Program

Planned Format of the Workshop

The workshop is in a hybrid mode for a full day.  Its tentative program is as follows (exact time and duration may be adjusted to agree with the final conference program):

[14:00 – 15:00]: In-person Session (3 paper presentations, 16 minutes each)

Performance Analysis for the Coupled Phase-Shift STAR-RISs
JiaQi Xu (Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Yuanwei Liu (Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Xidong Mu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)

Maximizing the Number of Served Users in a Smart City using Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces
Progress Zivuku (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg); Steven Kisseleff (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg); Van-Dinh Nguyen (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg); Konstantinos Ntontin (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg); Wallace A. Martins (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil); Symeon Chatzinotas (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg); Björn Ottersten (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)

Codebook Design and Beam Training for Intelligent Omni-Surface Aided Communications
Yutong Zhang (Peking University, China); Boya Di (Peking University, China); Hongliang Zhang (Princeton University, USA); Miaomiao Dong (Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., China); Lu Yang (Theory Lab, Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., Hong Kong); Lingyang Song (Peking University, China)

[On demand] Keynote (Prof. Rui Zhang, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore)

Intelligent Reflecting Surface (IRS) Aided Wireless Communications: State-of-Art and The Road Ahead

[On demand] Remote Session (15 paper presentations, 15 minutes each)

Secure Transmission in RIS-Assisted Cell-free Massive MIMO system with Low Resolution ADCs/DACs
Xianyu Zhang (Army Engineering University of PLA & College of Communications Engineering, China); Tao Liang (National University of Defense Technology, China); Kang An (National University of Defense Technology, China); Hua Yang (PLA University of Science and Technology, China); Changzhen Niu (Xiamen Jiuhua Communication Factory, China)

DRL-based Joint Beamforming and BS-RIS-UE Association Design for RIS-Assisted mmWave Networks
Yuqian Zhu (Dalian University of Technology, China); Ming Li (Dalian University of Technology, China); Yang Liu (Dalian University of Technology, China); Qian Liu (Dalian University of Technology, China); Zheng Chang (University of Jyväskylä, Finland); Yulin Hu (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)

Joint Beamforming and Power Splitting Optimization for RIS-Assited Cooperative SWIPT NOMA Systems
Qiuyan Liu (Research Institute, China United Network Communications Corporation Limited, China); Manchun Lu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Na Li (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Meng Li (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Fuchang Li (Institute of Network Technology, China Unicom, China); Zhonghao Zhang (China Unicom Network Technology Research Institute, China)

Joint User Pairing and Beamforming for RIS Assisted NOMA Systems
Xiaotong Guo (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Tao Wang (Beijing Unversity of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Xinxin He (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Changchuan Yin (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)

On the Discrete Phase Shifts Design for Distributed RIS-aided Downlink MIMO-NOMA Systems
Shizhao Yang (Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Jun Zhang (Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Wenchao Xia (Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Yuan Ren (Xi'an University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Hao Yin (Institute of Electronic System Engineering, China); Hongbo Zhu (Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)

Joint Trajectory and Beamforming Design for IRS-assisted Anti-jamming UAV Communication
Heng Zhao (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); JianJun Hao (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Yijun Guo (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)

Cascaded Channel Estimation Using Full Duplex for IRS-Aided Multiuser Communications
Shaoe Lin (South China University of Technology, China); Miaowen Wen (South China University of Technology, China); Fang-Jiong Chen (South China University of Technology, China)

Joint Optimization of Transmission and Computing Resource in IRS-Assisted Mobile Edge Computing System
Bingshan Wang (Southeast University, China); Rui Liu (State Grid Corporation of China, China); Yang Li (State Grid Electric Power Research Institute Co., Ltd, China); Changfeng Ding (Southeast University, China); Jun-Bo Wang (Southeast University, China); Hua Zhang (Southeast University, China)

Reflection and Relay Dual-Functional RIS Assisted MU-MISO Systems
Yanan Ma (Dalian University of Technology, China); Rang Liu (Dalian University of Technology, China); Ming Li (Dalian University of Technology, China); Yang Liu (Dalian University of Technology, China); Qingqing Wu (University of Macau, China); Qian Liu (Dalian University of Technology, China)

Blockage-Aware Beamforming Design for Active IRS-Aided mmWave Communication Systems
Guangyang Zhang (Beijing Jiaotong University, China); Chao Shen (Beijing Jiaotong University, China); Yuanwei Liu (Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Yichuan Lin (Beijing Jiaotong University, China); Bo Ai (Beijing Jiaotong University, China); Zhangdui Zhong (Beijing Jiaotong University, China)

Performance Analysis of RIS-aided Communication Systems over the Sum of Cascaded Rician Fading with imperfect CSI
Tingnan Bao (Chinese Academy of Sciences & Lenovo Research, China); Haiming Wang (Lenovo Research, China); Wen-Jing Wang (Xi'an University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Hong-Chuan Yang (University of Victoria, Canada); Mazen Omar Hasna (Qatar University, Qatar)

Generalized Superimposed Channel Estimation for Uplink RIS-aided Cell-free Massive MIMO Systems
Hanxiao Ge (The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Navneet Garg (The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Tharmalingam Ratnarajah (The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

Covert Communications via Adversarial Machine Learning and Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces
Brian Kim (University of Maryland, USA); Tugba Erpek (Virginia Tech, USA); Yalin E Sagduyu (Intelligent Automation, Inc., USA); Sennur Ulukus (University of Maryland, USA)

Computation Rate Maximization for IRS-Aided Wireless Powered MEC Systems
Guangji Chen (University of Macau, China); Qingqing Wu (University of Macau, China)

Energy Efficiency Analysis in RIS-aided MEC Networks with Finite Blocklength Codes
Yang Yang (Syracuse University, USA); Yulin Hu (RWTH Aachen University, Germany); M. Cenk Gursoy (Syracuse University, USA)