workshop schedule

Session WS 08-1: Advanced Resource Allocation for 6G

Performance Analysis and Optimization for Visible Light Communication with Spatial Modulation

Yihan Cang, Ming Chen and Jingwen Zhao (Southeast University, China); Zhaohui Yang (King's College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Binghao Cao (Southeast University, China); Fang Huang (Southest University, China); Yanglin Ben (Southeast University, China).

Enabling Advanced Duplex in 6G

Hyoungju Ji (Samsung Electronics. Co., Ltd, Korea (South)); Younsun Kim (Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Korea (South)); Taehyoung Kim (Samsung Electronics, Korea (South)); Khurram Muhammad and Chance Tarver (Samsung Research America, USA); Matthew Tonnemacher (Southern Methodist University, USA); Jinyoung Oh (Samsung Electronics, Korea (South)); Bin Yu (Samsung Electronics, China); Gary Xu (Samsung Research America, USA).

6G Connectivity in Dense Indoor Environments using Beamforming and Frequency Allocation over IEEE 802.11ad

Elias Yaacoub (Qatar University, Qatar).

User-Centric Multi-Dimensional Multiple Access in 6G Communications

Wudan Han, Jie Mei and Xianbin Wang (Western University, Canada).

Joint Optimization of Preamble Selection and Access Barring for MTC with Correlated Device Activities

Wang Liu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China); Ying Cui (Shanghai Jiaotong University, China); Lianghui Ding and Jun Sun (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China); Yangyang Liu (Shanghai Electro-mechanical Engineering Institute, China); Li Zhang and Yang Li (Wuhan Maritime Communication Research Institute, China).

Session WS 08-2: Smart Antenna schemes for 6G

Cooperative Scheme for Cell-free Massive MIMO with Radio Stripes

Yihua Ma (ZTE Corporation & State Key Laboratory of Mobile Network and Mobile Multimedia Technology, China); Zhifeng Yuan, Guanghui Yu and Yijian Chen (ZTE Corporation, China).

Constructive Interference based Joint Combiner and Precoder Design in Multiuser MIMO Systems

Zhongxiang Wei (University College London & School of EE and CS, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Christos Masouros and Tongyang Xu (University College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)).

Environment-Aware and Training-Free Beam Alignment for mmWave Massive MIMO via Channel Knowledge Map

Di Wu, Yong Zeng and Shi Jin (Southeast University, China); Rui Zhang (National University of Singapore, Singapore).

Multi-tap Hybrid Beamforming in Wideband mmWave Systems: A Non-iterative Approach

Seongbae Jun (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea (South)); Girim Kwon (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Korea (South)); Hyuncheol Park (KAIST, Korea (South)).

On Single-User Interactive Beam Alignment in Next Generation Systems: A Deep Learning Viewpoint

Abbas Khalili, Sundeep Rangan and Elza Erkip (New York University, USA).

Session WS 08-3: Artificial Intelligence application for 6G

Two-step Machine Learning Approach for Channel Estimation with Mixed Resolution RF Chains

Brenda Vilas Boas (Nokia Bell Labs & TU Ilmenau, Germany); Wolfgang Zirwas (Nokia Siemens Networks GmbH&CoKG, Germany); Martin Haardt (Ilmenau University of Technology, Germany).

B5G: Predictive Container Auto-Scaling for Cellular Evolved Packet Core

Yahuza Bello (Manhattan College, USA); MHD Saria Allahham (Qatar's University, Qatar); Ahmed Refaey (Manhattan College, USA & Western University, Canada); Aiman Erbad (Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar); Amr Mohamed (Qatar University, Qatar); Nabil Abdennadher (University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland & hepia Geneva, Switzerland).

Precoded Faster-than-Nyquist Signaling with Optimal Power Allocation in Frequency-Selective Channel

Takumi Ishihara and Shinya Sugiura (The University of Tokyo, Japan).

Meta-ViterbiNet: Online Meta-Learned Viterbi Equalization for Non-Stationary Channels

Tomer Raviv (Tel-Aviv University, Israel); Sangwoo Park (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea (South)); Nir Shlezinger (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel); Osvaldo Simeone (King's College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Yonina C. Eldar (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel); Joonhyuk Kang (KAIST, Korea (South)).

Vision-Aided Dynamic Blockage Prediction for 6G Wireless Communication Networks

Gouranga Charan, Muhammad Alrabeiah and Ahmed Alkhateeb (Arizona State University, USA).

Session WS 08-4: Interference management at 6G

Trimming the Fat from OFDM: Pilot- and CP-less Communication with End-to-end Learning

Fayçal Ait Aoudia and Jakob Hoydis (Nokia Bell Labs, France).

RIS-Aided Cell-Free Massive MIMO: Performance Analysis and Competitiveness

Bayan Al-Nahhas (University of British Columbia, Canada); Mohanad Obeed (University of British Columbia-Okanagan, Canada); Anas Chaaban (University of British Columbia, Canada); Md. Jahangir Hossain (Universtiy of British Columbia, Okanagan, Canada).

On the Coverage of Broadcast Networks with Multiple Transmitters and Heterogeneous Users

Kanchan Kumari Chaurasia (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India); Reena Sahu (IIT Kanpur, India); Abhishek K Gupta (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India).

Waveform Shaping For Wireless Information and Energy Provision with Carrier Frequency Offset

Yaping Hou (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China); Jie Hu (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); Kun Yang (University of Essex, United Kingdom (Great Britain)).

Wireless Link Scheduling via Interference-aware Symmetric Positive Definite Connectivity Manifolds

Ahmed S. Ibrahim (Florida International University, USA).

Session WS 08-5: Emerging topics in 6G

Time Domain Propagation Characteristics with Causal Channel Model for Terahertz Band

Zhaona Wu, Hiroto Ebisawa and Kenta Umebayashi (Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan); Janne Lehtomäki (University of Oulu, Finland); Nizar Zorba (Qatar University, Qatar).

Blockchain-Based Collaborative Task Offloading in MEC: A Hyperledger Fabric Framework

Angelo Rivera (University of Manitoba, Canada); Ahmed Refaey (Manhattan College, USA & Western University, Canada); Ekram Hossain (University of Manitoba, Canada).

On The Use of Quantum Communications for Securing IoT Devices in the 6G Era

Hasan Abbas Al-Mohammed and Elias Yaacoub (Qatar University, Qatar).

On Secrecy Sum-Rate of Artificial-Noise-Aided Multi-user Visible Light Communication Systems

Yanglin Ben, Ming Chen and Binghao Cao (Southeast University, China); Zhaohui Yang (King's College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Zhiyang Li, Yihan Cang and Zheng Xu (Southeast University, China).

AFDM: A Full Diversity Next Generation Waveform for High Mobility Communications

Ali Bemani (Eurecom, France); Nassar Ksairi (Huawei Technologies France SASU, France); Marios Kountouris (EURECOM, France).