Program

June 9th, 2024 (8:30am - 12:30pm)

Director's Row J/Lobby Level

Session 1

Transmission Optimization and Simulation Platform Design for SAGSIN

Time: (8:30am - 10:15am) Session Chair: Mostafa M. Fouda

(8:30am - 8:35am) Opening remarks

(8:35am - 9:00am) Keynote:

Creating Value through Space-Air-Ground Integrated Networks for Beyond 5G / 6G

Speaker: Masayuki Ariyoshi

(9:00am - 9:15am) 1. Low-Complexity Grouping Precoding Based on RSMA for Multibeam Satellite System (Invited Paper)

Authors: Zhiqiang Li and Shuai Han (Harbin Institute of Technology, China); Cheng Li (Simon Fraser University, China)

(9:15am - 9:30am) 2. Dividing Control Scheme for Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces towards the Realization of Multiple Simultaneous Connections (Best Paper Award)

Authors: Taishi Endo, Yuichi Kawamoto and Nei Kato (Tohoku University, Japan);Tomoki Murakami (NTT Corporation, Japan); Masashi Iwabuchi (NTT, Japan); Yoghitha Ramamoorthi (NTT Access Network Service Systems Laboratories, NTT Corporation, Japan)

(9:30am - 9:45am) 3. Building Delay-Tolerant Digital Twins for Cislunar Operations using Age of

Synchronization

Authors: Faheem Quazi (The University of Houston, USA); Angeles Vazquez-Castro (Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, Spain); Dusit Niyato (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore); Shiwen Mao (Auburn University, USA); Zhu Han (University of Houston, USA)

(9:45am - 10:00am) 4. Learning based Cooperative Transmission Strategy for Space-air-ground Integrated Networks

Authors: Lei Cheng, Xiaoqian Li, Gang Feng, Shuang Qin and Youkun Peng (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China)

(10:00am - 10:15am) 5. UAV Base Station Deployment for Assisting Ground Wireless Networks

Authors: Kasun Prabhath (UNM, USA); Xiang Sun and Sudharman K Jayaweera (University of New Mexico, USA)

Break (10:15am - 10:45 am)

Session 2

Performance Optimization of UAV-assisted Cooperative Communication and Computation System

Time: (10:45am -12:30pm) Session Chair: Mostafa M. Fouda

(10:45am - 11:00am) 6. Joint Caching, Communication and Trajectory Optimization for UAVs in Space-Air- Ground Integrated Networks

Authors: Shin-Ping Huang and Ming-Chun Lee (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan)

(11:00am - 11:15am) 7. Multi-UAV Assisted Maritime Communication Scheduling Strategy

Authors: Yuanxue Xin and Jingyao Wang (Hohai University, China); Wenqi Zhao (Southeast University, China); Jun Zhang (Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Pengfei Shi (Hohai University, China)

(11:15am - 11:30am) 8. Transformer-based Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning for Multiple Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Coordination in Air Corridors

Authors: Liangkun Yu and Zhirun Li (University of New Mexico, USA); Jingjing Yao (Texas Tech University, USA); Xiang Sun (University of New Mexico, USA)

(11:30am - 11:45am) 9. Privacy-Preserving Data Sharing in IoV: A Federated Learning and Blockchain- Based Approach

Authors: Zhuoqun Xia and Jiahao Sun (Changsha University of Science and Technology, China); Jingjing Tan (HunanChangsha, China)

(11:45am - 12:00pm) 10. Multi-view Vehicle Image Generation Network for Vehicle Re-identification

Authors: Yizhe Xun (Hangzhou Dianzi University, China); Jia Liu (Hangzhou Dianzi University, China & Dalian University of Technology, China); Sardar Islam (Australia); Yuanfang Chen (Hangzhou Dianzi University & Universite Pierre et Marie CURIE, China)

(12:00pm - 12:15pm) 11. Virtual Network Function Placement for Mapping SFC Requests of UAV-sourced Video Streaming in Cloud Networks

Authors: Duo Xu (Intelligent Fusion Technology, Inc., USA); Xin Tian (Intelligent Fusion Technology, Inc, USA); Khanh D. Pham (Air Force Research Laboratory & University of New Mexico, USA); Erik Blasch (MOVEJ Analytics, USA); Genshe Chen (Intelligent Fusion Technology, Inc, USA)

(12:15pm - 12:30pm) 12. Multiple UAV-Assisted Cooperative DF Relaying in Multi-User Massive MIMO IoT Systems

Authors: Mobeen Mahmood, Yicheng Yuan and Tho Le-Ngoc (McGill University, Canada)