Location: Room SR903, NTU@one-north executive center, 11 Slim Barracks Rise, Singapore 138664

8:30-8:35

Opening

Keynote presentation

8:35-9:35

Timely Communications for Remote Inference and Estimation: A First Principles Approach

Yin Sun

Session 1

9:35-10:45

To Re-transmit or Not to Re-transmit for Freshness

Subhankar Banerjee; Sennur Ulukus; Anthony Ephremides

Age-of-information minimization for energy harvesting sensor in non-stationary environment

Akanksha Jaiswal; Arpan Chattopadhyay

Timely Asynchronous Hierarchical Federated Learning: Age of Convergence

Purbesh Mitra; Sennur Ulukus

Coffee break

10:45-11:15

Session 2

11:15-12:15

Towards Maximizing Nonlinear Delay-Sensitive Rewards in Queuing Systems

Sushmitha Shree S; Avijit Mandal; Avhishek Chatterjee; Krishna P Jagannathan

Spatial Network Calculus and Performance Guarantees in Wireless Networks

Ke Feng; Francois Baccelli

Selfish Users in Listen-Before-Talk Co-existence of Cellular-Wi-Fi Networks: Counteraction Methods

Saibharath S; Sudeepta Mishra; Gazal Arora; Anamika Sharma; Chittaranjan Hota

Lunch break

12:15-13:30

Session 3

13:30-15:15

A Matching-Theoretic Approach to Antenna Selection in Alamouti STBC-Based Clustered NOMA Networks

Reem Tareq Akasha; Mohammed W. Baidas

Uplink Scheduling in a NOMA-enabled Single-Cell Wireless Network using Simulated Annealing

Botao Yang; Ye Liu; Chung Shue Chen

Distributed Decisions on Optimal Load Balancing in Loss Networks

Qiong Liu; Chenhao Wang; Ce Zheng

Towards Task-Oriented Communication Strategies for Platooning by Deep Reinforcement Learning

Xiaoyan Kui; Zhihao Zheng; Chao Zhang; Mingkun Zhang; Samson E Lasaulce

Optimal Power Allocation for Multi-Access Channel with Generalized Power Constraint

Prashant Narayanan; Lakshmi Narasimhan Theagarajan

Coffee break

15:15-15:45

Session 4

15:45-17:30

Resource Allocation for Network-Coded Clustered Uplink NOMA Networks with SWIPT-Enabled Relays

Mohammed W. Baidas; Ahmed AbdelGhaffar; Emad Alsusa

Information Elicitation from Decentralized Crowd Without Verification

Kexin Chen; Chao Huang; Jianwei Huang

Yardstick Competition Regulation for Incentive Mechanisms in Federated Learning: Balancing Cost Optimization

Ozgur Ercetin; Sama Habibi

Joint UAV Trajectory and Transceiver Optimization for Over-the-Air Computation Systems

Xiang Zeng; Xiao Zhang; Feng Wang

Resource Allocation in the Finite Blocklength Regime under PAoI and Delay Violation Constraints

Ozkan Tugberk Kartal; Onur Kaya; Elif Uysal