IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference
10–13 April 2022 // Austin, TX, USA
Boosting Verticals into Wireless Orbit

Technical Program (In-Person Sessions)

Monday, April 11 - 14:00 - 15:30

TR1.1: Multiple Access
Room: 416A

Chair: Fabian Göttsch (Technische Universität Berlin, Germany)

Optimal Water-Filling Algorithm in Downlink Multi-Cluster NOMA Systems
Sepehr Rezvani and Eduard A Jorswieck (Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany)

Iterative Receiver for Power-Domain NOMA with Mixed Waveforms
Martin Sigmund and Roberto Bomfin (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany); Marwa Chafii (New York University Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates); Ahmad Nimr and Gerhard P. Fettweis (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany)

Joint Beamforming and Clustering for Energy Efficient Multi-Cloud Radio Access Networks
Robert-Jeron Reifert (Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany); Alaa Alameer Ahmad (Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, Germany); Hayssam Dahrouj (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) & Center of Excellence for NEOM Research, Canada); Anas Chaaban (University of British Columbia, Canada); Aydin Sezgin (RUB, Germany); Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, USA); Mohamed-Slim Alouini (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia)

Uplink-Downlink Duality and Precoding Strategies with Partial CSI in Cell-Free Wireless Networks
Fabian Göttsch (Technische Universität Berlin, Germany); Noboru Osawa and Takeo Ohseki (KDDI Research, Inc., Japan); Kosuke Yamazaki (KDDI Research Inc., Japan); Giuseppe Caire (Technische Universität Berlin, Germany)

 

TR2.1: Machine Learning for Communications and Networking
Room: 416B

Chair: Thien Huynh-The (Kumoh National Institute of Technology, Korea (South))

A Reinforcement-Learning-Based Access Scheme for Low-Latency and Correlated-Traffic MTC Networks
Duc Tuong Nguyen, Xianyi Zhan and Tho Le-Ngoc (McGill University, Canada)

Multi-Commodity Flow Routing for Large-Scale LEO Satellite Networks Using Deep Reinforcement Learning
Kai-Chu Tsai and Lei Fan (University of Houston, USA); Li-Chun Wang (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan); Ricardo Lent and Zhu Han (University of Houston, USA)

Predicting Buffer Status Report (BSR) for 6G Scheduling using Machine Learning Models
Marios Daoutis and Alexandros Nikou (Ericsson Research, Sweden); Qi Zhang (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, USA)

On the Outage Probability of Channel Prediction Enabled Max-Min Radio Resource Allocation
Andreas Traßl (Technische Universität Dresden & Centre for Tactile Internet with Human-in-the-Loop, Germany); Philipp Schulz (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany); Lucas Scheuvens (TU Dresden, Germany); Nick Schwarzenberg and Gerhard P. Fettweis (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany)

 

TR3.1: Deep Learning Aided Detection
Room: 417A

Chair: Rajesh Mishra (University of Texas, USA)

AI-Driven Demodulators for Nonlinear Receivers in Shared Spectrum with High-Power Blockers
Hossein Mohammadi, Walaa H Alqwider, Talha Faizur Rahman and Vuk Marojevic (Mississippi State University, USA)

Deep Learning for a Fair Distance-based SCMA Detector
Manel Rebhi (Laboratoire LAUM, France); Kais Hassan (Université du Maine, France); Kosai Raoof (Laboratoire LAUM, France); Pascal Chargé (Université de Nantes, France)

Evaluation of Adaptation Methods for Deep Learning-based Wi-Fi Receivers
William N Blount (University of Texas at Austin, USA); Kris Li (Rice University, USA); Amrith Lotlikar (Stanford University, USA); Akash S Doshi and Jeffrey Andrews (The University of Texas at Austin, USA)

 

TR4.1: Sensing and Localization
Room: 417B

Chair: Husheng Li (University of Tennessee, USA)

Tools, models and dataset for IEEE 802.11ay CSI-based Sensing
Steve Blandino (National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA); Tanguy Ropitault, Anirudha Sahoo and Nada Golmie (NIST, USA)

Embedded Radar Sensing in Communication Waveforms: Algorithms and Trade-off
Husheng Li (University of Tennessee, USA)

Millimeter Wave Localization with Imperfect Training Data using Shallow Neural Networks
Anish Shastri (University of Trento, Italy); Joan Palacios (North Carolina State University, USA); Paolo Casari (University of Trento, Italy)


MONDAY, APRIL 11 - 16:00 - 17:30

TR1.2: Channel Modeling and Estimation
Room: 416A

Chair: Tobias W Weber (SEW-Eurodrive, Germany)

Power decay behavior of the Saleh-Valenzuela model for industrial environments from 2 to 6 GHz
Eike Lyczkowski (SEW-EURODRIVE, Germany); Tobias W Weber (SEW-Eurodrive, Germany); Hannes Frey (Universität Koblenz-Landau, Germany); Wolfgang Kiess (University of Applied Sciences Koblenz, Germany)

A Semi-Blind Decision Directed Iterative Channel Estimation and Decoding for LDPC Coded OFDM Systems
Chandra Shekhara Kaushik Valmeekam and Krishna Narayanan (Texas A&M University, USA)

Novel 3-D Irregular-Shaped Geometry-Based Channel Modeling for Stadium Environments
Yamao Zhao, Nan Ma, Fan Liu and Jianqiao Chen (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)

Parameter-Based Channel Estimation for Intelligent Reflecting Surface Aided MIMO Systems
Sucheol Kim and Hyeongtaek Lee (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Korea (South)); Jihoon Cha and Junil Choi (KAIST, Korea (South))

 

TR2.2: Edge Computing
Room: 416B

Chair: Yili Jiang (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA)

Preserving Location Privacy and Accurate Task Allocation in Edge-assisted Mobile Crowdsensing
Yili Jiang and Kuan Zhang (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA); Yi Qian (University of Nebraska - Lincoln, USA); Rose Qingyang Hu (Utah State University, USA)

Dynamic Migration Strategy for Mobile Multi-Access Edge Computing Services
Emilio Calvanese Strinati (CEA-LETI, France); Labriji Ibtissam and Fréderic Joly (Renault Software Labs, France)

Experimental Evaluation of Wake-up Radio Ranges for UAV-assisted Mobile Data Collection
Abhimanyu V Sheshashayee and John Buczek (Northeastern University & The Institute for the Wireless Internet of Things, USA); Chiara Petrioli (University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy); Stefano Basagni (Northeastern University & The Institute for the Wireless Internet of Things, USA)

Enabling Low-latency Applications in Vehicular Networks Based on Mixed Fog/Cloud Computing Systems
Bintao Hu (The University of Sheffield, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Xiaoli Chu (University of Sheffield, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Jianbo Du (Xi'an University of Posts & Telecommunications, China)

 

TR3.2: Machine Learning for Vehicular and Cellular Networks
Room: 417A

Chair: Yuqiang Heng (University of Texas at Austin, USA)

Vehicle Position Nowcasting with Gossip Learning
Mina Aghaei Dinani (HES SO Valais, Switzerland); Adrian Holzer (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland); Marco G Ajmone Marsan (IMDEA Networks Institute, Spain); Hung Xuan Nguyen (University of Adelaide, Australia); Gianluca Rizzo (HES SO Valais, Switzerland & Universita' di Foggia, Italy)

Towards Positioning Error Impact Characterization and Minimization in User-Centric RAN
Waseem Raza (The University of Oklahoma USA, USA); Umair S Hashmi (National University of Sciences and Technology, USA); Ali Imran (University of Oklahoma, USA); Sabit Ekin (Oklahoma State University, USA)

Position-agnostic Algebraic Estimation of 6G V2X MIMO Channels via Unsupervised Learning
Lorenzo Cazzella and Dario Tagliaferri (Politecnico di Milano, Italy); Marouan Mizmizi (Politecnico di Milano & None, Italy); Matteo Matteucci (Politecnico di Milano, Italy); Damiano Badini (Huawei Technologies Italia, Italy); Christian Mazzucco (Huawei Technologies, European Research Center, Italy); Umberto Spagnolini (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)

Deep Learning-based Framework for Multi-Fault Diagnosis in Self-Healing Cellular Networks
Muhammad Sajid Riaz (University of Oklahoma, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, USA); Haneya N Qureshi and Usama Masood (University of Oklahoma, USA); Ali Rizwan (Qatar Mobility Innovations Centre, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar); Adnan Abu-Dayya (Department of Electrical Engineering, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar); Ali Imran (University of Oklahoma, USA)

Variational Autoencoders for Reliability Optimization in Multi-Access Edge Computing Networks
Arian Ahmadi and Omid Semiari (University of Colorado Colorado Springs, USA); Mehdi Bennis (Centre of Wireless Communications, University of Oulu, Finland); Mérouane Debbah (Huawei, France)

 

TR4.2: Reconfigurable Surfaces
Room: 417B

Chair: Husheng Li (University of Tennessee, USA)

Boosting 5G mm-Wave IAB Reliability with Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces
Paolo Fiore, Eugenio Moro, Ilario Filippini and Antonio Capone (Politecnico di Milano, Italy); Danilo De Donno (Huawei Technologies - Italy Research Center, Italy)

Deep Learning-Based Optimization for Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface-Assisted Communications
Guillermo Lopez-Lanuza (University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain); Ana Garcia Armada and Kun Chen-Hu (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain)

Joint Design of Transmit Waveform and Reflection Phase for IRS Aided Wireless Power Transfer
Minyoung Hwang (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea (South)); Hongsun An and Hyuncheol Park (KAIST, Korea (South))

Non-Coherent MIMO-OFDM Uplink empowered by the Spatial Diversity in Reflecting Surfaces
Kun Chen-Hu (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain); George C. Alexandropoulos (University of Athens, Greece); Ana Garcia Armada (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain)


Tuesday, April 12 9:00 - 10:30

TR1.3: Finite Blocklength and Low Latency
Room: 416A

Chair: Jacqueline R. Malayter (Purdue University, USA)

Data-Driven Channel Modeling for Industrial URLLC-Motivated PHY Investigations
Friedrich Burmeister and Nick Schwarzenberg (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany); Andreas Traßl (Technische Universität Dresden & Centre for Tactile Internet with Human-in-the-Loop, Germany); Richard Jacob (TU Dresden, Germany); Gerhard P. Fettweis (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany)

Secrecy Throughput of ANECE Assisted Transmission of Information in Finite Blocklength
Ishmam Zabir (University of California Riverside, USA); Ananthram Swami (Army Research Lab., USA); Yingbo Hua (University of California, Riverside, USA)

Precoding for Low-Latency Full-Duplex MIMO Relays: A Dynamic Approach
Jacqueline R. Malayter and David Love (Purdue University, USA)

Joint Channel Coding of Consecutive Messages with Heterogeneous Decoding Deadlines in the Finite Blocklength Regime
Homa Nikbakht (Inria, France); Malcolm Egan (INRIA, France); Jean-Marie Gorce (INSA-Lyon & CITI, Inria, France)

 

TR2.3: Resource Management 1
Room: 416B

Chair: Xi Zhang (Texas A&M University, USA)

Multiple-Access Based UAV Communications and Trajectory Tracking Over 6G Mobile Wireless Networks
Xi Zhang and Qixuan Zhu (Texas A&M University, USA); H. Vincent Poor (Princeton University, USA)

Network Slicing for Wireless Networks Operating in a Shared Spectrum Environment
John Jenco, Omar Abdul Latif and Andres Kwasinski (Rochester Institute of Technology, USA); Muhieddin Amer (Rochester Institute of Technology, United Arab Emirates)

Privacy Breach in Android Smartphone through Inaudible Sound
Nafis Sadeq (BUET, Bangladesh); Md Shohrab Hossain (Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Bangladesh)

The Revenge of Asynchronous Protocols: Wake-up Radio-based Multi-hop Multi-channel MAC protocol for WSN
Nour El Hoda Djidi (University of Rennes & IRISA, France); Sebastian L Sampayo (University of Strasbourg, France); Julien Montavont (ICube Laboratory (CNRS) - University of Strasbourg, France); Antoine Courtay (University of Rennes, France); Matthieu Gautier and Olivier Berder (Univ Rennes, CNRS, IRISA, France); Thomas Noel (University of Strasbourg, France)

Probabilistic Node Selection for Federated Learning with Heterogeneous Data in Mobile Edge
Hongda Wu and Ping Wang (York University, Canada)

 

TR3.3: Learning Aided Waveform and Spectrum Analysis
Room: 417A

Chair: Akash S Doshi (The University of Texas at Austin, USA)

DRaGon: Mining Latent Radio Channel Information from Geographical Data Leveraging Deep Learning
Benjamin Sliwa, Melina J. Geis and Caner Bektas (TU Dortmund University, Germany); Melisa López and Preben Mogensen (Aalborg University, Denmark); Christian Wietfeld (TU Dortmund University, Germany)

Open-set Classification of Common Waveforms Using A Deep Feed-forward Network and Binary Isolation Forest Models
C. Tanner Fredieu and R. Michael Buehrer (Virginia Tech, USA); Anthony Martone (US Army Research Laboratory, USA)

 

TR4.3: UAVs and NTNs
Room: 417B

Chair: Ian P Roberts (The University of Texas at Austin, USA)

Aerial Base Station Positioning and Power Control for Securing Communications: A Deep Q-Network Approach
Aly sabri Abdalla (Mississippi State University, USA); Ali Behfarnia (University of Tennessee at Martin, USA); Vuk Marojevic (Mississippi State University, USA)

Joint Coverage and Resource Allocation for Federated Learning in UAV-Enabled Networks
Mariam Yahya (University of Tuebingen, Germany); Setareh Maghsudi (University of Tübingen, Germany)

Service Outage Estimation for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: A Measurement-Based Approach
Melisa López and Troels B. Sørensen (Aalborg University, Denmark); Jeroen Wigard and István Z. Kovács (Nokia, Denmark); Preben Mogensen (Aalborg University, Denmark)

Performance Evaluation of the 5G NR Conditional Handover in LEO-based Non-Terrestrial Networks
Enric Juan (Aalborg University, Denmark); Mads Lauridsen (Nokia Bell Labs, Denmark); Jeroen Wigard (Nokia, Denmark); Preben Mogensen (Aalborg University, Denmark)

Interference Analysis of HAPS Coexistence on Terrestrial Mobile Networks
Shuai Yuan (Nokia of America Corporation, USA); Frank Hsieh (Nokia Bell Labs, USA); Shahzada Basharat Rasool (Nokia of America Corporation, USA); Eugene Visotsky (Nokia Bell Labs, USA); Mark Cudak (Nokia, USA); Amitava Ghosh (Nokia Bell Labs, USA)


Tuesday, April 12 14:00 - 15:30

TR1.4: Massive MIMO
Room: 416A

Chair: Prof. Brian Evans, University of Texas, USA

Energy-Efficient Precoding for Massive MIMO Systems with Low-Resolution Quantizers
Mintaek Oh (Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Korea (South)); Jeonghun Park (Kyungpook National University, Korea (South)); Namyoon Lee (Korea University, Korea (South)); Jinseok Choi (Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Korea (South))

Using a Drone Sounder to Measure Channels for Cell-Free Massive MIMO Systems
Thomas Choi (University of Southern California, USA); Jorge Gomez-Ponce (University of Southern California, USA & Escuela Superior Politecnica del Litoral, Ecuador); Colton Bullard (University of Southern California, USA); Issei Kanno, Masaaki Ito and Takeo Ohseki (KDDI Research, Inc., Japan); Kosuke Yamazaki (KDDI Research Inc., Japan); Andreas Molisch (University of Southern California, USA)

Coordinated Beamforming in Quantized Massive MIMO Systems with Per-Antenna Constraints
Yunseong Cho (The University of Texas at Austin, USA); Jinseok Choi (Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Korea (South)); Brian L Evans (The University of Texas at Austin, USA)

OTFS Without CP in Massive MIMO: Breaking Doppler Limitations with TR-MRC and Windowing
Danilo Lelin Li and Arman Farhang (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)

Fronthaul Compression for Uplink Massive MIMO using Matrix Decomposition
Aswathylakshmi P and Radha Krishna Ganti (Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India)

 

TR2.4: Resource Management 2
Room: 416B

Chair: Andres Kwasinski (Rochester Institute of Technology, USA)

A Probabilistic Model of the Age of Information for Distributed Periodic Reservations in Sidelink
Maria Bezmenov (Robert Bosch GmbH & Technical University Berlin, Germany); Zoran Utkovski (Fraunhofer HHI, Germany); Martin Kasparick (Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute & Technical University Berlin, Germany); Klaus Sambale (Robert Bosch GmbH, Germany); Slawomir Stanczak (Technische Universität Berlin & Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute, Germany)

Hybrid Quantum Benders' Decomposition for Mixed-integer Linear Programming
Zhongqi Zhao, Lei Fan and Zhu Han (University of Houston, USA)

Increasing Physical Resiliency of Wireless Networks through Virtual Energy Transfer
Andres Kwasinski (Rochester Institute of Technology, USA); Alexis Kwasinski (University of Pittsburgh, USA)

 

TR3.4: Deep Reinforcement Learning for Wireless Networks
Room: 417A

Chair: Hongliang Zhang (Princeton University, USA)

Enabling Deep Reinforcement Learning on Energy Constrained Devices at the Edge of the Network
Jernej Hribar (Trinity College Dublin & CONNECT Centre, Ireland); Ivana Dusparic (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)

Deep Reinforcement Learning for Random Access in Machine-Type Communication
Muhammad A Jadoon (CTTC, Spain); Adriano Pastore and Monica Navarro (Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC), Spain); Fernando Pérez-Cruz (ETH Zurich, Spain & Swiss Data Science Center, Switzerland)

Deep Reinforcement Learning for Time Allocation and Directional Transmission in Joint Radar-Communication
Joash Lee, Yanyu Cheng, Dusit Niyato and Yong Liang Guan (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore); David González G (Continental Automotive GmbH, Germany)

Distributed Cooperative Reinforcement Learning for Wireless Sensor Network Routing
Adam P Barker and Martin Swany (Indiana University, USA)

An Adaptive Device-Edge Co-Inference Framework Based on Soft Actor-Critic
Tao Niu and Yinglei Teng (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Zhu Han (University of Houston, USA); Panpan Zou (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)

 

TR4.4: MIMO and mmWave
Room: 417B

Chair: Ahmed Alkhateeb (Arizona State University, USA)

Overcoming Channel Aging in Massive MIMO Basestations With Open RAN Fronthaul
Thushara Hewavithana (Intel Corporation, USA); Aditya Chopra (AT&T Labs, USA); Bishwarup Mondal and Samuel Wong (Intel, USA); Alexei Davydov (Intel Corporation, Russia); Milap Majmundar (AT&T Labs, USA)

28 GHz Phased Array-Based Self-Interference Measurements for Millimeter Wave Full-Duplex
Aditya Chopra (AT&T Labs, USA); Ian P Roberts (The University of Texas at Austin, USA); Thomas Novlan (AT&T Labs, USA); Jeffrey Andrews (The University of Texas at Austin, USA)

A Wideband Millimeter Wave Uplink Massive MIMO Testbed
Aditya Chopra and Saeed S. Ghassemzadeh (AT&T Labs, USA); Lokesh Saggam and Mark Smith (Millimeter Wave Products Inc., USA); Milap Majmundar (AT&T Labs, USA)

Multi-User MIMO Enabled Virtual Reality in IEEE 802.11ay WLAN
Jiayi Zhang (Ofinno, USA); Steve Blandino and Neeraj Varshney (National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA); Jian Wang, Camillo Gentile and Nada Golmie (NIST, USA)


Tuesday, April 12 16:00 - 17:30

TR1.5: Millimeter Wave Communication
Room: 416A

Improving Beam Management Signalling for 5G NR Systems using Hybrid Beamforming
Filipa Fernandes (Aalborg University, Denmark); Christian Rom and Johannes Harrebek (Nokia Bell Labs, Denmark); Carles Navarro Manchón (Aalborg University, Denmark)

A Real-Time Millimeter Wave V2V Channel Sounder
Aditya Chopra (AT&T Labs, USA); Andrew Thornburg (USA); Ojas Kanhere (New York University & NYU WIRELESS, USA); Saeed S. Ghassemzadeh (USA); Milap Majmundar (AT&T Labs, USA); Theodore Rappaport (New York University & NYU WIRELESS, USA)

Initial Beamforming for Millimeter-Wave and Terahertz Communications in 6G Mobile Systems
Wei Jiang (German Research Center for Artifitial Intelligence (DFKI GmbH), Germany); Hans D. Schotten (University of Kaiserslautern, Germany)

 

TR3.5: Deep Learning for Communication System Design
Room: 417A

Chair: Ahmed Alkhateeb (Arizona State University, USA)

Probabilistic Shaping for Multidimensional Signals with Autoencoder-based End-to-end Learning
Xinyue Liu and Izzat Darwazeh (University College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Nader Zein (NEC, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Eisaku Sasaki (NEC Corporation, Japan)

Wideband and Entropy-Aware Deep Soft Bit Quantization
Marius Arvinte (University of Texas at Austin, USA); Jonathan I Tamir (The University of Texas at Austin, USA)

LiDAR-Aided Mobile Blockage Prediction in Real-World Millimeter Wave Systems
Shunyao Wu, Chaitali Chakrabarti and Ahmed Alkhateeb (Arizona State University, USA)

Matrix Factorization for Blind Beam Alignment in Massive mmWave MIMO
Aymen Ktari (Télécom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France); Hadi Ghauch (Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden); Ghaya Rekaya (Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France)

 

TR4.5: Measurements, Experiments, Prototypes, and Testbeds
Room: 417B

Chair: Tharmalingam Ratnarajah (The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

Experimental Study of Posture Detection Using Purely Passive Magneto-Inductive Tags
Henry Schulten and Armin Wittneben (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)

Scaling Network Slices with a 5G Testbed: A Resource Consumption Study
Tolga O Atalay (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA); Dragoslav Stojadinovic (Kryptowire LLC, USA); Angelos Stavrou (Virginia Tech & Kryptowire, USA); Haining Wang (Virginia Tech, USA)

Radar Aided 6G Beam Prediction: Deep Learning Algorithms and Real-World Demonstration
Umut Demirhan and Ahmed Alkhateeb (Arizona State University, USA)


Wednesday, April 13 9:00 - 10:30

TR1.6: Modulation
Room: 416A

Chair: Gregor Dumphart (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)

The Channel Capacity of General Complex-Valued Load Modulation for Backscatter Communication
Gregor Dumphart, Johannes Sager and Armin Wittneben (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)

Iterative Space Time Block Equalizer for Single Carrier Systems with Receiver Nonlinearity
Talha Faizur Rahman and Vuk Marojevic (Mississippi State University, USA)

 

TR4.6: Physical Layer
Room: 417B

Chair: Steve Blandino (National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA)

NOMA Resource Block as A Commodity Box: Content-Centric QoE-Price Interplay In Wireless Multimedia Communications
Krishna Murthy Kattiyan Ramamoorthy and Wei Wang (San Diego State University, USA); Kazem Sohraby (Utah Valley University, USA)

SIMO Frame Acquisition of Fragmented Telegrams in Interference Channels
Clemens Neumüller (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Germany); Joerg Robert (Technische Universität Ilmenau, Germany); Albert Heuberger (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany)

Adaptive SPAD-based Receiver for Dimmable Visible Light Communication
Mohamad Hijazi (The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Shenjie Huang (the Uinviersity of Edinburgh, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Majid Safari (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

A Chemical Master Equation Model for Synaptic Molecular Communication
Sebastian Lotter (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany); Maximilian Schäfer (Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Germany); Robert Schober (Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany)


Wednesday, April 13 14:00 - 15:30

TR4.7: 5G and Beyond
Room: 417B

Chair: Setareh Maghsudi (University of Tübingen, Germany)

Design and Analysis of Wideband Self-Interference Cancellation for Full-Duplex Wireless Networks
Haifeng Luo (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Mark Holm (Huawei Technologies (Sweden) AB, Sweden); Tharmalingam Ratnarajah (The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

Neighbor Discovery in a LoRa Assisted Multi-Transceiver Free-Space-Optical Network
Jessica E Vazquez-Estrada (Miami University, USA); Suman Bhunia (Miami University, Ohio, USA); Mahmudur R Khan (York College of Pennsylvania, USA); Yicheng Qian (Miami University, USA); Nero Tran Huu (Miami University, Ohio, USA)

Ring-based Forwarder Selection to Improve Packet Delivery in Ultra-dense Networks
Farah Hoteit (FEMTO-ST Institute, Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté, CNRS, France); Eugen Dedu (FEMTO-ST Institute, Univ Bourgogne Franche-Comté, CNRS, France); Winston K.G. Seah (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand); Dominique Dhoutaut (FEMTO-ST Institute, Univ Bourgogne Franche-Comté, CNRS, France)


Wednesday, April 13 16:00 - 17:30

TR4.8: Application and Networking Layers
Room: 417B

Chair: Marco Giordani (University of Padova, Italy)

Sharded Blockchain-based Online Diagnostic System for Suspected Patients During Pandemics
Alexander Omran and Mahmoud Abouyoussef (Tennessee Technological University, USA); Muhammad Ismail (Tennessee Tech University, USA); Surbhi Bhatia (King Faisal University, Saudi Arabia)

PPGSign: Handwritten Signature Authentication using Wearable PPG Sensor
A B M Mohaimenur Rahman (University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA); Yetong Cao (Beijing Institute of Technology, China); Xinliang Wei (Temple University, USA); Pu Wang (University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA); Fan Li (Beijing Institute of Technology, China); Yu Wang (Temple University, USA)

Vision-Position Multi-Modal Beam Prediction Using Real Millimeter Wave Datasets
Gouranga Charan, Tawfik Osman and Andrew Hredzak (Arizona State University, USA); Ngwe Thawdar (Air Force Research Laboratory, USA); Ahmed Alkhateeb (Arizona State University, USA)

Point Cloud Compression for Efficient Data Broadcasting: A Performance Comparison
Francesco Nardo and Davide Peressoni (University of Padua, Italy); Paolo Testolina and Marco Giordani (University of Padova, Italy); Andrea Zanella (University of Padova, Italy & CNIT, Italy)

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