IEEE Global Communications Conference
4–8 December 2023 // Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Symposium Technical Sessions

GLOBECOM 2023 - 2023 IEEE Global Communications Conference Program

Kuala Lumpur time Tuesday, December 5 Wednesday, December 6 Thursday, December 7
8:30 ‑ 9:15 am IS 1: Interactive Subsession CT_I1
IS 1: Interactive Subsession MWN_I1
IS 1: Interactive Subsession SAC/BD_I1
IS 1: Interactive Subsession SAC/MLC_I1
IS 1: Interactive Subsession SAC/SN_I1
CISS 1: Emerging Security Issues
CISS 2: AI-aided Security I
CQRM 1: Beyond 5G/6G Radio Communications
CRAEN 1: Spectrum Sharing
CSM 1: Video Streaming
GCSN 1: Green Federated Learning
IoTSN 1: Smart Positioning
IoTSN 2: Federated Learning for IoT Networks I
MWN 1: Advances in 5G/6G Networks I
NGNI 1: AI and Learning Approaches in Networking
SAC/AC 1: Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence for UAVs
SAC/CC 1: Migration and Scheduling in Edge Computing
SAC/EH 1: Wearables, IoT, and Medical Sensors for eHealth Applications
SAC/ISC 1: MIMO/Massive MIMO in ISAC
SAC/MB 1: Molecular and Biological Communications
SAC/MLC 1: Distributed Machine Learning over Wireless I
SAC/RIS 1: Resource Allocation Techniques for RIS-aided Networks
SPC 1: Interference Management Techniques in Communications Systems
WC 1: NOMA I
WC 2: Channel Modelling and Propagation I
IS 7: Interactive Subsession CQRM_I7
IS 7: Interactive Subsession CSM_I7
IS 7: Interactive Subsession SAC/RIS_I7
IS 7: Interactive Subsession SPC_I7
IS 7: Interactive Subsession WC_I7
CISS 7: Privacy-Preserving Techniques I
CISS 8: Applied Cryptography
CQRM 4: IoT and Industrial Systems
CRAEN 3: Reinforcement Learning for Wireless Networks I
CSM 4: Network Security and Privacy Protection II
CT 2: Communication Theory for Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces
GCSN 4: Advanced Green Networks
IoTSN 5: Smart Secure Networks
IoTSN 6: Deep Learning for IoT Networks
MWN 6: Applications of Deep Refinforcement Learning
MWN 7: Enhanced Communications for Vehicular Networks
NGNI 4: Edge Computing and Communications
SAC/AC 3: Resource Allocation and Scheduling in UAVs
SAC/CC 3: Energy and Cost Efficiency in Edge Computing
SAC/ISC 3: Waveform Design and Beamforming in ISAC
SAC/MLC 4: Machine Learning for Semantic Communications II
SAC/QC 2: Special Topics on Quantum Technology
SAC/SN 2: Social Network Security and Privacy
SPC 4: Signal Processing for Emerging Technologies in 6G I
WC 7: Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS) Enabled Communications III
IS 13: Interactive Subsession CISS_I13
IS 13: Interactive Subsession CSM_I13
IS 13: Interactive Subsession GCSN_I13
IS 13: Interactive Subsession MWN_I13
IS 13: Interactive Subsession SAC/QC_I13
CISS 12: Blockchain Security II
CISS 13: AI-aided Security II
CQRM 8: Network Slicing and SDN/NFV
CQRM 9: Routing and Traffic Steering
CRAEN 5: Federated Learning for Wireless Networks
CT 5: Federated and Distributed Learning
CT 6: Coding Theory II
IoTSN 9: Edge networks 2
MWN 12: Mobile Edge Computing II
NGNI 7: Privacy and Security in Next Generation Networks
ONS 3: Optical Wireless Communications
SAC/CC 5: Offloading in Edge-Cloud Computing
SAC/ISC 5: ISAC with Applications: V2X, WiFi Sensing, and Indoor Positioning
SAC/MLC 8: Machine Learning for Vehicular and Aerial Systems
SAC/MLC 9: Machine Learning Driven Transceiver Design
SAC/RIS 4: Channel Estimation and Manipulation in RIS-aided Networks
SAC/SSC 5: Machine Learning in Satellite Networks
SPC 8: Signal Processing for Multi-antenna, MIMO, and Multi-user Systems I
WC 12: Terahertz Communications
WC 13: Massive MIMO Communications
9:15 ‑ 10:00 am IS 2: Interactive Subsession CQRM_I2
IS 2: Interactive Subsession MWN_I2
IS 2: Interactive Subsession SAC/BD_I2
IS 2: Interactive Subsession SAC/MLC_I2
IS 2: Interactive Subsession SAC/SSC_I2
IS 8: Interactive Subsession CISS_I8
IS 8: Interactive Subsession CQRM_I8
IS 8: Interactive Subsession SAC/MLC_I8
IS 8: Interactive Subsession SPC_I8
IS 8: Interactive Subsession WC_I8
IS 14: Interactive Subsession CSM_I14
IS 14: Interactive Subsession GCSN_I14
IS 14: Interactive Subsession IoTSN_I14
IS 14: Interactive Subsession MWN_I14
10:00 am ‑ 2:00 pm            
2:00 ‑ 2:45 pm IS 3: Interactive Subsession CT_I3
IS 3: Interactive Subsession NGNI_I3
IS 3: Interactive Subsession ONS_I3
IS 3: Interactive Subsession SAC/AC_I3
IS 3: Interactive Subsession SAC/MB_I3
IS 3: Interactive Subsession SAC/SN_I3
CISS 3: Security in Connected and Autonomous Vehicles
CISS 4: Blockchain Security I
CQRM 2: Edge-Cloud Computing I
CRAEN 2: Security for Cognitive Radios
CSM 2: Immersive Video Streaming
GCSN 2: Energy Harvesting Wireless Networks
IoTSN 3: Smart Roads
MWN 2: Advances in 5G/6G Networks II
MWN 3: Applications of Federated Learning I
NGNI 2: AI Algorithms and Optimization Techniques
SAC/BD 1: Blockchain-enabled Big Data Systems
SAC/ISC 2: Precoding and Transceiver Design in ISAC
SAC/MLC 2: Distributed Machine Learning over Wireless II
SAC/QC 1: Quantum Communications
SAC/RIS 2: Advanced Transmission Techniques in RIS-aided Networks
SAC/SSC 1: Satellite and Space Communications I
SAC/TC 1: Terahertz Channel
SPC 2: Signal Processing for Artificial Intelligence, Data Analytics, and Machine Learning
WC 3: Channel Modeling and Propagation II
WC 4: Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS) Enabled Communications I
IS 9: Interactive Subsession CT_I9
IS 9: Interactive Subsession IoTSN_I9
IS 9: Interactive Subsession ONS_I9
IS 9: Interactive Subsession SAC/CC_I9
IS 9: Interactive Subsession SAC/MLC_I9
CISS 10: Adversarial Machine Learning
CISS 9: IoT Security
CQRM 5: Low-latency and Reliable Communiations
CRAEN 4: Reinforcement Learning for Wireless Networks II
CSM 5: Edge Computing and Edge Intelligence
CT 3: Age of Information
IoTSN 7: Edge Networks I
MWN 8: Enhancing UAV and Autonomous Vehicle Connectivity
MWN 9: IoT Network Optimization
NGNI 5: Emerging Technologies and Protocols
SAC/BD 2: Security and Privacy in Big Data
SAC/EH 2: Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and Context-Awareness for eHealth
SAC/ISC 4: MmWave/THz Technologies for ISAC
SAC/MLC 5: Machine Learning for Positioning
SAC/SSC 3: Satellite and Space Communications II
SAC/TC 2: Terahertz Communications
SPC 5: Signal Processing for Single-carrier, OFDM / OFDMA, and Multicarrier Systems
SPC 6: Signal Processing for Emerging Technologies in 6G II
WC 8: Cross Layer Design and Physical Layer
WC 9: Signal Processing for Communications I
IS 15: Interactive Subsession CISS_I15
IS 15: Interactive Subsession CQRM_I15
IS 15: Interactive Subsession MWN_I15
IS 15: Interactive Subsession SAC/CC_I15
IS 15: Interactive Subsession SAC/MLC_I15
CISS 14: Physical Layer Security II
CISS 15: AI and ML Security
CQRM 10: Security Threats, Detection, and Prevention
CRAEN 6: Deep Learning for Wireless Networks
CSM 7: Deep Learning for Network Performance Improvement
CT 7: Detection and Estimation
IoTSN 10: UAV Networks
IoTSN 11: Energy Efficiency for IoT Networks
MWN 13: Networking Slicing Optimization and Security
NGNI 8: Wireless Technologies and Communications
SAC/AC 4: Applications of UAV in IoT
SAC/BD 4: Machine Learning in Big Data Systems
SAC/EH 3: Patient Monitoring and Bio-parameter Estimation
SAC/ISC 6: RIS-Aided ISAC
SAC/MLC 10: Emerging Machine Learning Architectures for Communications
SAC/RIS 5: Machine Learning Techniques in RIS-aided Networks.
SAC/SSC 6: Space-Aerial-Terrestrial Integrated Networks
SPC 9: Signal Processing for Multi-antenna, MIMO, and Multi-user Systems II
WC 14: Antenna and Smart Antenna I
WC 15: Joint Communications and Sensing
2:45 ‑ 3:30 pm IS 4: Interactive Subsession CT_I4
IS 4: Interactive Subsession IoTSN_I4
IS 4: Interactive Subsession NGNI_I4
IS 4: Interactive Subsession SAC/AC_I4
IS 4: Interactive Subsession SAC/CC_I4
IS 4: Interactive Subsession SAC/SGC_I4
IS 10: Interactive Subsession CQRM_I10
IS 10: Interactive Subsession IoTSN_I10
IS 10: Interactive Subsession SAC/ISC_I10
IS 10: Interactive Subsession SPC_I10
IS 10: Interactive Subsession WC_I10
IS 16: Interactive Subsession CISS_I16
IS 16: Interactive Subsession GCSN_I16
IS 16: Interactive Subsession MWN_I16
IS 16: Interactive Subsession SAC/CC_I16
ONS_I16: Interactive Subsession ONS_I16
3:30 ‑ 4:00 pm            
4:00 ‑ 4:45 pm IS 5: Interactive Subsession CRAEN_I5
IS 5: Interactive Subsession IoTSN_I5
IS 5: Interactive Subsession SAC/BF_I5
IS 5: Interactive Subsession SAC/EH_I5
IS 5: Interactive Subsession SAC/RIS_I5
CISS 5: Attack Prediction, Detection, Response, and Prevention I
CISS 6: Physical Layer Security I
CQRM 3: Edge-Cloud Computing II
CSM 3: Network Security and Privacy Protection I
CT 1: Coding Theory I
GCSN 3: Green UAV Networks
IoTSN 4: Federated Learning for IoT Networks II
MWN 4: Applications of Federated Learning II
MWN 5: Semantic Communications
NGNI 3: Network Optimization and Performance
ONS 1: Optical Network Design and Recovery
SAC/AC 2: Cyber Security in UAV Communications
SAC/CC 2: Security and Privacy in Edge-Cloud Computing and Storage Systems
SAC/MLC 3: Machine Learning for Semantic Communications I
SAC/SGC 1: Smart Grid Communications
SAC/SN 1: Mobile Social Networks
SAC/SSC 2: Low Earth Orbit Satellites Networks
SPC 3: Signal Processing for Millimeter and THz Communication Systems
WC 5: NOMA II
WC 6: Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS) Enabled Communications II
IS 11: Interactive SubSession CISS_I11
IS 11: Interactive Subsession CRAEN_I11
IS 11: Interactive Subsession IoTSN_I11
IS 11: Interactive Subsession SAC/AC_I11
IS 11: Interactive Subsession SAC/ISC_I11
IS 11: Interactive Subsession SAC/TC_I11
CISS 11: Privacy-Preserving Techniques II
CQRM 6: Mission-critical Communications
CQRM 7: Network Measurement and Monitoring Techniques
CSM 6: Deep Reinforcement Learning for Network Optimization
CT 4: Capacity
GCSN 5: Battery-free Communications
IoTSN 8: Federated Learning for IoT Networks III
MWN 10: Machine Learning Approaches
MWN 11: Mobile Edge Computing I
NGNI 6: Machine Learning and AI Applications
ONS 2: Underwater and Visible Light Communications
SAC/BD 3: Green Big Data Systems
SAC/CC 4: Network Slicing in 5G
SAC/MLC 6: Machine Learning for Channel Estimation
SAC/MLC 7: Machine Learning for LIS
SAC/RIS 3: Physical Layer Security and Covert Communications in RIS-aided Networks
SAC/SSC 4: Satellite and Space Networking
SPC 7: Signal Processing for Emerging Technologies in 6G III
WC 10: Signal Processing for Communications II
WC 11: Resource Management
IS 17: Interactive Session CISS_I17
IS 17: Interactive Subsession NGNI_I17
IS 17: Interactive Subsession SAC/SSC_I17
IS 17: Interactive Subsession SPC_I17
IS 17: Interactive Subsession WC_I17
CISS 16: AI-aided Security III
CQRM 11: Vehicular Communications
CRAEN 7: AI for Aerial Access Networks
CSM 8: Radio Network Optimization
CT 8: MIMO
CT 9: Coding Theory III
GCSN 6: Learning for Energy Efficiency
IoTSN 12: Intelligent Scheduling
IoTSN 13: Smart Beamforming
MWN 14: RIS-Assisted Communications
MWN 15: Secure Next Generation Networks
SAC/AC 5: Joint Trajectory Design and Path Planning for UAVs
SAC/BD 5: Big Data in IoT
SAC/CC 6: Coding in Storage Systems
SAC/ISC 7: Fundamental Information Theoretical Limits for ISAC
SAC/MLC 11: Machine Learning for Predictive Networks
SAC/MLC 12: Machine Learning based Modulation and Coding
SPC 10: Localization, Positioning and Tracking Techniques
WC 16: Antenna and Smart Antenna II
4:45 ‑ 5:30 pm IS 6: Interactive Subsession CRAEN_I6
IS 6: Interactive Subsession IoTSN_I6
IS 6: Interactive Subsession SAC/ISC_I6
IS 6: Interactive Subsession SAC/RIS_I6
IS 6: Interactive Subsession WC_I6
IS 12: Interactive Subsession CISS_I12
IS 12: Interactive Subsession CRAEN_I12
IS 12: Interactive Subsession SAC/AC_I12
IS 12: Interactive Subsession SAC/ISC_I12
IS 12: Interactive Subsession SAC/TC_I12
IS 12: Interactive Subsession SPC_I12
IS 18: Interactive Subsession CISS_I18
IS 18: Interactive Subsession NGNI_I18
IS 18: Interactive Subsession SAC/SSC_I18
IS 18: Interactive Subsession SPC_I18
IS 18: Interactive Subsession WC_I18

Tuesday, December 5

Tuesday, December 5 8:30 - 10:00

CISS 1: Emerging Security Issues

Room 301
Chair: Yuhong Wang (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore)
Efficient and Privacy-Preserving Eclipse Query over Encrypted Data
Weiyu Song, Yonggang Zhang and Lili Sun (Jilin University, China); Yandong Zheng (Xidian University, China); Rongxing Lu (University of New Brunswick, Canada)
QoS Aware Transmit Beamforming for Secure Backscattering in Symbiotic Radio Systems
Mingcheng Nie (University of New South Wales, Australia); Deepak Mishra (University of New South Wales (UNSW) Sydney, Australia); Azzam Al-Nahari (Ibb, Sweden); Jinhong Yuan (University of New South Wales, Australia); Riku Jäntti (Aalto University, Finland)
Machine Learning-based Robust Physical Layer Authentication Using Angle of Arrival Estimation
Thuy Minh Pham (Barkhausen Institut, Germany); Linda Senigagliesi and Marco Baldi (Università Politecnica delle Marche, Italy); Gerhard Fettweis (Barkhausen Institut, Germany); Arsenia Chorti (ETIS UMR 8051, CY University, ENSEA, CNRS & ETIS, France)
ERQ: An Efficient Range Query Scheme under Local Differential Privacy
Ellen Z. Zhang (University of New Brunswick, Canada); Yunguo Guan (Eastern Michigan University, USA); Rongxing Lu and Harry Zhang (University of New Brunswick, Canada)
Host-based Flow Table Size Inference in Multi-hop SDN
Tian Xie and Sanchal Thakkar (Pennsylvania State University, USA); Ting He (Penn State University, USA); Novella Bartolini (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy); Patrick McDaniel (University of Wisconsin, USA)

Tuesday, December 5 8:30 - 10:00

CISS 2: AI-aided Security I

Room 306
Chair: Van-Linh Nguyen (National Chung Cheng University & College of Engineering, Taiwan)
Enhancing 5G Security: Slice Isolation via Actor-Critic Reinforcement Learning with Optimal Graph Features
Amir Javadpour (University of Oulu, Finland); Forough Ja'fari (Sharif University of Technology, Iran); Tarik Taleb (University of Oulu, Finland); Chafika Benzaid (University of Oulu, Finland & University of Sciences and Technology Houari Boumediane (USTHB), Algeria)
Towards Efficient and Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning for HMM Training
Yandong Zheng and Hui Zhu (Xidian University, China); Rongxing Lu (University of New Brunswick, Canada); Songnian Zhang (Xidian University, China); Yunguo Guan (Eastern Michigan University, USA); Fengwei Wang (Xidian University, China)
Conditional Matching GAN Guided Reconstruction Attack in Machine Unlearning
Kaiyue Zhang and Weiqi Wang (University of Technology Sydney, Australia); Zipei Fan and Xuan Song (University of Tokyo, Japan); Shui Yu (University of Technology Sydney, Australia)
Practical and Privacy-Preserving Density-Based Clustering via Shuffling
Yingzhe Wang, Hongwei Li, Hanxiao Chen, Xilin Zhang and Meng Hao (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China)
Advancing Federated Learning in 6G: A Trusted Architecture with Graph-based Analysis
Wenxuan Ye (Technical University of Munich, Germany); Chendi Qian (RWTH Aachen, Germany); Xueli An (Huawei Technologies, Germany); Xueqiang Yan (Huawei Technologies, China); Georg Carle (Technische Universität München, Germany)

Tuesday, December 5 8:30 - 10:00

CQRM 1: Beyond 5G/6G Radio Communications

Room 305
An Experimental Platform of a Beyond-5G Network with Machine Learning Integration
Luis A Garrido (Iquadrat Informatica S. L., Spain); Anestis Dalgkitsis (Iquadrat & Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain); Golshan Famitafreshi (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain); Apostolos Siokis (Iquadrat Informatica, Spain); Kostas Ramantas (Iquadrat Informatica, Greece); Christos Verikoukis (University of Patras, Greece)
A Digital Twin Framework for Dynamic Monitoring of Hardware Impairment in RIS-aided Networks
Atiquzzaman Mondal (Indian Institute of Information Technology Guwahati, India); Keshav Singh (National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan); Sudip Biswas (Indian Institute of Information Technology, Guwahati, India)
Swarm Learning IRS in 6G-Metaverse: Secure Configurable Resources Trading for Reliable XR Communications
Qianqian Pan (The University of Tokyo, Japan); Jun Wu (Waseda University, Japan); Xinping Guan (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China); M. Jamal Deen (McMaster University, Canada)
Strengthening Open Radio Access Networks: Advancing Safeguards through ZTA and Deep Learning
Hajar Moudoud (Universite de Sherbrooke, Canada); Wissal Hamhoum (École Polytechnique Montreal, Canada); Soumaya Cherkaoui (Polytechnique Montreal, Canada)
Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface-Enabled Physical-Layer Network Coding for Higher Order M-QAM Signals
Ehsan Atefat Doost (Instituto de Telecomunicações & Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal); Firooz B. Saghezchi (Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal); Pablo Fondo-Ferreiro (Universidade de Vigo, Spain); Felipe Gil-Castiñeira (University of Vigo, Spain); Maria Papaioannou (Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal); John S Vardakas (Iquadrat Informatica, Spain); Jinwara Surattanagul (University of South Wales, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Jonathan Rodriguez (Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal)

Tuesday, December 5 8:30 - 10:00

CRAEN 1: Spectrum Sharing

Room 401
Opportunistic Transmission for Heterogeneous Cognitive Cellular Networks
Xiran Zhang (School of Electronics and Information, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China); Wenbin Sun, Xin Yang, Qian Xu and Ling Wang (Northwestern Polytechnical University, China)
Adaptive-Blind Block SOMP for Compressive Spectrum Sensing
Boyang Chen, Liyang Lu, Yuhan Dong and Zhaocheng Wang (Tsinghua University, China)
Scale Law of Spectrum Sharing Networks Based on Blockchain
Shuyue Ai, Yuna Jiang and Qiang Li (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China); Xiaohu Ge (Huazhong University of Science & Technology, China); Aduwati Sali (UPM, Malaysia)
Optimizing Waveform Power Allocation in Cognitive DFRC Systems: An Individual User AoI Preference-Based Approach
Zhuofei Li (Jilin University, Finland & University of Jyväskylä, Finland); Fengye Hu and Qihao Li (Jilin University, China); Zheng Chang and Timo Hämäläinen (University of Jyväskylä, Finland)
RIS Design for Symbiotic Radio: A Mutualistic Spectrum Sharing Perspective
Hu Zhou and Ying-Chang Liang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China)

Tuesday, December 5 8:30 - 10:00

CSM 1: Video Streaming

Room 302
Adaptive Processing for Video Streaming with Energy Constraint: A Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Method
Hongze Liu, Haotian Fu, Shijing Yuan, Chentao Wu and Yuan Luo (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China); Jie Li (Shanghai Jiaotong University, China)
QoE-driven Joint Decision-Making for Multipath Adaptive Video Streaming
Jinwei Zhao and Jianping Pan (University of Victoria, Canada)
FBMS: Friendliness Balancing based Multipath Scheduling for Differential Video Streaming
Ziheng Xu, Wei Quan and Mingyuan Liu (Beijing Jiaotong University, China); Nan Cheng (Xidian University, China); Xue Zhang, Liu Kang and Deyun Gao (Beijing Jiaotong University, China)
Queue-Learning-based QoE Optimization for Super-Resolution-assisted Adaptive Video Streaming
Wenshu Huang, Yongyi Ran, Jie Rao and Jiangtao Luo (Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Shuangwu Chen (University of Science and Technology of China, China)
The Advertising in Online Video Platform: A Game Theory Analysis
Pingshan Liu, Zhangjing Cai and Qi Liang (Guilin University of Electronic Technology, China); Sizheng Fan (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China)

Tuesday, December 5 8:30 - 10:00

GCSN 1: Green Federated Learning

Room 406
MG²FL: Multi-Granularity Grouping-Based Federated Learning in Green Edge Computing Systems
Ziming Dai, Yunfeng Zhao, Chao Qiu and Xiaofei Wang (Tianjin University, China); F. Richard Yu (Carleton University, Canada)
Enhanced Federated Reinforcement Learning for Mobility-Aware Node Selection and Model Compression
Xiaoyan Huang, Bingxu Hu, Fan Wu and Ke Zhang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); Chen Sun (Sony China Research Laboratory Beijing, China); Tao Cui (Sony China Limited, China); Yan Zhang (University of Oslo, Norway)
Energy Efficient Collaborative Federated Learning Design: A Graph Neural Network based Approach
Nuocheng Yang and Sihua Wang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Mingzhe Chen (University of Miami, USA); Christopher G. Brinton (Purdue University, USA); Changchuan Yin (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
Energy-Efficient Dynamic Device Scheduling for Over-the-Air Federated Learning in UAV Swarms
Bingqing Jiang (Tsinghua University, China); Jun Du (Tsinghua University, Beijing, China); Guowei Yang (Tsinghua University, China); Chunxiao Jiang (Tsinghua University, Beijing, China); Chen-Feng Liu (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA); Yu Tian (Technology Innovation Institute, United Arab Emirates)
Efficient Communication-Computation Tradeoff for Split Computing: A Multi-Tier Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach
Yang Cao (Southwest Jiaotong University, China); Shao-Yu Lien (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan); Cheng-Hao Yeh (National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan); Ying-Chang Liang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); Dusit Niyato (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

Tuesday, December 5 8:30 - 10:00

IoTSN 1: Smart Positioning

Room 304
Deep Fingerprint Metric Learning for KNN-based Indoor Localization
Fuqiang Gu (Chongqing University, China); Liang Shi and Hang Guo (Nanchang University, China); Jianga Shang (China University of Geosciences, China)
Trustworthiness Score for UWB Indoor Localization
Philipp Peterseil, Bernhard Etzlinger, Roya Khanzadeh and Andreas Springer (Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria)
Integrated 5G mmWave Positioning in Deep Urban Environments: Advantages and Challenges
Sharief Saleh (Queen's University, Canada); Qamar Bader (Queen's University & Navigation and Instrumentation Research Lab, Canada); Malek Karaim (Queen's University, Canada); Mohamed Elhabiby (Micro Engineering Technology Incorporated, Canada); Aboelmagd Noureldin (Royal Military College of Canada & School of Computing, Queen's University, Canada)
An Efficient Ultra-Wideband Infrastructure Planning for Indoor Positioning Systems using DL-TDOA
Hyunseob Oh, Seungbeom Seo and Jinwook Seo (Samsung Electronics, Korea (South))
On Deep Learning-Based Indoor Positioning and Uncertainty Estimation
Szu-Wei Chen (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan); Ting-Hui Chiang (Advanced Technology Laboratory, Chunghwa Telecom Laboratories, Taoyuan, Taiwan); Yu-Chee Tseng (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan); Yan-Ann Chen (Yuan Ze University, Taiwan)

Tuesday, December 5 8:30 - 10:00

IoTSN 2: Federated Learning for IoT Networks I

Room 408
On Differential Privacy for Wireless Federated Learning with Non-coherent Aggregation
Mohamed Seif Eldin Mohamed (Princeton University, USA); Alphan Şahin (University of South Carolina, USA); H. Vincent Poor and Andrea Goldsmith (Princeton University, USA)
Cooperative partial task-offloading for heterogeneous industrial robotic MEC system using spectral and energy-efficient federated learning
Mohsen Pourghasemian and Haris Gacanin (RWTH Aachen University, Germany); Erma Perenda (RWTH Aachen, Germany)
A Reinforcement Learning-Based Approach to Graph Discovery in D2D-Enabled Federated Learning
Satyavrat R Wagle, Anindya Bijoy Das, David Love and Christopher G. Brinton (Purdue University, USA)
Information-Exchangeable Hierarchical Clustering for Federated Learning With Non-IID Data
Chen-Han Shih (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan); Jian-Jhih Kuo (National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan); Jang-Ping Sheu (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan)
Federated Deep Learning for Intrusion Detection in IoT Networks
Othmane Belarbi, Theodoros Spyridopoulos and Eirini Anthi (Cardiff University, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Ioannis Mavromatis (Toshiba Europe Ltd., United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Pietro Carnelli (Toshiba Research Europe, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Aftab Khan (Toshiba Europe Ltd., United Kingdom (Great Britain))

Tuesday, December 5 8:30 - 9:15

IS 1: Interactive Subsession CT_I1

Room: Exhibition Hall (Grand Ballroom) - level 3
Chair: Hong Xing (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), China & The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)
Supporting Passive Users in mmWave Networks
Mine Gokce Dogan (University of California, Los Angeles, USA); Martina Cardone (University of Minnesota, USA); Christina Fragouli (UCLA, USA)
Online Virtual Network Function Scheduling Towards Deterministic Latency
Zhenran Kuai and Shaowei Wang (Nanjing University, China)
Optimal Fairness Scheduling for Coded Caching in Multi-AP Wireless Local Area Networks
Kagan Akcay (TU Berlin, Germany); MohammadJavad Salehi (University of Oulu, Finland); Giuseppe Caire (Technische Universität Berlin, Germany)
Deadline-Constrained Opportunistic Spectrum Access With Spectrum Handoff
Zhaolong Xue (Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China); Aoyu Gong (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland); Yuan-Hsun Lo (National Pingtung University, Taiwan); Sirui Tian and Yijin Zhang (Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China)
Convergence Analysis of Over-the-Air FL with Compression and Power Control via Clipping
Haifeng Wen (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology - Guangzhou, China); Hong Xing (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), China & The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong); Osvaldo Simeone (King's College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

Tuesday, December 5 8:30 - 9:15

IS 1: Interactive Subsession MWN_I1

Room: Exhibition Hall (Grand Ballroom) - level 3
Chair: Chongwen Huang (Zhejiang University, China)
Towards Accurate Categorization of Network IP Traffic Using Deep Packet Inspection and Machine Learning
Waqar Ali Aziz (University of Cyprus, Cyprus & CYENS Center of Excellence, Cyprus); Hassaan Khaliq Qureshi (National University of Sciences and Technology, Pakistan); Adnan Iqbal (Namal Institute Mianwali, Pakistan); Anwer Al-Dulaimi (EXFO Inc., Canada); Saba Al-Rubaye (Cranfield University, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Investigating Compressive Sensing Applications through Real Infrastructures Inertial Signals Analysis
Igor Bisio, Chiara Garibotto, Fabio Lavagetto, Andrea Sciarrone and Matteo Zerbino (University of Genoa, Italy)
Contextual Multi-Armed Bandits for Non-Stationary Wireless Network Selection
Lluís Martínez (Universitat Politècnica De Catalunya, Spain); Josep Vidal (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain); Margarita Cabrera-Bean (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - Barcelona Tech (UPC), Spain)
Using Early Exits for Fast Inference in Automatic Modulation Classification
Elsayed Mohammed, Omar Mashaal and Hatem Abou-Zeid (University of Calgary, Canada)
Enhancing Online Intrusion Detection Systems via Attack Clustering
Sara Yavari (College of Computing and Digital Media & DePaul University, USA); Sharief Oteafy (DePaul University, USA)

Tuesday, December 5 8:30 - 9:15

IS 1: Interactive Subsession SAC/BD_I1

Room: Exhibition Hall (Grand Ballroom) - level 3
Edge-Assisted Framework for Malaria Parasite Detection on Cell Images using Federated Learning
Mainak Adhikari (Indian Institute of Information Technology Lucknow); Amrita Rajput and Shikhar Saxena (Indian Institute of Information Technology Lucknow, India)
IMG2InChI: Extracting Molecular Big Data from Chemical Images using Transformer Models
Zhenyu Wu (Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Zhenyuan Zhang (Boston University, China); Zhiyang Ding (Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues (Senac Fac of Ceará, Brazil & Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal)
Mammogram Tumor Segmentation With Preserved Local Resolution: An Explainable AI System
Aya Farrag (Lakehead University, Canada); Gad M Gad and Zubair Md Fadlullah (Western University, Canada); Mostafa M. Fouda (Idaho State University, USA)
Improved Clustering Using Nice Initialization
Huyunting Huang, Ziyang Tang, Tonglin Zhang and Baijian Yang (Purdue University, USA)

Tuesday, December 5 8:30 - 9:15

IS 1: Interactive Subsession SAC/MLC_I1

Room: Exhibition Hall (Grand Ballroom) - level 3
Chair: Yan Liu (Tongji University, China)
Neural Sum Rate Maximization with Deep Unrolling
Siya Chen (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong); Chee Wei Tan (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Caching for Edge Inference at Scale: A Mean Field Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Approach
Yanqing Lu (Southern University of Science and Technology, China); Meng Zhang (Zhejiang University, China); Ming Tang (Southern University of Science and Technology, China)
Joint Sensing and Computation Decision for Age of Information-Sensitive Wireless Networks: A Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach
Sinwoong Yun and Dongsun Kim (Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST), Korea (South)); Chanwon Park (Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology, Korea (South)); Jemin Lee (Yonsei University, Korea (South))
Incentive Mechanism Design for Distributed Ensemble Learning
Chao Huang (University of California, Davis, USA); Pengchao Han (Guangdong University of Technology, China); Jianwei Huang (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China)
Few-shot Learning for New Environment Adaptation
Ouya Wang (Imperial College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Shenlong Zhou (Beijing Jiaotong University, China); Geoffrey Ye Li (Imperial College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

Tuesday, December 5 8:30 - 9:15

IS 1: Interactive Subsession SAC/SN_I1

Room: Exhibition Hall (Grand Ballroom) - level 3
Chair: Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou (University of New Mexico, USA)
Modelling and Analyzing Social Interactions in COVID-19 with Dynamic Graphs
Zhenyu Wu and Yu Zhang (Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Jialiang Sun (NJUPT, China); Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues (Senac Fac of Ceará, Brazil & Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal)
Self-Supervised Rumor Detection with Augmented Variational Graphs
Leyuan Liu (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); JunYi Chen (School of Information and Software Engineering & University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); Liu Yu and Fan Zhou (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China)

Tuesday, December 5 8:30 - 10:00

MWN 1: Advances in 5G/6G Networks I

Room 410
Chair: Naveen Kolar Purushothama (Indian Institute of Technology Tirupati, India)
QoS-Aware Service Prediction and Orchestration in Cloud-Network Integrated Beyond 5G
Mohammad Farhoudi, Masoud Shokrnezhad and Tarik Taleb (University of Oulu, Finland)
Improving QoS of 5G Video Streaming Through Network Exposure Function
Koki Horita (The University of Tokyo); Norihiro Fukumoto and Akihiro Nakao (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
Spectrum Sharing in 5G NR-U as Network Utility Maximization with Clique Constraints
Naveen Kolar Purushothama (Indian Institute of Technology Tirupati, India)
Soft-ACK based Outer Loop Link Adaptation for Latency-constrained 5G Video Conferencing
Mufan Liu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China); Jie Chen and Gang Wu (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); Lei Ji (Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd, China); Hao Wang (Huawei Technologies, China)
Can 5G NR Sidelink communications support wireless augmented reality?
Ashutosh Srivastava (New York University, USA); Qing Zhao and Yi Lu (Meta Platforms Inc., USA); Ping Wang (Meta, USA); Qi Qu, Zhu Ji and Yee Sin Chan (Meta Platforms Inc., USA); Shivendra Panwar (New York University & Tandon School of Engineering, USA)

Tuesday, December 5 8:30 - 10:00

NGNI 1: AI and Learning Approaches in Networking

Room 303
An Optimized GNN-based Caching Scheme for SDN-based Information-Centric Networks
Jiacheng Hou, Tianhao Tao, Haoye Lu and Amiya Nayak (University of Ottawa, Canada)
Integrated Sensing and Communication: NOMA vs Cooperative NOMA
Ali Mahdi Amhaz, Mohamed Elhattab and Chadi Assi (Concordia University, Canada); Sanaa Sharafeddine (American University of Beirut, Lebanon)
Server and Route Selection Optimization for Knowledge-defined Distributed Network Based on Gambling Theory and LSTM Neural Networks
Son Cong Duong and Tuan Tran-Le Nguyen (Faculty of Information Technology, Hanoi University of Civil Engineering, Vietnam); Thang Nam Hoang (Hanoi University of Civil Engineering & SoICT, Hanoi University of Science and Technology, Vietnam); Van Tong, Hai Anh Tran and Giang Nguyen Linh (School of Information and Communication Technology, Hanoi University of Science and Technology, Vietnam); Abdelhamid Mellouk (UPEC, University Paris-Est Creteil Val de Marne, France); Truong X Tran (School of Science, Engineering, and Technology, Penn State University, USA)
Overcoming Resource Bottlenecks in Vehicular Federated Learning: A Cluster-Based and QoS-Aware Approach
Sawsan AbdulRahman (Zayed University, United Arab Emirates); Ouns Bouachir (Zayed University & ENAC, United Arab Emirates); Safa Otoum (University of Ottawa, Canada); Azzam Mourad (Lebanese American University, Lebanon)
Cluster-based Efficient Wireless Charging for Wireless Rechargeable Sensor Networks
Miaohang Su and Xilong Liu (Yunnan University, China)

Tuesday, December 5 8:30 - 10:00

SAC/AC 1: Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence for UAVs

Room 307
Joint Optimization for RIS-Aided Hybrid FSO SAGINs with Deep Reinforcement Learning
Kefeng Guo (School of Space Information, Space Engineering University, China); Min Wu (Space Engineering University, China); Xingwang Li (Henan Polytechnic University, China); Shahid Mumtaz (Aveiro, Portugal); Charalampos C. Tsimenidis (Nottingham Trent University, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Deep Reinforcement Learning-based Solution for Minimizing the Alterable Urgency of Information in UAV-Enabled IIoT System
Xiong Li, Qimei Cui, Daren Feng, Zhenzhen Gong and Xiaofeng Tao (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
On the Study of Joint Naive Bayes and Multi-Layer Perception for Detecting GPS Jamming in UAS
Hassan El Alami, Neji Mensi and Danda B. Rawat (Howard University, USA)
A Game-Theoretic Federated Learning Approach for Ship Detection from Aerial Images
Delphin Raj Kesari Mary (Chungang University, Korea (South)); Supriya Y, Nancy Victor and Thippa Reddy Gadekallu (Vellore Institute of Technology, India); Jeongyeup Paek (Chung-Ang University, Korea (South))
Optimized Traffic Routing Scheme for Autonomous Vehicles in V2X using Federated Learning
Nishu Bansal and Shilpi Mittal (Chandigarh University, India); Rasmeet S Bali (Chandigarh University, Mohali, India); Anandita Tanwar (JMIT Radaur, India); Neeraj Kumar (Thapar University Patiala, India)

Tuesday, December 5 8:30 - 10:00

SAC/CC 1: Migration and Scheduling in Edge Computing

Room 407
Chair: Rami Langar (Ecole de Technologie Supérieure de Montréal, Canada & University Gustave Eiffel, France)
Cost-Effective Migration-Assisted User Reallocation in Edge Computing
Jiahao Zhu, Fu Xiao, Lu Zhao, Jian Zhou, Hui Cai and Xin He (Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
UMS: Live Migration of Containerized Services across Autonomous Computing Systems
Thanawat Chanikaphon (University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA); Mohsen Amini Salehi (University of Louisiana Lafayette, USA)
Towards Efficient Workflow Scheduling over Yarn Cluster using Deep Reinforcement Learning
Jianguo Xue and Ting Wang (East China Normal University, China); Puyu Cai (Michigan State University, USA)
A Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach for the Placement of Scalable Microservices in the Edge-to-Cloud Continuum
Adyson Magalhães Maia and Yacine Ghamri-Doudane (La Rochelle University, France)
Dynamic function allocation in edge serverless computing networks
Shuo Li (University Paris Saclay & Nokia Bell Labs, France); Ejder Baştuğ and Catello Di Martino (Nokia Bell Labs, USA); Marco Di Renzo (CNRS & Paris-Saclay University, France)

Tuesday, December 5 8:30 - 10:00

SAC/EH 1: Wearables, IoT, and Medical Sensors for eHealth Applications

Room 308
Chair: Chiara Garibotto (University of Genoa, Italy)
Feet Pressure Prediction from Lower Limbs IMU Sensors for Wearable Systems in Remote Monitoring Architectures
Igor Bisio, Chiara Garibotto, Fabio Lavagetto and Muhammad Shahid (University of Genoa, Italy)
Soft Voting for Anomaly Detection in Internet of Medical Things
Osman Salem (University of Paris Cité, France); Ahmed Mehaoua (Universite Paris Cite, France); Raouf Boutaba (University of Waterloo, Canada)
StressAlly: A Smartphone-based Stress Companion Recommender System for Students
Anshita Gupta (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India); Sudip Misra (Indian Institute of Technology-Kharagpur, India); Nidhi Pathak (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India)
RISP-SDN: Reputation Aware IoMT Service Provisioning Using SDN in Edge/Fog-Based Systems
Kumarjit Ray (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India); Nabajyoti Medhi (Tezpur University, India); Rajdeep Ghosh (Calcutta University, India); Pritindra Das and Vicky Kumar Deka (Tezpur University, India); Sudip Misra (Indian Institute of Technology-Kharagpur, India)
Real-time Human Activity Recognition using Dimensionality Reduction in Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks
Adnan Yazici (Nazarbayev Univ, Kazakhstan & Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan); Enver Ever (Middle East Technical University Northern Cyprus Campus, Turkey); Serik Almakhan (Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan)

Tuesday, December 5 8:30 - 10:00

SAC/ISC 1: MIMO/Massive MIMO in ISAC

Room 402
Chair: Haocheng Hua (The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen), China)
A Compressive Sensing Approach for MIMO-OFDM-Based Integrated Sensing and Communication
Zihan Lin, Zhaoyang Zhang, Xin Tong and Zhaohui Yang (Zhejiang University, China)
Hybrid Beamforming Design With Overlapped Subarrays for Massive MIMO-ISAC Systems
Guangyi Chen, Ruoyu Zhang and Hong Ren (Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China); Weijie Yuan (Southern University of Science and Technology, China); Chen Miao and Wen Wu (Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China)
Near-Field 3D Localization via MIMO Radar: Cram\'er-Rao Bound and Estimator Design
Haocheng Hua and Jie Xu (The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen), China)
Low-Complexity Transmit Beamforming Design for Massive MIMO-ISAC Systems
Bin Liao (Shenzhen University, China); Hien Ngo and Michail Matthaiou (Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Peter J Smith (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand)
Beamforming Design in Cell-Free Massive MIMO Integrated Sensing and Communication Systems
Weihao Mao, Yang Lu, Jingxian Liu, Bo Ai and Zhangdui Zhong (Beijing Jiaotong University, China); Zhiguo Ding (University of Manchester, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

Tuesday, December 5 8:30 - 10:00

SAC/MB 1: Molecular and Biological Communications

Room 309
Chair: Andrew Eckford (York University, Canada)
Thermodynamic Energy Cost and Bit Error Rate of Imperfect Transmitters in Molecular Communication
Dongliang Jing (Northwest A&F University, China); Lin Lin (Tongji University, China); Andrew Eckford (York University, Canada)
Reinforcement Learning-based Receiver for Molecular Communication with Mobility
Lisa Y. Debus (Technische Universität Berlin, Germany); Pit Hofmann (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany); Jorge Torres Gomez (TU Berlin, Germany); Frank H.P. Fitzek (Technische Universität Dresden & ComNets - Communication Networks Group, Germany); Falko Dressler (TU Berlin, Germany)
Molecular Communication Systems in Tubes with Non-Newtonian Fluid Flows
Li Huang and Fuqiang Liu (Tongji University, China); Hao Yan (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China); Lin Lin (Tongji University, China)
Analog Network Coding in Molecular Communications: A Practical Implementation
Pit Hofmann, Juan A. Cabrera and Riccardo Bassoli (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany); Frank H.P. Fitzek (Technische Universität Dresden & ComNets - Communication Networks Group, Germany)
A Metric to Quantify Subjective Information in Biological Gradient Sensing
Tyler Barker (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA); Peter J Thomas (Case Western Reserve University, USA); Massimiliano Pierobon (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA)

Tuesday, December 5 8:30 - 10:00

SAC/MLC 1: Distributed Machine Learning over Wireless I

Room 403
Chair: Le Liang (Southeast University, China)
Efficient Communications for Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning in Wireless Networks
Zefang Lv, Yousong Du, Yifan Chen and Liang Xiao (Xiamen University, China); Shuai Han (Harbin Institute of Technology, China); Xiangyang Ji (Tsinghua University, China)
UC-FL: A User Cooperation Framework for Wireless Federated Learning
Yuwei Wang, Li Sun and Qinghe Du (Xi'an Jiaotong University, China)
AFL: Attention-based Byzantine-robust Federated Learning with Vector Filter
Hao Chen, Xixiang Lv and Wei Zheng (Xidian University, China)
A Channel Aggregation based Dynamic Pruning Method in Federated Learning
Zhuo Chen and Xiaoxiang Tan (Chongqing University of Technology, China); Zhiyuan Zhou (Chongqing CAERI Robot Technology, China); Yang Zhou (Auburn University, USA)
MIMO Beamforming and Signal Modulation Design for Federated Learning Optimization
Nuocheng Yang and Sihua Wang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Mingzhe Chen (University of Miami, USA); Cong Shen (University of Virginia, USA); Changchuan Yin (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Christopher G. Brinton (Purdue University, USA)

Tuesday, December 5 8:30 - 10:00

SAC/RIS 1: Resource Allocation Techniques for RIS-aided Networks

Room 310
Chair: Bile Peng (TU Braunschweig, Germany)
Green Beamforming Design for IRS-Aided Systems Under Phase Shift-Related Power Consumption
Qiucen Wu, Tian Lin and Yu Zhu (Fudan University, China)
On Optimizing RIS-aided SWIPT-IoTs with Power Splitting-based Non-Linear Energy Harvesting
Neha Sharma and Sumit Gautam (Indian Institute of Technology Indore, India); Symeon Chatzinotas and Björn Ottersten (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)
Joint Beamforming for STAR-RIS in Near-Field Communications
Haochen Li (Southeast University, China); Yuanwei Liu, Xidong Mu and Yue Chen (Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Zhiwen Pan (Southeast University, China)
Fast Iterative Configuration of Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces in mmWave Systems
Anna Guglielmi and Stefano Tomasin (University of Padova, Italy)
Energy-Efficient Design in STAR-RIS Assisted Communication System with Antenna Selection
Guangyang Zhang, Yang Lu, Bo Ai and Zhangdui Zhong (Beijing Jiaotong University, China); Zhiguo Ding (University of Manchester, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Tony Q. S. Quek (Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore)

Tuesday, December 5 8:30 - 10:00

SPC 1: Interference Management Techniques in Communications Systems

Room 404
Rate-Fairness Balancing With DRL in Cell-Free Massive MIMO-NOMA Networks
Mingliang Pang, Chaowei Wang, Wenyuan Wang and Danhao Deng (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Fan Jiang (Xi'an University of Posts & Telecommunications, China); Feifei Gao (Tsinghua University, China); Guangjie Han (Hohai University, China); Zhi Zhang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Weidong Wang (Beijing Unversity of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
Near-Field Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access Communications
Jiakuo Zuo (Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Xidong Mu and Yuanwei Liu (Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Achieving Unconstrained Signal Design for ISAC: Non-Coherent Processing and Beamforming Scheme
Lutian Shen, Jie Tang, Ruoyan Ma, Junyuan Fan and Xiuyin Zhang (South China University of Technology, China)
Cell-Free Massive MIMO and SWIPT: Access Point Operation Mode Selection and Power Control
Mohammadali Mohammadi (Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Le-Nam Tran (University College Dublin, Ireland); Zahra Mobini, Hien Ngo and Michail Matthaiou (Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Robust Beamforming for IRS Aided MIMO Full Duplex Systems
Chandan Kumar Sheemar, Jorge Querol and Sourabh Solanki (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg); Sumit Kumar (SnT, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg); Symeon Chatzinotas (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)

Tuesday, December 5 8:30 - 10:00

WC 1: NOMA I

Room 405
Chair: Yongpeng Wu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China)
NOMA-based Improper Signaling for MIMO STAR-RIS-assisted Broadcast Channels with Hardware Impairments
Mohammad Soleymani (Universität Paderborn, Germany); Ignacio Santamaria (University of Cantabria, Spain); Eduard A Jorswieck (Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany)
Joint Device Identification, Channel Estimation, and Signal Detection for LEO Satellite-Enabled Random Access
Boxiao Shen, Yongpeng Wu and Wenjun Zhang (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China); Symeon Chatzinotas and Björn Ottersten (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)
Joint Uplink and Downlink NOMA for UAV Relaying Network with Multi-pair Users
Xu Guo (Peking University, China); Bing Li (Tongji University, China); Jianjun Wu (Peking University, China); Rongqing Zhang (Tongji University, China); Xiang Cheng (Peking University, China)
Finite-Field Coding for Unsourced Multiple Access
Xinyi Sui, Zhongwei Si and Jincheng Dai (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
Superposition Transmission of Common Alarm Information in MIMO GF-NOMA
Weihan Xue and Jianping Zheng (Xidian University, China)

Tuesday, December 5 8:30 - 10:00

WC 2: Channel Modelling and Propagation I

Room 409
Chair: Lipeng Zhu (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Performance Analysis for Movable Antenna Aided Wireless Communications
Lipeng Zhu, Wenyan Ma and Rui Zhang (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Beam Depth Analysis for Large Rectangular Arrays
Alva Kosasih (KTH Royal Institute, Sweden); Emil Björnson (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)
A Novel Ultra-Massive MIMO Beam Domain Channel Model for 6G Maritime Communications
Yi Zheng and Yue Yang (Southeast University, China); Cheng-Xiang Wang (Southeast University, China & Purple Mountain Laboratories, China); Jie Huang (Southeast University, China); Rui Feng (Purple Mountain Laboratories & Southeast University, China)
Unified Probability Distributions of Composite Fading for Radio Frequency and Optical Wireless Channels
Chin Choy Chai (Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada); Xiao-Ping Zhang (Ryerson University, Canada)
Influence of the Self-Interference Channel Model on the Performance of a Full-Duplex MIMO System
Xuan Chen (TDF, France); Vincent Savaux (B-COM, France); Matthieu Crussière (Univ Rennes, INSA Rennes, CNRS, IETR, France); Patrick Savelli (B-com, France); Koffi-Clement Yao (Université de Bretgane Occidentale, France)

Tuesday, December 5 9:15 - 10:00

IS 2: Interactive Subsession CQRM_I2

Room: Exhibition Hall (Grand Ballroom) - level 3
Price of Stability in Quality-Aware Federated Learning
Yizhou Yan and Xinyu Tang (Southern University of Science and Technology, China); Chao Huang (University of California, Davis, USA); Ming Tang (Southern University of Science and Technology, China)
Statistical AoI, Delay, and Error-Rate Bounded QoS Provisioning for Satellite-Terrestrial Integrated Networks
Jingqing Wang and Wenchi Cheng (Xidian University, China); H. Vincent Poor (Princeton University, USA)
Multiobjective UAV path planning: connectivity quality and energy consumption
Florian Delavernhe (Univerrsity Bourgogne Franche Compté, France); Mohammed Salhi (Université Technologie de Compiègne, France)
Secrecy Rate Maximization based on User Clustering in Hybrid-NOMA Assisted HetNets for B5G/6G
Umar Ghafoor (National University of Sciences and Technology, Pakistan); Adil Siddiqui (Military College of Signals, National University of Sciences and Technology, Pakistan); Humayun Zubair Khan (University of Glasgow, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Mudassar Ali (University of Engineering and Technology Taxila, Pakistan)

Tuesday, December 5 9:15 - 10:00

IS 2: Interactive Subsession MWN_I2

Room: Exhibition Hall (Grand Ballroom) - level 3
Chair: Hamada Rizk (Osaka University, Japan)
Intelligent Urban Expressway Managing Architecture Using LoRaWAN and Edge Computing
Mi Chen (Univ Paris Est Creteil, LACL, France); Jalel Ben Othman (CentraleSupélec & University of Sorbonne Paris Nord, France); Lynda Mokdad (Université de Paris 12 & Laboratoire LACL, France)
A 3D Modeling Method for Scattering on Rough Surfaces at the Terahertz Band
Ben Chen, Ke Guan, Danping He, Pengxiang Xie and Zhangdui Zhong (Beijing Jiaotong University, China); Jianwu Dou (ZTE Corporation, China); Shahid Mumtaz (Aveiro, Portugal); Wael M. Bazzi (American University in Dubai, United Arab Emirates)
IRDM: A generative diffusion model for indoor radio map interpolation
Kehai Qiu (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Stefanos Sotirios Bakirtzis (Ranplan Wireless Network Design Ltd & University of Cambridge, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Hui Song (Ranplan Wireless Network Design Ltd, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Kan Lin (Ranplan Wireless Ltd, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Ian James Wassell (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Jie Zhang (University of Sheffield, Dept. of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Indoor Localization System for Seamless Tracking Across Buildings and Network Configurations
Hamada Rizk (Osaka University, Japan); Ahmed Sakr, Ali Ghazal, Mohamed Hemdan, Omar Shaheen and Hossam Sharara (American University in Cairo, Egypt); Hirozumi Yamaguchi (Osaka University, Japan); Moustafa Youssef (American University in Cairo)
Near-Field Wideband Beamfocusing Optimization: A Heuristic Two-Stage Approach
Zhaolin Wang, Xidong Mu, Yixuan Zou and Yuanwei Liu (Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

Tuesday, December 5 9:15 - 10:00

IS 2: Interactive Subsession SAC/BD_I2

Room: Exhibition Hall (Grand Ballroom) - level 3
Accessible Distributed Hydrological Surveillance and Computing System with Integrated End-Edge-Cloud Architecture
Guorun Yao, Chen Chen and Cong Li (Xidian University, China); Ci He (Science and Technology on Communication Networks Laboratory, China); Shi Bai (Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Hydrology and Water Resources Center, China); Ying Ju and Qingqi Pei (Xidian University, China)
Beam Training and Codebook Design for RIS Assisted UAV Communications in Emergency Rescue
Sihui Shang and Dongyang Xu (Xi'an Jiaotong University, China); Keping Yu (Hosei University, Japan); Shahid Mumtaz (Aveiro, Portugal)
A Host Kernel-Based Approach for Tracing and Analyzing vCPUs in Virtual Machines
Ravjot Singh (IIT Roorkee, India); Naman Jain (Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India); Prakhar Gupta (IIT Roorkee, India); Neetesh Kumar (Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India); Pravendra Singh (IIT Roorkee, India)

Tuesday, December 5 9:15 - 10:00

IS 2: Interactive Subsession SAC/MLC_I2

Room: Exhibition Hall (Grand Ballroom) - level 3
Chair: Jinhyun So (Samsung Semiconductor Inc, USA)
Beam Tracking: A Channel Charting and Neighborhood Search Based Method
Jiawei Zhang, Fan Wu, Yihang Yang and Jienan Chen (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China)
Universal Auto-encoder Framework for MIMO CSI Feedback
Jinhyun So (Samsung Semiconductor Inc, USA); Hyukjoon Kwon (Samsung Semiconductor, Inc., USA)
The Wyner Variational Autoencoder for Unsupervised Multi-Layer Wireless Fingerprinting
Teng-Hui Huang and Thilini Dahanayaka (University of Sydney, Australia); Kanchana Thilakarathna and Philip Leong (The University of Sydney, Australia); Hesham El Gamal (University of Sydney, Australia)
Deep Learning-Enhanced Physical Layer Authentication for Mobile Devices
Yijia Guo (The University of Liverpool, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Junqing Zhang (University of Liverpool, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Yao-Win Peter Hong (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan)
RADIANCE: Radio-Frequency Adversarial Deep-learning Inference for Automated Network Coverage Estimation
Sopan Sarkar, Mohammad Hossein Manshaei and Marwan Krunz (University of Arizona, USA)

Tuesday, December 5 9:15 - 10:00

IS 2: Interactive Subsession SAC/SSC_I2

Room: Exhibition Hall (Grand Ballroom) - level 3
Reliable Communications for Hypersonic Vehicles: A Reinforcement Learning Approach
Jingchen Xu, Yifan Chen, Zhiping Lin, Yousong Du, Helin Yang and Liang Xiao (Xiamen University, China)
Orbit-Grid-Based Dynamic Routing for Software Defined Mega-Constellation Network
Mingqian Wang, Linhui Wei, Yumei Wang and Yu Liu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
Harnessing Speech Recognition for Enhanced Signal Processing of Satellite Communications
Matthew Phelps (United States Space System Command, USA); Zachary Gazak, Ryan Swindle and Justin Fletcher (United States Space Systems Command, USA); Andrew Vandenberg (United States Air Force Research Laboratory, USA)

Tuesday, December 5 2:00 - 3:30

CISS 3: Security in Connected and Autonomous Vehicles

Room 301
Chair: Deepak Mishra (University of New South Wales (UNSW) Sydney, Australia)
Secrecy Throughput Optimization for DFRC System in Connected and Autonomous Vehicles Network
Yu Yao (Hainan University, China); Anqi Deng and Xuan Li (East China Jiaotong University, China); Xu Cheng (Sun Yatsen University, China); Feng Shu (Hainan University, China); Jiangzhou Wang (University of Kent, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
An LP-based Online Dispatching Method with Privacy-preserving in Online Ride-hailing
Xinyu Chen, Evan Yifan Xu, Jun Tao and Rujie Chen (Southeast University, China)
ZKP-based Lightweight Authentication protocol during handovers in Vehicular Networks
Indukuri Mani Varma (Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee & NA, India); Neetesh Kumar (Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India)
EAKM: Efficient Conditional Privacy-Preserving Authentication Scheme with On-Chain Key Management in VANETs
Shunrong Jiang and Guohuai Sang (China University of Mining and Technology, China); Xuedan Jia (Jiangsu University, China); Fengjiao Li and Haotian Chi (Shanxi University, China)
Achieve Edge-based Privacy-Preserving Dynamic Aggregation Query in Smart Transportation Systems
Yunguo Guan (Eastern Michigan University, USA); Ellen Z. Zhang (University of New Brunswick, Canada); Pulei Xiong (National Research Council Canada, Canada); Rongxing Lu (University of New Brunswick, Canada)

Tuesday, December 5 2:00 - 3:30

CISS 4: Blockchain Security I

Room 306
Chair: Wenye Wang (NC State University, USA)
A Blockchain Consensus Protocol based on Fuzzy Signatures
Paolo Santini (Polytechnic University of Marche, Italy); Giulia Rafaiani (Università Politecnica delle Marche, Italy); Massimo Battaglioni (Università Politecnica Delle Marche, Italy); Franco Chiaraluce and Marco Baldi (Università Politecnica delle Marche, Italy)
BlockFed: A High-Performance and Trustworthy Blockchain-Based Federated Learning Framework
Rui Ning (Old Dominion University, USA); CG Wang (IDCC, USA); Xu Li (InterDigital, USA); Robert Gazda (InterDigital, LLC, USA); Hongyi Wu (The University of Arizona, USA)
On the Profitability of Selfish Mining Attack under the Checkpoint Mechanism
Yu Zhou and Shang Gao (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong); Weiwei Qiu (Hangzhou Qulian Technology, China); Kai Lei (Peking University, China); Bin Xiao (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong)
Fine-grained Data Rights Governance in Blockchain-based Cloud-edge Communications
Weilin Gan, Mingyang Zhao, Hongchen Guo and Chuan Zhang (Beijing Institute of Technology, China); Jianan Hong (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China); Liehuang Zhu (Beijing Institute of Technology, China)
Symbiotic PBFT Consensus: Cognitive Backscatter Communications-enabled Wireless PBFT Consensus
Haoxiang Luo, Qianqian Zhang, Hongfang Yu, Gang Sun and Shizhong Xu (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China)

Tuesday, December 5 2:00 - 3:30

CQRM 2: Edge-Cloud Computing I

Room 305
Optimal Task Offloading Policy in Edge Computing Systems with Firm Deadlines
Khai N Doan, Wesley Araujo, Evangelos Kranakis and Ioannis Lambadaris (Carleton University, Canada); Yannis Viniotis (North Carolina State University, USA)
Learning-based Privacy-preserving Computation Offloading in Multi-Access Edge Computing
Feiran You (University of Sydney, Australia); Xin Yuan (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia); Wei Ni (CSIRO, Australia); Abbas Jamalipour (University of Sydney, Australia)
DRL-TAL: Deep Reinforcement Learning-Based Traffic-Aware Load Balancing in Data Center Networks
Guoyong Jiang, Wenting Wei, Kun Wang and Chengding Pang (Xidian University, China); Yong Liu (Hangzhou Normal University, China)
Reinforcement-Learning-Based Task Offloading in Edge Computing Systems with Firm Deadlines
Khai N Doan, Wesley Araujo, Evangelos Kranakis and Ioannis Lambadaris (Carleton University, Canada); Yannis Viniotis (North Carolina State University, USA)
Joint placement, routing and dimensioning at the network edge for energy minimization
Maxime Elkael (Telecom Sudparis, France); Andrea Araldo (Institut Polytechnique de Paris & Télécom SudParis, France); Salvatore D'Oro (Northeastern University, USA); Hind Castel-Taleb (Samovar UMR 5157, Telecom SudParis, Université Paris Saclay, France); Massinissa Ait aba (DAVIDSON Consulting, Paris, France); Badii Jouaber (SAMOVAR & Telecom SudParis, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France)

Tuesday, December 5 2:00 - 3:30

CRAEN 2: Security for Cognitive Radios

Room 401
Chair: Ziye Jia (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China)
Transferable Attacks on Deep Learning Based Modulation Recognition in Cognitive Radio
Zhenju Zhang and Mingqian Liu (Xidian University, China); Yunfei Chen (University of Durham, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Nan Zhao (Dalian University of Technology, China)
Routing Recovery for UAV Networks with Deliberate Attacks: A Reinforcement Learning based Approach
Sijie He, Ziye Jia, Chao Dong, Wei Wang and Yilu Cao (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China); Yang Yang (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China); Qihui Wu (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China)
Label-free Deep Learning Driven Secure Access Selection in Space-Air-Ground Integrated Networks
Zhaowei Wang, Zhisheng Yin, Xiucheng Wang and Nan Cheng (Xidian University, China); Yuan Zhang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); Tom H. Luan (Xidian University, China)
A Lightweight Few-Shot Attack Detection Scheme for Industrial Cognitive Radio Networks
Wang Xinkai, Beibei Li and Dai Wanying (Sichuan University, China); Rongkuan Ma (Information Engineering University, China); Hanyuan Huang (Sichuan University, China)
Utilizing Autoencoder to Improve the Robustness of Intrusion Detection Systems against Adversarial Attacks
Patricia Kibenge-MacLeod, Qiang Ye and Fangda Cui (Dalhousie University, Canada)

Tuesday, December 5 2:00 - 3:30

CSM 2: Immersive Video Streaming

Room 302
Leveraging Graph Theory for Efficient Cache Policy Design in 360° Video Streaming
Ahmed Saadallah (University of Burgundy, France); Philippe Brunet (Université de Bourgogne, France); Inès El Korbi (University of Burgundy, Tunisia); Sidi-Mohammed Senouci (University of Bourgogne - ISAT Nevers, France); Soumaya Cherkaoui (Polytechnique Montreal, Canada)
Deadline Aware Two-Timescale Resource Allocation for VR Video Streaming
Qingxuan Feng, Peng Yang and Zhixuan Huang (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China); Jiayin Chen (The University of British Columbia, Canada); Ning Zhang (University of Windsor, Canada)
Economic Routing for Immersive Media in Satellite-Terrestrial Integrated Network
Linhui Wei, Mingqian Wang, Yu Liu and Yumei Wang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
VR Service Delay Guarantee with Interest Prediction: A Joint Caching, Computing and Communication Optimization Approach
Baojie Fu, Zhidu Li and Tong Tang (Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Dapeng Wu (CQUPT, China); Ruyan Wang (Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
Spatial Perceptual Quality Aware Adaptive Volumetric Video Streaming
Xi Wang, Wei Liu, Huitong Liu and Peng Yang (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China)

Tuesday, December 5 2:00 - 3:30

GCSN 2: Energy Harvesting Wireless Networks

Room 406
Learning-Driven Transmission Latency Minimization in EH-relay assisted IoT Networks
Qianru Wang, Liping Qian, Mingqing Li and Wei Jiang (Zhejiang University of Technology, China); Yuan Wu (University of Macau, Macao); Xiaoniu Yang (Science and Technology on Communication Information Security Control Laboratory, China)
Performance Analysis of IRS-Assisted and Wireless Power Transfer Enabled ISAC systems
Bingxin Zhang (UESTC, China); Kun Yang (University of Essex, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Kezhi Wang (Brunel University London, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Information-Energy Capacity Region for SWIPT Systems with Semantic Communication
Nizar Khalfet, Constantinos Psomas and Ioannis Krikidis (University of Cyprus, Cyprus)
Energy Consumption in RES-aware 5G Networks
Adam Samorzewski (Poznan University of Technology, Poland); Margot Deruyck (Ghent University - IMEC, Belgium); Adrian Kliks (Poznan University of Technology, Poland)
Time Allocation for RIS-Aided Wireless Power Communication Networks in Disaster Sceneio
Yuhang Song and Dongyang Xu (Xi'an Jiaotong University, China); Bin Li (Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, China); Shaohua Wan (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China)

Tuesday, December 5 2:00 - 3:30

IoTSN 3: Smart Roads

Room 304
Capacity Analysis of Dedicated Lanes in Mixed Traffic with Human-driven and Connected and Autonomous Vehicles
Shuang Tang, Wenwei Yue and Nan Cheng (Xidian University, China); Peibo Duan (Northeastern University, China); Di Zhou and Changle Li (Xidian University, China)
Implicit Sensing in Traffic Optimization: Advanced Deep Reinforcement Learning Techniques
Emanuel Figetakis (University of Guelph, USA); Yahuza Bello (University of Guelph, Canada); Ahmed Refaey (University of Guelph, Canada & Western University, Canada); Lei Lei and Medhat Moussa (University of Guelph, Canada)
Collision-Aware Clustering for enhanced Cooperative Perception in V2V Systems
Bassel Chawky and Ahmed Elbery (Queen's University, Canada); Mohamed S Hefeida (West Virginia University, USA); Aboelmagd Noureldin (Queen's University, Canada)
Edge-Assisted Lightweight Region-of-Interest Extraction and Transmission for Vehicle Perception
Yan Cheng and Peng Yang (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China); Ning Zhang (University of Windsor, Canada); Jiawei Hou (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China)
Geomagnetic Sensor based Abnormal Parking Detection in Smart Roads
Runsen He, Guoqiang Mao, Yilong Hui and Qingwei Cheng (Xidian University, China)

Tuesday, December 5 2:00 - 2:45

IS 3: Interactive Subsession CT_I3

Room: Exhibition Hall (Grand Ballroom) - level 3
Chair: Lu Lv (Xidian University, China)
Block Allocation of Systematic Coded Distributed Computing in Heterogeneous Straggling Networks
Yu Wang and Shushi Gu (Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, China); Zhikai Zhang (Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen & Peng Cheng Laboratory, China); Qinyu Zhang (Shenzhen Graduate School, Harbin Institute of Technology, China); Wei Xiang (La Trobe University, Australia)
Achieving Covert Communication With A Probabilistic Friendly Jammer
Xun Chen and Fujun Gao (Hainan University, China); Min Qiu (University of New South Wales, Australia); Jia Zhang (Shandong Normal University, China); Shihao Yan (Edith Cowan University, Australia); Feng Shu (Hainan University, China)
Impact of Hardware Impairments on Covert Cooperative Backscatter Communications
Huan Li and Yinghui Ye (Xi'an University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Lu Lv (Xidian University, China); Guangyue Lu (Xi'an University of Posts & Telecommunications, China); Naofal Al-Dhahir (University of Texas at Dallas, USA)
On-the-Fly Communication-and-Computing for Distributed Tensor Decomposition
Xu Chen (University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong); Erik G. Larsson (Linköping University, Sweden); Kaibin Huang (The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Goal-Oriented Scheduling and Control Co-Design in Wireless Networked Control Systems
Jie Cao (Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), Singapore); Ernest Kurniawan, Amnart Boonkajay and Sumei Sun (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore)

Tuesday, December 5 2:00 - 2:45

IS 3: Interactive Subsession NGNI_I3

Room: Exhibition Hall (Grand Ballroom) - level 3
Performance Evaluation of Fog-to-Cloud Computing Schemes for IoMT Systems Using Queuing Models
Vu Khanh-Quy, Sr. (Hung Yen University of Technology and Education, Vietnam); Chehri Abdellah (Royal Military College of Canada, Canada); Quy Nguyen Minh and Dang Van Anh (Hung Yen University of Technology and Education, Vietnam); Dinh C. Nguyen (The University of Alabama in Huntsville, USA)
Joint Task Scheduling and Intelligence Optimization in CPN-enabled Connected Intelligence Systems
Gaochang Xie and Renchao Xie (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Qinqin Tang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecom, China); Shuang Wu and Wenzheng Wang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Zongping Li (Traffic Control Technology Co., Ltd.); Tao Huang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
RIS-Assisted Ad Hoc Edge for Optimal User Distribution in Service-Intensive Scenarios
Chenxuan Hou and Chenyang Wang (Tianjin University, China); Kai Dong (Politecnico di Milano, Italy); Xiaofei Wang (Tianjin University, China); Tarik Taleb (University of Oulu, Finland)
Seamless Service Handover in UAV-based Mobile Edge Computing
Zilong Ye (California State University, Los Angeles, USA); Philip N. Ji (NEC Laboratories America, Inc., USA); Ting Wang (NEC Laboratories America, USA)

Tuesday, December 5 2:00 - 2:45

IS 3: Interactive Subsession ONS_I3

Room: Exhibition Hall (Grand Ballroom) - level 3
Efficient Fiber-Inspection Method for Optical-Circuit Datacenter Networks
Kazuya Anazawa, Takeru Inoue and Toru Mano (NTT Network Innovation Labs., Japan); Wataru Ishida (NTT Software Innovation Center, Japan); Kazuaki Obana (NTT, Japan); Hideki Nishizawa (NTT Network Innovation Labs, Japan)
Performance Analysis of Crosstalk-Aware Sparse Core-Switching Optical Networks
Ítalo Brasileiro and André C Drummond (University of Brasilia, Brazil); Admela Jukan (Technische Universität Carolo-Wilhelmina zu Braunschweig, Germany)
Agnostic Prediction of Multiple Types of Time-Varying Traffic in Optical Networks
Aleksandra Knapinska (Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland); Piotr Lechowicz (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden); Salvatore Spadaro (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (UPC), Spain); Krzysztof Walkowiak (Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland)

Tuesday, December 5 2:00 - 2:45

IS 3: Interactive Subsession SAC/AC_I3

Room: Exhibition Hall (Grand Ballroom) - level 3
An Efficient Beam Scanning Scheme in Large-Scale FANETs with Directional Antennas
Siyu Gao, Huan Su and Jing Zhang (University of Science and Technology of China, China); Jiahao He (Institute of Space Integrated Ground Network, China); Ming Zhao (University of Science and Technology of China, China)
Multi-Armed Bandit Learning for Content Provisioning in Network of UAVs
Amit Kumar Bhuyan, Hrishikesh Dutta and Subir Biswas (Michigan State University, USA)
On Infrastructure Design for Large UAV Networks
Tayyaba. S and Sundaram Vanka (Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India)

Tuesday, December 5 2:00 - 2:45

IS 3: Interactive Subsession SAC/MB_I3

Room: Exhibition Hall (Grand Ballroom) - level 3
An Experimental Platform for Neural Communication Based on Bullfrog Sciatic Nerve
Huiyu Luo, Ying Qin, Lei Jiang, Junfang Zhang and Ling Zhu (Tongji University, China); Guangyi Liu (China Mobile Research Institute, China); Lin Lin (Tongji University, China)
Novel Nano-Machine Architecture for Machine Learning in the IoBNT
Stefan Angerbauer and Tobias Pankratz (Johannes Kepler University, Austria); Franz Enzenhofer and Werner Haselmayr (Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria)
Microparticle-based Controlled Drug Delivery Systems: From Experiments to Statistical Analysis and Design
Sebastian Lotter, Tom Bellmann, Sophie Marx, Mara Wesinger and Lukas Brand (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany); Maximilian Schäfer (Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Germany); Dagmar Fischer (Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany); Robert Schober (Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany)

Tuesday, December 5 2:00 - 2:45

IS 3: Interactive Subsession SAC/SN_I3

Room: Exhibition Hall (Grand Ballroom) - level 3
Investigating Feasibility of Stress Detection from Social Media Content through Wearables
Kalliopi Tsiampa (University of Thessaly, Greece); Lili Zhu and Petros Spachos (University of Guelph, Canada); Vassilis Plagianakos (University Of Thessaly, Greece)
Modeling Viral Information Spreading via Directed Acyclic Graph Diffusion
Chinthaka Pathum Dinesh Herath Gedara (Simon Fraser University & York University, Canada); Gene Cheung (York University, Canada); Fei Chen (Fuzhou University, China); Yuejiang Li and H. Vicky Zhao (Tsinghua University, China)

Tuesday, December 5 2:00 - 3:30

MWN 2: Advances in 5G/6G Networks II

Room 408
Chair: Angelos Stavrou (Virginia Tech & Kryptowire, USA)
Demystifying 5G Traffic Patterns with an Indoor RAN Measurement Campaign
Tolga O Atalay and Alireza Famili (Virginia Tech, USA); Dragoslav Stojadinovic (Kryptowire LLC, USA); Angelos Stavrou (Virginia Tech & Kryptowire, USA)
Triple-Frequency Carrier Phase Positioning with Optimized Ambiguity Resolution in 5G New Radio Networks
Shaoshuai Fan and Yichen Ji (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Hui Tian (Beijng University of posts and telecommunications, China)
Resource Allocation with Multi-Connectivity in 5G Heterogeneous Networks
Chi-Mao Chen and Jang-Ping Sheu (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan); Yung Ching Kuo (National TsingHua University, Taiwan)
Combining Network Data Analytics Function and Machine Learning for abnormal traffic detection in Beyond 5G
Abdelkader Mekrache and Karim Boutiba (EURECOM, France); Adlen Ksentini (Eurecom, France)
A novel sustainable bandwidth allocation strategy for multiple service migration in 5G/6G edge computing
Arshin Rezazadeh (University of Western Ontario, Canada); Hanan Lutfiyya (The University of Western Ontario, Canada)

Tuesday, December 5 2:00 - 3:30

MWN 3: Applications of Federated Learning I

Room 410
Chairs: Howard Yang (Zhejiang University, China & University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (UIUC), USA), Yunlong Lu (Beijing Jiaotong University, China)
LEARN: Selecting Samples Without Training Verification for Communication-Efficient Vertical Federated Learning
Tong Liu and Feng Lyu (Central South University, China); Jun Ma (Hunan Energy Big Data Intelligence Limited, China); Yongheng Deng (Tsinghua University, China); Jiayin Chen (The University of British Columbia, Canada); Qilong Tan (Hunan Energy Big Data Intelligence Limited, China); Yaoxue Zhang (Tsinghua University, China)
GNN-based Neighbor Selection and Resource Allocation for Decentralized Federated Learning
Chuiyang Meng (University of British Columbia, Canada); Ming Tang (Southern University of Science and Technology, China); Mehdi Setayesh and Vincent W.S. Wong (University of British Columbia, Canada)
Latent Semantic Diffusion-based Channel Adaptive De-Noising SemCom for Future 6G Systems
Bingxuan Xu, Rui Meng and Yue Chen (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Xiaodong Xu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications & Wireless Technology Innovation Institute, China); Chen Dong (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Hao Sun (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Towards Stable Federated Fog Formation using Federated Learning and Evolutionary Game Theory
Zyad Yasser (New York University Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates); Ahmad Hammoud (Ecole de Technologie Superieure, Canada); Azzam Mourad (Lebanese American University, Lebanon); Hadi Otrok (Khalifa University, United Arab Emirates & Concordia University, Canada); Zbigniew Dziong (École de technologie supérieure, University of Quebec, Canada); Mohsen Guizani (MBZUAI, United Arab Emirates)
PAFL: Parameter-Authentication Federated Learning for Internet of Vehicles
Li Zejun (Beijing JiaoTong University, China); Hao Wu (Beijing Jiaotong University, China); Yueyue Dai (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China); Yunlong Lu (Beijing Jiaotong University, China)

Tuesday, December 5 2:00 - 3:30

NGNI 2: AI Algorithms and Optimization Techniques

Room 303
P4-based In-Network RL inference for Efficient Flow-Level Bandwidth Allocation
Arslan Qadeer and Myung Lee (City College of New York, CUNY, USA); Daiki Nobayashi (Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan)
DRL-based Federated Uncertainty-guided Semi-Supervised Learning for Network Traffic Selection and Threshold Determination in ZSM
Abdullatif Albaseer (Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar); Mohamed M. Abdallah (Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU), Qatar)
Information-Centric Networking Cache Memory Allocation: A Network Economics Approach
Aisha B Rahman (University of New Mexico, USA); Panagiotis Charatsaris (National Technical University of Athens, Greece); Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou (University of New Mexico, USA); Symeon Papavassiliou (Institute of Communication and Computer Systems (ICCS) - National Technical University of Athens, Greece)
Enhancing Edge Multipath Data Security Offloading Efficiency via Sequential Reinforcement Learning
Wenxuan Qiao, Yuyang Zhang and Ping Dong (Beijing Jiaotong University, China); Xiaojiang Du (Stevens Institute of Technology, USA); Chengxiao Yu (Peng Cheng Laboratory, China); Hongke Zhang (Beijing Jiaotong University, China); Mohsen Guizani (MBZUAI, United Arab Emirates)
Multi Service-Oriented Routing Mechanism for Heterogeneous Multi-Domain Software-Defined Networking
Tuan Tran-Le Nguyen (Hanoi University of Civil Engineering & SoICT, Hanoi University of Science and Technology, Vietnam); Ngo Viet Hoang (SOICT, Hanoi University of Science and Technology & Vinbigdata Institute, Vietnam); Trung Pham (Hanoi University of Civil Engineering & SOICT, Hanoi University of Science and Technology, Vietnam); Thang Nam Hoang (Hanoi University of Civil Engineering & SoICT, Hanoi University of Science and Technology, Vietnam); Van Tong, Hai Anh Tran and Giang Nguyen Linh (SoICT, Hanoi University of Science and Technology, Vietnam); Abdelhamid Mellouk (UPEC, University Paris-Est Creteil Val de Marne, France); Truong X Tran (Penn State University, USA)

Tuesday, December 5 2:00 - 3:30

SAC/BD 1: Blockchain-enabled Big Data Systems

Room 307
BcIIS: Blockchain-based Intelligent Identification Scheme of Massive IoT Devices
Yi Sun (Beijing University of Posts and Communications, China); Tong Xu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Ali Kashif Bashir (Manchester Metropolitan University, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Jie Liu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Marwan Omar (Illinois Institute of Technology & IIT, USA)
Deep Q-Network Dueling-Based Opportunistic Data Transmission in Blockchain-Enabled M2M Communication
Jagdeep Singh (University of Delhi & Sant Longowal Institute of Engineering and Technology, Longowal, Punjab, India - Govt. of India, India); Sanjay Kumar Dhurandher (Netaji Subhas University of Technology, New Delhi, India); Isaac Woungang (Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada)
A Secure Blockchain-Based Authentication Control Framework for Cyber-Physical-Social System (CPSS) Big Data
Brij B. Gupta (Asia University, Taiwan); Akshat Gaurav (Ronin Institute, USA); John Chui Kwok Tai (Hong Kong Metropolitan University (HKMU), Hong Kong); Varsha Arya (Insights2Techinfo, Taiwan); Jinsong Wu (Universidad de Chile, Chile); Elhadj Benkhelifa (Staffordshire University, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
TVUB: Thermal Vision-based UAV and Blockchain-aided Poaching Prevention System
Sudha Anbalagan (Vellore Institute of Technology Chennai, India); Wajdi Alhakami (Taif University, Saudi Arabia); Abhishek Manoharan (Anna University, India); Sai Ganesh Senthivel (Carnegie Mellon University, USA); Anushka Nehra (Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, India); Hosam Alhakami (Umm Al-Qura University, Saudi Arabia); Gunasekaran Raja (Anna University, India)
V2V Communications Using Blockchain-Enabled 6G Technology and Federated Learning
Tahir H. Ahmed, Jun Jiat Tiang and Azwan Mahmud (Centre of Wireless Technology, Multimedia University, Malaysia); Dinh-Thuan Do (School of Engineering, University of Mount Union, USA); Truong X Tran (School of Science, Engineering, and Technology, Penn State University, USA); Shahid Mumtaz (Silesian University of Technology and Nottingham Trent University, Poland)

Tuesday, December 5 2:00 - 3:30

SAC/ISC 2: Precoding and Transceiver Design in ISAC

Room 402
Chair: Yuchen Zhang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China)
Transmit Precoding for MIMO Radar and MU-MIMO Communication with ISAC
Changfeng Ding (Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Cheng Zeng, Na Su and Jun-Bo Wang (Southeast University, China); Min Lin (Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
Optimal Linear Precoder Design for MIMO-OFDM Integrated Sensing and Communications Based on Bayesian Cramér-Rao Bound
Xinyang Li (Technical University of Munich, Germany); Vlad Costin Andrei (Technische Unversität München, Germany); Ullrich J Mönich (Technische Universität München, Germany); Holger Boche (Technical University Munich, Germany)
Robust Transceiver Design for ISAC With Imperfect CSI
Yuchen Zhang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); Wanli Ni (Beijng University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); WanBin Tang (University of Electronic Science & Technology of China, China); Yonina C. Eldar (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel); Dusit Niyato (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Exploiting Interference in Joint Radar-Communication Transmission
Jianjun Zhang (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China); Fan Liu (Southern University of Science and Technology, China); Christos Masouros (University College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Yongming Huang (Southeast University, China)
Variational Message Passing Receiver Design for Integrated Sensing and Massive Connectivity
Qiaozhi Wang (Fudan University, China); Xiaojun Yuan (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); Zhengxing Wang, Xin Wang and Chongbin Xu (Fudan University, China)

Tuesday, December 5 2:00 - 3:30

SAC/MLC 2: Distributed Machine Learning over Wireless II

Room 403
Chair: Dongzhu Liu (University of Glasgow, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Cooperative Interference Estimation using LSTM-based Federated Learning for In-X Subnetworks
Pramesh Gautam (Max-Von-Laue-Straße 5 & University of Bremen, Germany)
Asynchronous Federated Learning via Over-the-air Computation
Zijian Zheng (Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Yansha Deng (King's College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Xiaonan Liu (The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); A Nallanathan (QMUL, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Semi-Asynchronous Federated Edge Learning for Over-the-air Computation
Zhoubin Kou (Tsinghua University, China); Yun Ji and Xiaoxiong Zhong (Graduate School at Shenzhen, Tsinghua University, China); Zhang Sheng (Tsinghua University, China)
Networked Federated Learning-based Intelligent Vehicular Traffic Management in IoV Scenarios
Abdullah Abbasi, Swapnil Shinde and Daniele Tarchi (University of Bologna, Italy)
Federated Linear Bandit Learning via Over-the-air Computation
Jiali Wang (East China Normal University, China); Yuning Jiang (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland); Xin Liu (ShanghaiTech University, China); Ting Wang (East China Normal University, China); Yuanming Shi (ShanghaiTech University, China)

Tuesday, December 5 2:00 - 3:30

SAC/QC 1: Quantum Communications

Room 309
Authentication Through Error Estimation in QKD
Ludovic Noirie and Rémi Varloot (Nokia Bell Labs, France)
Matching Game for Optimized Association in Quantum Communication Networks
Mahdi Chehimi (Virginia Tech, USA); Bernd Simon (TU Darmstadt, Germany); Walid Saad (Virginia Tech, USA); Anja Klein (TU Darmstadt, Germany); Don Towsley (University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA); Mérouane Debbah (Khalifa University of Science and Technology, France)
Extending Shor's Quantum Error Correction Circuits Using Quantum Adders
Shadman Shahriar (Brac University, Bangladesh); A. B. M. Alim Al Islam (Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Bangladesh)
Using small dimensional quantum error correction codes for high-performance quantum communication
Dawei Jiao (Aalto University, Finland); Alexei Ashikhmin (Nokia Bell Labs, USA); Mahdi Bayanifar and Olav Tirkkonen (Aalto University, Finland)
Quaternary-Binary Message-Passing Decoder for Quantum LDPC Codes
Dimitris Chytas and Nithin Raveendran (University of Arizona, USA); Asit Kumar Pradhan (The University of Arizona, USA); Bane Vasic (University of Arizona, USA)

Tuesday, December 5 2:00 - 3:30

SAC/RIS 2: Advanced Transmission Techniques in RIS-aided Networks

Room 310
Chair: Bile Peng (TU Braunschweig, Germany)
Improper Gaussian Signaling for STAR-RIS assisted Multiuser MISO Interference Channels
Junjie Fang and Chao Zhang (Xi'an Jiaotong University, China); Qingqing Wu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China); Ang Li (Xi'an Jiaotong University, China)
Multiple RIS-Assisted Cooperative NOMA with User Selection
Mostafa Samy and Hayder Al-Hraishawi (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg); Steven Kisseleff (Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS, Germany); Symeon Chatzinotas and Björn Ottersten (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)
Low-Complexity Downlink Transmission With NOMA for IRS-Aided Integrated Satellite-Terrestrial Network
Xiaoyu Liu, Min Lin, Huaibo Guo, Miaomiao Tan and Jian Ouyang (Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Tony Q. S. Quek (Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore)
Space-Time Phase Coupling in STMM-based Wireless Communications
Marouan Mizmizi and Dario Tagliaferri (Politecnico di Milano, Italy); Marco Di Renzo (CNRS & Paris-Saclay University, France); Umberto Spagnolini (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Robust Beamforming Design for STAR-RIS-aided NOMA System under Short-packet Communication
Mayur Vitthalrao Katwe (Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore); Rasika Sanjay Deshpande (National Sun Yat Sen University, Taiwan); Keshav Singh (National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan); Cunhua Pan (Southeast University, China)

Tuesday, December 5 2:00 - 3:30

SAC/SSC 1: Satellite and Space Communications I

Room 407
RIS-Aided Multi-Beam Cooperative Transmission for Satellite-Terrestrial Communication
Kai Feng (Shanghai Advanced Research Institute, China); Ting Zhou (Shanghai University, China); Tianheng Xu (Shanghai Advanced Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China); Xianfu Chen (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Finland); Honglin Hu (Shanghai Advanced Research Institute, China); Celimuge Wu (The University of Electro-Communications, Japan)
Uplink Sum Throughput Analysis and Maximization for Integrated Satellite-Terrestrial Cell-Free Massive MIMO
Trinh Van Chien (Hanoi University of Science and Technology, Vietnam); Ha An Le (Seoul National University, Korea (South)); Hien Ngo (Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Symeon Chatzinotas (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)
On the Performance of NOMA Assisted Semi-Grant-Free Transmission in Satellite Systems
Huaicong Kong, Miaomiao Tan, Yan Guo, Min Lin and Lve Han (Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
Space MIMO: Direct Unmodified Handheld to Multi-Satellite Communication
Yasaman Omid, Zohre Mashayekh Bakhsh, Farbod Kayhan, Yi Ma and Rahim Tafazolli (University of Surrey, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Dynamic Symbol-Level Power and Modulation Pre-Adaptation for LEO Inter-Orbital Inter-Satellite Communication in THz Band
Junyi Lyu, Yong Liang Guan and Xiao Bei Liu (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore); Erry Gunawan (Singapore)

Tuesday, December 5 2:00 - 3:30

SAC/TC 1: Terahertz Channel

Room 308
Chair: Chong Han (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China)
Characterizing Sub-THz MIMO Channels in Practice: a Novel Channel Sounder with Absolute Time Reference
Duschia M Bodet, Phuc Dinh and Milica Stojanovic (Northeastern University, USA); Joerg Widmer (IMDEA Networks Institute, Spain); Dimitrios Koutsonikolas (Northeastern University, USA); Josep M Jornet (Northeastern University & Institute for the Wireless Internet of Things, USA)
Double-Directional Channel Characterization of an Indoor Corridor Scenario at 300 GHz
Anirban Ghosh (SRM University Amaravati, India); Riku Takahashi and Minseok Kim (Niigata University, Japan)
Measurement-Based Modeling of Short Range Terahertz Channels and Their Capacity Analysis
Erhan Karakoca and Hasan Nayir (Istanbul Technical University, Turkey); Gunes Karabulut Kurt (Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Canada); Ali Gorcin (Istanbul Techical University, Turkey)
Channel Measurements at 140 and 220 GHz in an Outdoor Street Canyon Environment
Wenfei Yang (Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., China); Ziming Yu (Huawei Technologies CO., LTD, China); Yi Chen (Huawei Technologies CO. LTD., China); Mate Boban and Tommaso Zugno (Huawei Technologies Duesseldorf GmbH, Germany); Jian Li (Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., China)
Channel Measurements and Large-scale Fading Characterization for Indoor THz Communications
Xinrui Chen, Xi Liao and Yang Wang (Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Ziming Yu (Huawei Technologies CO., LTD, China); Guangjian Wang (Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., China); Yi Chen (Huawei Technologies CO. LTD., China); Jie Zhang (University of Sheffield, Dept. of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

Tuesday, December 5 2:00 - 3:30

SPC 2: Signal Processing for Artificial Intelligence, Data Analytics, and Machine Learning

Room 404
DiscoCSINet: Dissymmetric Convolution Neural Network for CSI Feedback in FDD Massive MIMO System
Yang Yang and Yutong Xin (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Zejian Lu (China Academic of Electronics and Information Technology, China); Yong Lee (Sungkyunkwan University, Korea (South)); Kun Zhou (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Jemin Lee (Yonsei University, Korea (South))
Communication-Constrained Distributed Learning: TSI-Aided Asynchronous Optimization With Stale Gradient
Siyuan Yu and Wei Chen (Tsinghua University, China); H. Vincent Poor (Princeton University, USA)
Joint Communication Resource Allocation and Velocity Optimization in Advanced Air Mobility via Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
Ruixuan Han (University of Louisville, USA); Summer Li (DuPont Manual High School, USA); Eric Knoblock and Michael Gasper (NASA & Glenn Research Center, USA); Hongxiang Li (University of Louisville, USA); Rafael Apaza (NASA & Glenn Research Center, USA)
Sparsity-Based Channel Estimation Exploiting Deep Unrolling for Downlink Massive MIMO
An Chen and Wenbo Xu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Liyang Lu (Tsinghua University, China); Yue Wang (Georgia State University, USA)
Computer Vision-Aided Proactive Mobility Management for 6G Terahertz Communications
Yongjun Ahn, Jinhong Kim, Sunwoo Kim and Byonghyo Shim (Seoul National University, Korea (South))

Tuesday, December 5 2:00 - 3:30

WC 3: Channel Modeling and Propagation II

Room 405
Chair: Jia Yan (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), China)
Trajectory Planning for UAV-based Data Collection to Enhance Permittivity Calibration in Ray-tracing
YuanHao Jiang, Shidong Zhou and Xiaofeng Zhong (Tsinghua University, China)
Near-Field Spatial Correlation for Multi-path XL-Array Communications with Partial Visibility
Zhenjun Dong, Xinrui Li, Yong Zeng and Shi Jin (Southeast University, China); Tao Jiang (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China)
Full-duplex OFDM Amplify-and-Forward Relay Scheme through Equalizing the Residual Self-Interference as IIR Channel
Pu Yang, Qingyue Qu, Han Wang, Yangyang Zhang, Xichang Zhang and Yi Liu (Xidian University, China)
Frequency Diverse Array Spatial Data Focusing: Free Space and Multipath Experimental Validation
Guylian Molineaux and François Horlin (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium); Muriel Darces (Sorbonne Universite, France); Philippe De Doncker (ULB, Belgium); Julien Sarrazin (Sorbonne Université, France)
Radio DIP - Completing Radio Maps using Deep Image Prior
Akash S Doshi and June Namgoong (Qualcomm Technologies Inc., USA); Taesang Yoo (Qualcomm Inc., USA)

Tuesday, December 5 2:00 - 3:30

WC 4: Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS) Enabled Communications I

Room 409
Chair: Hikmet Sari (NJUPT & Sequans, France)
A Hybrid Scheme for Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces: How Many Elements Should be Estimated?
Andreas Nicolaides and Constantinos Psomas (University of Cyprus, Cyprus); Sheng Yang (CentraleSupelec, France); Ioannis Krikidis (University of Cyprus, Cyprus)
Twin-Timescale Beamforming for IRS-Assisted Millimeter Wave Massive MIMO-OFDM Systems
Peilan Wang, Zhuoran Wu and Jun Fang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); Hongbin Li (Stevens Institute of Technology, USA)
Channel Analysis and End-to-End Design for Double RIS-Aided Communication Systems with Spatial Correlation and Finite Scatterers
Ha An Le (Seoul National University, Korea (South)); Trinh Van Chien (Hanoi University of Science and Technology, Vietnam); Nguyen Van Duc (HUST, Vietnam); Wan Choi (Seoul National University, Korea (South))
Low-Complexity Fingerprint Construction for RIS Codebook Design in Millimeter Wave Systems
Yili Deng and Baojia Luo (Tsinghua University, China); Miaomiao Dong (Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., China); Zhongyi Huang (Tsinghua University, China); Xiang Chen (Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Hong Kong); Wei Han (Huawei Technologies Co Ltd, Hong Kong)
Hierarchical Transmission of Low Bit Rate Local Data Using Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces
Hao Huang, Shuangfei Guo and Guan Gui (Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Hikmet Sari (NJUPT & Sequans, France)

Tuesday, December 5 2:45 - 3:30

IS 4: Interactive Subsession CT_I4

Room: Exhibition Hall (Grand Ballroom) - level 3
Chair: Yixuan Zou (Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Performance Analysis of Free-Space Information Sharing in Full-Duplex Semantic Communications
Hongyang Du, Jiacheng Wang and Dusit Niyato (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore); Jiawen Kang (Guangdong University of Technology, Singapore); Zehui Xiong (Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore); Dong In Kim (Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), Korea (South)); Boon Hee Soong (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
A Superposition Code Approach for Digital Semantic Communications over Broadcast Channels
Yufei Bo (Shanghai Jiaotong University, China); Shuo Shao and Meixia Tao (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China)
STARS for Spectral Efficiency in Wideband Terahertz Communications
Zhaolin Wang and Xidong Mu (Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Jiaqi Xu (University of California, Irvine, USA); Yixuan Zou and Yuanwei Liu (Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
The CRB-Rate Trade-off for JCAS: A Low-complexity Beamforming Design
Srivardhan Sarma Sivadevuni (Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany); Kevin Weinberger (Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany); Aydin Sezgin (RUB, Germany)
Joint Beam Scheduling and Power Allocation for SWIPT in Mixed Near- and Far-Field Channels
Yunpu Zhang (China); Changsheng You, Weijie Yuan and Fan Liu (Southern University of Science and Technology, China); Rui Zhang (National University of Singapore, Singapore)

Tuesday, December 5 2:45 - 3:30

IS 4: Interactive Subsession IoTSN_I4

Room: Exhibition Hall (Grand Ballroom) - level 3
Minimizing Route Overlap for Priority Data Delivery in Next Generation IoT Networks
Jianlin Guo (Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, USA); Takenori Sumi (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Japan); Yuki Kawashima (Information Technology R&D Center & Mitsubishi Electric Co. Ltd, Japan); Kieran Parsons (Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, USA); Yukimasa Nagai (Mitsubishi Electric Corp., Japan); Philip Orlik (Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, USA)
Preamble Parallelization Based Random Access with Colliding Preamble Reuse for Industrial IoT
Ziming Guo (Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, China); Xu Zhu (Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, China & University of Liverpool, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Jie Cao (Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), Singapore); Yufei Jiang (Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, China)
Anomaly detection-aided active learning
Georgii Nigmatulin (Samsung R&D Institute Russia, Russia); Konstantin Pavlov (Samsung Research Russia, Russia); Алексей Зайцев (Skoltech, IITP, Russia)
Mitigating Pilot Contamination and Enabling IoT Scalability in Massive MIMO Systems
Muhammad Kamran Saeed, Ahmed E. Kamal and Ashfaq Khokhar (Iowa State University, USA)

Tuesday, December 5 2:45 - 3:30

IS 4: Interactive Subsession NGNI_I4

Room: Exhibition Hall (Grand Ballroom) - level 3
VNFO-DCSC: A Novel Secure End-to-End NFV Marketplace Using Dynamic Composite Smart Contracts
Mouhamad Almakhour (University of Paris Est-creteil, France); Layth Sliman (EFREI- Paris, France); Abed Ellatif Samhat (Lebanese University, Lebanon); Boussad Ait Salem (Efrei Reasearch Lab - Panthéon - Assas University, France & Efrei Paris, France); Abdelhamid Mellouk (UPEC, University Paris-Est Creteil Val de Marne, France)
A Comparative Analysis of Deep Reinforcement Learning-based xApps in O-RAN
Maria Tsampazi, Salvatore D'Oro, Michele Polese and Leonardo Bonati (Northeastern University, USA); Gwenael Poitau (Dell Technologies, Canada); Michael Healy (Dell Technologies & Dell Technologies, Inc., USA); Tommaso Melodia (Northeastern University, USA)
Unsupervised Feature Engineering Approach to Predict DDoS Attacks
Anderson Bergamini de Neira (Federal University of Parana, Brazil); Ligia F. Borges (Federal University of Minas Gerais - UFMG, Brazil); Alex Medeiros Araujo (Federal University of Parana, Brazil); Michele Nogueira (Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil)

Tuesday, December 5 2:45 - 3:30

IS 4: Interactive Subsession SAC/AC_I4

Room: Exhibition Hall (Grand Ballroom) - level 3
Chair: Sundaram Vanka (Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India)
Probabilistic Roadmaps for Aerial Relay Path Planning
Viet Q. Pham and Daniel Romero (University of Agder, Norway)
Scalable Robust Beamforming for Multi-Layer Refracting RIS-Assisted HAP-SWIPT Networks
Yifu Sun, Kang An and Zhi Lin (National University of Defense Technology, China); Zhu Yong-Gang (Nanjing Telecommunication Research Institute, China); Naofal Al-Dhahir (University of Texas at Dallas, USA); Kai Kit Wong (University College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Secrecy Performance Analysis of RIS-Aided Hybrid RF/FSO Networks
Menghan Wu, Dawei Wang and Lingtong Min (Northwestern Polytechnical University, China); Yixin He (Jiaxing University, China); Chen Gao (National University of Singapore, Singapore); Li Zhen (Xi'an University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Keping Yu (Hosei University, Japan)

Tuesday, December 5 2:45 - 3:30

IS 4: Interactive Subsession SAC/CC_I4

Room: Exhibition Hall (Grand Ballroom) - level 3
Local or Edge/Cloud Processing for Data Freshness
Andrea Munari and Tomaso De Cola (German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany); Leonardo Badia (Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy)
Soft Actor-Critic Learning-Based Joint Computing, Pushing, and Caching Framework in MEC Networks
Xiangyu Gao (University of Washington, USA); Yaping Sun (Pengcheng Laboratory, China); Hao Chen (Peng Cheng Laboratory, China); Xiaodong Xu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications & Wireless Technology Innovation Institute, China); Shuguang Cui (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen & CUHKSZ-FNii, China)
Salango: A Simplified Load Balancing Scheme for Edge Nodes in Mobile Edge Caching Networks
Jun Yin (Nanjing Univerisity of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Meiqi Zhan (Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Ming Zhu (University of Nevada Las Vegas, USA); Zhaowei Zhang and Lei Wang (Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Yuwang Yang (Nanjing Univerisity of Science and Technology, China)
Leveraging Imbalance and Ensemble Learning Methods for Improved Load Prediction in Cloud Computing Systems
Mustafa Daraghmeh and Anjali Agarwal (Concordia University, Canada); Yaser Jararweh (Jordan University of Science and Technology, USA)

Tuesday, December 5 2:45 - 3:30

IS 4: Interactive Subsession SAC/SGC_I4

Room: Exhibition Hall (Grand Ballroom) - level 3
QMIX-based Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Electric Vehicle-Facilitated Peak Shaving
Li Wang, Sixuan Liu, Pengfei Wang, Lianming Xu, Luyang Hou and Aiguo Fei (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)

Tuesday, December 5 4:00 - 5:30

CISS 5: Attack Prediction, Detection, Response, and Prevention I

Room 301
Chair: Ting He (Penn State University, USA)
ANTI: An Adaptive Network Traffic Indexing Algorithm for High-speed Networks
Jiale Chen, Xingshu Chen, Liangguo Chen, Xiao Lan and Yonggang Luo (Sichuan University, China)
Network topology inference by exploring underlying traffic behaviors
Jian Ye, Gaolei Fei, Wenkai Qi, Yunpeng Zhou and Guangmin Hu (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China)
Aigis: Full-Coverage And Low-Overhead Mitigating Against Amplified Reflection DDoS Attacks
Tingxin Sun (Fuzhou University, China); Jiayi Cai (FuZhou University & Quan Cheng Laboratory, China); Kaiwei Guo (Fuzhou University, China); Dong Zhang (Fuzhou University & Quan Cheng Laboratory, China); Xiang Chen (Zhejiang University, China); Chunming Wu (College of Computer Science, Zhejiang University, China)
In-network Collaborative Link Flooding Attack Defense with Adaptive Anomaly Analysis
Yikun Li, Ying Liu, Weiting Zhang, Ping Dong and Wei Quan (Beijing Jiaotong University, China)
Decentralized Sparse Matrix Multiplication Under Byzantine Attacks
Sara Ghasvarianjahromi (New Jersey Institute of Technonlgy, USA); Yauhen Yakimenka and Joerg Kliewer (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA)

Tuesday, December 5 4:00 - 5:30

CISS 6: Physical Layer Security I

Room 306
Chair: Massimo Battaglioni (Università Politecnica Delle Marche, Italy)
Modeling and Analysis of Information Leakage under Multiple Adversaries
Lichen Fu (North Carolina State University, USA); Wenye Wang (NC State University, USA)
Secure Integrated Sensing and Communication Aided by IRS-UAV
Xianglin Yu, Jinlei Xu and Nan Zhao (Dalian University of Technology, China); Xianbin Wang (Western University, Canada); Dusit Niyato (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Multi-Frequency Band Physical-Layer Authentication in Indoor Environment
Seungnam Han and Haewon Lee (Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Korea (South)); Jinho Choi (Deakin University, Australia); Euiseok Hwang (Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Korea (South))
Soft detection physical layer insecurity
Ken R. Duffy (Northeastern University, USA); Muriel Médard (MIT, USA)
Joint and Simultaneous Optimization of Artificial Noise-aided Precoding for Secure Communications
Eunsung Choi (Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Korea (South)); Mintaek Oh (KAIST, Korea (South)); Jinseok Choi (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea (South)); Jeonghun Park (Yonsei University, Korea (South)); Namyoon Lee (Korea University, Korea (South)); Naofal Al-Dhahir (University of Texas at Dallas, USA)

Tuesday, December 5 4:00 - 5:30

CQRM 3: Edge-Cloud Computing II

Room 305
Edge Computing For Metaverse: Incentive Mechanism versus Semantic Communication
Nguyen Cong Luong, Sang Huu Nguyen and Anh Do Duy Nguyen (Phenikaa University, Vietnam); Shaohan Feng (Zhejiang Gongshang University Hangzhou, China); Dusit Niyato (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore); Dong In Kim (Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), Korea (South))
Assessing the Efficacy of Reinforcement Learning in Enhancing Quality of Service in SD-WANs
Luca Borgianni (University of Pisa, Italy); Sebastian Troia (Politecnico di Milano, Italy); Davide Adami (CNIT Pisa Research Unit, University of Pisa, Italy); Guido Maier (Politecnico di Milano, Italy); Stefano Giordano (University of Pisa, Italy)
A Reinforcement Learning-based DAG Tasks Scheduling in Edge-Cloud Collaboration Systems
Xifei Song and Lei Liu (Xidian University, China); Junqi Fu (China); Xueyao Zhang, Jie Feng and Qingqi Pei (Xidian University, China)
Scaling Serverless Functions in Edge Networks: A Reinforcement Learning Approach
Mounir Bensalem and Erkan Ipek (TU Braunschweig, Germany); Admela Jukan (Technische Universität Carolo-Wilhelmina zu Braunschweig, Germany)
Joint Optimization of Sensing and Communication for Digital Twin Edge Networks
Yi Chen (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); Zheng Chang and Timo Hämäläinen (University of Jyväskylä, Finland); Geyong Min (University of Exeter, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

Tuesday, December 5 4:00 - 5:30

CSM 3: Network Security and Privacy Protection I

Room 302
Privacy-preserving Feature Selection based on Mutual Information
Ningning Wu, Hongwei Li, Hanxiao Chen, Xilin Zhang and Yingzhe Wang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China)
Real-time Anomaly Detection in SDN Architecture using Integrated SIEM and Machine Learning for Enhancing Network Security
Anass Sebbar and Othmane Cherqi (International University of Rabat, Morocco); Khalid Chougdali (Ibn Tofail University, National School of Applied Sciences (ENSA), Kenitra, Morocco); Mohammed Boulmalf (International University of Rabat, Morocco)
Surviving False Data Injection Attacks: An Effective Recovery Scheme for Resilient CPS
Khalil Guibene and Nadhir Messai (University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne, France); Marwane Ayaida (Université Polytechnique Hauts de France, France & Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne, France)
Shared DNN Model Ownership Verification in Cross-Silo Federated Learning: A GAN-Based Watermark Approach
Miao Yan (Xi'an Jiaotong University & None, China); Zhou Su, Yuntao Wang, Xiandong Ran and Yiliang Liu (Xi'an Jiaotong University, China); Tom H. Luan (Xidian University, China)
Contract-based Incentive Mechanism for Blockchain-enabled Federated Learning in Vehicle Edge Computing
Runchen Xu (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); Zheng Chang (University of Jyväskylä, Finland); Zhiwei Zhao (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); Geyong Min (University of Exeter, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

Tuesday, December 5 4:00 - 5:30

CT 1: Coding Theory I

Room 402
Chair: Mohammad Rowshan (University of New South Wales, Australia)
Upgrade error detection to prediction with GRAND
Kevin Galligan (Maynooth University, Ireland); Peihong Yuan and Muriel Médard (MIT, USA); Ken R. Duffy (Northeastern University, USA)
Extended Binary Chirps Codebooks for Non-Coherent Communications
Mahdi Bayanifar and Elias Heikkila (Aalto University, Finland); Robert Calderbank (Duke University, USA); Olav Tirkkonen (Aalto University, Finland)
Multilevel Code Designs for mmWave Networks
Mine Gokce Dogan (University of California, Los Angeles, USA); Martina Cardone (University of Minnesota, USA); Christina Fragouli (UCLA, USA)
Improved Convolutional Precoder for PAC Codes
Xinyi Gu, Mohammad Rowshan and Jinhong Yuan (University of New South Wales, Australia)
A Practical Concatenated Coding Scheme for Noisy Shuffling Channels with Coset-based Indexing
Javad Haghighat (TED University, Turkey); Tolga M. Duman (Bilkent University, Turkey)

Tuesday, December 5 4:00 - 5:30

GCSN 3: Green UAV Networks

Room 406
Energy and Latency-Aware Resource Management for UAV-Assisted Mobile Edge Computing Against Jamming
Ziling Shao, Helin Yang, Liang Xiao and Wei Su (Xiamen University, China); Zehui Xiong (Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore)
Joint Deployment and Trajectory Planning of Multiple UAVs for Emergency Communications
Yuchao Zhu (Najing University, China); Shaowei Wang (Nanjing University, China)
Energy-aware Routing Protocol for UAV Electronic Warfare using Graph Attention and Fuzzy Reward
Zihao Zhou and Jie Tang (South China University of Technology, China); Wanmei Feng (South China Agricultural University, China); Kai Kit Wong (University College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
DRL-based UAV Trajectory Planning for AoS and Energy Consumption Minimization Assisted by AoI
Liu Yunchao and Jie Gong (Sun Yat-Sen University, China)
Energy and Computational Efficient Precoding for LEO Satellite Communications
Shiyu Wu (The National Mobile Communications Research Laboratory, Southeast University, China); Yafei Wang, Gangle Sun, Li You and Wenjin Wang (Southeast University, China); Rui Ding (China Academy of Space Technology, China)

Tuesday, December 5 4:00 - 5:30

IoTSN 4: Federated Learning for IoT Networks II

Room 304
Frequency Modulation Aggregation for Federated Learning
Marc Martinez-Gost (Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya & Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain); Ana Pérez-Neira (CTTC, Spain); Miguel Angel Lagunas (Telecommunications Technological Center of Catalonia, Spain)
Latency-Aware Data Allocation Optimization for LEO Satellite IoT Networks with Federated Learning
Pengxiang Qin and Dongyang Xu (Xi'an Jiaotong University, China); Keping Yu (Hosei University, Japan); Anwer Al-Dulaimi (EXFO Inc., Canada); Shahid Mumtaz (Aveiro, Portugal)
Multimodal Multiple Federated Feature Construction Method for IoT Environments
Afsaneh Mahanipour (University o Kentucky, USA); Hana Khamfroush (University of Kentucky, USA)
Efficient Adaptive Federated Learning in Resource-Constrained IoT Environments
Zunming Chen (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications & State Key Lab. of Networking and Switching Technology, China); Hongyan Cui, Qiuji Luan and YU XI (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
Federated Learning with Client Availability Budgets
Yunkai Bao, Steve Drew and Xin Wang (University of Calgary, Canada); Jiayu Zhou (Michigan State University, USA); Xiaoguang Niu (Wuhan University, China)

Tuesday, December 5 4:00 - 4:45

IS 5: Interactive Subsession CRAEN_I5

Room: Exhibition Hall (Grand Ballroom) - level 3
Covert Communication Based on Non-ideal Detection of Overt Channels
Xinyu Zhao, Danyang Wang and Zan Li (Xidian University, China); Lei Qian (Northwest Air Traffic Management Bureau CAAC, China); Chenxi Li (Xidian University, China); Ning Zhang (University of Windsor, Canada)
Discovering Complex Correlations among Multiple IoT Devices in Smart Environments
Andrew F D'Angelo (Stevens Institute of Technology, USA); Chenglong Fu (University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA); Xiaojiang Du (Stevens Institute of Technology, USA); Paul Ratazzi (Air Force Research Laboratory & SUNY Polytechnic Institute, USA)
Blockage-aware Radio Map Construction via Exploiting the Diffraction and Obstruction Structure
Wangqian Chen and Junting Chen (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China)
UAV Trajectory Planning with Interference Awareness for Time-Constrained Data Collection
Kai Liu and Jun Zheng (Southeast University, China)
Deep Reinforcement Learning for On-demand Intelligent Routing in Deterministic Networks
Ying Liu, Jianhui Yin, Weiting Zhang and Shanghan Xie (Beijing Jiaotong University, China)

Tuesday, December 5 4:00 - 4:45

IS 5: Interactive Subsession IoTSN_I5

Room: Exhibition Hall (Grand Ballroom) - level 3
DeTrAP: A Novel AI/ML V2X 5G NR Adaptive Physical Layer Configuration
Lam Thanh-Son Nguyen (Paris Saclay University & Sorbonne University, France); Sondes Kallel (University of Paris Saclay, France); Nadjib Aitsaadi (UVSQ Paris-Saclay & DAVIDLab, France)
Controlling the Vehicular Traffic around Tunnels and Bridges Road Architectures using VANETs
Maram Bani Younes (University of Ottawa & Philadelphia University, Jordan); Azzedine Boukerche (University of Ottawa, Canada)
OrthZig: Concurrent Transmissions Based on Waveform Orthogonality in ZigBee
Qiwen Wang, Zhe Wang, Linghe Kong and Yutong Liu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China); Ying Shao (Shanghai Technical Institute of Electronics Information, China); Shahid Mumtaz (Aveiro, Portugal)
Performance of IEEE 802.11bd Channel Bonding with Fallback
Farzaneh Abdolahi, Jelena Mišić and Vojislav B. Mišić (Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada)

Tuesday, December 5 4:00 - 4:45

IS 5: Interactive Subsession SAC/BF_I5

Room: Exhibition Hall (Grand Ballroom) - level 3
Chair: Mona Jaber (Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Joint Routing and Energy Optimization for Integrated Access and Backhaul networks with Open RAN
Gabriele Gemmi (University of Venice, Italy & Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain); Maxime Elkael (Telecom Sudparis, France); Michele Polese (Northeastern University, USA); Leonardo Maccari (University of Venice, Italy); Hind Castel-Taleb (Samovar UMR 5157, Telecom SudParis, Université Paris Saclay, France); Tommaso Melodia (Northeastern University, USA)
eCPRI Supports In 5G O-RAN Fronthaul With FlexEthernet
Dahina Koulougli (École de Technologie Supérieure ÉTS, Canada); Kim Khoa Nguyen (École de Technologie Supérieure, Canada); Mohamed Cheriet (Ecole de technologie superieure (University of Quebec), Canada)
Hierarchical Channel Assignment for Multihop IAB Networks with Multi-Connectivity
Shin-Ru Hung, Jang-Ping Sheu and Yao-Win Peter Hong (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan)
Machine Learning Classification of Hermite Gaussian Beams for 5G and Beyond Free-Space Optical Backhaul Links
Chehri Abdellah (Royal Military College of Canada, Canada); Ahmed M. Abdelmoniem (Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom (Great Britain) & Assiut University, Egypt); Muhammad Zeeshan Shakir (University of the West of Scotland, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

Tuesday, December 5 4:00 - 4:45

IS 5: Interactive Subsession SAC/EH_I5

Room: Exhibition Hall (Grand Ballroom) - level 3
Chair: Nabajyoti Medhi (Tezpur University, India)
Depression Detection via User Behavior and Tweets
Nianyi Ji, Mondher Bouazizi and Tomoaki Ohtsuki (Keio University, Japan)
Ensuring Confidentiality of Healthcare Data using Fragmentation in Cloud Computing
Andreas Andreou (University of Nicosia Research Foundation, Cyprus); Constandinos X. Mavromoustakis (University of Nicosia & University of Nicosia Research Foundation, Cyprus); Mithun Mukherjee (Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, China); Jordi Mongay Batalla (Warsaw University of Technology, Poland); Evangelos K. Markakis (Hellenic Mediteranean University, Greece); George Mastorakis (Hellenic Mediterranean University, Greece)
A Novel Approach for Activity, Fall and Gait Detection Using Multiple 2D LiDARs
Mondher Bouazizi (Keio University, Japan); Kevin Feghoul (University of Lille, France); Alejandro Lorite Mora and Tomoaki Ohtsuki (Keio University, Japan)
STM-UNet: An Efficient U-shaped Architecture Based on Swin Transformer and Multiscale MLP for Medical Image Segmentation
Lei Shi (Inner Mongolia University & Baotou Medical College, China); Tianyu Gao, Zheng Zhang and Junxing Zhang (Inner Mongolia University, China)

Tuesday, December 5 4:00 - 4:45

IS 5: Interactive Subsession SAC/RIS_I5

Room: Exhibition Hall (Grand Ballroom) - level 3
A Leakage-based Method for Mitigation of Faulty Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces
Nairy Moghadas Gholian (Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany); Marco Rossanese and Placido Mursia (NEC Laboratories Europe GmbH, Germany); Andres Garcia-Saavedra (NEC Labs Europe, Germany); Arash Asadi (TU Darmstadt, Germany); Vincenzo Sciancalepore (NEC Laboratories Europe GmbH, Germany); Xavier Costa-Perez (ICREA and i2cat & NEC Laboratories Europe, Spain)
Robust Scheduling for IRS-assisted Mm-wave Train-ground Communications
Chen Chen and Yong Niu (Beijing Jiaotong University, China); Zhu Han (University of Houston, USA); Ning Wang (Zhengzhou University, China); Bo Ai (Beijing Jiaotong University, China)
Variable Beamwidth Near Field Codebook Design for Communications Aided by A Large Scale RIS
Xiaowen Tian and Nuria González-Prelcic (North Carolina State University, USA); Robert Heath (North Carolina State University & The University of Texas at Austin, USA)
Performance Evaluation for Subarray-based Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface-Aided Wireless Communication Systems
Xinyi Yang, Weicong Chen, Xiao Li and Shi Jin (Southeast University, China)

Tuesday, December 5 4:00 - 5:30

MWN 4: Applications of Federated Learning II

Room 408
Chair: Nidal Nasser (Alfaisal University, Saudi Arabia)
Moreau Envelopes-based Personalized Asynchronous Federated Learning: Improving Practicality in Network Edge Intelligence
Anwar Asad (Lakehead University, Canada); Mostafa M. Fouda (Idaho State University, USA); Zubair Md Fadlullah (Western University, Canada); Mohamed I Ibrahem (Augusta University, USA); Nidal Nasser (Alfaisal University, Saudi Arabia)
Federated Optimal Framework with Low-bitwidth Quantization for Distribution System
Ping Feng, Jiahong Ning, Tingting Yang, Jiabao Kang, JiaLe Wang and Yicheng Li (Dalian Maritime University, China)
Autonomous MEC Selection in Federated Next-Gen Networks via Deep Reinforcement Learning
Emanuel Figetakis (University of Guelph, USA); Ahmed Refaey (University of Guelph, Canada & Western University, Canada)
Joint Knowledge Distillation and Local Differential Privacy for Communication-Efficient Federated Learning in Heterogeneous Systems
Gad M Gad and Zubair Md Fadlullah (Western University, Canada); Mostafa M. Fouda (Idaho State University, USA); Mohamed I Ibrahem (Augusta University, USA); Nidal Nasser (Alfaisal University, Saudi Arabia)
Convergence Analysis and Latency Minimization for Retransmission-Based Semi-Federated Learning
Jingheng Zheng (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Wanli Ni (Beijng University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Hui Tian (Beijng University of posts and telecommunications, China); Wenchao Jiang and Tony Q. S. Quek (Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore)

Tuesday, December 5 4:00 - 5:30

MWN 5: Semantic Communications

Room 410
Chair: Yang Li (Nanyang Technological University, USA)
Resource allocation for semantic communication under physical-layer security
Yang Li (Nanyang Technological University, USA); Xinyu Zhou and Jun Zhao (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Zero-shot Multi-level Feature Transmission Policy Powered by Semantic Knowledge Base
Yaping Sun (Pengcheng Laboratory, China); Hao Chen (Peng Cheng Laboratory, China); Xiaodong Xu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications & Wireless Technology Innovation Institute, China); Ping Zhang (WTI-BUPT, China); Shuguang Cui (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen & CUHKSZ-FNii, China)
Digital Twin and DRL-Driven Semantic Dissemination for 6G Autonomous Driving Service
Yihang Tao (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China); Jun Wu (Waseda University, Japan); Xi Lin (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China); Shahid Mumtaz (Aveiro, Portugal); Soumaya Cherkaoui (Polytechnique Montreal, Canada)
Knowledge-Driven Resource Allocation for Efficient Task Offloading in Connected Autonomous Vehicles
Yao Wen, Ruijin Sun and Nan Cheng (Xidian University, China); Haibo Zhou (Nanjing University, China); Wei Quan (Beijing Jiaotong University, China); Yilong Hui, Yuchuan Fu and Changle Li (Xidian University, China)
Prompt-based Transceiver Cooperation for Semantic Communications with Domain-Incremental Background Knowledge
Lan Zhang and Madhureeta Das (Michigan Technological University, USA); Yao Sun (University of Glasgow, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Dusit Niyato (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore); Xiaoyong Yuan (Michigan Technological University, USA)

Tuesday, December 5 4:00 - 5:30

NGNI 3: Network Optimization and Performance

Room 303
Cost Optimization in Security-Aware Service Function Chain Deployment with Diverse Vendors
Danyang Zheng and Xiaorong Liu (Southwest Jiaotong University, China); Wenyi Tang (Sichuan University, China); Honghui Xu and Xiaojun Cao (Georgia State University, USA)
Making Xcast a Reality and Operate at the 100 Gbps Line Rate in P4 Hardware Switches
Shie-Yuan Wang and Ruei-Syun Lai (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan)
Hierarchical Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning with an Attention-based Graph Matching Approach for Multi-Domain VNF-FG Embedding
Lotfi Slim (United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Fetia Bannour (ENSIIE & SAMOVAR, France)
Cascaded Look Up Table Distillation of P4 Deep Neural Network Switches
Lorenzo De Marinis (Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy); Emilio Paolini (Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna & CNR, Italy); Rana Abu Bakar (Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy); Filippo Cugini and Francesco Paolucci (CNIT, Italy)
Top AS Router Geolocation in Databases: Performance and Techniques
Nan Jiang, Jessie Hui Wang, Jilong Wang and Peiran Wang (Tsinghua University, China)

Tuesday, December 5 4:00 - 5:30

ONS 1: Optical Network Design and Recovery

Room 310
First-Fit: A Universal Algorithm for Spectrum Assignment
George N. Rouskas (North Carolina State University, USA)
PRODIGY: A Progressive Upgrade Approach For Elastic Optical Networks
Shrinivas Petale (George Washington University, USA); Shih-Chun Lin (North Carolina State University, USA); Motoharu Matsuura (The University of Electro-Communications, Japan); Hiroshi Hasegawa (Nagoya University, Japan); Suresh Subramaniam (George Washington University, USA)
Efficient Routing Method for Reducing Significant Outages in Optical Networks
Katsuaki Higashimori and Takafumi Tanaka (NTT, Japan); Takeru Inoue (NTT Network Innovation Labs., Japan)
Finding SRLG-Disjoint Primary and Backup Route Pairs using k-SPF algorithm in Optical Networks
Hiroshi Matsuura (NTT Network Service Systems Laboratories, Japan); Kohjun Koshiji (NTT Network Service System Laboratories, Japan); Hanami Yokoi, Tatsuya Matsukawa and Takayuki Fujii (NTT Network Service Systems Laboratories, Japan)
Progressive Quantum Key Distribution Network Recovery after Massive Failures
Mengyao Li, Qiaolun Zhang, Alberto Gatto, Stefano Bregni and Zongshuai Yang (Politecnico di Milano, Italy); Massimo Tornatore (Politecnico di Milano & University of California, Davis, Italy)

Tuesday, December 5 4:00 - 5:30

SAC/AC 2: Cyber Security in UAV Communications

Room 401
Federated Learning-based Jamming Detection for Tactical Terrestrial and Non-Terrestrial Networks
Aida Meftah (École de Technologie Supérieure (ÉTS), Canada); Georges Kaddoum (ETS Engineering School, University of Québec, Canada); Tri Nhu Do (Polytechnique Montréal, Canada); Chamseddine Talhi (Ecole de Technologie Superieure, Canada)
Multiclass Classification Approaches for Intrusion Detection in IoT-driven Aerial Computing Environment
Saksham Mittal (Graphic Era Hill University Dehradun Uttarakhand, India); Amit Kumar Mishra (Graphic Era Hill University Dehradun Uttarakhand INDIA, India & Graphic Era Deemed to Be University Dehradun Uttarakhand, INDIA, India); Mohammad Wazid (Graphic Era Deemed to be University, India); Devesh Singh (Graphic Era University, India); Ashok Kumar Das (International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad, India); Sachin Shetty (Old Dominion University, USA)
Privacy-preserving Mutual Authentication Protocol for Drone Delivery Services
Rohini Poolat Parameswarath and Biplab Sikdar (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Secure Transmission via Precoding for Satellite-Terrestrial Downlink NOMA Networks
Mengyan Huang, Feng-Kui Gong and Guo Li (Xidian University, China); Thippa Reddy Gadekallu and Nancy Victor (Vellore Institute of Technology, India)
Machine Learning-Based DDoS Mitigation Framework for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) Environment using Software-Defined Networks (SDN)
Brij B. Gupta (Asia University, Taiwan); Akshat Gaurav (Ronin Institute, USA); Varsha Arya (Insights2Techinfo, Taiwan); John Chui Kwok Tai (Hong Kong Metropolitan University (HKMU), Hong Kong)

Tuesday, December 5 4:00 - 5:30

SAC/CC 2: Security and Privacy in Edge-Cloud Computing and Storage Systems

Room 307
Chair: Te-Chuan Chiu (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan)
Privacy-Preserving Edge Computing from Pairing-Based Inner Product Functional Encryption
Utsav Banerjee (Indian Institute of Science, India)
SES2: A Secure and Efficient Symmetric Searchable Encryption Scheme for Structured Data
Yanwei Gong and Xiaolin Chang (Beijing Jiaotong University, China); Jelena Mišić and Vojislav B. Mišić (Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada); Yingying Yao and Liwei Wang (Beijing Jiaotong University, China)
Zip to Zip-it: Compression to Achieve Local Differential Privacy
Francesco Taurone, Daniel E. Lucani and Qi Zhang (Aarhus University, Denmark)
Efficient and Privacy-Preserving Byzantine-robust Federated Learning
Shijie Luan (University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China); Xiang Lu (Institute of Information Engineering, CAS, China); Zhuangzhuang Zhang (Wuhan University, China); Guangsheng Chang (Institute of Information Engineering, China); Yunchuan Guo (Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
Secure Fractional Repetition Codes for Distributed Storage Systems
Zhihang Deng and Bing Zhu (Central South University, China); Kenneth W. Shum (The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen), Hong Kong); Weiping Wang (Central South University, China)

Tuesday, December 5 4:00 - 5:30

SAC/MLC 3: Machine Learning for Semantic Communications I

Room 403
Chair: Jihong Park (Deakin University, Australia)
Task-oriented and Semantics-aware Communications for Augmented Reality
Zhe Wang and Yansha Deng (King's College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Semantic Channel Equalizer: Modelling Language Mismatch in Multi-User Semantic Communications
Mohamed Sana (CEA LETI Grenoble, France); Emilio Calvanese Strinati (CEA-LETI, France)
A Scalable Multi-Device Semantic Communication System for Multi-Task Execution
Mingze Gong, Shuoyao Wang and Suzhi Bi (Shenzhen University, China)
Joint Semantic-Native Communication and Inference via Minimal Simplicial Structures
Qiyang Zhao and Hang Zou (Technology Innovation Institute, United Arab Emirates); Mehdi Bennis (Centre of Wireless Communications, University of Oulu, Finland); Mérouane Debbah (Khalifa University of Science and Technology, France); Ebtesam Almazrouei (Technology Innovation Institute, United Arab Emirates); Faouzi Bader (Technology Innovation Institut -TII, United Arab Emirates)
Deep Joint Source-Channel Coding for Wireless Image Transmission with Entropy-Aware Adaptive Rate Control
Weixuan Chen, Yuhao Chen, Qianqian Yang and Chongwen Huang (Zhejiang University, China); Qian Wang (Zhejiang University of Technology, China); Zhaoyang Zhang (Zhejiang University, China)

Tuesday, December 5 4:00 - 5:30

SAC/SGC 1: Smart Grid Communications

Room 309
Chair: Biplab Sikdar (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Community-based Load Balancing and Prosumers Incentivization in Smart Grid Systems
Nicholas Kemp, Md Sadman Siraj and Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou (University of New Mexico, USA); Symeon Papavassiliou (Institute of Communication and Computer Systems (ICCS) - National Technical University of Athens, Greece)
Machine Learning based Time Synchronization Attack Detection for Synchrophasors
Asif Iqbal (National University of Singapore, Singapore); Muhammad Naveed Aman (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA); Biplab Sikdar (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
ANDORRA - A Novel loss-aware energy traDing framewOk foR Residential communities: Application to smart grids
Bashar Chreim (University of Technology of Troyes, France); Moez Esseghir (Technology University of Troyes & Charles Delaunay Institute, France); Leila Boulahia (University of Technology of Troyes, France)
Cost-Effective Server Placement and Network Slice Provisioning for Virtual Power Plants
Vignesh Sridharan (Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), A*STAR Singapore); Ernest Kurniawan, Sumei Sun and Amnart Boonkajay (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore)
Misbehaviour Detection for Smart Grids using a Privacy-centric and Computationally Efficient Federated Learning Approach
Muhammad Akbar Husnoo (Deakin University & Centre for Cyber Security Research and Innovation (CSRI), Australia); Adnan Anwar, Nasser Hosseinzadeh and Robin Doss (Deakin University, Australia); Biplab Sikdar (National University of Singapore, Singapore)

Tuesday, December 5 4:00 - 5:30

SAC/SN 1: Mobile Social Networks

Room 308
Chair: Halima Elbiaze (University of Quebec at Montreal, Canada)
Joint Vehicular Social Semantic Extraction, Transmission and Cache for High QoE Digital Twin
Xintian Ren (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China); Jun Wu (Waseda University, Japan); Qianqian Pan (The University of Tokyo, Japan); Shahid Mumtaz (Aveiro, Portugal)
Opti-Safe: Optimal Supply and Demand For Providing Safety Services in SIoV Environment
Chandana Roy (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India); Pushp Paritosh (Sri Ramaswamy Memorial Institute of Science and Technology, India); Sudip Misra (Indian Institute of Technology-Kharagpur, India); Preetam Kumar (IIT Patna, India)
Social-Inspired Multicast Feature Selections With Mobile Edge Computing
Ru-Jun Wang (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan); Chih-Hang Wang, De-Nian Yang and Guang-Siang Lee (Academia Sinica, Taiwan); Wen-Tsuen Chen (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan)
Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning for Spectrum Management in V2X with Social Roles
Po-Yen Chen (National Central University, Taiwan); Yu-Heng Zheng (National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan); Ibrahim Abdullah Althamary (National Central University, Taiwan); Jann-Long Chern (National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan); Chih-Wei Huang (National Central University, Taiwan)
GAIA: A Dynamic Crowdmapping Framework based on Hedonic Coalition Formation Games
Adedamola Adesokan, Md Sadman Siraj, Arianna Santamaria Penafiel and Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou (University of New Mexico, USA); Symeon Papavassiliou (Institute of Communication and Computer Systems (ICCS) - National Technical University of Athens, Greece)

Tuesday, December 5 4:00 - 5:30

SAC/SSC 2: Low Earth Orbit Satellites Networks

Room 407
A Novel Scheduling Scheme for Earth Observation in LEO Satellite Systems
Ting Xiong and Ran Zhang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Changqing Luo (Virginia Commonwealth University, USA); Jiang Liu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Geyong Min (University of Exeter, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Tao Huang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
Efficient Routing Algorithm for Large-Scale Query Requests in LEO Satellite Networks
Jiajia Li, Yannan Wang, Ying Zhao, Guohui Ding and Liang Zhao (Shenyang Aerospace University, China)
LEO Clock Synchronization with Entangled Light
Ronakraj Ketan Gosalia and Robert Malaney (University of New South Wales, Australia); Ryan Aguinaldo (Northrop Grumman Corporation, USA); Jonathan E Green (USA); Peter G Brereton (NASA, USA)
Reinforcement Learning based Intelligent Routing for Software Defined LEO Satellite Networks
Liying Fu, Wenting Wei and Xueyu Lu (Xidian University, China); Celimuge Wu (The University of Electro-Communications, Japan); Xiangwang Hou (Tsinghua University, Beijing, China); Lei Liu and Chen Chen (Xidian University, China)
LEO Satellite Constellation Design for Seamless Global Coverage with QoS Guarantee
Ruyan Wang, Xianyi Ye, Peng He and Yaping Cui (Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Dapeng Wu (CQUPT, China)

Tuesday, December 5 4:00 - 5:30

SPC 3: Signal Processing for Millimeter and THz Communication Systems

Room 404
Joint Active User Detection and Channel Estimation for Massive Grant-Free Access via Difference of Convex Programming
Kai-hui Liu (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China)
Analytical Beam Training for RIS-Assisted Wideband Terahertz Communication
Yuhao Chen, Jingbo Tan and Linglong Dai (Tsinghua University, China)
Far-Field Training With Estimation for Cross-Field Beam Alignment in Terahertz UM-MIMO Systems
Yuhang Chen (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden); Chong Han (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China); Hao Liu (Nokia Shanghai Bell, China); Emil Björnson (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)
Compressive Near/Far-Field Channel Estimation for MmWave/THz Systems With Extremely Large Antenna Arrays
Hongwei Wang, Jun Fang and Jilin Wang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China)
Optimized Pilot Distribution to Track the Phase Noise in DFT-s-OFDM for Sub-THz Systems
Jean-Christophe Sibel (Mitsubishi Electric R&D Centre Europe & Wireless Communication Systems, France); Vincent Corlay (Mitsubishi Electric R&D Centre Europe, France); Adel Bechihi (Mitsubishi Electric R and D Centre Europe, France)

Tuesday, December 5 4:00 - 5:30

WC 5: NOMA II

Room 405
Chair: Zehong Lin (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)
Connection Throughput Maximization for Grant-Based NOMA Massive IoT with Graph Matching
Shashwat Mishra and Lou Salaun (Nokia Bell Labs, France); Jean-Marie Gorce (INSA-Lyon & CITI, Inria, France); Chung Shue Chen (Nokia Bell Labs, France)
Joint Design of Transmission and Reception Exploiting Channel Correlation in Grant-free Access
Hao Wang (Tsinghua Univ, China); Xiujun Zhang and Shidong Zhou (Tsinghua University, China)
Ergodic Rate Analysis of RIS-Assisted BAC-NOMA Systems under Nakagami-m Fading
Sarah Basharat and Syed Ali Hassan (National University of Sciences and Technology, Pakistan); Haejoon Jung (Kyung Hee University, Korea (South)); Kapal Dev (Munster Technological University & IEEE, Ireland); Aamir Mahmood and Mikael Gidlund (Mid Sweden University, Sweden)
On Optimizing Transmit Power, Channel-Quantization Rate, and User Pairing for Power-Domain MIMO-NOMA Downlinks
Kritsada Mamat (King Mongkut's University of Technology North Bangkok, Thailand); Wiroonsak Santipach (Kasetsart University, Thailand)
On Pilot-Free Slotted ALOHA for Massive Access
Xu Li and Tao Yang (Beihang University, China)

Tuesday, December 5 4:00 - 5:30

WC 6: Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS) Enabled Communications II

Room 409
Chair: Wei Jiang (German Research Center for Artifitial Intelligence (DFKI GmbH), Germany)
Weighted Sum Power Maximization for STAR-RIS Assisted SWIPT Systems
Yixuan Li and Ji Wang (Central China Normal University, China); Yuanwei Liu (Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Wenwu Xie (HNIST, China); Jun Wang (CICT Mobile Communication Technology Co., Ltd., China)
Distributed CSMA/CA MAC Protocol for RIS-Assisted Networks
Zhou Zhang (Tianjin Artificial Intelligence Innovation Center (TAIIC), China); Saman Atapattu (RMIT University, Australia); Yizhu Wang (Tianjin Artificial Intelligence Innovation Center (TAIIC), China); Marco Di Renzo (CNRS & Paris-Saclay University, France)
Dynamic Sub-array Based Modeling for Large-Scale RIS-assisted mmWave UAV Channels
Baiping Xiong (Southeast University, China); Zaichen Zhang (National Mobile Communications Research Laboratory, Southeast University, China); Jiangzhou Wang (University of Kent, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
A Simple Multiple-Access Design for Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface-Aided Systems
Wei Jiang (German Research Center for Artifitial Intelligence (DFKI GmbH), Germany); Hans D. Schotten (University of Kaiserslautern, Germany)
Robust Design of RIS-aided Full-Duplex RSMA System for V2X communication: A DRL Approach
Pala Sonia (National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan); Mayur Vitthalrao Katwe (Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore); Keshav Singh (National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan); Theodoros Tsiftsis (University of Thessaly, Greece); Chih-Peng Li (National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan)

Tuesday, December 5 4:45 - 5:30

IS 6: Interactive Subsession CRAEN_I6

Room: Exhibition Hall (Grand Ballroom) - level 3
Vision-based Semantic Communications for Metaverse Services: A Contest Theoretic Approach
Guangyuan Liu, Hongyang Du and Dusit Niyato (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore); Jiawen Kang (Guangdong University of Technology, Singapore); Zehui Xiong (Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore); Boon Hee Soong (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Elastic Spectrum Sensing for Satellite-Terrestrial Communication under Highly Dynamic Channels
Yinjun Xu and Tianheng Xu (Shanghai Advanced Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China); Ting Zhou (Shanghai University, China); Haijun Zhang (University of Science and Technology Beijing, China); Honglin Hu (Shanghai Advanced Research Institute, China)
MADRL-Enhanced Secure RAN Slicing in 5G and Beyond Multi-Cell Uplink Communication Systems
Yuanyuan Sun (Xidian University, China); Zhenjiang Shi, Jiadai Wang and Jiajia Liu (Northwestern Polytechnical University, China)
Robust Federated Learning with Parameter Classification and Weighted Aggregation against Noisy Labels
Qun Li, Congying Duan and Siguang Chen (Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)

Tuesday, December 5 4:45 - 5:30

IS 6: Interactive Subsession IoTSN_I6

Room: Exhibition Hall (Grand Ballroom) - level 3
Frequency-Domain LOS Identification Compliant with Normalized CSI Values
Yusei Yasuba, Koji Yamamoto and Hiroki Shimomura (Kyoto University, Japan); Keisuke Tamai (Kyoto Univrtsity, Japan); Noriyasu Kato, Shunji Taki and Takuya Negishi (Allied Telesis K. K., Japan)
Probabilistic Model Checking for unconfirmed transmission in LoRaWAN on the MAC layer
Mi Chen (Univ Paris Est Creteil, LACL, France); Lynda Mokdad (Université de Paris 12 & Laboratoire LACL, France); Jalel Ben Othman (CentraleSupélec & University of Sorbonne Paris Nord, France); Jean-Michel Fourneau (Univ de Versailles, Lab. DAVID, France)
Fog-based Smart Contract Platform for Wearable IoT-enabled Telemedicine
Marc Jayson Baucas and Petros Spachos (University of Guelph, Canada)
RSSF: Towards Real-Time Decoding of LoRa Packets without Prior Knowledge of their Spreading Factor
Pei Tian (Shanghai Advanced Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China); Carlo Alberto Boano and Markus Schuss (Graz University of Technology, Austria); Jianming Wei (Shanghai Advanced Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)

Tuesday, December 5 4:45 - 5:30

IS 6: Interactive Subsession SAC/ISC_I6

Room: Exhibition Hall (Grand Ballroom) - level 3
Chair: Wangjun Jiang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
AMTL-Loc: Efficient WiFi Indoor Localization with Reduced Fingerprint Collection
Zaipeng Xie, Wenhao Fang, Bingzhe Yu, Yang Ding and Yanling Pan (Hohai University, China); WenZhan Song (University of Georgia, USA)
SLAM for Multiple Extended Targets using 5G Signal
Wangjun Jiang, Zhiqing Wei and Zhiyong Feng (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
A Multi-symbol Compressive Sensing Model for OTFS based ISAC System
Qianli Wang and Pingzhi Fan (Southwest Jiaotong University, China)
Optimizing the Sum Rate and SER of Integrated Sensing and Communication Systems
Shiyun Liu, Jinfeng Zhang and Yejun He (Shenzhen University, China)
Dual-functional Internet of Meta-material Things Networks: Integrated Sensing and Communication
Zhiquan Xu, Xu Liu, Hongliang Zhang and Lingyang Song (Peking University, China)

Tuesday, December 5 4:45 - 5:30

IS 6: Interactive Subsession SAC/RIS_I6

Room: Exhibition Hall (Grand Ballroom) - level 3
Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface-Aided Single-Carrier Frequency-Domain Equalization
Qiang Li (Jinan University, China); Miaowen Wen (South China University of Technology, China); Yu Huang (Guangzhou University, China); Jinming Wen (Jinan University, China); Jun Li (Guangzhou University, China); Ertugrul Basar (Koc University, Turkey)
Near Field Sidelink Positioning through A Single Active RIS
Pinjun Zheng (KAUST, Saudi Arabia); Hui Chen and Henk Wymeersch (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden); Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, USA)
Performance Analysis of Hybrid Relay-Connected Multi-RIS System for Coverage Extension
Caslav Stefanovic and Ana Garcia Armada (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain)

Tuesday, December 5 4:45 - 5:30

IS 6: Interactive Subsession WC_I6

Room: Exhibition Hall (Grand Ballroom) - level 3
Multidimensional Eigenwave Multiplexing Modulation for Non-Stationary Channels
Zhibin Zou and Aveek Dutta (University at Albany, SUNY, USA)
Blind Cyclic Prefix-based CFO Estimation in MIMO-OFDM Systems
Nariman Torkzaban (University of Maryland, USA); Mohammad Ali Khojastepour (NEC Laboratories America, USA); John S. Baras (University of Maryland, USA)
Capacity Achieving by Diagonal Permutation for MU-MIMO channels
Zhibin Zou and Aveek Dutta (University at Albany, SUNY, USA)
Radio Unit Configuration for Dynamic Time Division Duplex in Distributed MIMO Systems
Hiroki Iimori (Ericsson Research, Japan); Jörg Huschke (Ericsson, Germany); Joao Vieira (Ericsson, Sweden)
A Sparse-Coded Multiplexing Approach for MIMO Over-the-Air Federated Learning
Chenxi Zhong and Xiaojun Yuan (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China)

Wednesday, December 6

Wednesday, December 6 8:30 - 10:00

CISS 7: Privacy-Preserving Techniques I

Room 301
Chair: Zahra Mobini (Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Personalized Online Federated Learning With Differential Privacy in Constrained Environments: A Meta-Learning Approach
Olusola Tolulope Odeyomi (North Carolina A and T University, USA); Austin Smith and Adrienne Whitmore (North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, USA); Kaushik Roy (North Carolina A&T State University, USA)
DTPP-DFL: A Dropout-Tolerated Privacy-Preserving Decentralized Federated Learning Framework
Tao Chen and Xiaofeng Wang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); Hong-Ning Dai (Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong); Haomiao Yang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); Rang Zhou (Chengdu University of Technology, China); Xiaosong Zhang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China)
Multi-Server Secure Aggregation with Unreliable Communication Links
L Kai (Shanghaitech University, China); Songze Li (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China); Ming Ding (Data 61, Australia); Youlong Wu (ShanghaiTech University, China)
Privacy Computing with Right to Be Forgotten in Trusted Execution Environment
Hui Liu and Hongzhi Luo (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China); Shaofeng Li (Peng Cheng Laboratory, China); Tian Dong, Guoxing Chen, Yan Meng and Haojin Zhu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China)
Improving Decision Tree Privacy with Bloom Filters
Sean Lalla and Rongxing Lu (University of New Brunswick, Canada); Yunguo Guan (Eastern Michigan University, USA); Songnian Zhang (Xidian University, China)

Wednesday, December 6 8:30 - 10:00

CISS 8: Applied Cryptography

Room 304
Chair: Shanxiang Lyu (Jinan University, China)
RansomAI: AI-powered Ransomware for Stealthy Encryption
Jan von der Assen (University of Zurich UZH, Switzerland); Alberto Huertas Celdrán (University of Zürich UZH, Switzerland & University of Murcia, Spain); Janik Luechinger (University of Zurich, Switzerland); Pedro Miguel Sánchez Sánchez (University of Murcia, Spain); Gérôme Bovet (Armasuisse, Switzerland); Gregorio Martinez Perez (University of Murcia, Spain); Burkhard Stiller (University of Zürich, Switzerland)
Lightweight Substitution box using Elliptic Curve Cryptography for Image Encryption Applications
Naqash Azeem Khan (Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, Malaysia & Institute of Autonomous Systems, Pakistan); Azlan Awang (Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, Malaysia)
Post-Quantum Secure Hybrid Methods for UE Primary Authentication in 6G with Forward Secrecy
Ramesh Chandra Vuppala and Dixit Kumar (Samsung R&D Institute India - Bangalore, India); Donghyun Je (Samsung Electronics, Korea (South)); Neha Sharma (Samsung Research Institute Bangalore, India); Anshuman Nigam (Samsung, India); Dongmyoung Kim (Samsung Research & Samsung Electronics, Korea (South))
Efficient Sample Alignment with Fast Polynomial Interpolation for Vertical Federated Learning
Jingwei Liu and Tiezheng Ma (Xidian University, China); Huachong Zhang (Industrial Bank Co, China); Wei Liu and Qingqi Pei (Xidian University, China)
Verifiable and Efficient Semantic Blockchain
Yijing Lin and Zhipeng Gao (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Hongyang Du, Dusit Niyato and Jiacheng Wang (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

Wednesday, December 6 8:30 - 10:00

CQRM 4: IoT and Industrial Systems

Room 305
Adaptive Pub/sub Message Delivery for World Weather IoT
Ren Ozeki, Akihito Hiromori and Hirozumi Yamaguchi (Osaka University, Japan)
Information Timeliness Guaranteed Communication and Energy Control Integration in Multi-Mode Power IoT
Haijun Liao (North China Electric Power University, China); Zhenyu Zhou (North China Electric Power University & Waseda University, China); Zijia Yao (North China Electric Power University, China); Zahid Mumtaz (Australian National University, Australia); Valerio Frascolla (Intel Deutschland Gmbh, Germany)
AWS IoT Service Integration for Real Industry 4.0 Deployments
Davide Tazzioli (University of Bologna, Italy); Riccardo Venanzi (University of Bologna, Italy & University of Ferrara, Italy); Andrea Capponi (Northvolt AB, Sweden); Sjoerd Dost (Northvolt AB, The Netherlands); Luca Foschini and Paolo Bellavista (University of Bologna, Italy)
Modeling and Design of the Communication Sensing and Control Coupled Closed-Loop Industrial System
Zeyang Meng, Dingyou Ma, Shengfeng Wang, Zhiqing Wei and Zhiyong Feng (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
Programming Edge-based 6TiSCH Networks for Control-Loop Communication
Arijit Roy (Indian Institute Technology Patna & SensorDrops Networks Pvt. Ltd., India); Nurzaman Ahmed (Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India); Sudip Misra (Indian Institute of Technology-Kharagpur, India)

Wednesday, December 6 8:30 - 10:00

CRAEN 3: Reinforcement Learning for Wireless Networks I

Room 402
Chair: Yiqin Deng (Shandong University, China)
Reinforcement Learning based Energy-Efficient Routing with Latency Constraints for FANETs
Xuchen Qi, Jieling Li, Zefang Lv and Liang Xiao (Xiamen University, China)
How Does Forecasting Affect the Convergence of DRL Techniques in O-RAN Slicing?
Ahmad M. Nagib (Queen's University, Canada); Hatem Abou-Zeid (University of Calgary, Canada); Hossam S. Hassanein (Queen's University, Canada)
Throughput Maximization for RSMA-Empowered CRN under Short-Packet Communications: A DRL-Based Approach
Anal Paul (National Sun Yat Sen University, Taiwan); Mayur Vitthalrao Katwe (Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore); Keshav Singh and Chih-Peng Li (National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan); Derrick Wing Kwan Ng (University of New South Wales, Australia)
Dynamic RRH-BBU Mapping for C-RAN: A Data-Driven Approach
Shanshan Wang and Fan Wu (Central South University, China); Jie Gao (Carleton University, Canada); Sijing Duan and Feng Lyu (Central South University, China); Huaqing Wu (University of Calgary, Canada); Yaoxue Zhang (Tsinghua University, China); Sherman Shen (University of Waterloo, Canada)
A Partially Observable Deep Multi-Agent Active Inference Framework for Resource Allocation in 6G and Beyond Wireless Communications Networks
Fuhui Zhou and Rui Ding (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China); Qihui Wu (PLA Unicersity of Science and Technology, China); Derrick Wing Kwan Ng (University of New South Wales, Australia); Kai Kit Wong (University College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Naofal Al-Dhahir (University of Texas at Dallas, USA)

Wednesday, December 6 8:30 - 10:00

CSM 4: Network Security and Privacy Protection II

Room 303
Secure and Efficient Federated Learning for Robust Intrusion Detection in IoT Networks
Zakaria Abou El Houda (University of Montreal, Canada); Hajar Moudoud (Universite de Sherbrooke, Canada); Lyes Khoukhi (ENSICAEN, Normandie University, France)
SSHCEth: Secure Smart Home Communications based on Ethereum Blockchain and Smart Contract
Imad Bourian (Bnou Toufail University, Morocco); Anass Sebbar (International University of Rabat, Morocco); Khalid Chougdali (Ibn Tofail University, National School of Applied Sciences (ENSA), Kenitra, Morocco); El Mehdi Amhoud (Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, Morocco)
Secure Migration in NGN: An Optimal Stopping Problem Approach with Partial Observability
Yahuza Bello (University of Guelph, Canada); Ahmed Refaey (University of Guelph, Canada & Western University, Canada); Abdallah Shami (Western University, Canada)
An MPQUIC-based frame-granularity transmission mechanism for adaptive video streaming
JunHao Wu, Wang Yang and Lihuan Hui (Central South University, China)
Network Intrusion Detection in Software-Defined Network using Deep and Machine Learning
Lotfi Mhamdi (University of Leeds, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Hedi Hamdi (University Of Manouba, Tunisia); Mahmood A. Mahmood (Cairo univ & ISSR, Egypt)

Wednesday, December 6 8:30 - 10:00

CT 2: Communication Theory for Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces

Room 403
Channel Capacity of RIS-assisted Symbiotic Radios with Imperfect Knowledge of Channels
Qianqian Zhang, Hu Zhou and Ying-Chang Liang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); Wei Zhang (University of New South Wales, Australia); H. Vincent Poor (Princeton University, USA)
Novel Hybrid RIS Architectures and Beamforming Optimization for Energy-Efficient Multi-User MISO
Konstantinos Ntougias and Ioannis Krikidis (University of Cyprus, Cyprus)
Hybrid Active-Passive Intelligent Reflecting Surface for Secure Communication
Ling Zhuang (Nanjing University of Information Sicence and Technology & None, China); Jianyu Zhu and Zhizhong Zhang (Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, China); Fang Fang (Western University, Canada)
Two-Timescale Design for Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface-Aided URLLC
Qihao Peng (Queen Mary University of London, China); Hong Ren and Cunhua Pan (Southeast University, China); Maged Elkashlan (Queen Mary, University of London, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
A Low-Complexity Design for STAR-RIS Aided Multi-Antenna NOMA Systems
Shizhao Yang (Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Zhiguo Ding (University of Manchester, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Jun Zhang and Hongbo Zhu (Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)

Wednesday, December 6 8:30 - 10:00

GCSN 4: Advanced Green Networks

Room 302
Hierarchical Meta-Reinforcement Learning for Resource-Efficient Slicing in O-RAN
Xianfu Chen (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Finland); Celimuge Wu (The University of Electro-Communications, Japan); Zhifeng Zhao (Zhejiang Lab, China); Yong Xiao (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China); Shiwen Mao (Auburn University, USA); Yusheng Ji (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)
Parallel Computing for Energy-Efficient Baseband Processing in O-RAN: Synchronization and OFDM Implementation Based on SPMD
Yihao Shen, Feng Yuan, Shan Cao and Zhiyuan Jiang (Shanghai University, China); Sheng Zhou (Tsinghua University, China)
A Heuristic Spatio-temporal Scheduling for Virtual Network Allocation Considering Renewable Energy
Ryota Nakamura (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation & Network Technology Laboratories, Japan); Kengo Urata (NTT Network Service Systems Laboratories, Japan); Shigeaki Harada (NTT, Japan)
Energy Efficiency Learning Closed-Loop Controls In O-RAN 5G Network
Tai M. Ho (École de Technologie Supérieure ÉTS, Canada); Kim Khoa Nguyen (École de Technologie Supérieure, Canada); Mohamed Cheriet (Ecole de technologie superieure (University of Quebec), Canada)
Fast In-Network Functionality Embedding in Software-Defined Service-Centric Networking
Xiaolu Li, Renchao Xie, Tao Huang and Yunjie Liu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)

Wednesday, December 6 8:30 - 10:00

IoTSN 5: Smart Secure Networks

Room 408
Chair: Yagmur Yigit (Edinburgh Napier University, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Blockchain and Deep Learning-Based IDS for Securing SDN-Enabled Industrial IoT Environments
Samira Kamali Poorazad (University of Oulu, Finland); Chafika Benzaid (University of Oulu, Finland & University of Sciences and Technology Houari Boumediane (USTHB), Algeria); Tarik Taleb (University of Oulu, Finland)
Zero-Trust Empowered Decentralized Security Defense against Poisoning Attacks in SL-IoT: Joint Distance-Accuracy Detection Approach
Rongxuan Song and Jun Wu (Waseda University, Japan); Qianqian Pan (The University of Tokyo, Japan); Muhammad Imran (Federation University, Australia); Nidal Naser (Alfaisal University, Saudi Arabia); Rebet Jones (Capitol Technology University, USA); Christos Verikoukis (University of Patras, Greece)
Enhancing Open RAN Security with Zero Trust and Machine Learning
Hajar Moudoud (Universite de Sherbrooke, Canada); Soumaya Cherkaoui (Polytechnique Montreal, Canada)
Outlier Detection for Risk-based User Authentication on Mobile Devices
Maria Papaioannou (Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal); Georgios Zachos (Instituto de Telecomunicações, Campus Universitário de Santiago, Portugal); Georgios Mantas (Instituto de Telecomunicações - Pólo de Aveiro, Portugal); Ismael Essop (University of Greenwich, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Firooz B. Saghezchi and Jonathan Rodriguez (Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal)
A Cooperative Resource Optimization Framework for Blockchain-based Vehicular Networks with MEC
Jing Zhang (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China); Fei Shen (Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology & Chinese Academy of Sciences, China); Liang Tang (Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, Chinese Academy of Science, China); Feng Yan (Southeast University, China); Fei Qin (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China); Lianfeng Shen (National Mobile Communications Research Laboratory, Southeast University, China)

Wednesday, December 6 8:30 - 10:00

IoTSN 6: Deep Learning for IoT Networks

Room 409
Backdoor Attacks Against Deep Learning-based Massive MIMO Localization
Tianya Zhao and Xuyu Wang (Florida International University, USA); Shiwen Mao (Auburn University, USA)
DS-IRSA: A Deep Reinforcement Learning and Sensing Based IRSA
Iman Hmedoush (Nokia Bell Labs, France); Pengwenlong Gu (Inria, France); Cedric Adjih and Paul Muhlethaler (INRIA, France); Ahmed Serhrouchni (ENST, France)
A novel deep reinforcement learning based clustering scheme for WSN
Chenglong Yan, Yafeng Deng and Young-June Choi (Ajou University, Korea (South))
Deep Inertial Odometry Using Hierarchical Temporal Features of IMU Sequences
Mengya Kou (Sun Yat-Sen University, China); Tao He (Sun Yat-sen University, China); Qun Niu and Ning Liu (Sun Yat-Sen University, China)
Predictive Modeling of Loss Ratio for Congestion Control in IoT Networks Using Deep Learning
Hanane Benadji and Lynda Zitoune (L2S Paris Saclay University, France); Véronique Vèque (Université Paris-Saclay, France)

Wednesday, December 6 8:30 - 9:15

IS 7: Interactive Subsession CQRM_I7

Room: Exhibition Hall (Grand Ballroom) - level 3
A Ring Topology-based Communication-Efficient Scheme for D2D Wireless Federated Learning
Zimu Xu (University of Bern, China); Wei Tian, Yingxin Liu, Wanjun Ning and Jingjin Wu (BNU-HKBU United International College, China)
Delay Driven Non-Overlapped Tile Streaming with Resource Allocation in Wireless VR Networks
Xinyu Wan (University of Sydney, Australia); Md. Farhad Hossain and Kumudu S Munasinghe (University of Canberra, Australia); Abbas Jamalipour (University of Sydney, Australia)
SAFE: Secure Symbiotic Positioning, Navigation, and Timing
Md Sadman Siraj and Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou (University of New Mexico, USA); Symeon Papavassiliou (Institute of Communication and Computer Systems (ICCS) - National Technical University of Athens, Greece); Jim Plusquellic (University of New Mexico, USA)
A Variable Step-size Backtracking SAMP Channel Estimation Method for OTFS System
Xuefeng Li (China); Chengzhao Shan, Yongkui Ma and Honglin Zhao (Harbin Institute of Technology, China); Jia Shaobo (Zhengzhou University, China); Di Zhang (Zhengzhou University, China & Korea University, Korea (South))

Wednesday, December 6 8:30 - 9:15

IS 7: Interactive Subsession CSM_I7

Room: Exhibition Hall (Grand Ballroom) - level 3
A Packet Delay Emulator for High-Bandwidth and Low-Latency Traffic in 5G Networks
Raffaele Bolla (University of Genoa, Italy); Roberto Bruschi (CNIT, Italy); Franco R. Davoli (University of Genoa & National Inter-University Consortium for Telecommunications (CNIT), Italy); Chiara Lombardo (University of Genoa & CNIT- Research Unit of the University of Genoa, Italy); Alireza Mohammadpour (CNIT - S2N National Lab, Italy); Ramin Rabbani (University of Genoa, Italy)
SOLT: A Software-Defined Load Balancing Algorithm for Time Sensitive Networks
Venkatraman Balasubramanian (Arizona State University, USA); Sundar Vedantham, Niall McDonnell and Ambalavanar Arulambalam (Intel Corporation, USA); Martin Reisslein (Arizona State University, USA); Moayad Aloqaily (MBZUAI, United Arab Emirates)
Codecs for DNA-based Data Storage Systems with Multiple Constraints for Internet of Things
Kaixin Fan and Huaming Wu (Tianjin University, China); Ruidong Li (Kanazawa University, Japan)
Joint VNF Decomposition and Migration for Cost-efficient VNF Forwarding Graph Embedding
Seyedeh Negar Afrasiabi and Amin Ebrahimzadeh (Concordia University, Canada); Azadeh Azhdari (University of Concordia, Canada); Carla Mouradian and Wubin Li (Ericsson Research, Canada); Robert Szabo (Ericsson Hungary Ltd., Hungary); Roch Glitho (Concordia University, Canada)
5G V2X Misbehavior Detection as Edge Core Network Function based on AI/ML
Hadi Yakan (UVSQ, France); Ilhem Fajjari (Orange labs, France); Nadjib Aitsaadi (UVSQ Paris-Saclay & DAVIDLab, France); Cedric Adjih (INRIA, France)

Wednesday, December 6 8:30 - 9:15

IS 7: Interactive Subsession SAC/RIS_I7

Room: Exhibition Hall (Grand Ballroom) - level 3
RIS-Assisted Generalized Receive Quadrature Spatial Modulation
Mohamad H. Dinan (University College Dublin & Signal Processing Lab., Ireland); Mark F. Flanagan (University College Dublin, Ireland)
RIS-aided SWIPT Green Communications Under Imperfect CSI
Vaibhav Sharma and Raviteja Allu (National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan); Sandeep Kumar Singh (Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology Allahabad, India); Keshav Singh (National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan); Theodoros Tsiftsis (University of Thessaly, Greece)
Near-Far Field Codebook Design for IOS-Aided Multi-User Communications
Shupei Zhang, Yutong Zhang and Boya Di (Peking University, China)
On the Performance of RIS-Aided Spatial Scattering Modulation for mmWave Transmission
Xusheng Zhu, Wen Chen, Zhendong Li, Qingqing Wu and Ziheng Zhang (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China); Kunlun Wang (East China Normal University, China); Jun Li (Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China)

Wednesday, December 6 8:30 - 9:15

IS 7: Interactive Subsession SPC_I7

Room: Exhibition Hall (Grand Ballroom) - level 3
Low Complexity Self-Interference Cancellation Based on Two-Stage RLS Filtering for Full-Duplex Radios
Yifan Jia (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China & VeriSilicon Microelectronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., China); Changqing Song, Hongzhi Zhao and Shihai Shao (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China)
28 GHz mmWave Multi-Carrier Full-Duplex System and Over-The-Air Verification
Min Soo Sim and Shubham Ahuja (Qualcomm, USA); Wooseok Nam (Qualcomm Inc, USA); Alexander Dorosenco (Qualcomm Technologies, USA); Tao Luo (Qualcomm, USA)
Individual Channel Estimation for RIS-Aided mmWave Communication Systems
Gui Zhou (Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany); Cunhua Pan (Southeast University, China); Zhendong Peng (University of British Columbia, Canada); Robert Schober (Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany)

Wednesday, December 6 8:30 - 9:15

IS 7: Interactive Subsession WC_I7

Room: Exhibition Hall (Grand Ballroom) - level 3
Stochastic Geometry-Based Performance Analysis with Correlated Shadowing in Distributed Antenna Systems
Wei-Yu Chen (University of Southern California, USA); Masaaki Ito and Issei Kanno (KDDI Research, Inc., Japan); Thomas Choi and Andreas F. Molisch (University of Southern California, USA)
Alternative Normalized-Preconditioning for Scalable Iterative Large-MIMO Detection
Jiuyu Liu, Yi Ma and Rahim Tafazolli (University of Surrey, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
A Robust Perceiver-Based Automatic Modulation Classification for the Next-Generation of Wireless Communication Networks
Ahmed Alhammadi (Technology Innovation Institute, United Arab Emirates); Shimaa Naser (Khalifa University, United Arab Emirates); Sami Muhaidat (Carleton University, Canada)
Transformation-Invariant Over-the-Air Combining for Multi-Sensor Wireless Inference
Busra Tegin (Bilkent University & Huawei, Turkey Research Center, Turkey); Tolga M. Duman (Bilkent University, Turkey)
Deep-Unfolding Aided Hybrid Precoding Design Based on Penalty Dual Decomposition for Full-Duplex mmWave System
Anqi Xue, Weipeng Wang and Liqun Fu (Xiamen University, China)

Wednesday, December 6 8:30 - 10:00

MWN 6: Applications of Deep Refinforcement Learning

Room 306
Chair: Abdelwahab Boualouache (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)
Reinforcement Learning-based Security Orchestration for 5G-V2X Network Slicing at Cross-borders
Abdelwahab Boualouache (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg); Abdelaziz Amara Korba (L3I, University of La Rochelle, France); Sidi-Mohammed Senouci (University of Bourgogne - ISAT Nevers, France); Yacine Ghamri-Doudane (University of la Rochelle, France); Thomas Engel (University of Luxemburg, Luxembourg)
Dynamic Resource Allocation in Network Slicing with Deep Reinforcement Learning
Yue Cai (The University of Sydney, Australia); Peng Cheng (La Trobe University, Australia & The University of Sydney, Australia); Zhuo Chen (CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia); Wei Xiang (La Trobe University, Australia); Branka Vucetic and Yonghui Li (University of Sydney, Australia)
Reinforcement Learning-based Dynamic Admission Control with Resource Recycling for 5G Core Network Slicing
Yuanhao Li, Jiadai Wang and Jiajia Liu (Northwestern Polytechnical University, China)
Deep Reinforcement Learning for RSMA-Based Multi-Functional Wireless Networks
Shimaa Naser and Abubakar Sani Ali (Khalifa University, United Arab Emirates); Sami Muhaidat (Carleton University, Canada)
Learning to Adapt: Communication Load Balancing via Adaptive Deep Reinforcement Learning
Di Wu (Samsung Electronics, Canada); Yi Tian Xu (Samsung AI Center, Canada); Jimmy Li (Samsung Electronics, Canada); Michael Jenkin (York University, Canada); Ekram Hossain (University of Manitoba, Canada); Seowoo Jang (Samsung Electronics, Korea (South), Korea (South)); Yan Xin (Samsung Research America, USA); Jianzhong Zhang (Samsung, USA); Xue Liu (McGill University, Canada); Gregory Dudek (Samsung Electronics, Canada)

Wednesday, December 6 8:30 - 10:00

MWN 7: Enhanced Communications for Vehicular Networks

Room 410
Chair: Xiaoxue Yu (Zhejiang University, China)
Multi-Task Driven User Association and Resource Allocation in In-vehicle Networks
Ziqi Chen (Tsinghua University, China); Jun Du (Tsinghua University, Beijing, China); Guowei Yang (Tsinghua University, China); Chunxiao Jiang (Tsinghua University, Beijing, China); Zhu Han (University of Houston, USA)
Detecting CAM Flooding Attacks in Vehicular Networks Using Online K-means Algorithm
Harir Razzazi (UMKC & Kansas City, USA); Farid Nait-Abdesselam (University of Missouri Kansas City, USA); Essia Hamouda (California State University San Bernardino, USA)
QoS-guaranteed Clustering and Routing Protocol for Extended Sensor Sharing in Vehicular Networks
Xiangyu Ren, Lin Cai and Pooria Seyed Eftetahi (University of Victoria, Canada)
Drone-Assisted Vehicular Network Architecture Exploiting Road Weather Information
Muhammad Naeem Tahir (Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI) & University of Oulu, Center of Wireless Communication, Finland); Marcos Katz (University of Oulu, Finland); Ari T. Pouttu (Centre for Wireless Communications University of Oulu, Finland)
Communication-Efficient Cooperative Multi-Agent PPO via Regulated Segment Mixture in Internet of Vehicles
Xiaoxue Yu and Rongpeng Li (Zhejiang University, China); Fei Wang (China); Chenghui Peng (Huawei Technologies co., China); Chengchao Liang (Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China & Carleton University, Canada); Zhifeng Zhao and Honggang Zhang (Zhejiang Lab, China)

Wednesday, December 6 8:30 - 10:00

NGNI 4: Edge Computing and Communications

Room 401
Intelligent Model Aggregation in Hierarchical Clustered Federated Multitask Learning
Moqbel Hamood and Abdullatif Albaseer (Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar); Mohamed M. Abdallah (Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU), Qatar); Ala Al-Fuqaha (Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar); Amr Mohamed (Qatar University, Qatar)
Task Provisioning in Unreliable Edge Networks: Inferring Utility
Ibrahim M. Amer (Queen's University, Canada); Sharief Oteafy (DePaul University, USA); Sara A. Elsayed and Hossam S. Hassanein (Queen's University, Canada)
Socially-Aware Opportunistic Routing With Path Segment Selection in Quantum Networks
Shao-Min Huang (Academia Sinica, Taiwan & National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan); Cheng-Yang Cheng, Ming-Huang Chien, Ting-Yuan Wen, Qian-Jing Wang and Jian-Jhih Kuo (National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan)
A Novel Technique to Parameterize Congestion Control in 6TiSCH IIoT Networks
Kushal Chakraborty, Aritra Kumar Dutta, Syed Raafay Mohiuddin, Mohammad Avesh Hussain and Nikumani Choudhury (BITS Pilani Hyderabad Campus, India); Rakesh Matam (Indian Institute of Information Technology Guwahati, India); Mithun Mukherjee (Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, China)
User Allocation in NOMA-based Edge Computing Environment
Congcong Dai (China University of Petroleum (East China), China); Shaohua Cao, Zijun Zhan and Di Liu (China University of Petroleum, China); Danyang Zheng (Southwest Jiaotong University, China)

Wednesday, December 6 8:30 - 10:00

SAC/AC 3: Resource Allocation and Scheduling in UAVs

Room 310
Task Rescheduling for UAV-assisted Emergency Communications under Uncertainty
Qiuji Luan, Hongyan Cui and YU XI (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Biplab Sikdar (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
DRL-Aided Joint Resource Block and Beamforming Management for Cellular-Connected UAVs
Yuanjian Li and Mathini Sellathurai (Heriot-Watt University, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Zheng Chu and Pei Xiao (University of Surrey, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Hamid Aghvami (King's College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Machine Learning-based Resource Allocation for IRS-aided UAV Networks
Muhammad Abdullah Khan and Mahnoor Anjum (NUST, Pakistan); Syed Ali Hassan (National University of Sciences and Technology, Pakistan); Haejoon Jung (Kyung Hee University, Korea (South))
AI and Coalition Game Interplay for Efficient Resource Allocation in D2D Communication
Tejal Rathod (Nirma University, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India); Rajesh Gupta (Institute of Technology, Nirma University, India); Anushka Nehra (Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, India); Nilesh Kumar Jadav (Institute of Technology, Nirma University, India); Sudeep Tanwar (Institute of Technology Nirma University Ahmedabad Gujarat, India)
Collaborative Wideband Spectrum Sensing and Scheduling for Networked UAVs in UTM Systems
Sravan Reddy Chintareddy (University of Kansas, USA); Keenan Roach and Kenny Cheung (Universities Space Research Association, USA); Morteza Hashemi (University of Kansas, USA)

Wednesday, December 6 8:30 - 10:00

SAC/CC 3: Energy and Cost Efficiency in Edge Computing

Room 307
Chair: Yacine Ghamri-Doudane (University of la Rochelle, France)
Energy-aware Provisioning of Microservices for Serverless Edge Computing
Madhura Adeppady (Politecnico di Torino, Italy); Alberto Conte (Nokia Bell Labs France & Bell Labs France, France); Holger Karl (Hasso Plattner Institute & University of Potsdam, Germany); Paolo Giaccone (Politecnico di Torino, Italy); Carla Fabiana Chiasserini (Politecnico di Torino & CNIT, IEIIT-CNR, Italy)
Energy Efficient Partial Distributed Coded Computing in Edge Computing
Yuepeng Li and Deze Zeng (China University of Geosciences, China); Hongmin Geng (China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China); Zaihang Yang (China University of Geosciences, China)
Energy-Efficient Deadline-Aware Edge Computing: Bandit Learning with Partial Observations in Multi-Channel Systems
Babak Badnava (University of Kansas, USA); Keenan Roach and Kenny Cheung (Universities Space Research Association, USA); Morteza Hashemi (University of Kansas, USA); Ness B. Shroff (The Ohio State University, USA)
LoCoCa: Location-Context-Capacity Aware Cost Economizing in Edge-Cloud Systems
Yuanze Li, Chao Qiu and Xiaofei Wang (Tianjin University, China); Cheng Zhang (Tianjin University of Finance and Economics, China); Wenyu Wang (Shanghai Zhuichu Networking Technologies Co., Ltd., China); Shizhan Lan (China Mobile Guangxi institute Co., Ltd., China); Jing Jiang (Xi'an University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
FedADP: Communication-Efficient by Model Pruning for Federated Learning
Haiyang Liu and Yuliang Shi (Shandong University, China); Zhiyuan Su (Jinan Inspur Data Technology, China); Kun Zhang (University of Jinan, China); Xinjun Wang (ShanDong University, China); Zhongmin Yan and Fanyu Kong (Shandong University, China)

Wednesday, December 6 8:30 - 10:00

SAC/ISC 3: Waveform Design and Beamforming in ISAC

Room 407
Chair: Jiaqi Zou (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
Transmission Design for RadCom System under The Spectrally Crowded Environment
Junhui Qian, Peng Xu and Jinru Zhang (Chongqing University, China); Z. Cheng (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); Shiyuan Wang (Southwest University, China)
Sensing-Centric Energy-Efficient Waveform Design for Integrated Sensing and Communications
Jiaqi Zou and Sun Songlin (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Christos Masouros (University College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Yuanhao Cui (Southern University of Science and Technology, China)
Joint BS Selection, User Association, and Beamforming Design for Network Integrated Sensing and Communication
Yiming Xu, Dongfang Xu, Lei Xie and Shenghui Song (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)
Joint Transmit/Receive Antenna Selection and Beamforming Design for ISAC Systems
Rang Liu (University of California, Irvine, USA); Ming Li and Qian Liu (Dalian University of Technology, China)
Simultaneous Demodulation and Channel Sensing Using IR-UWB Signals
Fan Liu (Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, China); Zenan Zhang (Harbin Institute of Technology Shenzhen, China); Tingting Zhang (Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, China); Yuan Shen (Tsinghua University, China)

Wednesday, December 6 8:30 - 10:00

SAC/MLC 4: Machine Learning for Semantic Communications II

Room 404
Chair: Yan Liu (Tongji University, China)
RIS-enhanced Semantic Image Transmission based on Reinforcement Learning
Peiwen Jiang (Southeast University, China); Chao-Kai Wen (National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan); Shi Jin and Xiao Li (Southeast University, China); Geoffrey Ye Li (Imperial College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Task-Oriented Communication with Out-of-Distribution Detection: An Information Bottleneck Framework
Hongru Li, Wentao Yu, Hengtao He, Jiawei Shao, Shenghui Song, Jun Zhang and Khaled B. Letaief (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)
Multi-Task-Oriented Broadcast for Edge AI Inference via Information Bottleneck
Yuhan Yang and Youlong Wu (ShanghaiTech University, China); Shuai Ma (China University of Mining and Technology, China); Yuanming Shi (ShanghaiTech University, China)
DeepJSCC-l++: Robust and Bandwidth-Adaptive Wireless Image Transmission
Chenghong Bian (Imperial College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Yulin Shao (Imperial College, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Deniz Gündüz (Imperial College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
VQ-VAE Empowered Wireless Communication for Joint Source-Channel Coding and Beyond
Mahyar Nemati, Jihong Park and Jinho Choi (Deakin University, Australia)

Wednesday, December 6 8:30 - 10:00

SAC/QC 2: Special Topics on Quantum Technology

Room 309
Chair: Ludovic Noirie (Nokia Bell Labs, France)
Resource Allocation for Cognitive Radio Inspired Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access Networks: A Quantum Soft Actor-Critic Method
Chao Huang, Ying He, Fei Yu and Peigen Zeng (Shenzhen University, China)
Classical to Quantum Transfer Learning Framework for Wireless Sensing Under Domain Shift
Yingxin Shan and Peng Liao (Xidian University, China); Xuyu Wang (Florida International University, USA); Lingling An (Xidian University, China); Shiwen Mao (Auburn University, USA)
The Multiple-Access Channel with Entangled Transmitters
Uzi Pereg (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel); Christian Deppe (Technical University of Munich, Germany); Holger Boche (Technical University Munich, Germany)
Testing of Hybrid Quantum-Classical K-Means for Nonlinear Noise Mitigation
Ark Modi (Technical University of Munich, Germany); Alonso Viladomat Jasso (TUM, Germany); Roberto Ferrara (Technische Universität München & Institute for Communications Engineering, Germany); Christian Deppe (Technical University of Munich, Germany); Janis Nötzel (Technische Universität München, Germany); Fred Fung (Huawei Technologies Duesseldorf GmbH, Germany); Maximilian Schädler (Huawei Technologies Dusseldorf GmbH, Germany)
Quantum Reinforcement Learning with Quantum World Model
Peigen Zeng and Ying He (Shenzhen University, China); F. Richard Yu (Carleton University, Canada); Victor C.M. Leung (Shenzhen University, China & The University of British Columbia, Canada)

Wednesday, December 6 8:30 - 10:00

SAC/SN 2: Social Network Security and Privacy

Room 308
Chair: Michele Nitti (University of Cagliari, Italy)
Analytical evaluation of three attacks on Ethereum
Soosan Naderi Mighan (Ryerson University, Canada); Jelena Mišić and Vojislav B. Mišić (Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada); Xiaolin Chang (Beijing Jiaotong University, China)
Assessing User's Credibility to Enhance Deep Learning-Based Misinformation Detection on Social Media
Amani Alzahrani, Danda B. Rawat, Tahani Baabdullah and Aeman Almotairi (Howard University, USA)
Leveraging In-Network Computing for Privacy-aware Real-time Surveillance mHealth Applications
Syrine Rajhi (UQAM, Canada); Halima Elbiaze (University of Quebec at Montreal, Canada); Sebastien Gambs (Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), Canada); Roch Glitho (Concordia University, Canada)
Spreading processes with population heterogeneity over multi-layer networks
Yurun Tian (Carnegie Mellon University, USA); Osman Yağan (Carnegie Mellon University & CyLab, USA)
An Evaluation of Service Discovery Mechanisms for a Network of Social Digital Twins
Claudio Marche and Michele Nitti (University of Cagliari, Italy); Sara Ranjbaran (Aalto University, Finland)

Wednesday, December 6 8:30 - 10:00

SPC 4: Signal Processing for Emerging Technologies in 6G I

Room 406
Task-Oriented Explainable Semantic Communications Based on Structured Scene Graphs
Shiqi Sun and Zhijin Qin (Tsinghua University, China); Huiqiang Xie (Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Xiaoming Tao (Tsinghua University, China)
Visual Attention Measurement Based on Electroencephalogram Feature Learning
Jian Chu, Shuzhan Hu, Yiping Duan and Xiaoming Tao (Tsinghua University, China)
WMMSE Beamforming for User-Centric Cell-Free Networks With Non-Coherent Joint Transmission
Xi Wang (Tongji University, USA); Xiaotong Zhao (Tongji University, China); Juncheng Wang (Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong); Qingjiang Shi (Tongji University, China)
The Effect of Phase Noise in OCDM
Abdur Rahman Mohamed Ismail (University of Ghent & IMEC, Belgium); Mamoun Guenach (Imec, Leuven, Belgium); Andre Bourdoux (IMEC, Belgium); Heidi Steendam (Ghent University, Belgium)
A Novel Transceiver Design With Low-Overhead Pilot Pattern and Low-Complexity Channel Estimation in MIMO-OTFS Systems
Shanxing Zeng, Xiaoyan Kuai and Ying-Chang Liang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China)

Wednesday, December 6 8:30 - 10:00

WC 7: Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS) Enabled Communications III

Room 405
Active RIS Enhanced Spectrum Sensing for Opportunistic Cognitive Radio Networks
Jungang Ge and Ying-Chang Liang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); Sumei Sun (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore)
Transmission Protocol and Beamforming Design for RIS-Assisted Symbiotic Radio over OFDM Carriers
Hao Chen, Ruizhe Long and Ying-Chang Liang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China)
Interference-free MU-MISO Symbiotic Radios via RIS Partitioning Design
Chao Zhang, Hu Zhou and Ying-Chang Liang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China)
RIS-Aided Unsourced Random Access
Mohammad Javad Ahmadi, Mohammad Kazemi and Tolga M. Duman (Bilkent University, Turkey)
IRS-Assisted Digital Over-the-Air Federated Learning
Yudi Pan and Zhibin Wang (ShanghaiTech University, China); Liantao Wu (Shanghaitech University, China); Yong Zhou (ShanghaiTech University, China)

Wednesday, December 6 9:15 - 10:00

IS 8: Interactive Subsession CISS_I8

Room: Exhibition Hall (Grand Ballroom) - level 3
Physical-Layer Challenge-Response Authentication for Drone Networks
Francesco Mazzo and Stefano Tomasin (University of Padova, Italy); Hongliang Zhang (Peking University, China); Arsenia Chorti (ETIS UMR 8051, CY University, ENSEA, CNRS & ETIS, France); H. Vincent Poor (Princeton University, USA)
A Novel Certificateless Authentication and Key Agreement Protocol for Smart Grid
Zewei Liu, Chunqiang Hu and Conghao Ruan (Chongqing University, China); Ruinian Li (Bowling Green State University, USA)
Passive Eavesdropping Can Significantly Slow Down RIS-Assisted Secret Key Generation
Ningya Xu, Guoshun Nan and Xiaofeng Tao (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
Modelling Technique for GDPR-compliance: Toward a Comprehensive Solution
Nguyen B. Truong (University of Glasgow, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Naila Azam (University of Glasgow & UoG, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Shuja Ansari and Lito Michala (University of Glasgow, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Efficient and Private Edit Distance Based Range Query over Encrypted String Sequences
Peining Li, Yandong Zheng, Hui Zhu and Qi Xu (Xidian University, China); Zhe Liu (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China); Hui Li (Xidian University, China)

Wednesday, December 6 9:15 - 10:00

IS 8: Interactive Subsession CQRM_I8

Room: Exhibition Hall (Grand Ballroom) - level 3
DDPG-based Sum Rate Optimization for Opportunistic Backscatter NOMA Networks
Hafiz Muhammad Ali Zeeshan, Syed Asad Ullah and Syed Ali Hassan (National University of Sciences and Technology, Pakistan); Zhiguo Ding (University of Manchester, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Haejoon Jung (Kyung Hee University, Korea (South))
Object-based Multipath Transmission Scheduling Algorithm in Multi-modal Scenarios
Zhang Zhipeng, Ye Tian and Mengyu Yang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Gong Xiangyang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications P.R. China, China)
MIMO Precoding Design with QoS and Per-Antenna Power Constraints
Kaiyi Chi, Yingzhi Huang, Qianqian Yang, Zhaohui Yang and Zhaoyang Zhang (Zhejiang University, China)
Rateless Deep Graph Joint Source Channel Coding for Holographic-Type Communication
Shoichi Ibuki (University of Osaka, Japan); Tsubasa Okamoto (Osaka University, Japan); Takuya Fujihashi (Osaka University & Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Japan); Toshiaki Koike-Akino (Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL), USA); Takashi Watanabe (Osaka University, Japan)

Wednesday, December 6 9:15 - 10:00

IS 8: Interactive Subsession SAC/MLC_I8

Room: Exhibition Hall (Grand Ballroom) - level 3
Chair: Wenhan Yu (Nanyang Technological University, USA)
Heterogeneous 360 Degree Videos in Metaverse: Differentiated Reinforcement Learning Approaches
Wenhan Yu (Nanyang Technological University, USA); Jun Zhao (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Toward BCI-enabled Metaverse: A Joint Learning and Resource Allocation Approach
Nguyen Quang Hieu (University of Technology Sydney, Australia); Hoang Thai Dinh (University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Australia); Diep N. Nguyen and Eryk Dutkiewicz (University of Technology Sydney, Australia)
Multi-objective Reinforcement Learning Towards User's Targeted VR QoE
Shuyong Zhang, Youjia Chen and Boyang Guo (Fuzhou University, China); David López-Pérez (Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, France); Jinsong Hu and Haifeng Zheng (Fuzhou University, China)
C-DRX optimization using Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning with Self-attention
Juhwan Song and Yujin Nam (Samsung Research, Korea (South)); Minsuk Choi (Samsung Research, Seoul R&D Campus, Korea (South)); Yonghee Jo, Seungyeon Lee, Sang Hyun Lee and Nakyoung Kim (Samsung Research, Korea (South)); Junghwan Lee (Samsung Electronics, Korea (South)); Seungmo Kim (Samsung Electronics Company, Korea (South)); Haksung Kim (Samsung Research, Korea (South)); Seowoo Jang (Samsung Electronics, Korea (South), Korea (South))

Wednesday, December 6 9:15 - 10:00

IS 8: Interactive Subsession SPC_I8

Room: Exhibition Hall (Grand Ballroom) - level 3
Backdoor Attacks on Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning-Based Spectrum Management
Hongyi Zhang and Mingqian Liu (Xidian University, China); Yunfei Chen (University of Durham, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Joint Design of Multi-Dimensional Multiple Access and Lightweight Continuous Authentication in Zero-Trust Environments
He Fang (Sochoow University, China); Xianbin Wang (Western University, Canada); Naofal Al-Dhahir (University of Texas at Dallas, USA); Robert Schober (Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany)
Efficient GPU-Based Large MIMO Detection Algorithm for Next-Generation Communication Systems
Adel Dabah (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia); Zouheir Rezki (University of California Santa Cruz, USA); Hatem Ltaief (KAUST & Extreme Computing Research Center, Saudi Arabia); David Keyes (KAUST, Saudi Arabia); Mohamed-Slim Alouini (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia)

Wednesday, December 6 9:15 - 10:00

IS 8: Interactive Subsession WC_I8

Room: Exhibition Hall (Grand Ballroom) - level 3
Structured Two-Stage True-Time-Delay Array Codebook Design for Multi-User Data Communication
Aditya Wadaskar (University of California Los Angeles, USA); Ding Zhao (University of California, Los Angeles, USA); Ibrahim Pehlivan and Danijela Cabric (University of California Los Angeles, USA)
ISAC-Motivated Interference Elimination in Wireless Communication Networks-Part II: Performance Analysis
Husheng Li (Purdue University, USA)
Training-free Cost-efficient Compression for Massive MIMO Channel State Feedback
Yu-Chien Lin (University of California, Davis, USA); Ta-Sung Lee (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan); Zhi Ding (University of California at Davis, USA)
Joint Analog Encoder Design for Multi-Task Oriented Wireless Communication
Chenmin Sha and Shidong Zhou (Tsinghua University, China)
Role of CSI in Short Packet Communication for Rayleigh Fading Z Interference Channel
J Deeraj Kumar (Indian Institute of Technology Tirupati (IIT Tirupati), India); Parthajit Mohapatra (Indian Institute of Technology Tirupati, India)

Wednesday, December 6 2:00 - 3:30

CISS 10: Adversarial Machine Learning

Room 304
Chair: Phone Lin (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Wireless Networks Against Adversarial Communications
Zefang Lv, Yifan Chen, Liang Xiao and Helin Yang (Xiamen University, China); Xiangyang Ji (Tsinghua University, China)
FeatureMix: A General Adversarial Defense Method for Pretrained Language Models
Huoyuan Dong (North China Electric Power University, China); Longfei Wu (Fayetteville State University, USA); Zhitao Guan (North China Electric Power University, China)
A Multimodal Deep Learning Approach for Efficient Vulnerability Detection in Smart Contracts
Le Cong Trinh, Kien Trung Vu and Hoang Minh Trinh (University of Information Technology, Vietnam); Quyen Huu Nguyen (University of Information Technology - VNUHCM, Vietnam); Nghi Hoang Khoa and Phan The Duy (University of Information Technology, VNU-HCM, Vietnam); Van-Hau Pham (University of Information Technology, Vietnam)
A PATE-based Approach for Training Graph Neural Networks under Label Differential Privacy
Heyuan Huang, Liwei Luo, Bingbing Zhang, Yankai Xie and Chi Zhang (University of Science and Technology of China, China); Jianqing Liu (North Carolina State University, USA)
Secure Deep-JSCC Against Multiple Eavesdroppers
Seyyed Amirhossein Ameli Kalkhoran (Sharif University of Technology, Iran); Mehdi Letafati (University of Oulu & 6G Flagship, Finland); Ecenaz Erdemir (Amazon Web Services, USA & Imperial College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Babak Hossein Khalaj and Hamid Behroozi (Sharif University of Technology, Iran); Deniz Gündüz (Imperial College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

Wednesday, December 6 2:00 - 3:30

CISS 9: IoT Security

Room 301
Chair: Safa Otoum (University of Ottawa, Canada)
A Channel Robust RF Fingerprint Identification Scheme for LTE Devices Based on DMRS Signals
Xuan Yang and Dongming Li (Southeast University, China); Fuhui Zhou (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China); Naofal Al-Dhahir (University of Texas at Dallas, USA)
Towards Early and Accurate IoT Device-Type Identification with Global Attention Mechanism
Xiaoyan Hu, Yuxin Shi and Guang Cheng (Southeast University, China); Ruidong Li (Kanazawa University, Japan); Hua Wu and Gang Wang (Southeast University, China)
A SKG Security Challenge: Indoor SKG Under an On-The-Shoulder Eavesdropping Attack
Amitha Prakasha Mayya (Barkhausen Institut, Germany); Miroslav Mitev (Barkhausen Institut gGmbH, Germany); Arsenia Chorti (ETIS UMR 8051, CY University, ENSEA, CNRS & ETIS, France); Gerhard Fettweis (Barkhausen Institut, Germany)
A Novel Intrusion Detection Architecture for the Internet of Things (IoT) with Knowledge Discovery and Sharing
YuFei An (Shenzhen University, China); F. Richard Yu (Carleton University, Canada); Ying He, Jianqiang Li and Jianyong Chen (Shenzhen University, China); Victor C.M. Leung (Shenzhen University, China & The University of British Columbia, Canada)
Efficient AutoDL for Generating Denial-of-Service Defense Models in the Internet of Things
Yan-Hao Wang, Hao-Ping Tsai and Hong-Yi Chen (National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan); Van-Linh Nguyen (National Chung Cheng University & College of Engineering, Taiwan); Ren-Hung Hwang (National Yang-Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan & National Chung-Cheng University, Taiwan)

Wednesday, December 6 2:00 - 3:30

CQRM 5: Low-latency and Reliable Communiations

Room 305
Power Adaptation for Wireless Packet Based Transmissions Enhancing the System Reliability
Jixuan Wang and Deli Qiao (East China Normal University, China)
Robust and Reliable Resource Provisioning for Delay-critical Services with Traffic Uncertainty
Keda Chen and Xinchen Lyu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Chenshan Ren (Minzu University of China, China); Zixuan Liang, Qimei Cui and Xiaofeng Tao (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
Near Real-Time Data-Driven Control of Virtual Reality Traffic in Open Radio Access Network
Andreas Casparsen (Aalborg University, Denmark); Beatriz Soret (Universidad de Malaga, Spain); Jimmy J Nielsen and Petar Popovski (Aalborg University, Denmark)
Opportunistic Multiple Access for Reliable Minimal Latency Communications
Rafael Kaliski (National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan); Kwang-Cheng Chen (University of South Florida, USA)
Revisiting Collapsed-Forwarding Caching for Delay-Sensitive Applications
Kazuhisa Matsuzono (National Institute of Information and Communication Technology (NICT), Japan); Hitoshi Asaeda (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan)

Wednesday, December 6 2:00 - 3:30

CRAEN 4: Reinforcement Learning for Wireless Networks II

Room 402
Chair: Minrui Xu (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Sustainable AIGC Workload Scheduling of Geo-Distributed Data Centers: A Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Approach
Siyue Zhang and Minrui Xu (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore); Wei Yang Bryan Lim (Nanyang Technological University & Alibaba-NTU Joint Research Institute, Singapore); Dusit Niyato (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
MERGE: Meta Reinforcement Learning for Tunable RL Agents at the Edge
Sharda Tripathi (Birla Institute of Technology and Science Pilani, India); Carla Fabiana Chiasserini (Politecnico di Torino & CNIT, IEIIT-CNR, Italy)
Link-Weight Adjustment for Efficient Link-State Multicast Routing with MARL
Do Van Dang (Ecole de Technologie Superieure, University of Quebec, Canada); Kim Khoa Nguyen (École de Technologie Supérieure, Canada)
LK-TDDQN: A Lane Keeping Transfer Double Deep Q Network Framework for Autonomous Vehicles
Xiting Peng (Shenyang University of Technology, China); Liang Jin Yan (University of Technology, China); Xiaoyu Zhang (Shenyang University of Technology, China); Mianxiong Dong and Kaoru Ota (Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan); Xinyu Bu (Shenyang University of Technology, China)
Deep Reinforcement Learning Based Multistage Profit Aware Task Scheduling Algorithm for Computing Power Network
Xiaoyao Huang (China Telecom Research Institute, China); Remington R. Liu (China Telecom, China); Bo Lei (Beijing Research Institute China Telcom Beijing, China); Guanglun Huang (Guilin University of Electronic Technology, China); Baoxian Zhang (University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)

Wednesday, December 6 2:00 - 3:30

CSM 5: Edge Computing and Edge Intelligence

Room 303
Task Partition-Based Intelligent Offloading for Cache-Assisted Cloud-Edge Cooperation Networks
Chao Fang, Haizhen Luo and Xiaoping Yang (Beijing University of Technology, China); Haofei Xie (Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Fangqing Tan (Guilin University of Electronic Technology, China); Shu-Ming Tseng (National Taipei University of Technology, Taiwan); Mianxiong Dong (Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan)
FoMS: Fog-enabled Mobile Sensor Virtualization Architecture for IoT Applications
Arijit Roy (Indian Institute Technology Patna & SensorDrops Networks Pvt. Ltd., India); Kusumanjali Krovvidi (Indian Institute of Information Technology Sri City, India); Abhinav Kiran Padala (Indian Institute Information Technology Sri City, India); Farid Nait-Abdesselam (University of Missouri Kansas City, USA)
Edge-Device Collaborative Rendering for Wireless Multi-User Interactive Virtual Reality in Metaverse
Caolu Xu, Zhiyong Chen, Meixia Tao and Wenjun Zhang (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China)
Joint Foundation Model Caching and Inference of Generative AI Services for Edge Intelligence
Minrui Xu and Dusit Niyato (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore); Hongliang Zhang (Peking University, China); Jiawen Kang (Guangdong University of Technology, Singapore); Zehui Xiong (Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore); Shiwen Mao (Auburn University, USA); Zhu Han (University of Houston, USA)
Enabling Real-time Video Analytics with Adaptive Sampling and Detection-based Tracking in Edge Computing
Wang Yilan, Zhicheng Liu, Yunfeng Zhao, Xiaofei Wang and Chao Qiu (Tianjin University, China)

Wednesday, December 6 2:00 - 3:30

CT 3: Age of Information

Room 403
Information Mutation and Spread of Misinformation in Timely Gossip Networks
Priyanka Kaswan (University of Maryland CP, USA); Sennur Ulukus (University of Maryland, USA)
Joint Design of Sampler and Compressor for Timely Status Updates: Age-Distortion Tradeoff
Jun Li and Wenyi Zhang (University of Science and Technology of China, China)
A Unified Approach to Learn Transmission Strategies Using Age-Based Metrics in Point-to-Point Wireless Communication
Wanja de Sombre (Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany); Felipe Marques, Friedrich Pyttel, Andrea Ortiz and Anja Klein (TU Darmstadt, Germany)
Age of Information in Slotted ALOHA With Energy Harvesting
Khac-Hoang Ngo, Giuseppe Durisi and Alexandre Graell i Amat (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden); Andrea Munari and Francisco Lázaro (German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany)
Using channel correlation to improve decoding - ORBGRAND-AI
Ken R. Duffy (Northeastern University, USA); Moritz Grundei (Technische Universität München, Germany); Muriel Médard (MIT, USA)

Wednesday, December 6 2:00 - 3:30

IoTSN 7: Edge Networks I

Room 408
FAES-SLAM: Fast and Accurate Edge-assisted Semantic SLAM towards Dynamic Environments
Shouwan Gao, Jinxiao Zhu, Ziyuan Wang, Siyi Ren, Kuiyuan Zhang and Pengpeng Chen (China University of Mining and Technology, China)
Uncertainty-Aware Multitask Allocation for Parallelized Mobile Edge Learning
Duncan John Mays, Sara A. Elsayed and Hossam S. Hassanein (Queen's University, Canada)
Dynamic Worker Availability Prediction at the Extreme Edge
Maria Kantardjian, Sara A. Elsayed and Hossam S. Hassanein (Queen's University, Canada)
Web Application-Based WebAssembly Container Platform for Extreme Edge Computing
Shu Sekigawa, Chikara Sasaki and Atsushi Tagami (KDDI Research, Inc., Japan)
Power Minimization for Edge-Computing-Enabled IoT Applications with Timeliness Requirements
Guozhi Chen, Yuchao Chen and 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)

Wednesday, December 6 2:00 - 2:45

IS 9: Interactive Subsession CT_I9

Room: Exhibition Hall (Grand Ballroom) - level 3
Chair: Fang Fang (Western University, Canada)
SIC-Free NOMA Designs Via Symbol-Level Precoding
Yanqing Xu (The Chinese University of HongKong (Shenzhen), China); Fang Fang (Western University, Canada); Shuai Wang (Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore); Donghong Cai (Jinan University, China)
Achievable Second-Order Asymptotics for Additive Non-Gaussian MAC and RAC
Yiming Wang, Lin Zhou and Lin Bai (Beihang University, China)
The Capacity of Classical Summation over a Quantum MAC with Arbitrarily Replicated Inputs
Yuhang Yao (University of California, Irvine, USA); Syed Ali Jafar (University of California Irvine, USA)
Sensing Resource Allocation for Enlarging the Coverage Range of ISAC-based Terahertz Network
Wenrong Chen, Lingxiang Li, Boyu Ning and Zhi Chen (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); Tony Q. S. Quek (Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore)

Wednesday, December 6 2:00 - 2:45

IS 9: Interactive Subsession IoTSN_I9

Room: Exhibition Hall (Grand Ballroom) - level 3
Information Freshness of V2V Communication in Large-Scale Platooning System
Siyuan Zhou, Shiwei Li and Guoping Tan (Hohai University, China)
Spatial Context-Aware service composition for MANET IoT applications
Samuel Genois (École de Technologie Supérieure, Canada); Ibrahim Sorkhoh and Muthucumaru Maheswaran (McGill University, Canada); Diala Naboulsi (École de Technologie Supérieure, Canada)
Multi-Type Water Contaminant Identification Using Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy and Machine Learning at Network Edge
Akhil J Samavedam and Harsha S Samavedam (Westlake High School, USA); Jianyu Wang (University of Missouri - St. Louis, USA)
5.88 bits/cm2 Data-dense Chipless RFID Tag for Smart IoT Applications
Wahida Islam (Military College of Signals, Pakistan); Ayesha Habib (MILITARY COLLEGE OF SIGNALS(MCS), NUST, Pakistan); M. Tanzeel Khalid (Military College of Signals, Pakistan); Nidal Nasser (Alfaisal University, Saudi Arabia)

Wednesday, December 6 2:00 - 2:45

IS 9: Interactive Subsession ONS_I9

Room: Exhibition Hall (Grand Ballroom) - level 3
Time-Zone-aware Traffic Modeling and Routing for Load Balancing in Optical Satellite Networks
Kexin Gao, Wei Wang, Yongli Zhao, Qiaojun Hu, Yuanjian Zhang and Jie Zhang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
Joint Position and Orientation Estimation in VCSEL-Based LiFi Networks: A Deep Learning Approach
Rizwana Ahmad (Research Associate, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Hossein Kazemi (University of Strathclyde & LiFi Research and Development Center, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Elham Sarbazi (University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Harald Haas (The University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Non-line-of-Sight Ultraviolet Positioning Using Two Photon-Counting Receivers
Siming Wang and Renzhi Yuan (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Mugen Peng (Beijing University of posts & Telecommunications, China); Zhifeng Wang, Xinyi Chu, Shijie Di, Kailin Sun and Dan Zhang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)

Wednesday, December 6 2:00 - 2:45

IS 9: Interactive Subsession SAC/CC_I9

Room: Exhibition Hall (Grand Ballroom) - level 3
Latency-Constrained Dynamic Computation Offloading in Mobile Edge Computing using Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
Peyvand Teymoori and Azzedine Boukerche (University of Ottawa, Canada)
Layered Structure Aware Containerized Task Scheduling and Image Routing in Edge Computing
Hongmin Geng (China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China); Deze Zeng, Wenbing Chen and Yuepeng Li (China University of Geosciences, China)
Cross-Rack Update Bandwidth for Distributed Storage Systems
Zhengyi Jiang, Bin Yu and Zhongyi Huang (Tsinghua University, China); Gong Zhang (Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., China); Qintao Hu (Huawei Technology Company Limited Hong Kong SAR, China); Hanxu Hou (Huawei Technology Limited Company, Hong Kong)
When Machine Learning Meets Raft: How to Elect a Leader over a Network
Kostas Choumas and Thanasis Korakis (University of Thessaly, Greece)

Wednesday, December 6 2:00 - 2:45

IS 9: Interactive Subsession SAC/MLC_I9

Room: Exhibition Hall (Grand Ballroom) - level 3
Chair: Arsham Mostaani (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)
Learning to Maximize Network Bandwidth Utilization with Deep Reinforcement Learning
Md Hasibul Jamil, Elvis Rodrigues, Jacob Glodverg and Tevfik Kosar (University at Buffalo, USA)
A GNN-DRL-based Collaborative Edge Computing Strategy for Partial Offloading
Tianhao Tao, Jiacheng Hou and Amiya Nayak (University of Ottawa, Canada)
A Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach for Load Balancing In Open Radio Access Networks
Hammad Zafar (Technical University of Munich & Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute, Germany); Martin Kasparick (Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute & Technical University Berlin, Germany); Setareh Maghsudi (Ruhr University Bochum, Germany & Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute, Germany); Slawomir Stanczak (Technische Universität Berlin & Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute, Germany)
Scalable Quantification of the Value of Information for Multi-Agent Communications and Control Co-design
Arsham Mostaani, Thang X. Vu, Hamed Habibi, Symeon Chatzinotas and Björn Ottersten (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)
Deep Reinforcement Learning Aided Rate-Splitting for Interference Channels
Osman Nuri Irkicatal (Aselsan Company & Middle East Technical University, Turkey); Melda Yuksel and Elif Tugce Ceran (Middle East Technical University, Turkey)

Wednesday, December 6 2:00 - 3:30

MWN 8: Enhancing UAV and Autonomous Vehicle Connectivity

Room 306
Chair: Ramon Aguero (University of Cantabria, Spain)
Towards Edge-Assisted Trajectory Prediction for Connected Autonomous Vehicles
Mehdi Salim Benhelal (Telecom SudParis, France); Badii Jouaber (SAMOVAR & Telecom SudParis, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France); Hossam Afifi (Télécom SudParis, Institut Telecom & Paris Saclay, France); Hassine Moungla (Université Paris Cité, France & Instiut Polytechnique de Paris, France)
Graph Learning Enhanced UAV Swarms Based Multiple Targets Tracking
Longyu Zhou (School of Information & Communications Engineering, UESTC, China); Supeng Leng and Zonghang Li (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); Hongyang Du and Dusit Niyato (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Distributed User Connectivity Maximization in UAV-Based Communication Networks
Saugat Tripathi (Miami University, USA); Ran Zhang and Miao Wang (University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA)
An Aerial and Ground Base Station Cooperation Strategy for Supporting UAV Downlink Transmission
Zhe Wang and Jun Zheng (Southeast University, China)
Energy Efficient Trajectory Optimization and Resource Allocation for HAP-assisted UAV Wireless Networks
Hui Zhao (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); Zheng Chang (University of Jyväskylä, Finland)

Wednesday, December 6 2:00 - 3:30

MWN 9: IoT Network Optimization

Room 410
Chair: Sofiane Messaoudi (EURECOM, France)
Improvement of Anomaly Detection System in the IoT Networks using CNN-LSTM Approach
Hafsa Benaddi (University of IBN-Tofail, Morocco); Mohammed Jouhari (Morocco); Khalil Ibrahimi (University of IBN Tofail, Morocco); Abderrahim Benslimane (University of Avignon & LIA/CERI, France); El Mehdi Amhoud (Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, Morocco)
RL-based Adaptive Duty Cycle Scheduling in WSN-based IoT Nets
Nadia Charef (Erasmus Mundus GENIAL Program, Sweden); Maroua Abdelhafidh (ENIS, Tunisia & Canadian University Dubai, United Arab Emirates); Adel Ben Mnaouer (Canadian University Dubai & Faculty of Engineering, Applied Science and Technology, United Arab Emirates); Karl Andersson (Luleå University of Technology, Sweden); Soumaya Cherkaoui (Polytechnique Montreal, Canada)
High Altitude Platforms-assisted Hierarchical Computing Offloading in Marine-IoT Networks: A Delay Minimization Approach
Mingqing Li, Liping Qian and Qianru Wang (Zhejiang University of Technology, China); Yuan Wu (University of Macau, Macao); Bin Lin (Dalian Maritime University, China); Xiaoniu Yang (Science and Technology on Communication Information Security Control Laboratory, China)
Impact of Imperfect CSI on Multiuser MIMO-OFDM-based IIoT Networks: A BER and Capacity Analysis
Syed Asad Ullah, Shah Zeb and Syed Ali Hassan (National University of Sciences and Technology, Pakistan); Haejoon Jung (Kyung Hee University, Korea (South)); Kapal Dev (Munster Technological University & IEEE, Ireland)
Task Scheduling and Resource Allocation for Compressed Sensing in IoT-Edge-Cloud Systems
Jingyu Zhang, Yiqin Deng and Haixia Zhang (Shandong University, China); Yuguang Fang (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)

Wednesday, December 6 2:00 - 3:30

NGNI 5: Emerging Technologies and Protocols

Room 401
UAV-assisted Semantic Communication with Hybrid Action Reinforcement Learning
Si Peiyuan, Jun Zhao and Kwok-Yan Lam (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore); Qing Yang (University of North Texas, USA)
FlexSlice: Flexible and real-time programmable RAN slicing framework
Chieh-Chun Chen (Sorbonne Université & EURECOM, France); Chia-Yu Chang (Nokia Bell Labs, Belgium); Navid Nikaein (Eurecom, France)
Proximal Policy Optimization for User Association in Hybrid LiFi/WiFi Indoor Networks
Peijun Hou and Nan Cen (Saint Louis University, USA)
Optimizing Asynchronous Extern Execution in Programmable Software Data Planes
Péter Hudoba, Róbert Kitlei and Sándor Laki (Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary); Péter Vörös (Eotvos Lorand University, Hungary)
Efficient Restricted-Access Building Drawing Regeneration from Passive Radio Localization
Harry Wong Hung-Jun and Yu-Chia Lin (National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan); Van-Linh Nguyen (National Chung Cheng University & College of Engineering, Taiwan)

Wednesday, December 6 2:00 - 3:30

SAC/BD 2: Security and Privacy in Big Data

Room 310
LSTM based Hybrid Intrusion Detection System for Internet of Vehicles
Kanika Aggarwal (École de Technologie Supérieure (ETS), Canada); Georges Kaddoum (ETS Engineering School, University of Québec, Canada)
SMSDect: A Prediction Model for Smishing Attack Detection using Machine Learning and Text Analysis
Chanchal Patra Patra (Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology (MAKAUT), West Bengal, India); Debasis Giri (Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology, West Bengal, India); Mohammad S. Obaidat (University of Jordan, USA); Tanmoy Maitra (KIIT University, India)
FedChallenger: Challenge-Response-based Defence for Federated Learning against Byzantine Attacks
M A Moyeen (Concordia University, Canada); Kuljeet Kaur (École de Technologie Supérieure, Canada); Anjali Agarwal (Concordia University, Canada); Ricardo Alejandro Manzano S. (Cistech Limited, Canada); Marzia Zaman (Cistel Technology Inc., Canada); Nishith Goel (Cistech Ltd., Canada)
Binary Federated Learning with Client-Level Differential Privacy
Lumin Liu, Jun Zhang, Shenghui Song and Khaled B. Letaief (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)
FedBlockHealth: A Synergistic Approach to Privacy and Security in IoT-Enabled Healthcare through Federated Learning and Blockchain
Nazar Waheed (University of Technology Sydney, Australia); Ateeq Ur Rehman (University of Haripur, Pakistan); Anushka Nehra (Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, India); Mahnoor Farooq and Nargis Tariq (University of Haripur, Pakistan); Mian Ahmad Jan (Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan, Pakistan); Fazlullah Khan (Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan, USA & Business Technology Management Group, Chicago, Illinois, USA); Abeer Zaher Alalmaie (The University of Technology Sydney, Australia); Priyadarsi Nanda (University of Technology Sydney, Australia)

Wednesday, December 6 2:00 - 3:30

SAC/EH 2: Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and Context-Awareness for eHealth

Room 309
Chair: Andrea Sciarrone (University of Genoa, Italy)
An E-health System Recognizing Vegetable Images Using Extreme Learning Machine
Zhenyu Wu, Yu Zhang and Yanqin Mao (Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues (Senac Fac of Ceará, Brazil & Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal)
A GAN-Based Approach for ECG Reconstruction from Doppler Sensor Signals
Mondher Bouazizi and Danyuan Yu (Keio University, Japan); Kevin Feghoul (University of Lille, France); Tomoaki Ohtsuki (Keio University, Japan)
Pre-trained Lightweight Deep Learning Models for Surgical Instrument Detection: Performance Evaluation for Edge Inference
Md Sabbir Ahmed and Stefano Giordano (University of Pisa, Italy)
FedFaSt: Selective Federated Learning using Fittest Parameters Aggregation and Slotted Clients Training
Ferdinand Kahenga (ESIS Salama, South Africa); Antoine Bagula (University of the Western Cape, South Africa); Sajal K. Das (Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA)
Improving Heart Rate Range Classification Using Doppler Radar with GAN-based Data Augmentation
Danyuan Yu, Mondher Bouazizi and Tomoaki Ohtsuki (Keio University, Japan)

Wednesday, December 6 2:00 - 3:30

SAC/ISC 4: MmWave/THz Technologies for ISAC

Room 407
Chair: Aimin Tang (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China)
Noise Reduction via Low Rank Tensor Decomposition for MIMO ISAC Systems
Luoyan Zhu (Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, China); Sergiy A. Vorobyov (Aalto University, Finland); Yinsheng Liu, Danping He and Zhangdui Zhong (Beijing Jiaotong University, China)
Integrated Monostatic and Bistatic mmWave Sensing
Yu Ge and Hyowon Kim (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden); Lennart Svensson (Chalmers University, Sweden); Henk Wymeersch (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden); Sumei Sun (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore)
Variational Autoencoder-Based Parameter Estimation in Beam-Space OFDM Integrated Sensing and Communication
Saeid Khalili Dehkordi (TU Berlin, Germany); Jan C. Hauffen (Technische Universitaet Berlin, Germany); Fabian Jaensch (Technische Universität Berlin, Germany); Peter Jung (German Aerospace Center (DLR) & TU-Berlin, Communications and Information Theory Group, Germany); Giuseppe Caire (Technische Universität Berlin, Germany)
Physics-Inspired Target Shape Detection and Reconstruction in mmWave Communication Systems
Ziqing Xing, Zhaoyang Zhang, Xin Tong, Zhaohui Yang and Chongwen Huang (Zhejiang University, China)
Iterative Sensing-Assisted Beam Alignment for THz Communications: Theory and Method
Zijie Wang (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China & National University of Singapore, Singapore); Aimin Tang and Xudong Wang (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China)

Wednesday, December 6 2:00 - 3:30

SAC/MLC 5: Machine Learning for Positioning

Room 404
Chair: Aleksandr Ermolov (Qualcomm AI Research, The Netherlands)
Neural 5G Indoor Localization with IMU Supervision
Aleksandr Ermolov (Qualcomm AI Research, The Netherlands); Shreya Kadambi (Qualcomm Technologies, Inc, USA); Maximilian Arnold (Qualcomm AI Research, The Netherlands); Mohammed Hirzallah (Qualcomm Inc, USA); Roohollah Amiri and Deepak Singh Mahendar Singh (Qualcomm, USA); Srinivas Yerramalli (Qualcomm Inc, USA); Daniel Dijkman (Qualcomm, The Netherlands); Fatih Porikli (Australian National University, Australia); Taesang Yoo (Qualcomm Inc., USA); Bence Major (Qualcomm AI Research, The Netherlands)
Positioning Error Impact Compensation through Data-Driven Optimization in User-Centric Networks
Waseem Raza (The University of Oklahoma USA, USA); Fahd Ahmed Khan and Muhammad Umar Bin Farooq (University of Oklahoma, USA); Sabit Ekin (Texas A&M University, USA); Ali Imran (University of Oklahoma, USA)
Enabling Light-Weight AI-based Positioning by Log Signature Transform of Wireless Channels
Longhai Zhao (Samsung Research China-Beijing, China); Yunchuan Yang (Samsung Telecommunication R&D Center, China); Qi Xiong (Samsung Research Institute China - Beijing (SRC-B), China); He Wang (Samsung Research China, China); Bin Yu (Samsung Research Institute China - Beijing (SRC-B) & University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); Chengjun Sun (Beijing Samsung Telecom R & D Center, China)
Channel Charting in Real-World Coordinates
Sueda Taner, Victoria Palhares and Christoph Studer (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
Simple and Effective Augmentation Methods for CSI Based Indoor Localization
Omer Gokalp Serbetci, Ju-Hyung Lee, Daoud Burghal and Andreas F. Molisch (University of Southern California, USA)

Wednesday, December 6 2:00 - 3:30

SAC/SSC 3: Satellite and Space Communications II

Room 307
CVaR-based Robust Beamforming Framework for Massive MIMO LEO Satellite Communications
Madyan Alsenwi (SnT, Luxembourg); Eva Lagunas, Hayder Al-Hraishawi and Symeon Chatzinotas (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)
Hybrid Beamforming Design for Beam-Hopping LEO Satellite Communications
Jing Wang (Southeast University, Nanjing, China); Chenhao Qi (Southeast University, China); Shui Yu (University of Technology Sydney, Australia)
User Grouping-Based Beam Handover Scheme with Load-Balancing for LEO Satellite Networks
Qizan Liu, Xi Li, Hong Ji and Heli Zhang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
On-board Change Detection for Resource-efficient Earth Observation with LEO Satellites
Van-Phuc Bui (Aalborg University); Thinh Quang Dinh (University of Information Technology, Vietnam); Israel Leyva-Mayorga and Shashi Raj Pandey (Aalborg University, Denmark); Eva Lagunas (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg); Petar Popovski (Aalborg University, Denmark)
DeepISL: Joint Optimization of LEO Inter-Satellite Link Planning and Power Allocation via Parametrized Deep Reinforcement Learning
Yue Li, Jiangtao Luo, Yongyi Ran and Jiahao Pi (Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)

Wednesday, December 6 2:00 - 3:30

SAC/TC 2: Terahertz Communications

Room 308
Chair: Chong Han (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China)
Near-field 6G Networks: Why Mobile Terahertz Communications MUST Operate in the Near Field
Vitaly Petrov (Northeastern University, USA); Josep M Jornet (Northeastern University & Institute for the Wireless Internet of Things, USA); Arjun Singh (SUNY Polytechnic Institute, USA)
Minimizing the THz Communication Outage Probability with ISAC for Delay-Sensitive Services
Sha Xie (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); Marie Siew (Carnegie Mellon University, USA); Lingxiang Li, Zhi Chen and Tianlong Yang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China)
Tensor Decomposition Based THz Channel Estimation in OTFS for Integrated Sensing and Communications
Xue Li (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); Bo Chang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), China); Zhi Chen (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China)
Beam Refinement for THz Extremely Large-Scale MIMO systems based on Gaussian Approximation
Kangjian Chen and Chenhao Qi (Southeast University, China); Octavia A. Dobre (Memorial University, Canada)
Position Interleaved Pulse Modulation for Terahertz Communications
Xin Wang and Xudong Wang (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China)

Wednesday, December 6 2:00 - 3:30

SPC 5: Signal Processing for Single-carrier, OFDM / OFDMA, and Multicarrier Systems

Room 302
A Graph-Based Collision Resolution Scheme for Asynchronous Unsourced Random Access
Tianya Li, Yongpeng Wu and Wenjun Zhang (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China); Xiang-Gen Xia (University of Delaware, USA); Chengshan Xiao (Lehigh University, USA)
Resource Allocation Using Deep Learning in Uplink 802.11ax Networks
Adnan Quadri and Hongxiang Li (University of Louisville, USA)
Time Domain Phase Noise Mitigation in OFDM Systems for Sub-THz Bands
Yaya Bello, Jean-Baptiste Doré and David Demmer (CEA-LETI, France)
Serially Concatenated Systematic Coding for Wireless Steganography With OFDM Signaling
Yuto Hama and Hideki Ochiai (Yokohama National University, Japan)
Dual Layers-Superimposed Training for Joint Channel Estimation and PAPR Reduction in OFDM
Kun Chen-Hu (Aalborg University, Denmark & Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain); Maria Julia Fernandez-Getino Garcia (University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain); Ana Garcia Armada (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain)

Wednesday, December 6 2:00 - 3:30

SPC 6: Signal Processing for Emerging Technologies in 6G II

Room 406
Coupled Prior-Based Sparse Bayesian Channel Estimation for Superimposed Pilot OTFS Systems
Mudasir Ahmad Sheikh (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India); Anupama Rajoriya (Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India); Prem Singh (IIIT Bangalore, India); Rohit Budhiraja (IIT Kanpur, India)
Structured OFDM Design for Massive MIMO Systems With Dual-Wideband Effects
Wei Huang and Lizheng Xu (Hefei University of Technology, China); Haiyang Zhang (Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Caihong Kai (Hefei University of Technology, China)
Coexistence of OTFS Modulation With OFDM-Based Communication Systems
Akram Shafie and Jinhong Yuan (University of New South Wales, Australia); Yuting Fang (Telstra Limited, Sri Lanka); Paul Fitzpatrick (Telstra & Monash University, Australia); Taka Sakurai (Telstra & University of Melbourne, Australia)
Sparse Signal Recovery and RIS Diagnosis: Double-Sparsity Based Algorithms
Xuechun Bian and Wenbo Xu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Yue Wang (Georgia State University, USA); Chau Yuen (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Near-Field Beam Focusing Pattern and Grating Lobe Characterization for Modular XL-Array
Xinrui Li, Zhenjun Dong, Yong Zeng and Shi Jin (Southeast University, China); Rui Zhang (National University of Singapore, Singapore)

Wednesday, December 6 2:00 - 3:30

WC 8: Cross Layer Design and Physical Layer

Room 405
Chair: Shuoyao Wang (Shenzhen University, China)
Online Multi-User Scheduling for Extended Reality Transmissions with Hard-Latency Constraint
Xiaoyu Zhao and Ying Jun (Angela) Zhang (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong); Meng Wang and Xiang Chen (Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Hong Kong); Yue Li (Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., Hong Kong)
Dynamic Framing and Power Allocation for Real-Time Wireless Communications with Variable-Length Coding
Yuanrui Liu (Tsinghua University, China); Xiaoyu Zhao (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong); Wei Chen (Tsinghua University, China); Ying Jun (Angela) Zhang (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Performance Analysis of Cross-Layer Scheduling with Continuous States: A Quantized Markov Model
Lei Huang and Wei Chen (Tsinghua University, China)
AirJSCC: Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces based Over-the-air Joint Source-Channel Coding
Yingzhe Hui, Shuyi Chen and Weixiao Meng (Harbin Institute of Technology, China); Hsiao-Hwa Chen (National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan); Wenbin Sun (Northwestern Polytechnical University, China); Lin Ma (Harbin Institute of Technology, China)
Pilot-free Transmission in 3GPP OFDM MIMO Systems via Canonical Correlation
Omar M. Sleem (Pennsylvania State University, USA); Mohamed Salah Ibrahim and Akshay Malhotra (InterDigital, USA); Mihaela Beluri (Interdigital, USA)

Wednesday, December 6 2:00 - 3:30

WC 9: Signal Processing for Communications I

Room 409
On the Design of Capacity-Approaching Iterative Soft Cancellation for Coded OTFS
Xu Li and Tao Yang (Beihang University, China)
Deep Learning-based Receiver Design for IoT Multi-user Uplink 5G-NR System
Ankit Gupta (Heriot Watt University, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Abhijeet Bishnu (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Tharmalingam Ratnarajah (The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Ahsan Adeel (University of Wolverhampton, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Amir Hussain (Edinburgh Napier University, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Mathini Sellathurai (Heriot-Watt University, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Convergence Optimized Joint Detection and Decoding for LDPC Coded SC-MIMO Systems
Xuanbo Zhang (University of Elctronic Science and Technology of China, China); Kaining Han (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); Jianhao Hu (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), China)
Primary Synchronization Signal Design and Low-Complexity Detection for OTFS Cellular Systems
Mohammed Saquib Khan and Ashok Kumar Reddy Chavva (Samsung Electronics, India)
GRU Based Equalization for CP-Free OFDM over Frequency Selective Channels
Mücahit Gümüş and Tolga M. Duman (Bilkent University, Turkey)

Wednesday, December 6 2:45 - 3:30

IS 10: Interactive Subsession CQRM_I10

Room: Exhibition Hall (Grand Ballroom) - level 3
Full Duplex UAV-Assisted Rate-Splitting Multiple Access Cellular Networks
Ali Mahdi Amhaz, Shreya Khisa, Mohamed Elhattab and Chadi Assi (Concordia University, Canada); Sanaa Sharafeddine (American University of Beirut, Lebanon)
Performance Modeling and Analysis of Distributed Deep Neural Network Training with Parameter Server
Xuan Zhang, Jiao Zhang, Dehui Wei, Tian Pan and Tao Huang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
An Optimized Medium-Transparent MAC Protocol for Multi-service FiWi 5G transport networks
George Kalfas and Marios Gatzianas (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki & Center for Interdisciplinary Research and Innovation, Thessaloniki, Greece); Dimitrios Palianopoulos (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki & Center for Interdisciplinary Research and Innovation, Greece); Agapi Mesodiakaki (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH) & Center for Interdisciplinary Research and Innovation, Thessaloniki, Greece); Christos Vagionas, Ronis Maximidis, Amalia N. Miliou and Nikos Pleros (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece)
Multiagent Reinforcement Learning with an Attention Mechanism for Improving Energy Efficiency in LoRa Networks
Xu Zhang (Sun Yat-Sen University, China); Ziqi Lin (Sun Yat-sen University, China); Shimin Gong (Sun Yat-Sen University, China); Bo Gu (Sun Yat-sen University, China); Dusit Niyato (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

Wednesday, December 6 2:45 - 3:30

IS 10: Interactive Subsession IoTSN_I10

Room: Exhibition Hall (Grand Ballroom) - level 3
A Time Synchronized Multi-Hop Mesh Network with Crystal-Free Nodes
Filip Maksimovic (Inria, France); Austin Patel (UC Berkeley, USA); David Burnett (Portland State University, USA); Thomas Watteyne (Inria, France); Kris Pister (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
Joint Estimation of Location and Transmit Power of Wireless Nodes Using Semidefinite Programming
Bodhibrata Mukhopadhyay (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia); Seshan Srirangarajan (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India); Subrat Kar (Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India)
Long-Term Prediction of Remaining Useful Life for Industrial IoT
Kamran Sattar Awaisi, Qiang Ye and Srinivas Sampalli (Dalhousie University, Canada)
RLC: A Reinforcement Learning Based Charging Scheme for Battery Swap Stations
Yutao Xu, Qiang Ye, Yujie Tang, Hui Huang and Kamran Sattar Awaisi (Dalhousie University, Canada)

Wednesday, December 6 2:45 - 3:30

IS 10: Interactive Subsession SAC/ISC_I10

Room: Exhibition Hall (Grand Ballroom) - level 3
Chair: Xinyuan Wei (Southern University of Science and Technology, China)
Parameter-Inherited Delay Doppler Channel Estimation based on Unitary AMP
Xinyuan Wei and Weijie Yuan (Southern University of Science and Technology, China); Feifei Gao (Tsinghua University, China); Guangjie Han (Hohai University, China)
Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface Assisted NOMA Collaborative Localization
Delu Zhang, Yuncan Zhu, Guomei Cao and Meiling Li (Taiyuan University of Science and Technology, China); Zhaoming Lu (BUPT, China); Hu Yuan (Kingston University, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Energy-Aware Resource Allocation and Trajectory Design for UAV-Enabled ISAC
Ata Khalili (Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen, Germany); Atefeh Rezaei (Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin), Germany); Dongfang Xu (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong); Robert Schober (Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany)
Watermarking Based Waveform Synthesis in Joint Communications and Sensing
Husheng Li (Purdue University, USA)

Wednesday, December 6 2:45 - 3:30

IS 10: Interactive Subsession SPC_I10

Room: Exhibition Hall (Grand Ballroom) - level 3
Pilotless Uplink for Massive MIMO Systems
Aswathylakshmi P and Radha Krishna Ganti (Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India)
A Low-Complexity Time Synchronization Algorithm for MIMO ZP-OFDM in Urban Impulsive Noise Environments
Koosha Pourtahmasi Roshandeh (University of Alberta, Canada); Mostafa Mohammadkarimi (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands); Masoud Ardakani (University of Alberta, Canada)
Direct Channel Estimation Between MIMO Transmitter and Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface
Xiao Cai and Hei Victor Cheng (Aarhus University, Denmark)

Wednesday, December 6 2:45 - 3:30

IS 10: Interactive Subsession WC_I10

Room: Exhibition Hall (Grand Ballroom) - level 3
Fairness Optimization of RSMA for Uplink Communication based on Intelligent Reflecting Surface
Shanshan Zhang and Wen Chen (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China)
STAR-RIS Aided Covert Communication
Han Xiao (Xian Jiaotong University, China); Xiaoyan Hu, Pengcheng Mu and Wenjie Wang (Xi'an Jiaotong University, China); Tong-Xing Zheng (Xi'an Jiaotong Unviersity, China); Kai Kit Wong (University College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Kun Yang (University of Essex, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Benchmarking the User-Centric Clustering and Pilot Assignment Problems in Cell-Free Networks
Ahmed Aboulfotouh (Lakehead University, Canada); Zubair Md Fadlullah (Western University, Canada); Mostafa M. Fouda (Idaho State University, USA); Muhammad Ismail (Tennessee Tech University, USA); Dusit Niyato (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Soft Actor-Critic-based Multi-TTI Precoding for Multi-modal RTBC over MIMO Systems
Yingzhi Huang, Kaiyi Chi, Qianqian Yang, Zhaohui Yang and Zhaoyang Zhang (Zhejiang University, China)
Channel Estimation for Intelligent Reflecting Surface-Assisted Wireless Energy Transfer Network Using Only One-Bit Feedback
Taotao Ji (Southeast University, China); Meng Hua (City University of Hong Kong, China); Chunguo Li, Yongming Huang and Luxi Yang (Southeast University, China)

Wednesday, December 6 4:00 - 5:30

CISS 11: Privacy-Preserving Techniques II

Room 301
Chair: Wenxuan Qiao (Beijing Jiaotong University, China)
Efficient and Privacy-Preserving Logistic Regression Prediction over Vertically Partitioned Data
Jiaqi Zhao, Hui Zhu and Fengwei Wang (Xidian University, China); Rongxing Lu (University of New Brunswick, Canada); Hui Li (Xidian University, China)
A Sensitivity-aware and Block-wise Pruning Method for Privacy-preserving Federated Learning
Ben Niu (Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China); Xindi Wang and Likun Zhang (Institute of Information Engineering, CAS & School of Cyber Security, UCAS, China); Shoukun Guo (Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China); Jin Cao (Xidian University, China); Fenghua Li (Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
Privacy-Preserving EEG Signal Analysis with Electrode Attention for Depression Diagnosis: Joint FHE and CNN Approach
Huanze Dong and Jun Wu (Waseda University, Japan); Ali Kashif Bashir (Manchester Metropolitan University, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Qianqian Pan (The University of Tokyo, Japan); Marwan Omar (Illinois Institute of Technology & IIT, USA); Anwer Al-Dulaimi (EXFO Inc., Canada)
Knowledge Distillation Based Defense for Audio Trigger Backdoor in Federated Learning
Yu-Wen Chen (New York City College of Technology (CUNY), USA); Bo-Hsu Ke, Bo-Zhong Chen, Si-Rong Chiu, Chun-Wei Tu and Jian-Jhih Kuo (National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan)
Reflection-Optimized Covert Communication for Jammer-Aided Ambient Backscatter Systems
Yuanai Xie (South-Central Minzu University, China); Tse-Tin Chan (The Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong); Xiao Zhang (South-Central Minzu University, China); Pan Lai (South-Central Minzu University); Haoyuan Pan (Shenzhen University, China)

Wednesday, December 6 4:00 - 5:30

CQRM 6: Mission-critical Communications

Room 302
uTAS: Ultra-Reliable Time-Aware Shaper for Time-Sensitive Networks
Guizhen Li, Shuo Wang, Yudong Huang and Xingyu Zhong (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Guiyu Zhang and Luying Bai (China Information Technology Designing and Consulting Institute Company Limited, China); Tao Huang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
Preemptive DoS attacks on Time Sensitive Networks
Nurefşan Sertbaş Bülbül and Mathias Fischer (Universität Hamburg, Germany)
Enhanced Precision Time Synchronization with Measurement and Compensation in TSN
Chenlong Yao (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications,China); Guochu Shou, Boyang Niu, Xiaodong Zhang, Hongxing Li, Yaqiong Liu and Yihong Hu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
NOMA or Puncturing for Uplink eMBB-URLLC Coexistence from an AoI Perspective?
Farnaz Khodakhah (Mid Sweden University, Sweden); Čedomir Stefanović (Aalborg University, Denmark); Aamir Mahmood (Mid Sweden University, Sweden); Hossam Farag (Aalborg University, Denmark); Patrik Osterberg and Mikael Gidlund (Mid Sweden University, Sweden)
Performance modeling and dimensioning of latency-critical traffic in 5G networks
Mohammed Abdullah (Telecom SudParis, France); Salah Eddine Elayoubi (CentraleSupélec, France); Tijani Chahed (Telecom SudParis, France); Abdel Lisser (Paris-Sud University, France)

Wednesday, December 6 4:00 - 5:30

CQRM 7: Network Measurement and Monitoring Techniques

Room 305
Unsupervised Network Traffic Classification Based on Multi-source Synergistic Distribution Alignment
Bowen Gao, Yang Yang, Zhipeng Gao, Peng Yu, Rui Lyu and Shaoyin Chen (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
Joint Routing and Sketch Configuration for Multi-Switch Cooperative Network Measurement
You-Cheng Chang and Wei-Te Lu (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan); Kate Ching-Ju Lin (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan)
Low-cost Network Measurement Through Intelligent In-band Network Telemetry Orchestration
Tong Wu and Haipeng Yao (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Wenji He (Beijing University of Post and Telecommunications, China); Zunliang Wang and Tianle Mai (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Zehui Xiong (Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore); Song Guo (Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong)
FL-PERF: Predicting TCP Throughput with Federated Learning
Han Nay Aung (University of Kwansei Gakuin, Japan); Hiroyuki Ohsaki (Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan)
Data-Driven Latency Probability Prediction for Wireless Networks: Focusing on Tail Probabilities
Seyed Samie Mostafavi (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden); Gourav Prateek Sharma (KTH, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden); James Gross (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)

Wednesday, December 6 4:00 - 5:30

CSM 6: Deep Reinforcement Learning for Network Optimization

Room 303
DRLFcc: Deep Reinforcement Learning-empowered Congestion Control Mechanism for TCP Fast Recovery
Yuanlong Cao, Jinquan Nie and Yuehua Fan (Jiangxi Normal University, China); Xun Shao (Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan); Gang Lei (Jiangxi Normal University, China)
SCHEMA III: Dynamic & scalable VNE framework based on Multi-Agent RL for 5G/6G networks
Anestis Dalgkitsis (Iquadrat & Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain); Luis A Garrido (Iquadrat Informatica S. L., Spain); Kostas Ramantas (Iquadrat Informatica, Greece); John S Vardakas (Iquadrat Informatica, Spain); Georgios Kormentzas (University of the Aegean, Greece); Christos Verikoukis (University of Patras, Greece)
EVPRT: A MARL-Based Approach for Efficient Passage of Emergency Vehicles in Urban Vehicular Networks
Bingyi Liu and Wei Peng (Wuhan University of Technology, China); Jipeng Liu (Northeastern University at Qinhuangdao, China); Weizhen Han (Wuhan Univerrsity of Technology, China); Enshu Wang (Soochow University, China)
RL-Edge Relocator: a Reinforcement Learning based approach for Application Relocation in Edge-enabled 5G System
Grzegorz Panek (Orange Polska, Poland); Nour el houda Nouar (Orange Innovation, France); Ilhem Fajjari (Orange labs, France); Piotr Matysiak (Orange Poland, Poland); Halina Tarasiuk (Warsaw University of Technology, Poland)
Vehicles Control: Collision Avoidance using Federated Deep Reinforcement Learning
Badr Ben Elallid (Moulay Ismail University of Meknes, Morocco); Amine Abouaomar (Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Morocco); Nabil Benamar (Moulay Ismail University, Morocco & Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Morocco); Abdellatif Kobbane (ENSIAS, Mohammed V University in Rabat, Morocco)

Wednesday, December 6 4:00 - 5:30

CT 4: Capacity

Room 403
Chair: Christian Deppe (Technical University of Munich, Germany)
Algorithmic Computability of the Capacity of Additive Colored Gaussian Noise Channels
Holger Boche (Technical University Munich, Germany); Andrea Grigorescu (Technical University of Munich, Germany); Rafael F. Schaefer (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany); H. Vincent Poor (Princeton University, USA)
Deterministic K-Identification For Binary Symmetric Channel
Ons Dabbabi (Techincal University of Munich, Germany); Mohammad Javad Salariseddigh and Christian Deppe (Technical University of Munich, Germany); Holger Boche (Technical University Munich, Germany)
Joint Beamforming and Antenna Movement Design for Moveable Antenna Systems Based on Statistical CSI
Xintai Chen, Biqian Feng and Yongpeng Wu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China); Derrick Wing Kwan Ng (University of New South Wales, Australia); Robert Schober (Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany)
A New Interference-Alignment Scheme for Wireless MapReduce
Yue Bi (Telecom Paris, France & Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China); Michele A Wigger (Telecom Paris, France); Yue Wu (Shanghai Jiaotong University, China)
A Lower Bound on the Capacity of b-Modulated NFDM Systems
Mohammadamin Baniasadi (The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Yu Chen (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Alex Dytso (Qualcomm Inc., USA); Luca Barletta (Politecnico di Milano, Italy); Majid Safari (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

Wednesday, December 6 4:00 - 5:30

GCSN 5: Battery-free Communications

Room 402
Chair: Keshav Singh (National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan)
Power-Efficient STAR-RIS aided MIMO-SWIPT Towards 6G Green Communications under Channel Estimation error
Jetti Yaswanth (National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan); Mayur Vitthalrao Katwe (Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore); Keshav Singh (National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan); Omid Taghizadeh (Lenovo (Deutschland) GmbH, Germany); Cunhua Pan (Southeast University, China); Anke Schmeink (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)
Outage Performance Analysis of STAR-RIS Assisted CR-NOMA Networks
Sen Wang and Lian Baowang (Northwestern Polytechnical University, China); Xuesong Gao and Xingwang Li (Henan Polytechnic University, China); Ming Zeng (Université Laval, Canada)
Resource Allocation for Mutualistic Symbiotic Radio with Hybrid Active-Passive Communications
Hong Guo (XI'AN University of Posts&Telecommunications, China); Yinghui Ye (Xi'an University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Haijian Sun (University of Georgia, USA); Liqin Shi (Xi'an University of Posts & Telecommunications, China)
Mutualistic Mechanism for RIS-assisted Symbiotic Radios: How Many Reflecting Elements Are Required?
Wang Yan, Qianqian Zhang, Hu Zhou and Ying-Chang Liang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China)
Secure Energy-Efficient RIS-assisted MISO Networks with Artificial Noise Jamming
Junyu Ma and Qiang Li (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China); Ashish Pandharipande (Philips Research, The Netherlands); Wensheng Zhang (Shandong University, China); Chen Wang (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China); Xiaohu Ge (Huazhong University of Science & Technology, China)

Wednesday, December 6 4:00 - 5:30

IoTSN 8: Federated Learning for IoT Networks III

Room 408
Federated Deep Reinforcement Learning for Task Participation in Mobile Crowdsensing
Sumedh Jitendra Dongare (Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany); Andrea Ortiz and Anja Klein (TU Darmstadt, Germany)
Convergence Visualizer of Decentralized Federated Distillation with Reduced Communication Costs
Akihito Taya and Yuuki Nishiyama (The University of Tokyo, Japan); Kaoru Sezaki (University of Tokyo, Japan)
FLDetect: An API-Based Ransomware Detection Using Federated Learning
Tomas Petros and Henos Ghirmay (Zayed University, United Arab Emirates); Safa Otoum (University of Ottawa, Canada); Reem Salem (Zayed University, United Arab Emirates); Mérouane Debbah (Khalifa University of Science and Technology, France)
CMRM: A Cross-modal Reasoning Model to Enable Zero-shot Imitation Learning for Robotic RFID Inventory in Unstructured Environments
Yongshuai Wu (Kennesaw State University, USA); Jian Zhang (Kennesaw State University, Marietta, GA, USA); Shaoen Wu (Kennesaw State University, USA); Shiwen Mao (Auburn University, USA); Ying Wang (Kennesaw State University, USA)
Deceiving reactive jamming in dynamic wireless sensor networks: a deep reinforcement learning based approach
Chen Zhang, Tianqi Mao and Zhenyu Xiao (Beihang University, China); Ruiqi Liu (ZTE Corporation, China); Xiang-Gen Xia (University of Delaware, USA)

Wednesday, December 6 4:00 - 4:45

IS 11: Interactive SubSession CISS_I11

Room: Exhibition Hall (Grand Ballroom) - level 3
CηιDAE: Cryptographically Distinguishing Autoencoder for Cipher Cryptanalysis
Raphael C.-W. Phan and Arghya Pal (Monash University, Malaysia); KokSheik Wong (Monash University Malaysia, Malaysia); Sailaja Rajanala (Monash University, Malaysia)
Securing Offshore Installations Against Automatic Identification System Spoofing
Grzegorz Jacek Kot, Weizhi Meng and Brooke Lampe (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark)
Supersingular Isogeny-Based Single Compression Cryptographic Hash Function
Miraz Uz Zaman and Manki Min (Louisiana Tech University, USA)
Socially-Aware Decentralized Learning for Intrusion Detection Systems With Imbalanced Non-IID Data
Ren-Hung Hwang (National Yang-Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan & National Chung-Cheng University, Taiwan); Chia-Yun Hsu and Jian-Jhih Kuo (National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan)
DCAMM: Dynamic Curve-based Automated Market Maker
Shunrong Jiang and Jingwei Chen (China University of Mining and Technology, China); Fengjiao Li, Haijun Geng and Haotian Chi (Shanxi University, China)

Wednesday, December 6 4:00 - 4:45

IS 11: Interactive Subsession CRAEN_I11

Room: Exhibition Hall (Grand Ballroom) - level 3
Semantic Communications with Explicit Semantic Base for Image Transmission
Yuan Zheng, Fengyu Wang and Wenjun Xu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Miao Pan (University of Houston, USA); Ping Zhang (WTI-BUPT, China)
Scalable Antenna Orientation Optimization for mmWave Mobile Communication Systems
Linzhi Shen and Shaowei Wang (Nanjing University, China)
Channel Estimation for Massive MIMO: A Weighted Nuclear Norm Minimization Approach
Qi Tan and Yuan Ma (Shenzhen University, China); Xingjian Zhang (Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen), China)
Technology Agnostic Anomaly Detection using Multi-modal Sensory Data in Industrial IOT
Wesley O'Quinn and Shiwen Mao (Auburn University, USA)

Wednesday, December 6 4:00 - 4:45

IS 11: Interactive Subsession IoTSN_I11

Room: Exhibition Hall (Grand Ballroom) - level 3
Topology Design for Robust IoT Data Gathering via Bayesian Networks
Haiyan Wei, Zhenlong Xiao and Xinghao Ding (Xiamen University, China); Xianbin Wang (Western University, Canada)
Knowledge Representation-Actuated Based Spatio-Temporal Graph Neural Network Traffic Flow Prediction
Yihan Liu and Nianwen Ning (Henan University, China); Ning Lu (Queen's University, Canada); Yi Zhou (Henan University, China)
Semantic-aware Remote State Estimation in Digital Twin with Minimizing Age of Incorrect Information
Haonan Tong and Sihua Wang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Zhaohui Yang (Zhejiang University, China); Jun Zhao (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore); Mehdi Bennis (Centre of Wireless Communications, University of Oulu, Finland); Changchuan Yin (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
GHL-SAR: Secure and Adaptive Routing Based on GMM-HMM-LSTM for UASNs
Rongxin Zhu (University of Ottawa, China); Azzedine Boukerche (University of Ottawa, Canada); Huang Xiangdang (Hainan University, China); Qiuling Yang (Tianjin University, China)

Wednesday, December 6 4:00 - 4:45

IS 11: Interactive Subsession SAC/AC_I11

Room: Exhibition Hall (Grand Ballroom) - level 3
Congestion-Avoidance Adaptation for Edge-based UAV Video Frame Delivery
Meng-Shou Wu, Tai Tan Phan, Ping-Kuan Kao and Chi-Yu Li (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan)
Designing Cellular Networks for UAV Corridors via Bayesian Optimization
Mohamed Benzaghta (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain); Giovanni Geraci (Telefonica Research & Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain); David López-Pérez (Univ. Politècnica de València, Spain); Alvaro Valcarce (Nokia Bell Labs, France)
Adaptive Search on the Equipotential Surface Using Perturbation Methods for UAV-aided Multiuser LOS Relaying
Yuanshuai Zheng and Junting Chen (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China); Yuan Luo (The Chinese University of Hong Kong Shenzhen, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

Wednesday, December 6 4:00 - 4:45

IS 11: Interactive Subsession SAC/ISC_I11

Room: Exhibition Hall (Grand Ballroom) - level 3
Chair: Xingyu Zhou (Beijing Institute of Technology, China)
Integrated Communication and Localization for Next-Generation Ultra-Massive MIMO System
Xingyu Zhou and Zhen Gao (Beijing Institute of Technology, China)
Interference-Aware Integrated Uplink Communication and Downlink Sensing
Yang Sun, Hong Shen and Wei Xu (Southeast University, China); Chunming Zhao (National Mobile Communications Research Laboratory, Southeast University, China)
A Dynamic Transmission Strategy for ISAC in Large Networks
Konpal Ali and Marwa Chafii (New York University Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates)

Wednesday, December 6 4:00 - 4:45

IS 11: Interactive Subsession SAC/TC_I11

Room: Exhibition Hall (Grand Ballroom) - level 3
Chair: Chong Han (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China)
Increasing Terahertz MIMO Channel Capacity with Passive Reflectors
Suresh Singh, Ha Tran and Thanh Le (Portland State University, USA)
Boosting Capacity for 6G Terahertz Mesh Networks Based on Bottleneck Structures
Tianxin Wang and Xudong Wang (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China)

Wednesday, December 6 4:00 - 5:30

MWN 10: Machine Learning Approaches

Room 306
Chair: Chafika Benzaid (University of Oulu, Finland)
Deep Learning-based Real-time Smartphone Pose Detection for Ultra-wideband Tagless Gate
Junyoung Choi (Samsung Electronics, Korea (South)); Sagnik Bhattacharya (Stanford University, USA & Samsung Electronics, Korea (South))
PMNet: Robust Pathloss Map Prediction via Supervised Learning
Ju-Hyung Lee, Omer Gokalp Serbetci, Dheeraj Panneer Selvam and Andreas F. Molisch (University of Southern California, USA)
A Meta-learning based Generalizable Indoor Localization Model using Channel State Information
Ali Owfi (Clemson University, USA); ChunChih Lin (833 Old Greenville Highway & Clemson University, USA); Linke Guo and Fatemeh Afghah (Clemson University, USA); Jonathan Ashdown (United States Air Force, USA); Kurt Turck (United States Air Force Research Labs, USA)
QFAGR: A Q-learning-based Fast Adaptive Geographic Routing Protocol for Flying Ad hoc Networks
Chi Wei, Yuanyu Wang, Xiang Wang and Yuliang Tang (Xiamen University, China)
Solving Multi-task Offloading Problem in V2X with a Machine Learning-based Online Algorithm
Yongwang Zhou, Dongbiao Li, Yifan Chen, Chi Zhang and Lingbo Wei (University of Science and Technology of China, China); Miao Pan (University of Houston, USA)

Wednesday, December 6 4:00 - 5:30

MWN 11: Mobile Edge Computing I

Room 410
Chair: Omar Alhussein (Huawei Technologies Canada, Canada)
Dynamic Encoding and Decoding of Information for Split Learning in Mobile-Edge Computing: Leveraging Information Bottleneck Theory
Omar Alhussein (Huawei Technologies Canada, Canada); Moshi Wei (York University, Canada); Arashmid Akhavain (Huawei Technologies Canada Co., Ltd., Canada)
Queueing Analysis of Incentive-based Extreme Edge Service Systems
Sherif B. Azmy (Queen's University, Canada); Nizar Zorba (Qatar University, Qatar); Hossam S. Hassanein (Queen's University, Canada)
Q-balance: An Approach for Balancing Data Imputation Tasks on Edge resources of a Smart Grid
Matheus Barbosa (Federal University of Bahia & UFBA, Brazil); Eric Bernardes (UFBA, Brazil); Vinícius Fernandes Mota (Federal University of Espirito Santo, Brazil); Dionisio Leite Filho (UFMS, Brazil); Damla Turgut (University of Central Florida, USA); Maycon Peixoto (UFBA, Brazil)
Collaborative Block Mining and Edge Task Offloading in MEC-Assisted Blockchain Networks: A Coalition Game-Theoretic Approach
Licheng Ye (Harbin Institute of Technology & Harbin Institute of Technology at Weihai, China); Jingjing Luo (Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, China); Changkun Jiang (Shenzhen University, China); Lin Gao (Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, China)
Decentralized Over-the-Air Computation for Edge AI Inference with Integrated Sensing and Communication
Zeming Zhuang (Shanghaitech University, China); Dingzhu Wen and Yuanming Shi (ShanghaiTech University, China)

Wednesday, December 6 4:00 - 5:30

NGNI 6: Machine Learning and AI Applications

Room 401
Super-Resolution Time-of-Flight Estimation for Ranging via Multi-Band Splicing
Zengshan Tian, Yanzhen Ren and Ze Li (Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Xingqing Cheng (Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., China)
SetTron: Towards Better Generalisation in Penetration Testing with Reinforcement Learning
Yizhou Yang (Zhejiang Lab, China); Mengxuan Chen and Haohuan Fu (Tsinghua University, China); Xin Liu (National Research Center of Parallel Computer Engineering and Technology, China)
Transfer Learning for Online Prediction of Virtual Reality Cloud Gaming Traffic
Sampreet Vaidya, Hatem Abou-Zeid and Diwakar Krishnamurthy (University of Calgary, Canada)
Host-Assisted Transport Layer in Data Centers Using Network-Aware Rate Adjustment
Mahmoud Bahnasy (Huawei Canada Research Center, Canada); Seyed Hossein Mortazavi, Ali Munir and Hossein Shafieirad (Huawei Technologies, Canada); Yashar Ganjali (University of Toronto, Canada)
Hierarchical DRL-empowered Network Slicing in Space-Air-Ground Networks
Mohammed Abegaz (Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar); Nahom Abishu Hayla (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); Aiman Erbad (Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar); Carla Fabiana Chiasserini (Politecnico di Torino & CNIT, IEIIT-CNR, Italy)

Wednesday, December 6 4:00 - 5:30

ONS 2: Underwater and Visible Light Communications

Room 308
Chair: Hossein Kazemi (University of Strathclyde & LiFi Research and Development Center, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Enhancement of optimized CSK for USLIPT
Honoka Yoshinaga, Yusuke Kozawa and Hiromasa Habuchi (Ibaraki University, Japan)
Dynamic Element Allocation for Optical IRS-Assisted Underwater Wireless Communication System
Rehana Salam (IIIT-DELHI, India); Anand Srivastava (Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi, India); Vivek A Bohara (Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi (IIIT-Delhi), India); Ashwin Ashok (Georgia State University, USA)
Optimal mirror placement to minimize the outage area in Visible Light Communication
Borja Genoves Guzman (University of Virginia, USA); Máximo Morales-Céspedes (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain); Víctor P. Gil Jiménez (University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain); Ana Garcia Armada (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain); Maite Brandt-Pearce (University of Virginia, USA)
Performance of Deep Learning Assisted Visible Light Communications Impaired by Blockages
Parvez Shaik (Texas A & M University at QATAR, Qatar & Texas A & M University, Qatar); Cihat Kececi (Texas A&M University, USA); Kamal K Garg (School of Technology, Pandit Deendayal Energy University, Gandhinagar, India); Ali Boyacı (Istanbul Commerce University, Turkey); Muhammad Ismail (Tennessee Tech University, USA); Erchin Serpedin (Texas A&M University, USA)
Performance Analysis of Angular Diversity Receivers in Multi-Cell VLC Systems
Ryo Harada, Callum T Geldard and Wasiu O. Popoola (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

Wednesday, December 6 4:00 - 5:30

SAC/BD 3: Green Big Data Systems

Room 310
Secure and Efficient Decentralized Analytics on Digital Twins Using Federated Learning
Aashma Uprety and Danda B. Rawat (Howard University, USA)
TEEM: Two-factor Energy Evaluation Metric toward Green Big Data System
Weidong Fang (Key Laboratory of Wireless Sensor Network & Communication, SIMIT, CAS., China); Chunsheng Zhu (Southern University of Science and Technology, China); Mohsen Guizani (MBZUAI, United Arab Emirates); Zhiqi Li (Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, CAS, China); Wuxiong Zhang (Shanghai Research Center for Wireless Communications, China); Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues (Senac Fac of Ceará, Brazil & Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal)
Deep Reinforcement Learning based Energy Efficiency Maximization Scheme for Uplink NOMA enabled D2D Users
Anushka Nehra (Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, India); Vineet Vishnoi (Bennett University, India); Neeraj Joshi (Bennett University, Greater Noida, India); Haneef Khan (Jazan University, Saudi Arabia); Ishan Budhiraja and Suneet Gupta (Bennett University, Greater Noida, India)
Joint Admission and Power Control for Big Data Access Management using GAT
Mengke Yang (Northwestern Polytechnical University, China); Daosen Zhai (Northwestren Polytechnical University, China); Ruonan Zhang (Northwestern Polytechnical University, China); Haotong Cao (Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Lin Cai (University of Victoria, Canada); F. Richard Yu (Carleton University, Canada)
Outage Analysis for RIS-Assisted Communication in the Era of 6G and Big Data
Yaxuan Liu (Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Yiyang Ni (Jiangsu Second Normal University, China); Qin Wang, Hongbo Zhu and Xiaozhen Zhu (Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Haotong Cao (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong)

Wednesday, December 6 4:00 - 5:30

SAC/CC 4: Network Slicing in 5G

Room 407
Chair: Chien Chen (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan)
A Deep Transfer Learning-powered EDoS Detection Mechanism for 5G and Beyond Network Slicing
Chafika Benzaid and Tarik Taleb (University of Oulu, Finland); Ashkan Sami (Edinburgh Napier University, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Othmane Hireche (University of Sciences and Technology Houari Boumediene, Finland & Nanoform, Finland)
Securing 5G Network Slices with Adaptive Machine Learning Models as-a-Service: A Novel Approach
Roumaissa Bekkouche (LIGM, Univ Gustave Eiffel, France); Mawloud Omar (ESIEE Paris, LIGM, University of Gustave Eiffel, France); Rami Langar (Ecole de Technologie Supérieure de Montréal, Canada & University Gustave Eiffel, France)
Profit-driven Slicing in Dynamic Multi-Domain Networks
Mohamed Ryad Cherifi (Université Du Québec à Montreal, Canada); Mouhamad Dieye (Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada); Halima Elbiaze (University of Quebec at Montreal, Canada); Wessam Ajib (Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada)
Multi-Switch Cooperative In-Network Aggregation for Distributed Deep Learning
Ming-Wei Su and Yuan-Yu Li (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan); Kate Ching-Ju Lin (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan)
5G-IoT-IDS: Intrusion Detection System for CIoT as Network Function in 5G Core Network
Tan Nhat Linh Le (University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France); Boussad Ait Salem (Efrei Reasearch Lab - Panthéon - Assas University, France & Efrei Paris, France); Emile Abdel Ahad (EFREI Paris Panthéon-Assas Université, France); Nadjib Aitsaadi (UVSQ Paris-Saclay & DAVIDLab, France); Xiaojiang Du (Stevens Institute of Technology, USA)

Wednesday, December 6 4:00 - 5:30

SAC/MLC 6: Machine Learning for Channel Estimation

Room 304
Chair: Takayuki Nishio (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)
Generative Diffusion Models for Radio Wireless Channel Modelling and Sampling
Ushnish Sengupta (MediaTek Research, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Chinkuo Jao (MediaTek, Taiwan); Alberto Bernacchia (MediaTek Research, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Sattar Vakili (Cornell University, USA); Da-shan Shiu (MediaTek Research, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Spatial Frequency-based Feature Extraction for Point Cloud-based Proactive mmWave Link Quality Prediction
Shoki Ohta and Takayuki Nishio (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan); Riichi Kudo (NTT Corporation, Japan); Kahoko Takahashi and Hisashi Nagata (NTT, Japan)
Deep Learning Based Joint CSI Compression and Prediction for Beyond-5G Systems
Sripada Kadambar (Samsung R&D Institute India - Bangalore, India); Ameha Abebe (Samsung Research Suwon, Korea (South)); Ashwini Kumar and Ashok Kumar Reddy Chavva (Samsung Electronics, India); Hyoungju Ji (Samsung Electronics. Co., Ltd, Korea (South))
CE-ViT: A Robust Channel Estimator Based On Vision Transformer for OFDM Systems
Fangyu Liu (Southeast University, China); Jing Zhang (Southeast University & National Mobile Communications Research Lab, China); Peiwen Jiang (Southeast University, China); Chao-Kai Wen (National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan); Shi Jin (Southeast University, China)
Transformer-Based Neural Surrogate for Link-Level Path Loss Prediction from Variable-Sized Maps
Thomas M Hehn (Qualcomm, The Netherlands); Tribhuvanesh Orekondy (Qualcomm, Switzerland); Ori Shental (Qualcomm, USA); Arash Behboodi (Qualcomm, NL, The Netherlands); Juan Bucheli (Qualcomm & Qualcomm, France); Akash S Doshi and June Namgoong (Qualcomm Technologies Inc., USA); Taesang Yoo (Qualcomm Inc., USA); Ashwin Sampath (Qualcomm, USA); Joseph B. Soriaga (Qualcomm, Inc., USA)

Wednesday, December 6 4:00 - 5:30

SAC/MLC 7: Machine Learning for LIS

Room 404
Chair: Gaojie Chen (University of Surrey, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
RISnet: a Scalable Approach for Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface Optimization with Partial CSI
Bile Peng (TU Braunschweig, Germany); Karl-Ludwig Besser (Princeton University, USA); Ramprasad Raghunath (TU Braunschweig, Germany); Vahid Jamali (Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany); Eduard A Jorswieck (Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany)
Data-Induced Intelligent Kalman Filtering for Beam Prediction and Tracking of Millimeter Wave Communications
Jianjun Zhang (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China); Yongming Huang (Southeast University, China); Christos Masouros (University College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Xiaohu You (National Mobile communication Research Lab., Southeast University, China)
Improving the Performance of R17 Type-II Codebook with Deep Learning
Ke Ma, Yiliang Sang and Yang Ming (Tsinghua University, China); Jin Lian and Chang Tian (Huawei, China); Zhaocheng Wang (Tsinghua University, China)
Distributed DRL based Beamforming Design for RIS-Assisted Multi-cell Systems
Haocheng Zhang and Sifan Liu (Dalian University of Technology, China); Rang Liu (University of California, Irvine, USA); Ming Li and Qian Liu (Dalian University of Technology, China)
Learning Precoding Policy with Inductive Biases: Graph Neural Networks or Meta-learning?
Baichuan Zhao and Yang Ma (Beihang University, China); Jiajun Wu (Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China); Chenyang Yang (Beihang University, China)

Wednesday, December 6 4:00 - 5:30

SAC/RIS 3: Physical Layer Security and Covert Communications in RIS-aided Networks

Room 309
Chair: Luca Sanguinetti (University of Pisa, Italy)
Secure Integrated Sensing and Communication Via Intelligent Reflecting Surface
Meng Hua (City University of Hong Kong, China); Qingqing Wu and Wen Chen (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China)
An Anti-Jamming Strategy for Disco Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces Based Fully-Passive Jamming Attacks
Huan Huang (Soochow University, China); Hongliang Zhang (Peking University, China); Yi Cai (ZTE TX, USA); Lee Swindlehurst (University of California at Irvine, USA); Zhu Han (University of Houston, USA)
Intelligent Reflecting Surface Aided Activity Detection: A Covariance-Based Learning Approach
Qingfeng Lin (The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong); Yang Li (Shenzhen Research Institute of Big Data, China); Yik-Chung Wu (The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong); Rui Zhang (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Covert Communications Assisted by Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces with Discrete Phase Shifts
Peilin Ren and Jia Zhang (Shandong Normal University, China); Shihao Yan (Edith Cowan University, Australia); Weitao Xu (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong); Jiande Sun (Shandong Normal University, China); Naofal Al-Dhahir (University of Texas at Dallas, USA)
Controllable Wireless Sensing via Target-Mounted Intelligent Reflecting Surface
Xiaodan Shao (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China); Rui Zhang (National University of Singapore, Singapore)

Wednesday, December 6 4:00 - 5:30

SAC/SSC 4: Satellite and Space Networking

Room 307
Cache-Assisted Content Delivery for NOMA-Based Satellite-Edge-Terminal Cooperation Networks
Chao Fang, Hang Xu and Yingshan Li (Beijing University of Technology, China); Haofei Xie (Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Shu-Ming Tseng (National Taipei University of Technology, Taiwan); Zheng Yang (Fujian Normal University, China); Deze Zeng (China University of Geosciences, China)
Multi-Agent DRL for Distributed Routing and Data Scheduling in Interplanetary Networks
Xixuan Zhou, Xiaojian Tian and Zuqing Zhu (University of Science and Technology of China, China)
Enabling High-connectivity LEO Satellite Networks via Encountering Inter-Satellite Links
Xiangtong Wang, Wei Li, Songchen Han and Menglong Yang (Sichuan University, China); Zhiyun Jiang (Sichuan University, Japan)
Content-Aware Proportional Caching for Efficient Data Delivery over Satellite Network
Jiaran Zhang, Yating Yang, Huanyu Sang, Zhuoqun Gao and Tian Song (Beijing Institute of Technology, China)
On Delay Performance in Mega Satellite Networks with Inter-Satellite Links
Kosta Dakic (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia); Bassel Al Homssi (UNSW Camberra); Chiu Chun Chan (Australian National University); Sithamparanathan Kandeepan and Akram Al-Hourani (RMIT University, Australia)

Wednesday, December 6 4:00 - 5:30

SPC 7: Signal Processing for Emerging Technologies in 6G III

Room 406
Near-Field Full Dimensional Beam Codebook Design for XL-MIMO Communications
Wei Huang and Cuiling Li (Hefei University of Technology, China); Yong Zeng (Southeast University, China); Caihong Kai (Hefei University of Technology, China); Shiwen He (Central South University, China)
On the Pulse Shaping for Delay-Doppler Communications
Shuangyang Li (Technical University of Berlin, Germany); Weijie Yuan (Southern University of Science and Technology, China); Zhiqiang Wei (Xi'an Jiaotong University, China); Jinhong Yuan (University of New South Wales, Australia); Baoming Bai (Xidian University, China); Giuseppe Caire (Technische Universität Berlin, Germany)
Exploiting Index Modulation for Enhanced NOMA
Ziyi Xie (Communication Research Center, Harbin Institute of Technology, China); Wenqiang Yi (University of Essex, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Xuanli Wu (Communication Research Center, Harbin Institute of Technology, China); Yuanwei Liu (Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); A Nallanathan (QMUL, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Affine Frequency Division Multiplexing for Communications on Sparse Time-Varying Channels
Wissal Benzine (EURECOM & Huawei, France); Ali Bemani (Eurecom, France); Nassar Ksairi (Huawei Technologies France SASU, France); Dirk Slock (EURECOM, France)
Trajectory Design for 3D UAV Localization in UAV Based Network
Yujiao Zhu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Mingzhe Chen (University of Miami, USA); Sihua Wang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Yuchen Liu (North Carolina State University, USA); Changchuan Yin (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)

Wednesday, December 6 4:00 - 5:30

WC 10: Signal Processing for Communications II

Room 405
Secure Integrated Sensing and Communication Exploiting Target Location Distribution
Kaiyue Hou and Shuowen Zhang (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China)
Joint Activity-Delay Detection and Channel Estimation for Asynchronous Massive Random Access
Xinyu Bian (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong); Yuyi Mao (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong); Jun Zhang (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)
Joint Precoding and Fronthaul Compression for Cell-Free MIMO Downlink With Radio Stripes
Sangwon Jo (Jeonbuk National University, Korea (South)); Hoon Lee (Ulsan National Institute Science and Technology, Korea (South)); Seok-Hwan Park (Jeonbuk National University, Korea (South))
Spectrum Breathing: A Spectrum-efficient Method for Protecting Over-the-Air Federated Learning Against Interference
Zhanwei Wang (University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong); Kaibin Huang (The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong); Yonina C. Eldar (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel)
Enhancing Channel Estimation in High Mobility OTFS Systems: A Novel Pilot-Based Method Exploiting Doppler Axis Diversity in a TransPod Transportation System
Bentolhoda Kazemzadeh (University of Limoges, France); Ryan Janzen (University of Toronto, Canada); Vahid Meghdadi (University of Limoges, France); Hamid Meghdadi (Semnan University, Iran); Abbas Bradai (University of Côte d'Azur, France)

Wednesday, December 6 4:00 - 5:30

WC 11: Resource Management

Room 409
Chair: Ying Loong Lee (Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman, Malaysia)
Exploiting Hybrid Terrestrial/LEO Satellite Systems for Rural Connectivity
Houcem Ben Salem (Politecnico di Torino, Italy); Nour Kouzayha, Ammar El Falou and Mohamed-Slim Alouini (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia); Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, USA)
Joint Coding of eMBB and URLLC in Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) Communications
Homa Nikbakht and Eric Ruzomberka (Princeton University, USA); Michele A Wigger (Telecom Paris, France); Shlomo (Shitz) Shamai (The Technion, Israel); H. Vincent Poor (Princeton University, USA)
A Many-to-Many Matching Approach for Access Point Selection in Cell-free Massive MIMO with Altruistic Players
Dativa K Tizikara and Daniel K. C. So (University of Manchester, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Power Allocation for 6G Networks with Backscatter-Enabled D2D Communications
Woon Shing Chong and Ying Loong Lee (Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman, Malaysia); Mau Luen Tham (UTAR, Malaysia); Yoong Choon Chang (Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman, Malaysia); Feng Ke (South China University of Technology, China); Nordin Ramli (MIMOS Berhad, Malaysia); Li-Chun Wang (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan)
Amplification Strategy in Repeater-Assisted MIMO Systems via Minorization Maximization
Hiroki Iimori (Ericsson Research, Japan); Eito Kurihara (Yokohama National University, Japan); Takumi Yoshida (University of Electro-Communications); Joao Vieira (Ericsson, Sweden); Szabolcs Malomsoky (Ericsson, Japan)

Wednesday, December 6 4:45 - 5:30

IS 12: Interactive Subsession CISS_I12

Room: Exhibition Hall (Grand Ballroom) - level 3
An SRN-Based Model for Assessing Co-Resident Attack Mitigation in Cloud with VM Migration and Allocation Policies
Xin Yang (China University of Petroleum (East China), China); Abla Smahi (Peking University, China); Hui Li (Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School, China); Huayu Zhang (Purple Mountain Laboratories, China); Shuo-Yen Robert Li (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China)
Privacy-preserving and Verifiable Outsourcing Inference Against Malicious Servers
Yiyao Liu, Hongwei Li, Meng Hao and Xilin Zhang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); Guiqiang Hu (Chongqing University of Arts and Sciences, China)
Physical Layer Secret Key Generation with Kalman Filter Detrending
Miroslav Mitev (Barkhausen Institut gGmbH, Germany); Arsenia Chorti (ETIS UMR 8051, CY University, ENSEA, CNRS & ETIS, France); Gerhard Fettweis (Barkhausen Institut, Germany)
Energy-Aware Lightweight PLKG in IMDs: A Deep Dive Into the Effects of Channel Fading Models
Neji Mensi, Hassan El Alami and Danda B. Rawat (Howard University, USA)
FirmVEA: Vulnerability Discovery Optimisation for IoT Firmware via Version Evolution Analysis
Bo Yu and Ying Zhang (National University of Defense Technology, China); Yongyi Zhang (National University of Defense, China); Qiang Yang (National University of Defense Technology, China)

Wednesday, December 6 4:45 - 5:30

IS 12: Interactive Subsession CRAEN_I12

Room: Exhibition Hall (Grand Ballroom) - level 3
Sharing Intelligent Reflecting Surface Among Multiple Wireless Communication Systems
Hiroaki Hashida, Yuichi Kawamoto and Nei Kato (Tohoku University, Japan)
Exploiting Caching-at-STARS: Joint caching replacement and hybrid beamforming
Zhaoming Hu (Beijing University of Technology, China); Ruikang Zhong (Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Chao Fang (Beijing University of Technology, China); Yuanwei Liu (Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Power Efficiency Physical Layer Security for Multiple Users in IRS-assisted Uplink Channels: Learning to Phase Shift
Xiangrui Cheng, Yiliang Liu and Zhou Su (Xi'an Jiaotong University, China); Xuewen Luo (Harbin Institute of Technology, China); Qichao Xu (Shanghai University, China); Haixia Peng (Xi'an Jiaotong University, China); Abderrahim Benslimane (University of Avignon & LIA/CERI, France)
Ultra-Dense LEO Satellite Access Network Slicing: A Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach
Yuru Liu (Nanjing University, China); Ting Ma (Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China); Zhixuan Tang, Xiaohan Qin and Haibo Zhou (Nanjing University, China); Sherman Shen (University of Waterloo, Canada)

Wednesday, December 6 4:45 - 5:30

IS 12: Interactive Subsession SAC/AC_I12

Room: Exhibition Hall (Grand Ballroom) - level 3
Aerial Base Stations: Practical Considerations for Power Consumption and Service Time
Siva Satya Sri Ganesh Seeram, Shuai Zhang and Mustafa Ozger (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden); Andre Grabs (Airbus, Germany); Jaroslav Holis (Deutsche Telekom, Czech Republic); Cicek Cavdar (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)
Proximal Policy Optimization-Based Anti-Jamming UAV-Assisted Data Collection
Ze Chen, Ping Yang and Yue Xiao (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); Liangxin Qian (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Community Detection-Empowered Hybrid Network Slicing for Aerial Communication Services
Chenjing Tian and Jun Xie (Army Engineering University, China); Haotong Cao (Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Yinjin Fu (Sun Yat-Sen University, China); Xijian Luo (Army Engineering University of PLA, China)
Multi-UAV Speed Control with Collision Avoidance and Handover-aware Cell Association: DRL with Action Branching
Zijiang Yan (York University, Canada); Wael Jaafar (École de Technologie Supérieure, Canada); Bassant Selim (ETS Montreal, Canada); Hina Tabassum (York University, Canada)

Wednesday, December 6 4:45 - 5:30

IS 12: Interactive Subsession SAC/ISC_I12

Room: Exhibition Hall (Grand Ballroom) - level 3
Chair: Yao Zhu (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)
Semantic Reliability Maximization: A Cooperative Perspective in Integrated Sensing, Communication and Computation Networks
Yao Zhu, Xiaopeng Yuan, Yulin Hu and Anke Schmeink (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)
RIS-Aided Integrated Sensing and Communications
Prajwalita Saikia (National Sun Yat Sen University Taiwan, Taiwan); Anand Jee (Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India); Keshav Singh (National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan); Cunhua Pan (Southeast University, China); Theodoros Tsiftsis (University of Thessaly, Greece); Wan-Jen Huang (National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan)
STAR-RIS-Aided Full-Duplex ISAC Systems: A Novel Meta Reinforcement Learning Approach
Prajwalita Saikia (National Sun Yat Sen University Taiwan, Taiwan); Anand Jee (Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India); Keshav Singh (National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan); Shahid Mumtaz (Aveiro, Portugal); Wan-Jen Huang (National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan)

Wednesday, December 6 4:45 - 5:30

IS 12: Interactive Subsession SAC/TC_I12

Room: Exhibition Hall (Grand Ballroom) - level 3
Chair: Chong Han (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China)
A Tractable Handoff-aware Rate Outage Approximation with Applications to THz-enabled Vehicular Network Optimization
Mohammad Amin Saeidi, Haider Shoaib and Hina Tabassum (York University, Canada)
Collective Communication Patterns using Time-Reversal Terahertz Links at the Chip Scale
Fátima Rodríguez-Galán and Ama Bandara (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain); Elana Pereira de Santana (University of Siegen, Germany); Peter Haring Bolívar (The Institute of High Frequency and Quantum Electronics, University of Siegen, Germany); Eduard Alarcon (Technical University of Catalunya, Spain); Sergi Abadal (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) & NaNoNetwoking Center in Catalunya (N3Cat), Spain)

Wednesday, December 6 4:45 - 5:30

IS 12: Interactive Subsession SPC_I12

Room: Exhibition Hall (Grand Ballroom) - level 3
Manifold Optimization-Based Channel Estimation for RIS-Assisted MmWave MIMO-OFDM Systems
Zheng Huang, Chen Liu and Yunchao Song (Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Zhisheng Yin (Xidian University, China); Youhua Fu (Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Nan Cheng (Xidian University, China)
Robust Clock Skew and Offset Estimation for PTP Synchronization With Unknown Delay Distributions
Heng Wang, Wenqiao Ma and Xiaojiang Liu (Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)

Thursday, December 7

Thursday, December 7 8:30 - 10:00

CISS 12: Blockchain Security II

Room 408
A Privacy-Preserving Data Sharing Scheme Based on Blockchain for Vehicular Edge Networks
Puhe Hao, Tianyu Pan, Rui Han, Xiao Qu, Zhexuan Yang and Guozi Sun (Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
Smart Contract Firewall: Protecting the on-Chain Smart Contract Projects
Shen Su, Yue Xue, Liansheng Lin, Chao Wang, Hui Lu, Jing Qiu and Yanbin Sun (Guangzhou University, China); Yuan Liu (Guangzhou University & Guangzhou, China); Zhihong Tian (Guangzhou University, China)
Towards Efficient Blockchain-based Cross-domain Trust Reputation Management for LS-HetNet
Wang Shiyang, Xinran Zheng, Shuo Yang and Xingjun Wang (Tsinghua University, China)
AcCrowd: Blockchain-based Crowdsourcing with Worker Anonymity and Payment Correctness
Qiantong Jiang, Zhuo Xu and Xinyi Luo (University of Science and Technology of China, China); Xianchao Zhang (Jiaxing University, China); Kaiping Xue (University of Science and Technology of China, China); Ruidong Li (Kanazawa University, Japan)
Trap Contract Detection in Blockchain with Improved Transformer
Tong Gu, Min Han, Songlin He and Xiaotong Chen (Southwest Jiaotong University, China)

Thursday, December 7 8:30 - 10:00

CISS 13: AI-aided Security II

Room 410
Chair: Safa Otoum (University of Ottawa, Canada)
FAG-scheduler: Privacy-Preserving Federated Reinforcement Learning with GRU for Production Scheduling on Automotive Manufacturing
Jinhua Chen and Keping Yu (Hosei University, Japan); Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues (Senac Fac of Ceará, Brazil & Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal); Mohsen Guizani (MBZUAI, United Arab Emirates); Takuro Sato (Waseda University, Japan)
SD-Transformer: A System-level Denoising Transformer for Encrypted Traffic Behavior Identification
Yizhuo Zhao, Yukun Zhu, Xiong Li and Chen RuiDong (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); Mohammad S. Obaidat (University of Jordan, USA); P Vijayakumar (Melpakkam, India)
A Visual Analytics Framework for Explainable Malware Detection in Edge Computing Networks
Dilara T. Uysal (Birkbeck University of London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Shimaa Naser (Khalifa University, United Arab Emirates); Zaid Almahmoud (Birkbeck University of London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Paul Yoo (Birkbeck, University of London & University of Sydney, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Sami Muhaidat (Carleton University, Canada)
CP-FL: Practical Gradient Leakage Defense in Federated Learning with Compressive Privacy
Weiqi Wang (University of Technology Sydney, Australia); Shushu Liu (Nokia, Finland); Chenhan Zhang and Mingjian Tang (University of Technology Sydney, Australia); Feng Wu (Yunnan University, China); Shui Yu (University of Technology Sydney, Australia)
The Model Inversion Eavesdropping Attack in Semantic Communication Systems
Yuhao Chen, Qianqian Yang, Zhiguo Shi and Jiming Chen (Zhejiang University, China)

Thursday, December 7 8:30 - 10:00

CQRM 8: Network Slicing and SDN/NFV

Room 403
Scheduling Model for Congestion-free Virtualized Network Update
Takehiro Sato (Kyoto University, Japan); Takashi Kurimoto and Shigeo Urushidani (National Institute of Informatics, Japan); Eiji Oki (Kyoto University, Japan)
Hierarchical Intelligence Enabled Joint RAN Slicing and MAC Scheduling for SLA Guarantee
Yetian Cao, Yi Jia and Cheng Zhang (Southeast University, China); Jie Wu (China Mobile Research Institute, China); Yongming Huang (Southeast University, China)
Deep Reinforcement Learning-Based Network Slicing Algorithm for 5G Heterogenous Services
Sara Berri and George Alkhoury (ETIS, CY Cergy Paris University, ENSEA, CNRS, France); Arsenia Chorti (ETIS UMR 8051, CY University, ENSEA, CNRS & ETIS, France)
A Flexible Service Function Chain Optimisation Scheme Based on Network Topology Clustering
Zili Ning, Ning Wang, Mohammad Shojafar and Rahim Tafazolli (University of Surrey, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Latency-Optimal Network Microservice Architecture Deployment in SDN
Juan Luis Herrera and Domenico Scotece (University of Bologna, Italy); Jaime Galán-Jiménez and Javier Berrocal (University of Extremadura, Spain); Giuseppe Di Modica and Luca Foschini (University of Bologna, Italy)

Thursday, December 7 8:30 - 10:00

CQRM 9: Routing and Traffic Steering

Room 407
Deep Reinforcement Learning Based Dynamic Routing Optimization for Delay-Sensitive Applications
Jiawei Chen, Yang Xiao and Guocheng Lin (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Gang He (Beijing University of Posts and Telecom, China); Fang Liu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Wenli Zhou (Beijing University of Posts & Telecommunications, China); Jun Liu, Dr. (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
Flowlet-level Routing Optimization with GNN-based Multi-agent Deep Reinforcement Learning
Lianming Zhang, Haoran Cheng, Shuqiang Peng and Pingping Dong (Hunan Normal University, China)
HD-NRC: Network Route Calculation Based on High-dimensional Features Knowledge
Wenxin Chen, Lei Feng, Li Wenjing, Peng Yu and Fanqin Zhou (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
Oblivious Routing Using Learning Methods
Ufuk Usubutun (New York University, USA); Murali Kodialam (Nokia Bell Labs, USA); T. V Lakshman (Bell Labs, Nokia, USA); Shivendra Panwar (New York University & Tandon School of Engineering, USA)
Enabling Intelligent Traffic Steering in A Hierarchical Open Radio Access Network
Van-Dinh Nguyen (VinUniversity, Vietnam); Thang X. Vu (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg); Nhan Thanh Nguyen (University of Oulu, Finland); Dinh C. Nguyen (The University of Alabama in Huntsville, USA); Markku Juntti (University of Oulu, Finland); Nguyen Cong Luong (Phenikaa University, Vietnam); Hoang Thai Dinh (University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Australia); Diep N. Nguyen (University of Technology Sydney, Australia); Symeon Chatzinotas (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)

Thursday, December 7 8:30 - 10:00

CRAEN 5: Federated Learning for Wireless Networks

Room 402
Chair: Xiaoyao Huang (China Telecom Research Institute, China)
Federated Learning-based Radio Environment Map Construction for Wireless Networks
Mo Mo and Yiyang Pei (Singapore Institute of Technology, Singapore); Sumei Sun (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore); A. Premkumar (University of Malaya, Malaysia); Neelakantam Venkatarayalu (Singapore Institute of Technology & Engineering Cluster, Singapore)
Efficient Federated Learning using Random Pruning in Resource-Constrained Edge Intelligence Networks
Chao Chen and Jiang Bohang (Zhejiang Gongshang University, China); Shengli Liu (Hangzhou City University, China); Chuanhuang Li (Zhejiang Gongshang University, China); Celimuge Wu (The University of Electro-Communications, Japan); Rui Yin (Hangzhou City University, China)
Reliability and Energy Balanced Computation Resource Allocation Mechanism in Federated Learning System for AI-enabled IoT Businesses
Yonghao Qi, Siya Xu, Feng Qi and Peng Yu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
Optimizing Client and Data Selection in Federated Learning: A Centralized Optimization and Decentralized Game-Theoretic Approach
Junkun Lin, Jingjing Luo, Tong Wang and Lin Gao (Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, China)
DAFL: Delay Efficient Federated Learning over Mobile Devices via Device-to-Device Transmissions
Huai-an Su, Pavana Prakash and Rui Chen (University of Houston, USA); Yanmin Gong (University of Texas at San Antonio, USA); Rong Yu (Guangdong University of Technology, China); Xin Fu and Miao Pan (University of Houston, USA)

Thursday, December 7 8:30 - 10:00

CT 5: Federated and Distributed Learning

Room 302
Energy-Efficient and Fast Controlled Descent for Over-the-Air Assisted Federated Learning
Sayantan Adhikary (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India); Neelesh B. Mehta (Indian Institute of Science, India)
On the Privacy Leakage of Over-the-Air Federated Learning Over MIMO Fading Channels
Hang Liu (Cornell University, USA); Jia Yan (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), China); Ying Jun (Angela) Zhang (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Adaptive Top-K in SGD for Communication-Efficient Distributed Learning
Mengzhe Ruan and Guangfeng Yan (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong); Yuanzhang Xiao (University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA); Linqi Song and Weitao Xu (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Bayesian Over-the-Air FedAvg via Channel Driven Stochastic Gradient Langevin Dynamics
Boning Zhang and Dongzhu Liu (University of Glasgow, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Osvaldo Simeone (King's College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Guangxu Zhu (Shenzhen Research Institute of Big Data, China)
Towards Differentially Private Over-the-Air Federated Learning via Device Sampling
Zihao Hu (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong); Jia Yan (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), China); Ying Jun (Angela) Zhang (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)

Thursday, December 7 8:30 - 10:00

CT 6: Coding Theory II

Room 404
Energy-Based Arithmetic Coding Methods for Probabilistic Amplitude Shaping
Wei Liu (Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., USA); Thomas Richardson (Qualcomm Flarion Inc., USA); Ori Shental, Liangming Wu and Changlong Xu (Qualcomm, USA); Hao Xu (Qualcomm Technologies Inc., USA)
Low-Complexity and Information-Theoretic Optimal Memory AMP for Coded Generalized MIMO
Yufei Chen (Xidian University, China); Lei Liu (Zhejiang University, China); Yuhao Chi (Xidian University, China); Ying Li (University of Xidian, China); Zhaoyang Zhang (Zhejiang University, China)
Coexistence of Heterogeneous Services in the Uplink with Discrete Signaling and Treating Interference as Noise
Min Qiu (University of New South Wales, Australia); Yu-Chih Huang (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan); Jinhong Yuan (University of New South Wales, Australia)
Implementation-Efficient Finite Alphabet Decoding of Polar Codes
Philipp Mohr, Syed Aizaz Ali Shah and Gerhard Bauch (Hamburg University of Technology, Germany)
Correlation Mitigation Schemes for Index-Modulated Fluid Antenna Systems
Elio Faddoul and Yuan Guo (University of Cyprus, Cyprus); Ghassan M. Kraidy (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway); Constantinos Psomas and Ioannis Krikidis (University of Cyprus, Cyprus)

Thursday, December 7 8:30 - 10:00

IoTSN 9: Edge networks 2

Room 301
Chair: Talip Tolga Sarı (Istanbul Technical University, Turkey)
Shimmy: Accelerating inter-container communication for the IoT Edge
Manan Khasgiwale and Vasu Sharma (University of Colorado, USA); Shivakant Mishra (University of Colorado at Boulder, USA); Biljith Thadichi (University of Colorado, USA); Jaiber John and Rahul Khanna (Remote-X Inc, USA)
A Game-Theoretic Access Strategy for Satellite Edge Computing enabled Massive IoT Networks
Hui Liang (Dongguan University of Technology, China); Wei Zhang (The University of New South Wales, Australia)
Collaborative Smart Environmental Monitoring Using Flying Edge Intelligence
Talip Tolga Sarı (Istanbul Technical University, Turkey); Sabtain Ahmad (Vienna University of Technology, Austria); Atakan Aral (Umeå University, Sweden & University of Vienna, Austria); Gokhan Secinti (Istanbul Technical University, Turkey)
DRUDGE: Dynamic Resource Usage Data Generation for Extreme Edge Devices
Ruslan Kain, Sara A. Elsayed, Yuanzhu Chen and Hossam S. Hassanein (Queen's University, Canada)
Joint Sensing and Computation Offloading for Wireless Powered Mobile Edge Computing System
Wenxin Wu (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); Zheng Chang (University of Jyväskylä, Finland)

Thursday, December 7 8:30 - 9:15

IS 13: Interactive Subsession CISS_I13

Room: Exhibition Hall (Grand Ballroom) - level 3
Content-Aware Quantization Index Modulation for Physical Layer Steganography
Huiyi Tang, Junlong Mao, Tengjian Liu and Shanxiang Lyu (Jinan University, China)
Instant and Secure Channel Key Extraction Scheme among Wireless Devices
Hong Zhao, Enting Guo and Chunhua Su (University of Aizu, Japan); Xinyi Huang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China)
Stacked Broad Learning System Empowered FCL Assisted by DTN for Intrusion Detection in UAV Networks
Xiaoqiang He (Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Qianbin Chen (Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunication, China); Weili Wang (Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Tong Liu (Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications & Chongqing Vocational Institute of Engineering, China); Li Li (Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Tang Lun (Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications & Key Lab of Mobile Communication Technology, China); Qinghai Liu (Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
Decomposed and Distributed Modulation to Achieve Secure Transmission
Zhao Li, Siwei Le and Jie Chen (Xidian University, China); Kang G. Shin (University of Michigan, USA); Riku Jäntti (Aalto University, Finland); Zheng Yan (Xidian University, China); Jia Liu (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)

Thursday, December 7 8:30 - 9:15

IS 13: Interactive Subsession CSM_I13

Room: Exhibition Hall (Grand Ballroom) - level 3
Cost-Aware Topological Decomposition of Virtual Network Function Forwarding Graphs
Azadeh Azhdari, Amin Ebrahimzadeh and Seyedeh Negar Afrasiabi (Concordia University, Canada); Robert Szabo (Ericsson Hungary Ltd., Hungary); Carla Mouradian and Wubin Li (Ericsson Research, Canada); Roch Glitho (Concordia University, Canada)
RANSight: Programmable Telemetry for Next-generation Open Radio Access Networks
Ahan Kak and Van Quan Pham (Nokia Bell Labs, USA); Huu Trung Thieu (Nokia Bell Labs France, France); Nakjung Choi (Nokia & Bell Labs, USA)
Resource Slicing Strategy for Services Co-existence in Wireless Train Communication Network
Qiao Ren (China); Siyu Lin (Beijing Jiaotong University, China); Yuanxuan Li (China Academy of Railway Science, China); Shichao Li (Guilin University of Electronic Technology, China); Linghe Kong (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China); Shahid Mumtaz (Aveiro, Portugal); Bo Ai (Beijing Jiaotong University, China)
Procedure-Aware Stateless Systems for 5G & Beyond Core Networks
Endri Goshi (Technische Universität München, Germany); Vignesh Karunakaran (Technical University of Chemnitz, Germany); Hasanin Harkous (Nokia & Technical University of Munich, Germany); Rastin Pries (Nokia, Germany); Wolfgang Kellerer (Technische Universität München, Germany)
Error Concealment of Dynamic LiDAR Point Clouds for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles
Guihua Shi, Chih-Chun Wu and Cheng-Hsin Hsu (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan)

Thursday, December 7 8:30 - 9:15

IS 13: Interactive Subsession GCSN_I13

Room: Exhibition Hall (Grand Ballroom) - level 3
Space-Time Block Coding Blind Classification for Green MIMO-OFDM Communication
Junlin Zhang and Mingqian Liu (Xidian University, China); Yunfei Chen (University of Durham, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Nan Zhao (Dalian University of Technology, China)
Energy-Aware Inter-Data Center VM Migration Over Elastic Optical Networks
Fatima Salehnejad Amri and Zhiming Huang (University of Victoria, Canada); Kaiyang Liu (Computer Science, University of Victoria, Canada); Jianping Pan (University of Victoria, Canada)

Thursday, December 7 8:30 - 9:15

IS 13: Interactive Subsession MWN_I13

Room: Exhibition Hall (Grand Ballroom) - level 3
Chairs: Haoyu Wang (Tsinghua University, China), Tianming Lan (Nanyang Technological University, USA)
A Fine-grained Cross-chain Spectrum Sharing Mechanism Based on Oracle
Mengjie Cao and Qian Wang (Beijing University of Technology, China); Xiaojiang Du (Stevens Institute of Technology, USA); Juan Fang and Bei Gong (Beijing University of Technology, China); Mohsen Guizani (MBZUAI, United Arab Emirates)
Exploiting QUIC multi-streaming over NTN: Delay-based scheduling policies
Fátima Khan (Universidad de Cantabria, Spain); Fátima Fernández (University of Cantabria & IKERLAN Technology Research Centre, Spain); Luis Diez and Ramon Aguero (University of Cantabria, Spain)
Optimization in Mobile Augmented Reality Systems for the Metaverse over Wireless Communications
Tianming Lan (Nanyang Technological University, USA); Jun Zhao (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Spectrum Sharing For Information Freshness: A Repeated Games Perspective
Shreya Tyagi (Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi, India); Sneihil Gopal (Georgetown University, USA); Rakesh Chaturvedi and Sanjit K Kaul (IIIT Delhi, India)
Enabling MMSE Channel Estimation with Inter-Carrier Interference in Underwater Acoustic Networks
Haoyu Wang and Zhi Sun (Tsinghua University, China)

Thursday, December 7 8:30 - 9:15

IS 13: Interactive Subsession SAC/QC_I13

Room: Exhibition Hall (Grand Ballroom) - level 3
$N$-Sum Box: An Abstraction for Linear Computation over Many-to-one Quantum Networks
Matteo Allaix (Aalto University, Finland); Yuxiang Lu (University of California Irvine, USA); Yuhang Yao (University of California, Irvine, USA); Tefjol Pllaha (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA); Camilla Hollanti (Aalto University, Finland); Syed Ali Jafar (University of California Irvine, USA)
Quantum Computing for MIMO Beam Selection Problem: Model and Optical Experimental Solution
Yuhong Huang (China Mobile Research Institute, China); Wenxin Li (Beijing QBoson Quantum Technology Co., Ltd, China); Chengkang Pan (China Moible Research Institute, China); Shuai Hou (China Mobile Research Institute, China); Xian Lu (China Mobile Research Insitute, China); Chunfeng Cui (China Mobile, China); Jingwei Wen (China Mobile (Suzhou) Software Technology Company Limited, China); Jiaqi Xu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Chongyu Cao (Beijing QBoson Quantum Technology Co., Ltd, China); Yin Ma (Beijing QBoson Technology Co., Ltd., China); Hai Wei (Beijing QBoson Quantum Technology Co., Ltd, China); Kai Wen (Beijing QBoson Technology Co., Ltd., China)
Quantum Quadrature Amplitude Modulation with Photon-Added Gaussian States
Andrea Giani (University of Ferrara, Italy); Moe Z. Win (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA); Andrea Conti (DE and CNIT, University of Ferrara, Italy)
Error-Mitigated Quantum Routing on Noisy Devices
Wenbo Shi and Robert Malaney (University of New South Wales, Australia)

Thursday, December 7 8:30 - 10:00

MWN 12: Mobile Edge Computing II

Room 306
Chair: Phone Lin (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
Bi-Meta: Bi-Alternating Resource Provisioning and Heterogeneous Auction for Mobile Metaverse
Zheyuan Chen, Xiaoxu Ren, Chao Qiu, Xiaofei Wang and Tao Luo (Tianjin University, China); Dusit Niyato (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Task Offloading and Resource Allocation for SLAM Back-end Optimization: A Rewardless Active Inference Approach
Jingcheng Fang, Ying He, Fei Yu and Jianqiang Li (Shenzhen University, China); Victor C.M. Leung (Shenzhen University, China & The University of British Columbia, Canada)
Task Offloading and Resource Management for CBTC via Multi-Hop Ad Hoc Network and MEC
Yujie Fang and Meng Li (Beijing University of Technology, China); F. Richard Yu (Carleton University, Canada); Pengbo Si and Ruizhe Yang (Beijing University of Technology, China)
A Two-timescale Online Optimization for Balancing Service Migration and Task Rerouting in MEC
You Shi, Changyan Yi, Bing Chen and Chenze Yang (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China); Jun Cai (Concordia University, Canada)
A Contract-Based Incentive Mechanism for Resources Trading in Computing Force Networks
Wen Wen (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Lu Lu (China Mobile Research Institute, China); Wenzheng Wang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Yuexia Fu (China Mobile Research Institute, China); Qinqin Tang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecom, China); Renchao Xie and Tao Huang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)

Thursday, December 7 8:30 - 10:00

NGNI 7: Privacy and Security in Next Generation Networks

Room 303
Privacy-Preserving Federated Distillation GAN for CIDSs in Industrial CPSs
Junwei Liang, Muhammad Sadiq and Tie Cai (Shenzhen Institute of Information Technology, China)
Differential Privacy-Based Incentive Scheme for App-Assisted Mobile Edge Crowdsensing
Liang Xie and Zhou Su (Xi'an Jiaotong University, China); Nan Chen (Tennessee Tech University, USA); Ruidong Li (Kanazawa University, Japan)
DASTAN-CNN: RF Fingerprinting for the Mitigation of Membership Inference Attacks in 5G
Sunder Ali Khowaja and Parus Khuwaja (University of Sindh, Pakistan); Kapal Dev (Munster Technological University & IEEE, Ireland); Angelos Antonopoulos (Nearby Computing, Spain); Maurizio Magarini (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
ACCT: An Intelligent Congestion Control Mechanism for Future Internet
Morteza Kheirkhah (Samsung Research UK, United Kingdom (Great Britain) & University College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Joao Reis, Fan Yang, David Griffin and Miguel Rio (University College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
BFLMeta: Blockchain-Empowered Metaverse with Byzantine-Robust Federated Learning
Vu Tuan Truong and Duc N. M. Hoang (INRS, University of Quebec, Canada); Le Bao Long (University of Québec, Canada)

Thursday, December 7 8:30 - 10:00

ONS 3: Optical Wireless Communications

Room 308
Chair: Borja Genoves Guzman (The University of Virginia, Unites States (USA))
Multi-Beam Access Point Design for 6G Laser-Based Optical Wireless Networks: Eye Safety-Coverage Tradeoff
Hossein Kazemi (University of Strathclyde & LiFi Research and Development Center, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Elham Sarbazi (University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Majid Safari (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Harald Haas (The University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Adaptive Transmitter Regulation for Linear Optical Wireless Communications
René Kirrbach, Mira Stephan, Mehrzad Firoozi, Alexander Noack and Katarzyna Zielant (Fraunhofer IPMS, Germany); Frank Deicke (Germany)
Imaging Angle Diversity Receiver Design for 6G Optical Wireless Communications: Performance Tradeoffs and Optimisation
Elham Sarbazi (University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Hossein Kazemi (University of Strathclyde & LiFi Research and Development Center, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Majid Safari (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Harald Haas (The University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
EH Modelling and Achievable Rate for FSO SWIPT Systems with Non-linear Photovoltaic Receivers
Nikita Shanin (Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany); Hedieh Ajam (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany); Vasilis K. Papanikolaou (Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany); Bernhard Schmauss (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg & School of Advanced Optical Technologies, Germany); Laura Cottatellucci (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany); Robert Schober (Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany)
Link Blockage Analysis for Indoor Optical Wireless Communications
Nurul Aini Amran (The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Mohammad Dehghani Soltani and Majid Safari (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

Thursday, December 7 8:30 - 10:00

SAC/CC 5: Offloading in Edge-Cloud Computing

Room 310
Chair: Kate Ching-Ju Lin (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan)
Massive Mobile Computation Offloading: Operating Data Centers as Virtual Power Plants in Smart Grids
Shuqi Wei, Lintao Li, Changkun Li and Wei Chen (Tsinghua University, China)
Federated Deep Reinforcement Learning-based task offloading system in edge computing environment
Hiba Merakchi (ESI, Algeria); Miloud Bagaa (UQTR University, Canada); Messaoud Ahmed Ouameur (Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Canada); Adlen Ksentini (Eurecom, France); Abdenour Sehad (ESI, Algeria)
Reinforcement Learning-based Task Offloading of MEC-assisted UAVs in Precision Agriculture
Zih-Yi Yang, Te-Chuan Chiu and Jang-Ping Sheu (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan)
Joint Optimization of Multi-type Caching Placement and Multi-user Computation Offloading for Vehicular Edge Computing
Dun Cao, Yubin Wang, Yifan Yang and Shiming He (Changsha University of Science and Technology, China)
Contextual Multi-Armed Bandits for Non-Stationary Heterogeneous Mobile Edge Computing
Maximilian Wirth, Andrea Ortiz and Anja Klein (TU Darmstadt, Germany)

Thursday, December 7 8:30 - 10:00

SAC/ISC 5: ISAC with Applications: V2X, WiFi Sensing, and Indoor Positioning

Room 401
Chair: Zhaohui Yang (Zhejiang University, China)
Bistatic Vehicular Radar with 5G-NR Signals
Nikhil Kowshika Nataraja and Sudhanshu Sharma (University of Southern California, USA); Kamran Ali (General Motors Global R&D & Michigan State University, USA); Fan Bai (General Motors, USA); Andreas F. Molisch (University of Southern California, USA)
Complex Neural Networks for Indoor Positioning with Complex-Valued Channel State Information
Hanzhi Yu and Mingzhe Chen (University of Miami, USA); Zhaohui Yang (Zhejiang University, China); Yuchen Liu (North Carolina State University, USA)
Two-stage Multiband Wi-Fi Sensing for ISAC via Stochastic Particle-Based Variational Bayesian Inference
Zhixiang Hu, An Liu and Yubo Wan (Zhejiang University, China); Tony Q. S. Quek (Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore); Minjian Zhao (Zhejiang University, China)
Comparative Study on Outage Probability of mmWave Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communications
Yanjie Pu (Xidian University, China); Fuxi Wen (Tsinghua University, China); Yong Zeng (Southeast University, China); Shenghua Zhou (National Laboratory of Radar Signal Processing, Xidian University, China)
Wi-Prox: Proximity Estimation of Non-directly Connected Devices via Sim2Real Transfer Learning
Yuchong Gao (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Guoxuan Chi, Guidong Zhang and Zheng Yang (Tsinghua University, China)

Thursday, December 7 8:30 - 10:00

SAC/MLC 8: Machine Learning for Vehicular and Aerial Systems

Room 305
K-Means Clustering-Aided Dynamic Multi-Cell Optimization Algorithm for HAPS
Wei Dai, Siyuan Yang, Mondher Bouazizi and Tomoaki Ohtsuki (Keio University, Japan)
Deep Learning-Based Resource Allocation in UAV-RIS-Aided Cell-Free Hybrid NOMA/OMA Networks
Chong Huang and Gaojie Chen (University of Surrey, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Yun Wen (Fujitsu Limited, Japan); Zihuai Lin (University of Sydney, Australia); Yue Xiao (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); Pei Xiao (University of Surrey, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
GNN-based Proportional Fair Dynamic Bandwidth Allocation in Wireless Vehicular Networks
SeyedMohammad Mortazavi and Elvino Silveira Sousa (University of Toronto, Canada)
Attentional Communication for Multi-Agent Distributed Resource Allocation in V2X Networks
Nessrine Hammami (École de Technologie Supérieure - ÉTS, Canada); Kim Khoa Nguyen (École de Technologie Supérieure, Canada); Hakimeh Purmehdi (Ericsson, Canada)
Learning-based Energy-Efficiency Optimization for IRS-assisted Master-Auxiliary-UAV-Enabled Wireless-Powered IoT Networks
Jingren Xu, Xin Kang, Peng Yi and Ying-Chang Liang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China)

Thursday, December 7 8:30 - 10:00

SAC/MLC 9: Machine Learning Driven Transceiver Design

Room 409
Chair: Nguyen Van Huynh (Edinburgh Napier University, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Robust Deep Joint Source Channel Coding with Time-varying Noise
Weida Wang and Xinchun Yu (Tsinghua-Berkeley Shenzhen Institute, China); Xinyi Tong (Tsinghua University, China); Runpeng Yu (National University of Singapore, Singapore); Shao-Lun Huang (Tsinghua-Berkeley Shenzhen Institute, China); Xiao-Ping (Steven) Zhang (Ryerson University, Canada)
A From-Scratch Approach to Deep Unfolding-Aided Bilinear Gaussian Belief Propagation for Correlated Large MIMO
Koichi Maki and Tetsushi Ikegami (Meiji University, Japan)
Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient for End-to-End Communication Systems without Prior Channel Knowledge
Bolun Zhang and Nguyen Van Huynh (Edinburgh Napier University, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
MIMO Detection Using Gradient-Based Markov Chain Monte Carlo Methods
Xingyu Zhou and Le Liang (Southeast University, China); Jing Zhang (Southeast University & National Mobile Communications Research Lab, China); Chao-Kai Wen (National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan); Shi Jin (Southeast University, China)
Improved Syndrome-based Neural Decoder for Linear Block Codes
Gastón De Boni Rovella (ISAE-SUPAERO, France); Meryem Benammar (ISAE-Supaero, France)

Thursday, December 7 8:30 - 10:00

SAC/RIS 4: Channel Estimation and Manipulation in RIS-aided Networks

Room 309
Chair: Chau Yuen (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
A Low-Power OAM Metasurface for Rank-Deficient Wireless Environments
Kun Woo Cho, Srikar Kasi and Kyle Jamieson (Princeton University, USA)
A Transmit-Receive Parameter Separable Electromagnetic Channel Model for LoS Holographic MIMO
Tierui Gong (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore); Chongwen Huang (Zhejiang University, China); Jiguang He (Technology Innovation Institute, United Arab Emirates); Marco Di Renzo (CNRS & Paris-Saclay University, France); Mérouane Debbah (Khalifa University of Science and Technology, France); Chau Yuen (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Pilot Power Allocation for Channel Estimation in a Multi-RIS Aided Communication System
Jiancheng An and Chau Yuen (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Increased Multiplexing Gain with Reconfigurable Surfaces: Simultaneous Channel Orthogonalization and Information Embedding
Juan Vidal Alegria (Lund University, Sweden); Joao Vieira (Ericsson, Sweden); Fredrik Rusek (Lund University, Sweden)
Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces for Receive Spatial Modulation in Rank-deficient Channels
Ainna Yue Moreno Locubiche, Josep Vidal and Antonio Pascual-Iserte (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain); Olga Muñoz-Medina (Technical University of Catalonia, Spain)

Thursday, December 7 8:30 - 10:00

SAC/SSC 5: Machine Learning in Satellite Networks

Room 307
Secure and Efficient Federated Learning in LEO Constellations using Decentralized Key Generation and On-Orbit Model Aggregation
Mohamed Elmahallawy and Tony T. Luo (Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA); Mohamed I Ibrahem (Augusta University, USA)
FedAC: Satellite-Terrestrial Collaborative Federated Learning with Alternating Contrastive Training
Congying Duan, Qun Li and Siguang Chen (Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
Communication-efficient Federated Learning for UAV Networks with Knowledge Distillation and Transfer Learning
Yalong Li and Celimuge Wu (The University of Electro-Communications, Japan); Zhaoyang Du (University of Electro-Communications, Japan); Lei Zhong (Toyota Motor Corporation, Japan); Tsutomu Yoshinaga (The University of Electro-Communications, Japan)
Federated Deep Reinforcement Learning Assisting TT&C Mission Scheduling in Mega Satellite Networks
Jian Feng, Di Zhou, Min Sheng, Yan Zhu and Jiandong Li (Xidian University, China)
Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning for Dynamic Laser Inter-Satellite Link Scheduling
Guanhua Wang and Fang Yang (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); Zhu Han (University of Houston, USA)

Thursday, December 7 8:30 - 10:00

SPC 8: Signal Processing for Multi-antenna, MIMO, and Multi-user Systems I

Room 406
Data-Driven Robust Beamforming for Initial Access
Sai Subramanyam Thoota (Linköping University, Sweden); Joao Vieira (Ericsson, Sweden); Erik G. Larsson (Linköping University, Sweden)
Robust Symbol-Level Precoding for MIMO Downlink Transmission With Channel Aging
Yafei Wang and Xinping Yi (Southeast University, China); Hongwei Hou (National Mobile Communications Research Laboratory, Southeast University, China); Wenjin Wang (Southeast University, China)
Precoding Design of Reconfigurable Massive MIMO in the Electromagnetic Domain
Keke Ying and Zhen Gao (Beijing Institute of Technology, China)
Finite Blocklength Decoding Error Probability Oriented Resource Allocation for Uplink URLLC Systems
Zhicheng Li, Hong Shen and Wei Xu (Southeast University, China); Pengcheng Zhu and Chunming Zhao (National Mobile Communications Research Laboratory, Southeast University, China)
On Chernoff Lower-Bound of Outage Threshold for Non-Central χ2 -Distributed MIMO Beamforming Gain
Jinfei Wang, Yi Ma and Rahim Tafazolli (University of Surrey, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

Thursday, December 7 8:30 - 10:00

WC 12: Terahertz Communications

Room 304
Chair: Shuoyao Wang (Shenzhen University, China)
Frequency-dependent Precoding for Wideband Terahertz Communication Systems
Seungnyun Kim (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA); Jiao Wu, Jihoon Moon and Byonghyo Shim (Seoul National University, Korea (South))
A Sub-Terahertz Sliding Correlator Channel Sounder with Absolute Timing using Precision Time Protocol over Wi-Fi
Dipankar Shakya (New York University, USA); Hitesh Poddar and Theodore Rappaport (New York University & NYU WIRELESS, USA)
User Grouping and Switch Network Optimization for Energy-Efficient Multi-User Terahertz Communications
Jiali Wang and Megumi Kaneko (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)
A Fast Beam Training Method with Adaptive Feedback for Holographic Communications
Yutong Zhang, Boya Di, Hongliang Zhang and Lingyang Song (Peking University, China)
Randomized Radiation Technique Exploiting Frequency Diverse Subarrays with Various Designs of Nonlinear Frequency Offsets
Byungha You and Haejoon Jung (Kyung Hee University, Korea (South)); In-Ho Lee (Hankyong National University, Korea (South))

Thursday, December 7 8:30 - 10:00

WC 13: Massive MIMO Communications

Room 405
Chair: Henk Wymeersch (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)
Deep Learning Enhanced Channel Estimation of Massive MIMO mmWave Communication With One-Bit ADCs
Minghui Sun, Shuhui Ren and Wuyang Zhou (University of Science and Technology of China, China)
Cluster-Specific Dictionary Learning Based Active User Detection for mMTC With Massive MIMO
Shiyu Liang and Wei Chen (Beijing Jiaotong University, China); Ning Wang (Zhengzhou University, China); Bo Ai (Beijing Jiaotong University, China)
Impact of Phase Noise on Uplink Cell-Free Massive MIMO OFDM
Yibo Wu (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden); Luca Sanguinetti (University of Pisa, Italy); Ulf Gustavsson (Ericsson AB, Sweden); Alexandre Graell i Amat and Henk Wymeersch (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)
Sub-Array Selection in Full-Duplex Massive MIMO for Enhanced Self-Interference Cancellation
Mobeen Mahmood, Asil Koc and Duc Tuong Nguyen (McGill University, Canada); Robert Morawski (McGill, Canada); Tho Le-Ngoc (McGill University, Canada)
Hybrid Beamforming with Fixed Phase Shifters in OFDM-Based Multiuser MISO Systems
Jamal Beiranvand (Limoges, France); Nguyen Minh Dat (Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada); Vahid Meghdadi (University of Limoges, France); Cyrille Menudier (XLIM Université de Limoges, France); Jean Pierre Cances (University of Limoges, France)

Thursday, December 7 9:15 - 10:00

IS 14: Interactive Subsession CSM_I14

Room: Exhibition Hall (Grand Ballroom) - level 3
Effectively Heterogeneous Federated Learning: A Pairing and Split Learning Based Approach
Jinglong Shen, Xiucheng Wang, Nan Cheng and Longfei Ma (Xidian University, China); Conghao Zhou (University of Waterloo, Canada); Yuan Zhang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China)
A Multi-Task Approach for Real-Time Quality of Experience Factors Prediction from Physiological Data
Joshua Begue (University of Paris-Est Creteil, France); Mohamed-Aymen Labiod (University of Paris-Est Créteil, France); Abdelhamid Mellouk (UPEC, University Paris-Est Creteil Val de Marne, France)
Fully-Decentralized Federated Learning for QoE Estimation
Minh-Duc Nguyen (School of Information and Communication Technology, Vietnam); Van Tong (Hanoi University of Science and Technology, Vietnam); Sami Souihi (University Paris Est UPEC, France); Abdelhamid Mellouk (UPEC, University Paris-Est Creteil Val de Marne, France)
Network-Friendly Sequential Recommendation with Quality Constraints: A Safe Deep Reinforcement Learning approach
Junxian Lu and Shuoyao Wang (Shenzhen University, China)
CA_DeepSC: Cross-Modal Alignment for Multi-modal Semantic Communications
Wenjun Wang, Minghao Liu and Mingkai Chen (Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)

Thursday, December 7 9:15 - 10:00

IS 14: Interactive Subsession GCSN_I14

Room: Exhibition Hall (Grand Ballroom) - level 3
Towards Green Cloud Transmission: Observation from Practical Inter-Cloud Links
Xue Zhang and Wei Quan (Beijing Jiaotong University, China); Nan Cheng (Xidian University, China); Yan Luo and Ziheng Xu (Beijing Jiaotong University, China); Lei Han (Nanjing University of Post and Telecommunications, China); Hongke Zhang (Beijing Jiaotong University, China)
Green Floating Blockchain-Empowered Co-Trust Security Mechanism with Energy Efficiency Against Attack Threat for 6G-IoV
Yibing Liu (Information Engineering University, China); Lijun Huo (National University of Defense Technology, China); Hansong Xu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China); Qianqian Pan (The University of Tokyo, Japan); Jun Wu (Waseda University, Japan)
A Strong Privacy-Preserving and Efficient Fingerprint Authentication via Clustering
Jingwei Liu, Zihan Zhou and Rong Sun (Xidian University, China); Xiaojiang Du (Stevens Institute of Technology, USA); Mohsen Guizani (MBZUAI, United Arab Emirates)
Probabilistic On-Demand Charging Scheduling for ISAC-Assisted WRSNs with Multiple Mobile Charging Vehicles
Muhammad Umar Farooq Qaisar and Weijie Yuan (Southern University of Science and Technology, China); Paolo Bellavista (University of Bologna, Italy); Guangjie Han (Hohai University, China); Rabiu Sale Zakariyya (Southern University of Science and Technology, China); Adeel Ahmed (University of Science and Technology of China, China)
Energy Efficient Communications in RIS-assisted UAV Networks Based on Genetic Algorithm
Mohammad Javad-Kalbasi (University of Toronto, Canada); Mohammed S. Al-Abiad (University of British Columbia, Canada); Shahrokh Valaee (University of Toronto, Canada)
Energy-Efficient Real-Time Wireless Communications: A Matching Diversity Approach
Changkun Li and Wei Chen (Tsinghua University, China); Khaled B. Letaief (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)

Thursday, December 7 9:15 - 10:00

IS 14: Interactive Subsession IoTSN_I14

Room: Exhibition Hall (Grand Ballroom) - level 3
FDAP: Efficient Radio Map Reconstruction Using Sparse Signals
Shaoqi Cen, Weina Jiang, Qun Niu and Ning Liu (Sun Yat-Sen University, China)
IoT Trust Establishment through System Level Interactions and Communication Attributes
Ali Farhat, AbdelRahman Eldosouky, Mohamed Ibnkahla and Ashraf Matrawy (Carleton University, Canada)
Confidence-guided path planning for mobile sensors
Damla Turgut (University of Central Florida, USA); Patrick Kreidl and Ayan Dutta (University of North Florida, USA); Ladislau Bölöni (University of Central Florida, USA)
User Control in Proximity Marketing: A Basic Consensus Algorithm
Fatima Chahal (University of Technology of Troyes, France); Hacene Fouchal (Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne, France); Dominique Gaïti (University of Technology of Troyes, France)
Decoupling Detectors for Scalable Anomaly Detection in AIoT Systems with Multiple Machines
Qijun Hou, Anbai Jiang, Wei-Qiang Zhang, Pingyi Fan and Jia Liu (Tsinghua University, China)

Thursday, December 7 9:15 - 10:00

IS 14: Interactive Subsession MWN_I14

Room: Exhibition Hall (Grand Ballroom) - level 3
Chair: Robbert Beerten (KU Leuven, Belgium)
Cell-Free Massive MIMO in the O-RAN Architecture: Cluster and Handover Strategies
Robbert Beerten, Vida Ranjbar, Andrea P. Guevara and Sofie Pollin (KU Leuven, Belgium)
Rate-Splitting Multiple Access Based on Spectrum Sharing for Integrated Satellite-Terrestrial Network
Shuai Han, Zhiqiang Li and Weixiao Meng (Harbin Institute of Technology, China); Cheng Li (Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada)
Joint User Association and Beamforming Design in Multi-Operator Networks: A Symbiotic Communication Perspective
Shizhao He, Jungang Ge and Ying-Chang Liang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China)
A DRL Empowered Multipath Cooperative Routing for Ultra-Dense LEO Satellite Networks
Xiaoyu Liu (Nanjing University, China); Ting Ma (Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China); Xiaohan Qin and Haibo Zhou (Nanjing University, China); Lian Zhao (Ryerson University, Canada)
RP-ER: Relative Position based Efficient Routing Mechanism for LEO Satellite Network
Ziheng Xu and Wei Quan (Beijing Jiaotong University, China); Nan Cheng (Xidian University, China); Mingyuan Liu and Jun Deng (Beijing Jiaotong University, China); Lei Han (Nanjing University of Post and Telecommunications, China); Deyun Gao (Beijing Jiaotong University, China)

Thursday, December 7 2:00 - 3:30

CISS 14: Physical Layer Security II

Room 408
Chair: Milad Tatar Mamaghani (The Australian National University, Australia)
Cell-Free Massive MIMO Surveillance Systems
Zahra Mobini, Hien Ngo and Michail Matthaiou (Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Lajos Hanzo (University of Southampton, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Semantic Secrecy Assessment of Physical Layer Security in 5G NR Uplink Transmissions Under Fading Channel Conditions
Luis Torres-Figueroa, Johannes Voichtleitner and Ullrich J Mönich (Technische Universität München, Germany); Moritz Wiese (Technical University of Munich, Germany); Holger Boche (Technical University Munich, Germany)
Parameters Optimization of Quantization Schemes for Channel-Based Key Extraction
Yuhong Wang and Sumei Sun (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore); Min Li Huang (Institute for Infocomm RESEARCH, Singapore); Peng Hui Tan, Boon Shyang Lim and Yonghong Zeng (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore)
SCA-Based Beamforming Optimization for IRS-Enabled Secure Integrated Sensing and Communication
Vaibhav Kumar and Marwa Chafii (New York University Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates); Lee Swindlehurst (University of California at Irvine, USA); Le-Nam Tran and Mark F. Flanagan (University College Dublin, Ireland)
Secure Short-Packet Transmission with Aerial Relaying: Blocklength and Trajectory Co-Design
Milad Tatar Mamaghani, Xiangyun Zhou and Nan Yang (The Australian National University, Australia); Lee Swindlehurst (University of California at Irvine, USA)

Thursday, December 7 2:00 - 3:30

CISS 15: AI and ML Security

Room 410
Chair: Raphael C.-W. Phan (Monash University, Malaysia)
Synthesizing High-Utility Tabular Data with Enhanced Privacy via Split-and-Discard Pre-training
Liwei Luo, Heyuan Huang, Bingbing Zhang, Yankai Xie, Chi Zhang and Lingbo Wei (University of Science and Technology of China, China)
Self-paced and Reweighting PU Learning for imbalanced Malicious Traffic Detection
Zijing Fan (Institute of Information Engineering,Chinese Academy of Sciences, China); Yepeng Yao (Chinese Academy of Science & Institute of Information Engineering, China); Yuejin Du (Qihoo 360 Technology Co. Ltd, China); Xiangyu Du (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
Unveiling Flawed Cache Structures in DNS Infrastructure via Record Watermarking
Dikai Mo (Institute of Information Engineering, CAS, China); Yujia Zhu (Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China); Zhen Jie (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China); Yong Sun (Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academic of Science, China); Qingyun Liu and Binxing Fang (Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
Cybersecurity Fusion: Leveraging Mafia Game Tactics and Reinforcement Learning for Botnet Detection
Amir Javadpour (University of Oulu, Finland); Forough Ja'fari (Sharif University of Technology, Iran); Tarik Taleb (University of Oulu, Finland); Hamid Reza Ahmadi (Faculty of New Sciences and Technologies, University of Tehran, Iran); Chafika Benzaid (University of Oulu, Finland & University of Sciences and Technology Houari Boumediane (USTHB), Algeria)
Anchor Link Prediction via Network Structural Role for Privacy Leakage in Edge Computing
Huanran Wang, Wu Yang, Jiguang Lv, Hanbo Wang, Jingwen Tan and Dapeng Man (Harbin Engineering University, China)

Thursday, December 7 2:00 - 3:30

CQRM 10: Security Threats, Detection, and Prevention

Room 403
Ransomware attacks detection methodology to protect IoT-enabled critical infrastructures
Amit Kumar Mishra (Graphic Era Hill University Dehradun Uttarakhand INDIA, India & Graphic Era Deemed to Be University Dehradun Uttarakhand, INDIA, India); Mohammad S. Obaidat (University of Jordan, USA); Harshit Bhajpai and Pranjal Trivedi (Graphic Era Deemed to Be University Dehradun 248 002 India, India); Mohammad Wazid (Graphic Era Deemed to be University, India); Devesh Singh (Graphic Era University, India); Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues (Senac Fac of Ceará, Brazil & Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal); Balqies Sadoun (Al-Balqa' Applied University, Jordan)
An Optimization Framework For Anomaly Detection Scores Refinement With Side Information
Ali Maatouk (Paris Research Center, Huawei Technologies, France); Fadhel Ayed (Paris Research Center Huawei Technologies, France); Wenjie Li (Paris Research Center, Huawei Technologies, France); Yu Wang and Hong Zhu (China United Network Communications Group Co. Ltd Nanjing, China); Jiantao Ye (Songshan Lake Research Center Huawei Technologies Dongguan, China)
Modeling Reliability for Vehicle Platoon Communications: Heading out on Expressways
Nitin Singh Rajput (Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University Gandhinagar India, India); Dev Vyas (Pandit Deendayal Energy University Gandhinagar GJ India, India); Santosh Kumar Satapathy (Pandit Deendayal Energy University, India & Assistant Professor, India)
Multidomain transformer-based deep learning for early detection of network intrusion
Jinxin Liu and Murat Simsek (University of Ottawa, Canada); Michele Nogueira (Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil); Burak Kantarci (University of Ottawa, Canada)
Enhanced Modeling of Uplink Configured Grant Transmissions in URLLC Resource Allocation
Arash Sahbafard (Junior Scientist, Austria); Raheeb Muzaffar (Silicon Austria Labs GmbH, Austria); Robert Schmidt (OpenAirInterface, France); Florian Kaltenberger (Eurecom, France); Andreas Springer and Hans-Peter Bernhard (Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria)

Thursday, December 7 2:00 - 3:30

CRAEN 6: Deep Learning for Wireless Networks

Room 402
Chair: Yixuan Zou (Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Resource-Constrained Specific Emitter Identification Using End-to-End Sparse Feature Selection
Mengyuan Tao and Xue Fu (Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Yun Lin (Harbin Engineering University, China); Yu Wang, Zhisheng Yao, Shengnan Shi and Guan Gui (Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
OATGA: Optimizing Adversarial Training via Genetic Algorithm for Automatic Modulation Classification
Zhida Bao (Harbin Engineering University, China); Jiawei He, Quanjun Zhang and Chunrong Fang (Nanjing University, China); Keshav Sood (Deakin University, Melbourne Australia, Australia); Yun Lin (Harbin Engineering University, China)
A Multi-Head Ensemble Multi-Task Learning Approach for Dynamical Computation Offloading
Ruihuai Liang (NWPU, China); Bo Yang and Zhiwen Yu (Northwestern Polytechnical University, China); Xuelin Cao (Xidian University, China); Derrick Wing Kwan Ng (University of New South Wales, Australia); Chau Yuen (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Receiver-Agnostic Radio Frequency Fingerprinting Based on Two-stage Unsupervised Domain Adaptation and Fine-tuning
Jiazhong Bao, Xin Xie, Zhaoyi Lu, Jianan Hong and Cunqing Hua (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China)
CST: Automatic Modulation Recognition Method by Convolution Transformer on Temporal Continuity Features
Dongbin Hou, Lixin Li, Wensheng Lin and Wei Liang (Northwestern Polytechnical University, China); Zhu Han (University of Houston, USA)

Thursday, December 7 2:00 - 3:30

CSM 7: Deep Learning for Network Performance Improvement

Room 407
AI Generated Signal for Wireless Sensing
Hanxiang He, Han Hu, Xintao Huan, Heng Liu and Jianping An (Beijing Institute of Technology, China); Shiwen Mao (Auburn University, USA)
GNN-based SDN Admission Control in Beyond 5G Networks
Sofiane Messaoudi (EURECOM, France); Adlen Ksentini (Eurecom, France); Franck Messaoudi (OpenAirInterface Alliance, France); Christian Bonnet (Institut Eurecom, France)
Machine Learning for Estimating the Impact of Adding New Mobile Network Cells
Danny Qiu (Orange Innovation & Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France); Maxence Lavergne and Alassane Samba (Orange Innovation, France); Hossam Afifi (Télécom SudParis, Institut Telecom & Paris Saclay, France); Yvon Gourhant (Orange Innovation, France)
Refining ground classification for the distribution of LTE users using supervised learning techniques
Kodjo Francis Tossou (UTBM, CNRS, FEMTO-ST Institute, France); Sid Ahmed Lamrous (University of Technology Belfort Montbéliard, France); Laurent Moalic (University of Haute-Alsace, France); Tchamye Tcha-esso Boroze (Solar Energy Laboratory, Togo); Oumaya Baala (FEMTO-ST Institute, Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté, CNRS & UTBM, France)
Informative Causality-based Vehicle Trajectory Prediction Architecture for Domain Generalization
Chaojin Mao and Liang Zhao (Shenyang Aerospace University, China); Geyong Min (University of Exeter, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Ammar Hawbani (University of Science and Technology of China, China); Ahmed Y Al-Dubai (Edinburgh Napier University, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Albert Zomaya (The University of Sydney, Australia)

Thursday, December 7 2:00 - 3:30

CT 7: Detection and Estimation

Room 404
A Quantize-then-Estimate Protocol for CSI Acquisition in IRS-Aided Downlink Communication
Rui Wang (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China); Zhaorui Wang (The Chinese University of Hong Kong Shenzhen, China); Liang Liu and Shuowen Zhang (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China); Shi Jin (Southeast University, China)
Channel Estimation for Holographic Communications in Hybrid Near-Far Field
Shaohua Yue and Shuhao Zeng (Peking University, China); Liang Liu (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China); Boya Di (Peking University, China)
Generalized Eigenvalue Based Detection of Signals in Colored Noise: A Sample Deficient Analysis
Prathapasinghe Dharmawansa (University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka); Saman Atapattu (RMIT University, Australia); Jamie S Evans (University of Melbourne, Australia); Sithamparanathan Kandeepan (RMIT University, Australia)
Low-Complexity GRAND by Segmentation
Mohammad Rowshan and Jinhong Yuan (University of New South Wales, Australia)
Low-Complexity Design of Unitary Constellations in Non-Coherent SIMO Systems for 5G NR URLLC Applications
Son Thanh Duong, Ha Nguyen and Ebrahim Bedeer (University of Saskatchewan, Canada); Robert Barton (Cisco, USA)

Thursday, December 7 2:00 - 3:30

IoTSN 10: UAV Networks

Room 301
Meta Reinforcement Learning for Strategic IoT Deployments Coverage in Disaster-Response UAV Swarms
Marwan Dhuheir, Aiman Erbad and Ala Al-Fuqaha (Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar)
Graph-based Time Expansion Routing Scheme for UAV-assisted Emergency Networks
Linrun Jiang, Li Wang, Lianming Xu, Yuming Zhang and Aiguo Fei (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
Zero-Trust UAV-enabled and DT-supported 6G Networks
Ismaeel Al Ridhawi (Kuwait College of Science and Technology, Kuwait); Moayad Aloqaily (MBZUAI, United Arab Emirates)
Multiple Redundant K- Means Clustered Scheme Based on Weighted Cluster Head Selection for Damaged S-UAV
Grace Khayat (University of Nicosia & Mobile Systems Laboratory, Cyprus); Constandinos X. Mavromoustakis (University of Nicosia & University of Nicosia Research Foundation, Cyprus); Andreas Pitsillides (University of Cyprus (Retired), Cyprus & University of Johannesburg Visiting, South Africa); Jordi Mongay Batalla (Warsaw University of Technology, Poland); Evangelos K. Markakis (Hellenic Mediteranean University, Greece)
3DSAR: A Single-Drone 3D Cellular Search and Rescue Solution Leveraging 5G-NR
Andra Blaga (i2CAT Foundation & Universitat Politècnica Catalunya, Spain); Federico Campolo (i2CAT & Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain); Maurizio Rea (i2CAT, Spain); Xavier Costa-Perez (ICREA and i2cat & NEC Laboratories Europe, Spain)

Thursday, December 7 2:00 - 3:30

IoTSN 11: Energy Efficiency for IoT Networks

Room 409
Chair: Kübra Duran (Edinburgh Napier University, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Energy-Efficient UAV-Assisted IoT Data Collection via TSP-Based Solution Space Reduction
Sivaram Krishnan, Mahyar Nemati, Seng W Loke, Jihong Park and Jinho Choi (Deakin University, Australia)
Integrated Communication and Control for UAV assisted Wireless Power Transfer
Yizhe Zhao (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); Yigong Zhang (UESTC, China); Jie Hu (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); Kun Yang (University of Essex, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Latency-aware Energy-efficient Far-field Wireless Charging for IoT
Wei Song and Xilong Liu (Yunnan University, China); Nirwan Ansari (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA)
Energy-Efficient WiFi Backscatter Communication for Green IoTs
Yimeng Huang (University of Science and Technology of China & City University of Hong Kong, China); Lijie Liu (University of Science and Technology of China, China); Jihong Yu (Beijing Institute of Technology, China); Yuguang Fang (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong); Wei Gong (University of Science and Technology of China, China)
Transmit Power Optimization of IoT Devices over Incomplete Channel Information
Nirmal Danushka Wickramasinghe (Maynooth University, Ireland); Indrakshi Dey (South East Technological University, Waterford, Ireland)

Thursday, December 7 2:00 - 2:45

IS 15: Interactive Subsession CISS_I15

Room: Exhibition Hall (Grand Ballroom) - level 3
Enhanced Collaborative Physical Layer Authentication Through An Impression-weighted Decision Aggregation Scheme
Yudi Zhou and Tao Jing (Beijing Jiaotong University, China); Yue Wu (Beijing JiaoTong University, China); Qinghe Gao and Yan Huo (Beijing Jiaotong University, China); Liran Ma (Texas Christian University, USA)
MulTA: Enabling Cost-efficient Multi-task Network Traffic Analysis
Cheng Guo, Menghao Zhang, Guanyu Li and Mingwei Xu (Tsinghua University, China)
A Secure and Efficient Handover Authentication based on Digital Twin in 5G-V2X
Guanjie Li (Xidian University); Tom H. Luan and Jinkai Zheng (Xidian University, China); Chengzhe Lai (Xi'an University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Zhou Su and Haixia Peng (Xi'an Jiaotong University, China)
Improving upper and lower bounds for the security performance of wiretap channels
Johannes Voichtleitner (Technische Universität München, Germany); Moritz Wiese (Technical University of Munich, Germany); Anna Frank (Technische Universität München, Germany); Holger Boche (Technical University Munich, Germany)

Thursday, December 7 2:00 - 2:45

IS 15: Interactive Subsession CQRM_I15

Room: Exhibition Hall (Grand Ballroom) - level 3
Energy Efficient Thermal Comfort Control via Human In The Loop RL in Smart Home
Chuanfeng Wei, Shengbo Zhou, Peng He, Yaping Cui and Ruyan Wang (Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Dapeng Wu (CQUPT, China)
QoE Optimization for VR Streaming: a Continual RL Framework in Digital Twin-empowered MEC
Jiadong Yu (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), China); Ahmad Alhilal (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong); Tailin Zhou (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong); Pan Hui (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology & University of Helsinki, Hong Kong); Danny H.K. Tsang (HKUST, Hong Kong)
Sum-Rate Maximization in Integrated Space-Air-Ground Networks under Backhaul Capacity Constraints
Yan Kyaw Tun and György Dán (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)
Power-Collision-Based 2-Shot Grant-Free NOMA with Cross-Slot SIC for mMTC
Takeshi Hirai, Taisuke Izumi and Naoki Wakamiya (Osaka University, Japan)
Deep Reinforcement Learning for Backhaul Link Selection for Network Slices in IAB Networks
Antonio Jorge Morgado (Instituto de Telecomunicacoes, Portugal); Firooz B. Saghezchi (Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal); Pablo Fondo-Ferreiro (Universidade de Vigo, Spain); Felipe Gil-Castiñeira (University of Vigo, Spain); Maria Papaioannou (Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal); Kostas Ramantas (Iquadrat Informatica, Greece); Jonathan Rodriguez (Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal)

Thursday, December 7 2:00 - 2:45

IS 15: Interactive Subsession MWN_I15

Room: Exhibition Hall (Grand Ballroom) - level 3
Chair: Phone Lin (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
Interference Graph Estimation for Full-Duplex mmWave Backhauling: A Power Control Approach
Haorui Li, Daqian Ding and Yibo Pi (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China)
Spatial-Temporal Attention-based mmWave Link Quality Prediction under Dynamic Blockages
Zhizhen Li (North Carolina State University, USA); Mingzhe Chen (University of Miami, USA); Gaolei Li (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China); Yuchen Liu (North Carolina State University, USA)
Digital Twin Assisted Closed-Loops for Energy-Efficient Open RAN-based Fixed Wireless Access Provisioning in Rural Areas
Anselme Ndikumana and Kim Khoa Nguyen (École de Technologie Supérieure, Canada); Mohamed Cheriet (Ecole de technologie superieure (University of Quebec), Canada)
Mobility Performance of Scalable Cell-Free Massive MIMO under Channel Aging and Handover
Yunlu Xiao and Ljiljana Simić (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)
Grid Construction of 5G Beam-space via Matrix Completion and Principal Component Analysis
ZhiQiang Yao (XiangTan University, China); Hao Xuan and Jiawei Xu (Xiangtan University, China); Yue Sun, Lei Wei and Ruituo Jiang (Huawei Technologies, China); Qingjiang Shi (Shenzhen Research Institute of Big Data, China); Zheng Peng (Xiangtan University, China)

Thursday, December 7 2:00 - 2:45

IS 15: Interactive Subsession SAC/CC_I15

Room: Exhibition Hall (Grand Ballroom) - level 3
An Efficient Auction-based Edge Server Deployment Scheme for Edge Service Provider
Yaqing Wang, Shasha Xue, Wei Wang, Zhaohui Li and Yongmin Zhang (Central South University, China)

Thursday, December 7 2:00 - 2:45

IS 15: Interactive Subsession SAC/MLC_I15

Room: Exhibition Hall (Grand Ballroom) - level 3
Chair: Asmaa Abdallah (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia)
Unsupervised Learning-Based Downlink Power Allocation for CF-mMIMO Networks
Mattia Fabiani (University of Bologna, Italy); Asmaa Abdallah (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia); Abdulkadir Celik (King Abdullah University of Science & Technology, Saudi Arabia); Ahmed M. Eltawil (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia)
Non-Convex Optimization of Energy Efficient Power Control in Interference Networks via Machine Learning
Bile Peng (TU Braunschweig, Germany); Karl-Ludwig Besser (Princeton University, USA); Ramprasad Raghunath (TU Braunschweig, Germany); Eduard A Jorswieck (Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany)
Multi-Modal Beam Selection: A Transfer Methodology for Multi-Frequency
Dong Wang (Samsung Research China - Beijing, China); Huiyang Wang (Samsung, China); Mei Tu (Samsung Research China-Beijing, China); Fan Zhang and Xiangfeng Gao (Samsung Research China - Beijing, China); Zhigang Wang (Samsung Research China-Beijing, China)
Attention-based Open RAN Slice Management using Deep Reinforcement Learning
Fatemeh Lotfi and Fatemeh Afghah (Clemson University, USA); Jonathan Ashdown (United States Air Force, USA)
PPO-based Energy-efficient Power Control and Spectrum Allocation in In-Vehicle HetNets
Tianyi Lin (Tsinghua University, China); Jun Du (Tsinghua University, Beijing, China); Haijun Zhang (University of Science and Technology Beijing, China); A Nallanathan (QMUL, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Jun Wang (Tsinghua University, Puerto Rico)

Thursday, December 7 2:00 - 3:30

MWN 13: Networking Slicing Optimization and Security

Room 306
Chair: Abdelkader Mekrache (EURECOM, France)
An Adaptive Sharding-based Blockchain for Network Slicing in 5G
Quang Huy Do (Hanoi University of Science and Technology, Vietnam); Sami Souihi (University Paris Est UPEC, France); Van Tong and Hai Anh Tran (Hanoi University of Science and Technology, Vietnam); Sara Tucci-Piergiovanni (CEA LIST, University of Paris-Saclay, France)
Fast and Scalable Network Slicing by Integrating Deep Learning with Lagrangian Methods
Tianlun Hu (Nokia Bell Labs Stuttgart, Germany); Qi Liao (Nokia Bell Labs, Germany); Qiang Liu (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA); Antonio Massaro (Nokia Bell Labs, France); Georg Carle (Technische Universität München, Germany)
Moving Target Defense based Secured Network Slicing System in the O-RAN Architecture
Mojdeh Karbalaee Motalleb (University of Tehran, Finland); Chafika Benzaid and Tarik Taleb (University of Oulu, Finland); Vahid Shah-Mansouri (University of Tehran, Iran)
Policy Poisoning Attacks on Transfer Learning enabled Resource Allocation for Network Slicing
Shavbo Salehi and Hao Zhou (University of Ottawa, Canada); Medhat Elsayed (Ericsson, Canada); Majid Bavand (Queen's University, Canada); Raimundas Gaigalas (Ericsson, Sweden); Yiğit Özcan (Ericsson, Canada); Melike Erol-Kantarci (University of Ottawa & Ericsson, Canada)
Experimental Study of Adversarial Attacks on ML-based xApps in O-RAN
Naveen Naik Sapavath (George Mason University, USA); Brian Kim and Kaushik Chowdhury (Northeastern University, USA); Vijay K. Shah (George Mason University, USA)

Thursday, December 7 2:00 - 3:30

NGNI 8: Wireless Technologies and Communications

Room 303
Active Queue Management with Data-Driven Delay Violation Probability Predictors
Seyed Samie Mostafavi, Neelabhro Roy, György Dán and James Gross (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)
5G DIY: Impact of Different Elements on the Performance of an E2E 5G Standalone Testbed
Maryam Amini, Ahmed El-Ashmawy, Catherine Rosenberg and Amir K. Khandani (University of Waterloo, Canada)
Towards Latency-aware vNF Placement on Heterogeneous Hosts at the Network Edge
Haruna Umar Adoga and Dimitrios P Pezaros (University of Glasgow, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
DEAP Learning: A Data-Driven Approach to Unsupervised Cooperative Spectrum Sensing
Nada Abdel Khalek and Walaa Hamouda (Concordia University, Canada)
Maximizing Network Connectivity for UAV Communications via Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces
Mohammed S. Al-Abiad (University of British Columbia, Canada); Mohammad Javad-Kalbasi and Shahrokh Valaee (University of Toronto, Canada)

Thursday, December 7 2:00 - 3:30

SAC/AC 4: Applications of UAV in IoT

Room 310
Chair: Sudipta Saha (Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar, India)
FU-Serve: Fog-enabled UAV-as-a-Service for IoT Applications
Raju Imandi (Indian Institute Information Technology, Sri City, Chittoor, India); Arijit Roy (Indian Institute Technology Patna & SensorDrops Networks Pvt. Ltd., India)
Building a Smart Agricultural Product Classification System with Security Mechanism Using 5G Network
Arun Kumar Sangaiah (VIT University, India); Mu Yen Chen (National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan); Hsin-Te Wu (National Taitung University, Taiwan)
Efficient Dual-Hop Massive MIMO IoT Networks With UAV DF Relaying and Hybrid Beamforming
Asil Koc, Mobeen Mahmood and Tho Le-Ngoc (McGill University, Canada)
Towards enabling reliable immersive teleoperation through Digital Twin: A UAV command and control usecase
Nassim Sehad, Xinyi Tu and Akash Rajasekaran (Aalto University, Finland); Hamed Hellaoui (Nokia & Aalto University, Finland); Riku Jäntti (Aalto University, Finland); Mérouane Debbah (Khalifa University of Science and Technology, France)
An IoT-Assisted Efficient Framework for Multi-Drone Conveyance System
Jagnyashini Debadarshini and Sudipta Saha (Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar, India)

Thursday, December 7 2:00 - 3:30

SAC/BD 4: Machine Learning in Big Data Systems

Room 302
AutoMLPoweredNetworks: Automated Machine Learning Service Provisioning for NexGen Networks
Sukhdeep Singh (Samsung R&D India - Bangalore, India); Ashish Jain (Samsung R&D India-Bangalore, India); Joseph Thaliath (Samsung, Korea (South)); Moonki Hong (Samsung Electronics, Co., Ltd., Korea (South)); Seungil Yoon (Samsung Electronics, Korea (South))
A Dynamic Time Warping Based RBFNN Model for Multi-User Time Series Prediction
Ensen Wu, Hongyan Cui and YU XI (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Roy Welsch (MIT, USA)
Detection of Fraudulent Entities in Ethereum Cryptocurrency: A Boosting-based Machine Learning Approach
Muhammad Mazhar Ullah Rathore, Sushil Chaurasia and Dhirendra Shukla (University of New Brunswick, Canada); Anand P (Karpagam University, Korea (South))
Towards FAIR Data in Distributed Machine Learning Systems
Yongli Mou (RWTH Aachen University, Germany); Fengyang Guo (Vienna University of Technology, Austria); Wei Lu and Yongzhao Li (RWTH Aachen University, Germany); Oya Beyan (University of Cologne, Germany); Thomas Rose (Fraunhofer FIT, Germany); Schahram Dustdar (Vienna University of Technology, Austria); Stefan Decker (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)
A Graph-based Spatial-Temporal Deep Reinforcement Learning Model for Edge Caching
Jiacheng Hou and Amiya Nayak (University of Ottawa, Canada)

Thursday, December 7 2:00 - 3:30

SAC/EH 3: Patient Monitoring and Bio-parameter Estimation

Room 308
Chair: Lin Ma (Harbin Institute of Technology, China)
Smartwatch Based Visceral Fat Area Estimation
Artem Nikishov (Samsung Research Russia, Russia); Jonghee Han and Minhyoung Lee (Samsung Electronics, Korea (South)); Moorim Kim (Samsung Electronic, Korea (South)); Dinara Kayumova (Samsung Research Russia, Russia)
Hemoglobin concentration measurements with the reflectance mode photoplethysmography
Vladislav Lychagov (Samsung R&D Institute Russia, Russia); Vladimir Semenov and Elena Volkova (Samsung R&D Institute Russia, Russia); Dmitrii Chernakov (Samsung R&D Institute Russia, Russia); Joongwoo Ahn and Justin Younghyun Kim (Samsung Electronics, Korea (South))
Optical Fiber Pavement Blind Guiding Method Based on Distributed Optical Fiber Vibration Sensing
Yaolang Liang (Harbin Institute of Technology, China); Haoze Chang (Harbin Institude of Technology, China); Lin Ma (Harbin Institute of Technology, China); Danyang Qin (Heilongjiang University, China)
Attention Assessment in Children with Autism using Head Pose and Motion Parameters from Real Videos
Elizabeth B Varghese, Marwa Qaraqe and Dena Al-Thani (Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar); Hazim Ekenel (Istanbul Technical University, Turkey)
Resource Scheduling Based on Multi-Factor Priority for High Performance Requirements in WBANs
Zhang Zheng, Lin Jinzhao and Li Zhangyong (Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)

Thursday, December 7 2:00 - 3:30

SAC/ISC 6: RIS-Aided ISAC

Room 401
Chair: Xidong Mu (Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Integrated Sensing and Communication With STAR-RIS Over High Mobility Scenario
Muye Li and Shun Zhang (Xidian University, China); Yao GE (Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore); Zan Li (Xidian University, China); Feifei Gao (Tsinghua University, China); Guangjie Han (Hohai University, China); Pingzhi Fan (Southwest Jiaotong University, China)
RIS-Aided ISAC Waveform Design via Parallel Product Complex Circle Manifold
Kai Zhong (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); Dongxu An (UESTC, China); Ruoyu Jiang and Jinfeng Hu (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); Cunhua Pan (Southeast University, China)
Analysis and Optimization of Multi-RIS-Assisted Dual-Functional Radar-Communication Systems via Free Probability Theory
Siqiang Wang, Zhong Zheng, Fei Zesong, Xinyi Wang and Jing Guo (Beijing Institute of Technology, China)
Simultaneously Transmitting And Reflecting (STAR)-RIS Empowered ISAC with NOMA
Na Xue, Xidong Mu, Yuanwei Liu and Yue Chen (Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Mohsen Khalily (University of Surrey & 5G Innovation Centre, Institute for Communication Systems (ICS), United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Multi-IRS-Enabled Integrated Sensing and Communications with Point Targets
Yuan Fang (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China); Siyao Zhang and Xinmin Li (Southwest University of Science and Technology, China); Jie Xu (The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen), China); Shuguang Cui (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen & CUHKSZ-FNii, China)

Thursday, December 7 2:00 - 3:30

SAC/MLC 10: Emerging Machine Learning Architectures for Communications

Room 305
Learning to Optimize QoS-Constrained Multicast Beamforming with HPE Transformer
Yang Li (Shenzhen Research Institute of Big Data, China); Ya-Feng Liu (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
Efficient and Accurate Indoor/Outdoor Detection with Deep spiking neural networks
Fangming Guo, Xianlei Long, Kai Liu and Chao Chen (Chongqing University, China); Haiyong Luo (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China); Jianga Shang (China University of Geosciences, China); Fuqiang Gu (Chongqing University, China)
A Spatial Generative Adversarial Network-based Signal Detection for MIMO-ODDM Systems
Qingqing Cheng, Zhenguo Shi and Jinhong Yuan (University of New South Wales, Australia); Hai Lin (Osaka Metropolitan University, Japan)
Understanding Telecom Language Through Large Language Models
Lina Bariah, Hang Zou, Qiyang Zhao and Belkacem Mouhouche (Technology Innovation Institute, United Arab Emirates); Faouzi Bader (Technology Innovation Institut -TII, United Arab Emirates); Mérouane Debbah (Khalifa University of Science and Technology, France)
Grothendieck Graph Neural Network (GGNN): A Path-Based Framework For Network Modelling
Amirreza Shiralinasab Langari (Ecole de Technologie Superieure, Canada); Leila Yeganeh (Mahani Mathematical Research Center, Iran); Kim Khoa Nguyen (École de Technologie Supérieure, Canada)

Thursday, December 7 2:00 - 3:30

SAC/RIS 5: Machine Learning Techniques in RIS-aided Networks.

Room 309
Chair: Mohit Kumar Sharma (Technology Innovation Institute, United Arab Emirates)
An MRL-Based Design Solution for RIS-Assisted MU-MIMO Wireless System under Time-Varying Channels
Meng-Qian Alexander Wu (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan); Tzu-Hsien Sang (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan); Luisa Schuhmacher (KU Leuven, Belgium); Ming-Jie Guo (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan); Khodr Hammoud and Sofie Pollin (KU Leuven, Belgium)
Unlocking Metasurface Practicality for B5G Networks: AI-assisted RIS Planning
Guillermo Encinas-Lago (NEC Laboratories Europe, Germany & Université Paris-Saclay, France); Antonio Albanese (NEC Laboratories Europe GmbH & Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Germany); Vincenzo Sciancalepore (NEC Laboratories Europe GmbH, Germany); Marco Di Renzo (CentraleSupelec-University, France); Xavier Costa-Perez (ICREA and i2cat & NEC Laboratories Europe, Spain)
Federated Learning Games for Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces via Causal Representations
Charbel Bou Chaaya and Sumudu Samarakoon (University of Oulu, Finland); Mehdi Bennis (Centre of Wireless Communications, University of Oulu, Finland)
Multi-Task Learning Based Channel Estimation for Hybrid-Field STAR-RIS Systems
Jian Xiao and Ji Wang (Central China Normal University, China); Yuanwei Liu (Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Wenwu Xie (HNIST, China); Jun Wang (CICT Mobile Communication Technology Co., Ltd., China); Shouyin Liu (Central China Normal University, China)
User Power Measurement Based IRS Channel Estimation via Single-Layer Neural Network
He Sun (National University of Singapore, Singapore); Weidong Mei (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); Lipeng Zhu and Rui Zhang (National University of Singapore, Singapore)

Thursday, December 7 2:00 - 3:30

SAC/SSC 6: Space-Aerial-Terrestrial Integrated Networks

Room 307
Hybrid Routing in FSO/RF Space-Air-Ground Integrated Network
Qi Guo (Tohoku University, Japan); Fengxiao Tang (Central South University, China); Nei Kato (Tohoku University, Japan)
Energy-Efficient 3D Trajectory Optimization for UAV-Aided Wireless Sensor Networks
Yue Ma (National University of Defense Technology, China); Yanqun Tang (Sun Yat-sen University, China); Zhongjun Mao (China Aerodynamics Research and Development Center, China); Di Zhang (Zhengzhou University, China & Korea University, Korea (South)); Chao Yang (Guangdong University of Technology, China); Wei Li (National University of Defence Technology, Hong Kong)
LEO Satellite Communication Simulation Framework for Connected Vehicles
Jing Ma, Lei Zhong and Ryokichi Onishi (Toyota Motor Corporation, Japan)
Link Quality-Aware Handover Planning for Space-Aerial-Terrestrial Integrated Networks
Yun Zhao (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Ailing Xiao (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications & School of Information and Communication Engineering, China); Sheng Wu and Haoge Jia (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
Optimizing Cache Content Placement in Integrated Terrestrial and Non-terrestrial Networks
Feng Wang (Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore); Giovanni Geraci (Telefonica Research & Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain); Tony Q. S. Quek (Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore)

Thursday, December 7 2:00 - 3:30

SPC 9: Signal Processing for Multi-antenna, MIMO, and Multi-user Systems II

Room 406
Channel Estimation for RIS-Aided MIMO Systems via Partially Decoupled Atomic Norm Minimization
Yonghui Chu, Zhiqiang Wei and Zai Yang (Xi'an Jiaotong University, China); Derrick Wing Kwan Ng (University of New South Wales, Australia)
Two-Stage Beamforming Design for High-Speed Train mmWave Communications
Jingjia Huang and Chenhao Qi (Southeast University, China); Octavia A. Dobre (Memorial University, Canada)
Near-Optimal Stochastic MIMO Signal Detection With a Mixture of t-Distributions Prior
Junichiro Hagiwara, Kazushi Matsumura, Hiroki Asumi, Yukiko Kasuga, Toshihiko Nishimura, Takanori Sato, Yasutaka Ogawa and Takeo Ohgane (Hokkaido University, Japan)
Multi-Target Detection for Reconfigurable Holographic Surfaces Enabled Radar
Xiaoyu Zhang, Haobo Zhang and Ruoqi Deng (Peking University, China); Liang Liu (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China); Boya Di (Peking University, China)
Hierarchical Sparse Estimation of Non-Stationary Channel for Uplink Massive MIMO Systems
Chongyang Tan and Donghong Cai (Jinan University, China); Fang Fang (Western University, Canada); Jiahao Shan (Jinan University, China); Yanqing Xu (The Chinese University of HongKong (Shenzhen), China); Zhiguo Ding (University of Manchester, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Pingzhi Fan (Southwest Jiaotong University, China)

Thursday, December 7 2:00 - 3:30

WC 14: Antenna and Smart Antenna I

Room 304
Chair: Jinfei Wang (University of Surrey, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Delay-Phase Precoding to Alleviate Beam Defocus Effect for Circular Arrays
Zidong Wu and Linglong Dai (Tsinghua University, China)
Split Learning for Sensing-Aided Single and Multi-Level Beam Selection in Multi-Vendor RAN
Ycaro Dantas, Pedro E Iturria Rivera and Hao Zhou (University of Ottawa, Canada); Yiğit Özcan (Ericsson, Canada); Majid Bavand (Queen's University, Canada); Medhat Elsayed (Ericsson, Canada); Raimundas Gaigalas (Ericsson, Sweden); Melike Erol-Kantarci (University of Ottawa & Ericsson, Canada)
Wavenumber-Domain Precoding for Sum-Rate Maximization in HMIMO Cellular Systems
Muhammed Niyas K and Jobin Francis (Indian Institute of Technology Palakkad, India)
Correlation Matching Pursuit for MIMO Vector Perturbation
Ang Li, Yi Ma and Rahim Tafazolli (University of Surrey, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Efficient Initial Access with Deep Reinforcement Learning Based Beam Sweeping in Wireless Cellular Communication Systems
Jingze Che, Zhaoyang Zhang, Zhaohui Yang and Yingzhi Huang (Zhejiang University, China)

Thursday, December 7 2:00 - 3:30

WC 15: Joint Communications and Sensing

Room 405
Chair: Samir Al-Ghadhban (KFUPM, Saudi Arabia)
Joint Rate Allocation and Power Control for RSMA-Based Communication and Radar Coexistence Systems
Thanh Trung Nguyen and Nguyen Cong Luong (Phenikaa University, Vietnam); Shaohan Feng (Zhejiang Gongshang University Hangzhou, China); Khaled ElBassioni (Khalifa University, United Arab Emirates); Dusit Niyato (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore); Dong In Kim (Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), Korea (South))
Timely Delivery of Sensing Information in Joint Sensing and Communication Systems
Lifei Ma (Sun Yat-Sen University, China); Xijun Wang (Sun Yat-sen University, China); Howard Yang (Zhejiang University, China & University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (UIUC), USA); Chao Xu (Northwest A&F University, China); Xinghua Sun (Sun Yat-sen University, China); Xiang Chen (Sun Yat-Sen University, China)
A Narrowband Interference Cancellation Approach for Index Modulated OFDM Systems using Compressive Sensing
Samir Al-Ghadhban (KFUPM, Saudi Arabia); Umair Yaqub (King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia)
Equalization in 5G and Beyond: When is Interference Rejection Combining Really Helpful?
Bharath Shamasundar (Samsung R&D Institute India - Bangalore (SRIB), India); Jeonghyeon Jang (Samsung Electronics, Korea (South)); Ashok Kumar Reddy Chavva (Samsung Electronics, India)
Reliable Interference Prediction and Management with Time-Correlated Traffic for URLLC
Fateme Salehi and Aamir Mahmood (Mid Sweden University, Sweden); Nurul Huda Mahmood (University of Oulu, Finland); Mikael Gidlund (Mid Sweden University, Sweden)

Thursday, December 7 2:45 - 3:30

IS 16: Interactive Subsession CISS_I16

Room: Exhibition Hall (Grand Ballroom) - level 3
Understanding and Identifying Cross-platform UI Framework based Potentially Unwanted Apps
Yichi Zhang, Guoxing Chen, Yan Meng and Haojin Zhu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China)
Trusted Task Offloading in Vehicular Edge Computing Networks: A Reinforcement Learning Based Solution
Lushi Zhang, Hongzhi Guo, Xiaoyi Zhou and Jiajia Liu (Northwestern Polytechnical University, China)
MIDS: A New Vehicle Intrusion Detection System Based on Multiple Features
Ziteng Jin, Yijie Xun, Junman Qin and Jiapeng Li (Northwestern Polytechnical University, China)

Thursday, December 7 2:45 - 3:30

IS 16: Interactive Subsession GCSN_I16

Room: Exhibition Hall (Grand Ballroom) - level 3
Rate Forecaster based Energy Aware Band Assignment in Multiband Networks
Brijesh Soni and Siddhartan Govindasamy (Boston College, USA); Dhaval Karshanbhai Patel (School of Engineering and Applied Science-Ahmedabad University, India)
Membership Inference Attacks Against the Graph Classification
Yang Junze, Hongwei Li, Wenshu Fan, Xilin Zhang and Meng Hao (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China)
Waste Factor: A New Metric for Evaluating Power Efficiency in any Cascade
Mingjun Ying (New York University & NYU WIRELESS, USA); Dipankar Shakya (New York University, USA); Hitesh Poddar and Theodore Rappaport (New York University & NYU WIRELESS, USA)
Joint Energy Trading and Computation Scheduling for Geo-Distributed Data Centers in Emergency Demand Response
Lianming Xu and Shiwen Zou (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Liang Li (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications Beijing, China); Li Wang and Aiguo Fei (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)

Thursday, December 7 2:45 - 3:30

IS 16: Interactive Subsession MWN_I16

Room: Exhibition Hall (Grand Ballroom) - level 3
Chair: Wenjiao Xie (Northwestern Polytechnical University, China)
On the Effect of Redundant Caching Policy on Multimedia Streaming in D2D Underlay Network
Suvadip Batabyal (NIT Durgapur, India)
Unsourced Random Access Exploiting Patterned Reed-Muller codes and Projective Decoding
Wenjiao Xie and Huisheng Zhang (Northwestern Polytechnical University, China)
Secrecy Performance Analysis in STAR-RIS-Aided NOMA Networks
Ziyi Xie (Communication Research Center, Harbin Institute of Technology, China); Yuanwei Liu (Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Wenqiang Yi (University of Essex, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Xuanli Wu (Communication Research Center, Harbin Institute of Technology, China); A Nallanathan (QMUL, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Performance Analysis and Blocklength Minimization of Uplink RSMA for Short Packet Transmissions in URLLC
Yixin Zhang, Wenchi Cheng and Jingqing Wang (Xidian University, China); Wei Zhang (The University of New South Wales, Australia)
Multi-AUV Collaborative Data Collection in Integrated Underwater Acoustic Communication and Detection Networks
Xiaoxiao Zhuo and Tianhao Hu (Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China); Wen Wu (Peng Cheng Laboratory, China); Liang Tang (Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, Chinese Academy of Science, China); Fengzhong Qu (Zhejiang University, China); Sherman Shen (University of Waterloo, Canada)

Thursday, December 7 2:45 - 3:30

IS 16: Interactive Subsession SAC/CC_I16

Room: Exhibition Hall (Grand Ballroom) - level 3
Data Transfer for Balancing Model Convergence and Training Time in Federated Learning
Kengo Tajiri (NTT, Japan); Ryoichi Kawahara (Toyo University, Japan)
SAM: Maximizing Service Function Chain Availability in Cloud Data Centers
Sterling Abrahams (CSUDH, USA); Bin Tang (California State University Dominguez Hills, USA); Deng Pan (Florida International University, USA)
Enabling Fine-Grained Packet Loss Monitoring in Cloud Networks
Rohan Bose and German Sviridov (Huawei Technologies, Germany); Jorge Cardoso (University of Coimbra, Portugal & Huawei Research, Germany)
AMFQ: Approximating Multi-level Feedback Queue Scheduling at Line Rate for Data Center Networks
Muhammad Shahid Iqbal (National Yang-Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan); Chien Chen (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan)
Towards Immutability: A Secure and Efficient Auditing Framework for Cloud Supporting Data Integrity and File Version Control
Faisal Haque Bappy, Saklain Zaman and Tariqul Islam (Syracuse University, USA); Redwan Ahmed Rizvee (East West University, Bangladesh); Joon S. Park (Syracuse University, USA); Kamrul Hasan (Tennessee State University, USA)

Thursday, December 7 2:45 - 3:30

ONS_I16: Interactive Subsession ONS_I16

Room: Exhibition Hall (Grand Ballroom) - level 3
Deep Reinforcement Learning for Enhancing the Secrecy of a MU-MISO UOWC Network
Elmehdi Illi, Emna Baccour, Marwa Qaraqe and Mounir Hamdi (Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar)
Explicit, Closed-Form Approximations for BEPs of BDPSK/QDPSK Signals over EW FSO Channel
Yuhang Jia and Zixiong Wang (Tianjin University, China); Pooi-Yuen Kam (National University of Singapore, Singapore); Jinlong Yu (Tianjin University, China)
Jamming Mitigation for Mixed RF/FSO Relay Networks Under Simultaneous Interceptions
Le Van Hau and Nguyen Ti Ti (University of Quebec, Canada); Kim Khoa Nguyen (École de Technologie Supérieure, Canada); Assoume Mba Verdier (Resilient Machine Learning Institute, Canada); Satinder Singh (Ultra Electronics, Canada)

Thursday, December 7 4:00 - 5:30

CISS 16: AI-aided Security III

Room 410
Chair: Yan Meng (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China)
Unsupervised Deep Learning for an Image Based Network Intrusion Detection System
Ryan J Hosler and Agnideven Palanisamy Sundar (IUPUI, USA); Xukai Zou (School of Science, Purdue University-Indianapolis, USA); Feng Li (Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, USA); Tianchong Gao (Southeast University, China)
Attention-Based Interpretable Semi-Supervised Federated Learning for Intrusion Detection in IoT Wireless Networks
Thai Vu Nguyen (INRS, University of Quebec, Canada); Le Bao Long (University of Québec, Canada)
Deep Learning Enabled Semantic-Secure Communication with Shuffling
Fupei Chen and Liyao Xiang (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China); Hei Victor Cheng (Aarhus University, Denmark); Kaiming Shen (The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen), China)
Towards Open-Set APT Malware Classification under Few-Shot Setting
Huaifeng Bao (Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Science, China); Wen Wang (Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China); Feng Liu (State Key Laboratory of Information Security, China)
A Two-Stage Confidence-Based Intrusion Detection System in Programmable Data-Planes
Kaiyi Zhang, Nancy Samaan and Ahmed Karmouch (University of Ottawa, Canada)

Thursday, December 7 4:00 - 5:30

CQRM 11: Vehicular Communications

Room 403
Reinforcement Learning for Platooning Control in Vehicular Networks
Thiago da Silva Gomides, Evangelos Kranakis and Ioannis Lambadaris (Carleton University, Canada); Yannis Viniotis (North Carolina State University, USA)
Blockchain-Based Privacy Preservation Using Steganography in Drone-Enabled VANETs
Zahra Saleem (COMSATS University Islamabad, Pakistan); Usman Firdous (City College of New York Grove School of Engineering, USA); Muhammad Khalil Afzal (COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Pakistan); Amjad Ali and Ala Al-Fuqaha (Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar); Saba Al-Rubaye (Cranfield University, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Muddesar Iqbal (Prince Sultan University, Saudi Arabia)
Anomalous Behaviour Detection via Event-Based Metric with Sequential Tracking in a V2X Environment
Murat Arda Onsu, Murat Simsek and Burak Kantarci (University of Ottawa, Canada)
Asynchronous Federated Learning-Based Resource Management in URLLC-IoV Networks
Bishmita Hazarika (National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan); Keshav Singh (National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan); Sandeep Kumar Singh (Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology Allahabad, India); Cunhua Pan (Southeast University, China); Trung Q. Duong (Memorial University of Newfoundland & Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
A Dual-Objective Bandit-Based Opportunistic Band Selection Strategy for Hybrid-Band V2X Metaverse Content Update
Sherief Hashima (Research Scientist & RIKEN-AIP Japan, Japan); Zubair Md Fadlullah (Western University, Canada); Mostafa M. Fouda (Idaho State University, USA); Kohei Hatano (Kyushu University & RIKEN AIP, Japan); Eiji Takimoto (Kyushu University, Japan); Mohsen Guizani (MBZUAI, United Arab Emirates)

Thursday, December 7 4:00 - 5:30

CRAEN 7: AI for Aerial Access Networks

Room 402
Chair: Aduwati Sali (UPM, Malaysia)
Joint Service Caching and Trajectory Optimization for Multi-UAV Assisted Multi-access Edge Computing
Xin Zhang, Yiqin Deng and Haixia Zhang (Shandong University, China); Yuguang Fang (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
MATD3-Based Joint User Association and Resource Allocation in UAV Networks
Hualei Zhang (Tsinghua University, China); Jun Du and Chunxiao Jiang (Tsinghua University, Beijing, China); Aymen Fakhreddine (Technology Innovation Institute and University of Klagenfurt, Austria); Ahmed Ali Al Hammadi (TII & Technology Innovation Institute, United Arab Emirates); Jintao Wang (Tsinghua University, China)
Social-Aware Edge Caching for UAV-Assisted Metaverse Systems
Ya Li (Guizhou University, China); Guoquan Wu (Yanshan University, China); Jianhang Tang (Guizhou University, China)
Energy-efficient Computation Offloading and Data Compression for UAV-mounted MEC Networks
Xinyun Zhang, Li Wang, Xin Wu, Lianming Xu and Aiguo Fei (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
Real-Time Traffic Based Air-Ground Cooperation for Vehicular Data Collection Using DRL Approach
Xinghuan Xie and Chen Xu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Zhanpeng Zhang (North China Electric Power University, China); Wenfei Yuan (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)

Thursday, December 7 4:00 - 5:30

CSM 8: Radio Network Optimization

Room 407
Joint Partner Pairing and Resource Scheduling for D2D-U-based Decentralized Mutual Learning
Tingli Wang (Zhejiang University, China); Jiantao Yuan (Zhejiang University City College, China); Xianfu Chen (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Finland); Celimuge Wu (The University of Electro-Communications, Japan); Yusheng Ji (National Institute of Informatics, Japan); Rui Yin (Zhejiang University City Colle, China & KwaZulu-Natal University, South Africa)
Computation Throughput Maximization for UAV-Enabled MEC via Uplink NOMA
Xiangzuo Meng, Cheng Zhan, Renjie Huang and Jingrui Liao (Southwest University, China)
Joint Sensing, Communication, and Computation Resources Allocation for Cooperative Perception
Mengyuan Dong, Yuchuan Fu and Changle Li (Xidian University, China); Celimuge Wu (The University of Electro-Communications, Japan)
A Predictive Approach for Compensating Transmission Latency in Remote Robot Control for Improving Teleoperation Efficiency
Yutaka Katsuyama (Waseda Research Institute for Science and Engineering); Toshio Sato and Zheng Wen (Waseda University, Japan); Xin Qi (School of International Liberal Studies, Waseda University, Japan); Kazuhiko Tamesue and Wataru Kameyama (Waseda University, Japan); Yuichi Nakamura (Kyoto University, Japan); Takuro Sato and Jiro Katto (Waseda University, Japan)
Semantic Communication for Multiple Vibrotactile Sensors
Tom Ogura and Shogo Kitamura (Osaka University, Japan); Takuya Fujihashi (Osaka University & Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Japan); Kazuhiro Kizaki, Shunsuke Saruwatari and Takashi Watanabe (Osaka University, Japan)

Thursday, December 7 4:00 - 5:30

CT 8: MIMO

Room 302
Chair: Mohammad Kazemi (Bilkent University, Turkey)
Unsourced Random Access with Hardware Impairments
Mert Ozates, Mohammad Kazemi and Tolga M. Duman (Bilkent University, Turkey)
How to Combine OTFS and OFDM Modulations in Massive MIMO?
Ruoxi Chong (Queens University Belfast, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Mohammadali Mohammadi and Hien Ngo (Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Simon Cotton (Queen's University, Belfast, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Michail Matthaiou (Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Performance Comparison Between Continuous Aperture MIMO and Discrete MIMO
Zhongzhichao Wan, Jieao Zhu and Linglong Dai (Tsinghua University, China)
MIMO Asynchronous MAC with Faster-than-Nyquist (FTN) Signaling
Zichao Zhang (Carleton University, Canada); Melda Yuksel (Middle East Technical University, Turkey); Halim Yanikomeroglu (Carleton University, Canada); Benjamin Ng and Chan-Tong Lam (Macao Polytechnic University, Macao)
Multi-User Delay Alignment Modulation for Millimeter Wave Massive MIMO
Xingwei Wang, Haiquan Lu and Yong Zeng (Southeast University, China)

Thursday, December 7 4:00 - 5:30

CT 9: Coding Theory III

Room 404
Chair: Reza Hadavian (Dalhousie University, Canada)
On the Design of Efficient Lattice-Code based Multiple Access
Tao Yang, Fangtao Yu, Qiuzhuo Chen and Rong Ke Liu (Beihang University, China)
Ordered Reliability Direct Error Pattern Testing (ORDEPT) Algorithm
Reza Hadavian, Dmitri Truhachev and Kamal El-Sankary (Dalhousie University, Canada); Hamid Ebrahimzad (Huawei Technologies, Canada); Hossein Najafi (Huawei Technologies Canada, Canada)
Singular Worst-Case Noise \& Primary/Secondary-User Characterization
John Cioffi and Yun Liao (Stanford University, USA)
Lossless Analog Compression via Polarization
Shuai Yuan and Liuquan Yao (University of Chinese Academy of Sciences & Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, CAS, China); Yuan Li (University of Chinese Academy of Sciences & Academy of Mathematics and Systems Sciences, CAS, China); Huazi Zhang (Huawei Technologies, Co. Ltd., China); Jun Wang (Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd, China); Wen Tong (Huawei Technologies Canada Co., Ltd., Canada); Zhiming Ma (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
Decoding of Polar Codes with Future Constraints Over the Binary Erasure Channel
Min Jang and Jong-Hwan Kim (Samsung Electronics, Korea (South)); Seho Myung (Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Korea (South)); Kyeongcheol Yang (Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Korea (South))

Thursday, December 7 4:00 - 5:30

GCSN 6: Learning for Energy Efficiency

Room 303
Lightweight Cloud-Edge Collaborations for Intelligent Power Control in Energy-Efficient Heterogeneous Networks
Jianhao Peng (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); Lin Zhang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), China); Ming Xiao (Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)
Learning-based Energy Efficiency Optimization in Cell-free Massive MIMO
Guangchen Wang (The University of Sydney, Australia); Peng Cheng (La Trobe University, Australia & The University of Sydney, Australia); Zhuo Chen (CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia); Branka Vucetic and Yonghui Li (University of Sydney, Australia)
Energy Saving in Cellular Wireless Networks via Transfer Deep Reinforcement Learning
Di Wu (Samsung Electronics, Canada); Yi Tian Xu (Samsung AI Center, Canada); Michael Jenkin (York University, Canada); Seowoo Jang (Samsung Electronics, Korea (South), Korea (South)); Ekram Hossain (University of Manitoba, Canada); Xue Liu (McGill University, Canada); Gregory Dudek (Samsung Electronics, Canada)
Advanced Sleep Modes in 5G Multiple Base Stations using Non-cooperative Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
Amal Abdel Razzac (Lebanese University, Lebanon); Tijani Chahed (Telecom SudParis, France); Zahi Shamseddine (Lebanon); Wafik Zahwa (University of Lorraine, France)
A Data-Driven Wasserstein Distributionally Robust Weight-Based Joint Power Optimization for Dynamic Multi-WBAN
Mingyang Wang, Fengye Hu, Zhuang Ling and Difei Jia (Jilin University, China); Shuang Li (University of Victoria, Canada)

Thursday, December 7 4:00 - 5:30

IoTSN 12: Intelligent Scheduling

Room 301
Intelligent Transmission Scheduling for Edge Sensing in Industrial IoT Systems
Tiankai Jin (Shanghai Jiaotong University, China); Yehan Ma, Zhiduo Ji and Cailian Chen (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China)
Real-time Task Scheduling for Digital Twin Edge Network
Cheonyong Kim (Sejong University, USA & Virginia Tech, USA); Mahdi Chehimi (Virginia Tech, USA); Minchae Jung (Sejong University, Korea (South)); Walid Saad (Virginia Tech, USA)
Optimal Transmission Scheduling in Data-Intensive Audio Sensor Networks
Alvin C Valera, Niels Clayton and Winston K.G. Seah (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand); Tao Zheng (Beijing Jiaotong University, China)
Emergent Communication Protocol Learning for Task Offloading in Industrial Internet of Things
Salwa Mostafa (University of Oulu, Finland); Mehdi Bennis (Centre of Wireless Communications, University of Oulu, Finland); Mateus Pontes Mota (Nokia Bell Labs & INSA Lyon, France); Alvaro Valcarce (Nokia Bell Labs, France)
Delay-Guaranteed Resource Allocation for Deterministic Communications: An Efficient Stochastic Network Calculus Method
Juan Zhu and Shaowei Wang (Nanjing University, China)

Thursday, December 7 4:00 - 5:30

IoTSN 13: Smart Beamforming

Room 409
Joint Optimization for Intelligent Reflecting Surface Enabled Backscatter Communication System
Jingyi Li (Xidian University, China); Jiadai Wang and Jiajia Liu (Northwestern Polytechnical University, China)
On an Intelligent Reflecting Surface-Assisted Task Offloading Strategy for Indoor Terahertz Networks
Yishi Zhu (Tohoku University, Japan); Bomin Mao (School of Cybersecurity, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China); Nei Kato (Tohoku University, Japan)
Active-RIS-Assisted Digital Twin-based URLLC Internet-of-Things Networks
Tri Ayu Lestari, Sravani Kurma and Keshav Singh (National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan); Anal Paul (National Sun Yat Sen University, Taiwan); Shahid Mumtaz (Aveiro, Portugal)
Beamforming-Based Location Management under an O-RAN Architecture using Spark Streaming
Chun-Hsien Ko and Sau-Hsuan Wu (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan); Yu-An Chen (Wireless Communications Lab., Chunghwa Telecom Co., Ltd., Taiwan); Chih-Hsuan Tang (Chunghwa Telecom, Taiwan)
Minimizing Energy Consumption for 5G NR Beam Management for RedCap Devices
Manishika Rawat (University of Padova, Italy); Matteo Pagin (University of Padua, Italy); Marco Giordani (University of Padova, Italy); Louis-Adrien Dufrene and Quentin Lampin (Orange Labs, France); Michele Zorzi (University of Padova, Italy)

Thursday, December 7 4:00 - 4:45

IS 17: Interactive Session CISS_I17

Room: Exhibition Hall (Grand Ballroom) - level 3
Secrecy Capacity Region of the AWGN MAC with External Eavesdropper and Feedback
Haoheng Yuan, Han Deng and Guangfen Xie (Southwest Jiaotong University, China); Chuanchuan Yang (State Key Laboratory of Advanced Optical Communication Systems and Networks, Peking University, China); Bin Dai (Southwest Jiaotong University, China)
Website Fingerprinting with Packet Sampling: A More Realistic Approach in Real-world Networks
Gang Wang, Hua Wu, Guang Cheng, Xiaoyan Hu and Yuxin Shi (Southeast University, China)
Enhancing Outage-Constrained Secure EE with RIS under a Multi-Antenna Eavesdropper
Zongze Li (Peng Cheng Laboratory, China); Qingfeng Lin and Yik-Chung Wu (The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong); Derrick Wing Kwan Ng (University of New South Wales, Australia); Arumugam Nallanathan (Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Achieving Privacy-Preserving Outsourced SVM Training with Non-linear Kernel
Yuandong Xie, Jingcheng Zhao, Bin Zhu and Jian Li (University of Science and Technology of China, China); Ruidong Li (Kanazawa University, Japan); Kaiping Xue (University of Science and Technology of China, China)

Thursday, December 7 4:00 - 4:45

IS 17: Interactive Subsession NGNI_I17

Room: Exhibition Hall (Grand Ballroom) - level 3
Applicability of Contents Mobility Support Exploiting Caching and NLSR in NDN
Ryota Minorikawa and Hidenori Nakazato (Waseda University, Japan)
Container Caching Optimization based on Explainable Deep Reinforcement Learning
Divyashree Jayaram, Saad Jeelani and Genya Ishigaki (San Jose State University, USA)
Partial SRv6 Deployment and Routing Optimization: A Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach
Shuyi Liu, Hancheng Lu, Yuang Chen, Baolin Chong and Tao Luo (University of Science and Technology of China, China)
Deep Learning-based Smart Radio Jamming Attacks Detection on 5G V2I/V2N Communications
Badre Bousalem and Vinicius F. Silva (Université Gustave Eiffel, France); Abdelwahab Boualouache (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg); Rami Langar (Ecole de Technologie Supérieure de Montréal, Canada & University Gustave Eiffel, France); Sylvain Cherrier (Université Gustave Eiffel, France)

Thursday, December 7 4:00 - 4:45

IS 17: Interactive Subsession SAC/SSC_I17

Room: Exhibition Hall (Grand Ballroom) - level 3
Service Function Chaining in LEO Satellite Networks via Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
Khai N Doan and Marios Avgeris (Carleton University, Canada); Aris Leivadeas (École de Technologie Supérieure, Canada); Ioannis Lambadaris (Carleton University, Canada); Wonjae Shin (Korea University, Korea (South))
VLEO Satellite Constellation Design for Regional Coverage of Aviation and Marine Users
Guoquan Chen (Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, China); Shaohua Wu (Harbin Institute of Technology, China); Yajing Deng (Harbin Institute of Technology(Shenzhen), China); Jian Jiao (Harbin Institute of Technology - Shenzhen, China); Qinyu Zhang (Shenzhen Graduate School, Harbin Institute of Technology, China)
USV-Aided Data Secure Collection Scheme for Underwater Wireless Acoustic Networks
Zheng Hu (Shanghai University, China); Zhou Su (Xi'an Jiaotong University, China); Qichao Xu (Shanghai University, China)
Dynamic TT&C Mission Scheduling for Mega-Satellite Networks: A Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach
Chenlu Ma, Di Zhou, Min Sheng, Haoran Li and Jiandong Li (Xidian University, China)

Thursday, December 7 4:00 - 4:45

IS 17: Interactive Subsession SPC_I17

Room: Exhibition Hall (Grand Ballroom) - level 3
Monotonicity in Sum Rate Maximization for Finite Blocklength Interference Channel
Benjamin Liu (Taiwan); AN-Yi Hu (National Taiwan University & Graduate Institute of Communication Engineering, Taiwan); Yu-Chien Chen (Taiwan); Shih-Chun Lin (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
Near-Field 2D Hierarchical Beam Training for Extremely Large-Scale MIMO
Yu Lu, Zijian Zhang and Linglong Dai (Tsinghua University, China)
Multimodal Hetero-Frequency Channel Extrapolation (M-HCE) Based CSI Reconstruction for NR FDD Massive MIMO Systems
Ying Wang and Yueyue Wang (Samsung Research China-Beijing, China); Hyo Yol Park and Myoungwon Lee (Samsung Electronics, Korea (South)); Wei Liu (Samsung Electronics, China); Meifang Jing (Samsung Research China-Beijing, China)

Thursday, December 7 4:00 - 4:45

IS 17: Interactive Subsession WC_I17

Room: Exhibition Hall (Grand Ballroom) - level 3
Uplink Power Control for Distributed Massive MIMO with 1-Bit ADCs
Bikshapathi Gouda, Italo Atzeni and Antti Tölli (University of Oulu, Finland)
XL-MIMO with Near-Field Spatial Non-Stationarities: Low-complexity Detector Design
Kangda Zhi (Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Cunhua Pan and Hong Ren (Southeast University, China); Kok Keong Chai (Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Cheng-Xiang Wang (Southeast University, China & Purple Mountain Laboratories, China); Robert Schober (Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany); Xiaohu You (National Mobile communication Research Lab., Southeast University, China)
A Polar Coded OFDM System With Artificial Noise for Covert Communication
Hiroki Fukada and Hideki Ochiai (Yokohama National University, Japan)
A Proof of Concept for OTFS Resilience in Doubly-Selective Channels by GPU-Enabled Real-Time SDR
Yi Xien Yap (VIAVI Solutions, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Neil Bhushan (Viavi Solutions, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Onur Dizdar (VIAVI Solutions, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Ata Sattarzadeh, David Redgate and Venkateswara Battula (Viavi Solutions, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Stephen L Wang (VIAVI Solutions, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Semantic-Oriented Resource Allocation for Multi-Modal UAV Semantic Communication Networks
Han Hu and Xingwu Zhu (Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Fuhui Zhou (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China); Wei Wu (Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Rose Qingyang Hu (Utah State University, USA)

Thursday, December 7 4:00 - 5:30

MWN 14: RIS-Assisted Communications

Room 306
Chair: Mingan Luan (Jilin University, China)
Is Adversarial RIS Harmful to Physical Layer Secret Key Generation
Yi Fang, Huici Wu, Zhiqing Wei and Xiaofeng Tao (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
RIS-Assisted SWIPT-Empowered Cooperative Rate-Splitting Multiple Access for Two Users
Shreya Khisa, Mohamed Elhattab and Chadi Assi (Concordia University, Canada); Sanaa Sharafeddine (American University of Beirut, Lebanon)
RIS-assisted Resource Allocation under Base Stations' Non-cooperation Scheme
Xinyi Lin, Ziyi Zhou and Lei Zhang (University of Glasgow, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Anvar Tukmanov (BT, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Qammer H Abbasi and Muhammad Ali Imran (University of Glasgow, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Robust Resource Allocation for RIS-assisted Joint Localization and Communication System
Mingan Luan and Bo Wang (Jilin University, China); Zheng Chang (University of Jyväskylä, Finland); Yanping Zhao, Zhuang Ling and Fengye Hu (Jilin University, China)
On the Optimization of Virtual RIS Partitioning for Grant-Free Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access
Mohd Hamza Naim Shaikh (Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan); Abdulkadir Celik (King Abdullah University of Science & Technology, Saudi Arabia); Ahmed M. Eltawil (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia); Galymzhan Nauryzbayev (Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan)

Thursday, December 7 4:00 - 5:30

MWN 15: Secure Next Generation Networks

Room 408
Chair: Insha Amin (Indian Institute of Technology, Jammu, India)
Mitigating Security Risks in 6G Networks-based Optimization of Deep Learning
Ammar Kamal Abasi, Moayad Aloqaily and Mohsen Guizani (MBZUAI, United Arab Emirates); Mérouane Debbah (Khalifa University of Science and Technology, France)
Power Control for Secrecy Fairness-Aware Regenerative Relaying in Untrusted NOMA
Insha Amin (Indian Institute of Technology, Jammu, India); Deepak Mishra (University of New South Wales (UNSW) Sydney, Australia); Ravikant Saini (Indian Institute of Technology Jammu, India); Sonia Aissa (INRS, University of Quebec, Canada)
Secure Terahertz Indoor Communications Using Blockage Feature-Based Artificial Noise in 6G
Suheng Tian, Ying Ju, Lei Liu and Qingqi Pei (Xidian University, China); Ning Zhang (University of Windsor, Canada); Celimuge Wu (The University of Electro-Communications, Japan); Shahid Mumtaz (Aveiro, Portugal)
Covert Communication via IRS with Unequal Transmit Prior Probabilities
Yujie Wu (Dalian University of Technology, China); Mingqian Liu (Xidian University, China); Lexi Xu (China Unicom Research Institute & Queen Mary University of London, China); Nan Zhao (Dalian University of Technology, China); Xianbin Wang (Western University, Canada); Derrick Wing Kwan Ng (University of New South Wales, Australia)
Blockchain-aided Cooperative Spectrum Sensing: Decentralized Reputation Management and Performance Optimization
Yafan Yang, Long Shi and Jun Li (Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China); Taotao Wang (Shenzhen University, China); Zhe Wang (Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China); Bin Cao (Beijing University of Posts & Telecommunications, China); Chuan Ma (Zhejiang Lab, China)

Thursday, December 7 4:00 - 5:30

SAC/AC 5: Joint Trajectory Design and Path Planning for UAVs

Room 310
Joint Trajectory Optimization and Power Control for Cognitive UAV-Assisted Secure Communications
Can Wang, Helin Yang and Liang Xiao (Xiamen University, China); Huabing Lu (Dalian University of Technology, China); Zehui Xiong (Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore)
AI-empowered UAV Trajectory Optimization in 6G Aerial Networks
Gunasekaran Raja, Vishal Ravichandran, Sivaganesh B and Saroja S (Anna University, India); Davide Scazzoli and Maurizio Magarini (Politecnico di Milano, Italy); Kapal Dev (Munster Technological University & IEEE, Ireland)
HAPS Trajectory Optimization Based on Throughput Heat Map
Tatsuya Mori and Tomoaki Ohtsuki (Keio University, Japan)
Joint User Assignment and Trajectory Design for UAV-Enabled Covert Communication with Directional Antenna
Peng Wu (Wuhan University, China); Xiaopeng Yuan and Yulin Hu (RWTH Aachen University, Germany); Jian Zhang (Wuhan Univerisity, China); Anke Schmeink (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)
QoS-aware Reinforcement Learning based Green Trajectory Design for UAV-aided Backscattering
Ruotong Zhao (UNSW Sydney, Australia); Abhishek Mondal (National Institute of Technology Silchar, India); Deepak Mishra (University of New South Wales (UNSW) Sydney, Australia); Aruna Seneviratne (University of New South Wales, Australia)

Thursday, December 7 4:00 - 5:30

SAC/BD 5: Big Data in IoT

Room 309
G-SDN: Game Theory-based SDN Controller Load Balancing for IIoT Applications Underlying 5G
Riya Kakkar, Rajesh Gupta and Nilesh Kumar Jadav (Institute of Technology, Nirma University, India); Sudeep Tanwar (Institute of Technology Nirma University Ahmedabad Gujarat, India); Smita Agrawal (Institute of Technology, Nirma University, India)
FedOnion: FL and Onion Routing-driven Secure Data Exchange Framework for 5G-IIoT Applications
Nilesh Kumar Jadav and Rajesh Gupta (Institute of Technology, Nirma University, India); Pronaya Bhattacharya (Amity School of Engineering and Technology, Amity University, India); Sudeep Tanwar (Institute of Technology Nirma University Ahmedabad Gujarat, India)
Node Behaviour-Aware Secure Flow Control Mechanism for IoT-Based Big Data
Ruelia Saha (Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India); Nurzaman Ahmed (Darmouth College, USA); Sudip Misra (Indian Institute of Technology-Kharagpur, India)
Next Generation Healthcare with Explainable AI: IoMT-Edge-Cloud based Advanced eHealth
Joy Dutta, Deepak Puthal and Chan Yeun (Khalifa University, United Arab Emirates)
Light Weight AI: Representing ML Inference as Efficient Mathematical Relations for Embedded RAN devices
Vishal Murgai (Samsung R&D Institute, Bengaluru, India); Swaraj Kumar (Samsung R&D Institute, India); Sukhdeep Singh (Samsung R&D India - Bangalore, India)

Thursday, December 7 4:00 - 5:30

SAC/CC 6: Coding in Storage Systems

Room 307
Chair: Xiaolin Chang (Beijing Jiaotong University, China)
EVENODD* Codes with More Flexible Parameters and Efficient Decoding
Xia Qiu and Hanxu Hou (Dongguan University of Technology, China)
Toward Lower Repair Bandwidth of Piggybacking Codes via Jointly Design for Both Data and Parity Nodes
Zhengyi Jiang, Hao Shi and Zhongyi Huang (Tsinghua University, China); Bo Bai (Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Hong Kong); Gong Zhang (Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., China); Hanxu Hou (Huawei Technology Limited Company, Hong Kong)
Piggybacking+ Codes: MDS Array Codes with Linear Sub-Packetization to Achieve Lower Repair Bandwidth
Hao Shi, Zhengyi Jiang and Zhongyi Huang (Tsinghua University, China); Bo Bai (Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Hong Kong); Gong Zhang (Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., China); Hanxu Hou (Huawei Technology Limited Company, Hong Kong)
DNN Split Computing: Quantization and Run-length Coding are Enough
Damiano Carra (University of Verona, Italy); Giovanni Neglia (Inria, France)
End-Edge Coordinated Joint Encoding and Neural Enhancement for Low-Light Video Analytics
Yuanyi He, Peng Yang and Tian Qin (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China); Ning Zhang (University of Windsor, Canada)

Thursday, December 7 4:00 - 5:30

SAC/ISC 7: Fundamental Information Theoretical Limits for ISAC

Room 401
Chair: Yao Liu (Zhejiang University, China)
Improved Information-Theoretic Bound for Multiple-Access Integrated Sensing and Communication Systems
Yao Liu, Min Li and An Liu (Zhejiang University, China); Lawrence Ong (The University of Newcastle, Australia)
A Broadcast Channel Framework for Joint Communications and Sensing-\Part I: Feasible Region
Husheng Li (Purdue University, USA); Zhu Han (University of Houston, USA); H. Vincent Poor (Princeton University, USA)
A Broadcast Channel Framework for Joint Communications and Sensing-Part II: Superposition Coding
Husheng Li (Purdue University, USA); Zhu Han (University of Houston, USA); H. Vincent Poor (Princeton University, USA)
Mutual Information Metrics for Uplink MIMO-OFDM Integrated Sensing and Communication System
Jinghui Piao and Zhiqing Wei (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Xin Yuan (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia); Xiaoyu Yang (Beijing University of Post and Telecommunications, China); Huici Wu and Zhiyong Feng (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
Performance Analysis of Downlink NOMA-ISAC
Chongjun Ouyang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Xingqi Zhang (University of Alberta, Canada); Yuanwei Liu (Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

Thursday, December 7 4:00 - 5:30

SAC/MLC 11: Machine Learning for Predictive Networks

Room 304
Chair: Seong-Lyun Kim (Yonsei University, Korea (South))
AdaTeacher: Adaptive Multi-Teacher Weighting for Communication Load Forecasting
Chengming Hu (McGill University, Canada); Ju Wang (Samsung Electronics Canada, Canada); Di Wu (Samsung Electronics, Canada); Yan Xin (Samsung Research America, USA); Jianzhong Zhang (Samsung, USA); Xue Liu (McGill University, Canada); Gregory Dudek (Samsung Electronics, Canada)
Applying Multiple-Correlations of Network to Cell Traffic Forecasting
Wenwen Li (Asiainfo Technologies(China), Inc., China); Mingjie Liao (AsiaInfo Technologies (China), Inc., China); Xidong Wang (Company & AsiaInfo, China); Yun Li (Asiainfo Technologies (China) Inc., China); Xiaozhou Ye (AsiaInfo Technologies(China), Inc., China); Ye Ouyang (Asiainfo Technology Co., Ltd., USA)
Vision-Aided Blockage Prediction and Proactive Handover for Indoor mmWave and Terahertz Communications
Yiying Liu and Jiao Wu (Seoul National University, Korea (South)); Seungnyun Kim (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA); Byonghyo Shim (Seoul National University, Korea (South))
Improved Multi-Step, Multi-Variate, and Spatiotemporal 5G Data Usage Forecasting Without Deploying Data Imputation Techniques
Nikhil Cherian Kurian and Niraj Kumar (Fujitsu Research of India Pvt. Ltd, India)
Efficient Multi-Connectivity Handover Algorithm in Heterogeneous Cellular Networks by Graph-to-Sequence Reinforcement Learning
Zhi-Hong Huang, Chun-Yang Huang and Ming-Jer Tsai (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan)

Thursday, December 7 4:00 - 5:30

SAC/MLC 12: Machine Learning based Modulation and Coding

Room 305
CDDM: Channel Denoising Diffusion Models for Wireless Communications
Tong Wu, Zhiyong Chen, Dazhi He and Liang Qian (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China); Yin Xu (ShangHai Jiao Tong University, China); Meixia Tao and Wenjun Zhang (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China)
Learnable ADMM Based OFDM Phase Noise Compensation and Signal Detection over High Mobility Channels
Bingqing Li, Hong Shen, Yi Sun and Wei Xu (Southeast University, China); Chunming Zhao (National Mobile Communications Research Laboratory, Southeast University, China)
Modulation Recognition: An Unsupervised Learning Approach
Gaurav Jajoo (SpanIdea Systems Pvt. Ltd., India); Prem Singh (IIIT Bangalore, India)
SigMixer: Lightweight Automatic Modulation Classification via Multi-Layer Perceptrons Neural Network
Jiale Wang, Chao Wang and Haibin Zhang (Xidian University, China); Wei Zhang (Science and Technology on Electronic Information Control Laboratory, China); Derrick Wing Kwan Ng (University of New South Wales, Australia)
Blind Estimation of CPFSK Parameters for Bursty Transmission by Using LSTM Neural Networks
Xiao Bei Liu and Yong Liang Guan (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore); Yan Qin (Chongqing University, China)

Thursday, December 7 4:00 - 5:30

SPC 10: Localization, Positioning and Tracking Techniques

Room 406
Automatic Coordinates Estimation for Beacon LEDs in Visible Light Positioning Systems
Canran Shi and Bingcheng Zhu (Southeast University, China); Zaichen Zhang (National Mobile Communications Research Laboratory, Southeast University, China)
Power-Efficient Indoor Localization Using Adaptive Channel-Aware Ultra-Wideband DL-TDOA
Sagnik Bhattacharya (Stanford University, USA & Samsung Electronics, Korea (South)); Junyoung Choi and Joohyun Lee (Samsung Electronics, Korea (South))
Robust Localization of UAVs in OTFS-Based Networks
Alessandro Nordio (CNR-IEIIT, Italy); Carla Fabiana Chiasserini (Politecnico di Torino & CNIT, IEIIT-CNR, Italy); Emanuele Viterbo (Monash University, Australia)
Fundamental Performance Bounds for Carrier Phase Positioning in Cellular Networks
Henk Wymeersch (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden); Rouhollah Amiri (Sharif University of Technology, Iran); Gonzalo Seco-Granados (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain)
Robust Dynamic Trajectory Optimization for UAV-Aided Localization of Ground Target
Lin Xiang (Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany); Mengshuai Zhang (Tehnical University of Darmstadt, Germany); Anja Klein (TU Darmstadt, Germany)

Thursday, December 7 4:00 - 5:30

WC 16: Antenna and Smart Antenna II

Room 405
CNN-Enhanced Calibration Method: Over-the-Air Channel Calibration in mmWave MIMO System
Shu Xu, Zhengming Zhang, Jiexin Zhang, Zhiming Zhu, Chunguo Li and Luxi Yang (Southeast University, China)
Quantized Iterative Precoding for Spatially Correlated mmWave Rician Massive MIMO with Oversampling
Yusuf Karabacakoğlu (ASELSAN & Middle East Technical University, Turkey); Ali Bulut Üçüncü (ASELSAN, Turkey); Gokhan Muzaffer Guvensen (Middle East Technical University (METU), Turkey & University of California, Irvine (UCI), USA)
Dynamic metasurface antennas for energy-efficient MISO communications
Joseph M Carlson and Miguel R Castellanos (North Carolina State University, USA); Robert Heath (North Carolina State University & The University of Texas at Austin, USA)
Movable Antenna-Enhanced Multiuser Communication: Jointly Optimal Discrete Antenna Positioning and Beamforming
Yifei Wu (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany); Dongfang Xu (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong); Derrick Wing Kwan Ng (University of New South Wales, Australia); Wolfgang Gerstacker (University of Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany); Robert Schober (Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany)
Achievable rate of a SISO system under wideband matching network constraints
Nitish Vikas Deshpande and Miguel R Castellanos (North Carolina State University, USA); Saeed Reza Khosravirad (Nokia - Bell Labs, USA); Jinfeng Du and Harish Viswanathan (Nokia Bell Labs, USA); Robert Heath (North Carolina State University & The University of Texas at Austin, USA)

Thursday, December 7 4:45 - 5:30

IS 18: Interactive Subsession CISS_I18

Room: Exhibition Hall (Grand Ballroom) - level 3
Adaptive Distributed Learning with Byzantine Robustness: A Gradient-Projection-Based Method
Xinghan Wang (Southeast University, China); Cheng Huang (University of Waterloo, Canada); Jiahong Ning and Tingting Yang (Dalian Maritime University, China); Sherman Shen (University of Waterloo, Canada)
VDKMS: Vehicular Decentralized Key Management System for Cellular Vehicular-to-Everything Networks, A Blockchain-Based Approach
Wei Yao (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA); Yuhong Liu (Santa Clara University, USA); Fadi Deek and Guiling Wang (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA)
Enhancing Cyber Threat Intelligence with Named Entity Recognition using BERT-CRF
Sheng-Shan Chen (National Taipei University of Technology, Taiwan); Ren-Hung Hwang (National Yang-Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan & National Chung-Cheng University, Taiwan); Chin-Yu Sun (National Taipei University of Technology, Taiwan); Ying-Dar Lin (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan); Tun-Wen Pai (National Taipei University of Technology, Taiwan)
MT-CNN: A Classification Method of Encrypted Traffic Based on Semi-Supervised Learning
KaiChao Shi and Yong Zeng (Xidian University, China); Baihe Ma (University of Technology Sydney, Australia); Zhihong Liu and Jianfeng Ma (Xidian University, China)

Thursday, December 7 4:45 - 5:30

IS 18: Interactive Subsession NGNI_I18

Room: Exhibition Hall (Grand Ballroom) - level 3
GMP: Goal-Based Multimodal Motion Prediction for Automated Vehicles
Mozhgan Nasr Azadani and Azzedine Boukerche (University of Ottawa, Canada)
Hybrid Learning Blockchain assisted approach to Secure Software Defined Networks
Hedi Hamdi (University Of Manouba, Tunisia); Lotfi Mhamdi (University of Leeds, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Mahmood A. Mahmood (Cairo univ & ISSR, Egypt)
FedPreM: A Novel Federated Reinforcement Learning Framework for Predictive Maintenance
Lu Yang (Chongqing University, Singapore); Chen-Khong Tham (National University of Singapore, Singapore); Songtao Guo (Chongqing University, China)
Optimizing Mobility in LoRaWAN: a Resource Reservation Approach
Ndeye Penda Fall (LACCA, Dept Informatique UFR SAT, University Gaston Berger Saint-Louis, Senegal); Michel Marot (Samovar, Télécom SudParis, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, Palaiseau, France); Cherif Diallo (LACCA, Dept Informatique, UFR SAT, University Gaston Berger Saint-Louis, Senegal); Antoine Bernard and Gatien Roujanski (Samovar, Télécom SudParis, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, Palaiseau, France)
Exploring the Performance of Fluid Antenna System (FAS)-aided B5G mmWave Networks
Leila Tlebaldiyeva (Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan); Sultangali Arzykulov (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia); Aresh Dadlani (Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan & University of Alberta, Canada); Khaled M. Rabie (Manchester Metropolitan University, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Galymzhan Nauryzbayev (Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan)

Thursday, December 7 4:45 - 5:30

IS 18: Interactive Subsession SAC/SSC_I18

Room: Exhibition Hall (Grand Ballroom) - level 3
Evaluating Network Boolean Tomography under Byzantine Attacks
Haotian Deng and Shengli Pan (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
Relayer-enabled Sharding Blockchain for Satellite Internet with High Concurrency
Hong Tang, Junqin Huang, Kai Liu, Linghe Kong and Guihai Chen (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China); Shuangxi Cao (China Satellite Network Innovation Company Limited, China); Chuyan Niu (Shanghai Key Laboratory of Satellite Network, China); Yufeng Wei (China Satellite Network Innovation Company Limited, China)
3D Convolution-Based Radio Frequency Fingerprinting for Satellite Authentication
Siyu Zhu and Yuanyu Zhang (Xidian University, China); Jinxiao Zhu (Tokyo Denki University, Japan); Yin Chen (Reitaku University, Japan); Yulong Shen (Xidian University, China); Xiaohong Jiang (Future University-Hakodate, Japan)

Thursday, December 7 4:45 - 5:30

IS 18: Interactive Subsession SPC_I18

Room: Exhibition Hall (Grand Ballroom) - level 3
Efficient Wireless Federated Learning With Adaptive Model Pruning
Zhixiong Chen (Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Wenqiang Yi (University of Essex, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Sangarapillai Lambotharan (Loughborough University, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); A Nallanathan (QMUL, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Bandwidth-Constrained Real-Time Monitoring of Brownian Motions With Riemann and Lebesgue Sampling
Yiyu Qiu and Wei Chen (Tsinghua University, China)
Off-The-Grid Blind Deconvolution and Demixing
Seyedsaeed Razavikia, Sajad Daei Omshi and Mikael Skoglund (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden); Gabor Fodor (Ericsson Research & Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden); Carlo Fischione (KTH, Sweden)

Thursday, December 7 4:45 - 5:30

IS 18: Interactive Subsession WC_I18

Room: Exhibition Hall (Grand Ballroom) - level 3
Chair: Feng Wang (Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore)
Quasi-Fractal UCA Based Two-Dimensional OAM Orthogonal Transmission
Hongyun Jin, Wenchi Cheng and Haiyue Jing (Xidian University, China)
Semantic-aware Transmission for Robust Point Cloud Classification
Tianxiao Han, Kaiyi Chi, Qianqian Yang and Zhiguo Shi (Zhejiang University, China)
Fusion-Based Multi-User Semantic Communications for Wireless Image Transmission over Degraded Broadcast Channels
Tong Wu, Zhiyong Chen, Meixia Tao, Bin Xia and Wenjun Zhang (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China)
Conditional Generative Adversarial Networks for Rx-to-Tx Translation in Wireless Communication Systems
El Mehdi Amhoud (Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, Morocco); Mohammed Jouhari (Morocco); Taras Maksymyuk (Lviv Polytechnic National University, Ukraine); Kawtar Zerhouni (Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, Morocco & School of Computer Science, Morocco); Khalil Ibrahimi (University of IBN Tofail, Morocco)
Performance Analysis of RSMA-aided UAV-to-Ground Communications
Thai-Hoc Vu (University of Ulsan, Korea (South)); Daniel Benevides da Costa (Technology Innovation Institute, United Arab Emirates); Viet Quoc Pham (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland); Sunghwan Kim (University of Ulsan, Korea (South))

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