korea (South)) - Active Beam Training with Hierarchical Codebooks in Two-Dimensional Phased Arrays
Gökhan Yılmaz (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands & Ericsson Research, Sweden); Ulf Gustavsson (Ericsson AB, Sweden); Hamdi Joudeh (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands) - Exact SINR Analysis of Matched-filter Precoder
Hui Zhao, Dirk Slock and Petros Elia (EURECOM, France)
Room: Cloister – Green, Chair: Sibo Zhang (Imperial College London & BBC Research & Development, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Regular Session 19 (RS19): Advances in multiplexing and multiple access (Friday, September 13, 17:00 – 18:00):
- SIC-Free Rate-Splitting Multiple Access: Constellation Constrained Sum-Rate Optimization
Sibo Zhang (Imperial College London & BBC Research & Development, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Bruno Clerckx (Imperial College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); David Vargas (BBC, United Kingdom (Great Britain)) - Type-Based Unsourced Multiple Access
Khac-Hoang Ngo (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden); Deekshith Pathayappilly Krishnan (Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden); Kaan Okumus, Giuseppe Durisi and Erik G Ström (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden) - Affine Frequency Division Multiplexing for Compressed Sensing of Time-Varying Channels
Wissal Benzine (EURECOM & Huawei, France); Ali Bemani (Eurecom, France); Nassar Ksairi (Huawei Technologies France SASU, France); Dirk Slock (EURECOM, France) - Adapt and Aggregate: Adaptive OFDM Numerology and Carrier Aggregation for High Data Rate Terahertz Communications
Lutfi Samara (Huawei Technologies Duesseldorf GmbH, Munich Research Center & Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany); Tommaso Zugno and Mate Boban (Huawei Technologies Duesseldorf GmbH, Germany); Malte Schellmann (Huawei Technologies German Research Center, Germany); Thomas Kürner (Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany) - Second-order Rate Analysis of a Two-user Gaussian Interference Channel with Heterogeneous Blocklength Constraints
Kailun Dong and Pin-Hsun Lin (Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany); Marcel A. Mross (TU Braunschweig, Germany); Eduard A Jorswieck (Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany)
Room: Cloister – Blue, Chair: Matteo Nerini (Imperial College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Special Session 08 (SS08): Beyond diagonal reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (Friday, September 13, 17:00 – 18:00):
- Wideband Modeling and Beamforming for Beyond Diagonal Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces
Hongyu Li and Matteo Nerini (Imperial College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Shanpu Shen (University of Liverpool, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Bruno Clerckx (Imperial College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)) - Physics-compliant diagonal representation of beyond-diagonal RIS
Philipp del Hougne (CNRS, Univ Rennes, France) - MIMO Capacity Maximization with Beyond-Diagonal RIS
Ignacio Santamaria (University of Cantabria, Spain); Mohammad Soleymani (Universität Paderborn, Germany); Eduard A Jorswieck (Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany); Jesús Gutiérrez (IHP – Leibniz-Institut für Innovative Mikroelektronik, Germany) - Enhancing Spectral and Energy Efficiency with Multi-Sector Beyond-Diagonal RIS
Mostafa Samy, Abuzar Babikir Mohammad Adam, Konstantinos Ntontin, Hayder Al-Hraishawi, Symeon Chatzinotas and Björn Ottersten (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg) - Beyond-Diagonal RIS Attacks on Physical Layer Key Generation
Haoyu Wang (University of California, Irvine, US, USA); Josef A. Nossek (TU Munich, Germany & Federal University of Ceara, Fortaleza, Brazil); Lee Swindlehurst (University of California at Irvine, USA) - Transmitter Side Beyond-Diagonal RIS for mmWave Integrated Sensing and Communications
Kexin Chen and Yijie Mao (ShanghaiTech University, China)
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