The 1st Workshop on Modeling and Optimization for Semantic Communications (MOSC) will be held in conjunction with the International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad hoc, and Wireless Networks (WiOpt), Singapore.  

We cordially invite original papers that contribute to the fundamentals, as well as the applications of semantic communication models, and protocols. The Call for Papers is available HERE. 

General Co-chairs:

Yin Sun, Auburn University, USA

Elif Uysal, Middle East Technical University, Turkey 

Technical Program Co-chairs:

Elif Tugce Ceran, Middle East Technical University, Turkey 

Beatriz Soret, University of Málaga, Spain 

Workshop Program

Location: Room SR904, NTU@one-north executive center, 11 Slim Barracks Rise, Singapore 138664

09:50 - 10:00 Opening

10:00 - 10:45 Session 1: Scheduling, Sampling, and Optimization for AoI (Part 1)

Session Chair: He (Henry) Chen (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)

Optimal Preemption Policy for Age of Information Minimization with Known Packet Length

Yanan Qin (Sun Yat-Sen University, China); Qi Zhang (RenMin University of China, China); Jie Gong (Sun Yat-Sen University, China); Xiang Chen (Sun Yat-sen University, China)

Age of Information Guaranteed Scheduling for Asynchronous Status Updates in Collaborative Perception

Lehan Wang and Jingzhou Sun (Tsinghua University, China); Yuxuan Sun (Beijing Jiaotong University, China); Sheng Zhou and Zhisheng Niu (Tsinghua University, China)

10:45 - 11:15 Coffee Break

11:15 - 12:00 Session 1: Scheduling, Sampling, and Optimization for AoI (Part 2)

Session Chair: He (Henry) Chen (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)

Age optimal sampling for unreliable channels under unknown channel statistics

Hongyi He (Tsinghua University, China); Haoyue Tang (Yale University, USA); Jiayu Pan (The Ohio State University, USA); Jintao Wang (Tsinghua University, China); Jian Song (Tsinghua University & Beijing National Research Center for Information Science and Technology & Key Lab of DTV System of Guangdong & Shenzhen, Research Institute of Tsinghua University in Shenzhen, China); Leandros Tassiulas (Yale University, USA)

Age-Based Cache Updating Under Timestomping

Subhankar Banerjee (University of Maryland, USA); Priyanka Kaswan (University of Maryland CP, USA); Sennur Ulukus (University of Maryland, USA)

12:00 - 13:30 Lunch Break

13:30 - 15:15 Session 2: Age of Information in Wireless Networks

Session Chair: Xijun Wang (Sun Yat-Sen University, China)

Age-dependent Differential Privacy

Meng Zhang (Zhejiang University, China)

MuMiSTA: An Age-Aware Reservation-Based Random Access Policy

Orhan Tahir Yavascan (METU, Turkey); Mutlu Ahmetoglu (Middle East Technical University, Turkey); Elif Uysal (METU, Turkey)

AoI-Oriented Scheduling in Downlink Multiuser MIMO Systems Under Peak-Power Constraint

Qian Wang and He Chen (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)

Joint Moment Generating Function of Ages of Information in Networks

Mohamed A. Abd-Elmagid and Harpreet S Dhillon (Virginia Tech, USA)

On the Age-Optimality of Relax-then-Truncate Approach under Partial Battery Knowledge in Energy Harvesting IoT Networks

Mohammad Hatami (University of Oulu, Finland); Marian Codreanu (Linkoping University, Sweden)

15:15 - 15:45 Coffee Break

15:45 - 17:15 Session 3: Semantic and Goal-oriented Communications

Session Chair: Jie Gong (Sun Yat-Sen University, China)

When to pull data from sensors for minimum Age of incorrect Information

Saad Kriouile (Huawei Technologies France, France); Mohamad Assaad (CentraleSupelec, France)

Random Access Protocols for Correlated IoT Traffic Activated by Semantic Queries

Anders E. Kalør (Aalborg University, Denmark & The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong); Petar Popovski (Aalborg University, Denmark); Kaibin Huang (The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)

Remote control of bandits over queues - relevance of information freshness

Vatsalya Gupta (Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology, India); Vineeth Bala Sukumaran (Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology, Trivandrum, India)

Incentive Mechanism and Mean Field Analysis for Controlling Age of Information 

Xuehe Wang (Sun Yat-sen University, China)

Important Dates: 

Extended Paper Registration and Submission: May 25, 2023 (23:59 AoE) 

Notification of Acceptance: June 23, 2023 (23:59 AoE)

Camera Ready and Registration: July 7, 2023 (23:59 AoE)

Submission Guidelines: Submitted papers should follow WiOpt guidelines at: https://esd.sutd.edu.sg/wiopt2023/. All papers will be submitted through EDAS submission link https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=30569.