Program

All times are Central Standard Time (CST), which is UTC-6
MONDAY, JUNE 28, 2021
9:00AM – 9:10AM

Welcome and Opening Remarks

9:10AM – 10:30AM

Deep Analog-to-Digital Compression with Applications to Automotive Radar and Massive MIMO

Yonina Eldar, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

Moderator: Ha Nguyen, University of Saskatchewan, Canada

10:30AM – 10:35AM

Transition

10:35AM – 12:00PM

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces: From Electromagnetics to Communications

Marco Di Renzo, CentraleSupelec, Paris-Saclay University, France

Moderator: Long Le, INRS - University of Quebec, Canada

12:00PM – 1:00PM

Break

1:00PM – 2:25PM

Session 1: Coding and Information Theory

Chair: Francis Bui, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
1:05PM – 1:25PM

Harvested Power Region of Two-user MISO WPT Systems With Non-linear EH Nodes (Invited Paper)

Nikita Shanin (Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany); Laura Cottatellucci (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany); Robert Schober (Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany)
1:25PM – 1:45PM

PERIDOT Codes: Replacing Identifiers, Sequence Numbers and Nonces with Permutations

Florian Euchner and Christian Senger (University of Stuttgart, Germany)
1:45PM – 2:05PM

Shannon Capacity of Tensor Channels under a Family of Power Constraints

Divyanshu Pandey and Harry Leib (McGill University, Canada)
2:05PM – 2:25PM

On Downlink Interference Decoding In Multi-Cell Massive MIMO Systems

Meysam Shahrbaf Motlagh (University of Waterloo, Canada); Subhajit Majhi (Qualcomm India Private Limited, India); Patrick Mitran (University of Waterloo, Canada); Hideki Ochiai (Yokohama National University, Japan)
2:25PM – 2:40PM

Break

2:40PM – 4:25PM

Session 2: Communications and Signal Processing Techniques

Chair: Amine Mezghani, University of Manitoba, Canada
2:45PM – 3:05PM

Compute-and-Forward For Uplink Massive MIMO-NOMA (Invited Paper)

A. Malik Aljalai, Chen Feng, Victor C.M. Leung and Rabab Ward (University of British Columbia, Canada)
3:05PM – 3:25PM

RCAQ: Regularized Classification-Aware Quantization

Daniel Severo (University of Toronto & Vector Institute, Canada); Elad Domanovitz and Ashish Khisti (University of Toronto, Canada)
3:25PM – 3:45PM

SVD-Based NFDM with Index Modulation

Nghia H. Nguyen, Ha Nguyen and Brian Berscheid (University of Saskatchewan, Canada)
3:45PM – 4:05PM

Data-Driven Measurement Matrix Design for Sparse Channel Reconstruction in Massive MIMO Systems

Pengxia Wu (University of British Columbia, Canada)
4:05PM – 4:25PM

A Low-Complexity Splitting Receiver for Ultrasonic Index Modulation-Based Intra-Body Communications

Qianqian Wang (South China University of Technology, China & University of British Columbia, Canada); Quansheng Guan and Fei Ji (South China University of Technology, China)
TUESDAY, JUNE 29, 2021
9:00AM – 12:00PM

Tutorial 1: Massive MIMO: From Cellular to Cell-Free Networks

Hien Ngo, Queen's University Belfast, UK

Moderator: Brian Berscheid, University of Saskatchewan, Canada

12:00PM – 1:00PM

Break

1:00PM – 2:30PM

A Learning Approach to the Design of Massive MIMO and Intelligent Reflecting Surface Systems

Wei Yu, University of Toronto, Canada

Moderator: Pradeepa Yahampath, University of Manitoba, Canada

2:30PM – 2:45PM

Break

2:45PM – 4:30PM

Session 3: Next-Generation Networks

Chair: Ebrahim Bedeer Mohamed, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
2:50PM – 3:10PM

Modular Spectrum Utilization for Next-Generation Fixed Transmission Networks (Invited Paper)

Jordan Naterer, Elena-Iulia Dobre, Ayman Mostafa and Lutz Lampe (University of British Columbia, Canada)
3:10PM – 3:30PM

Multi-UAV Trajectory, Resource Allocation Design for UAV-based Wireless Networks With Dynamic Data Demand For Consecutive Service Periods

Minh Tri Nguyen (EMT-INRS, University of Quebec, Canada); Long Bao Le (INRS, University of Quebec, Canada)
3:30PM – 3:50PM

Intelligent Cognition in an Integrated Satellite-Aerial-Terrestrial Network for Connected Vehicles (Invited Paper)

Farhan Pervez, Lian Zhao and Cungang Yang (Ryerson University, Canada)
3:50PM – 4:10PM

Wireless Device Authentication using LSTM based Autoencoders

Mohammad Amin Haji Bagheri Fard, Jean-Yves Chouinard and Paul Fortier (Laval University, Canada); Bernard Lebel (Thales Research & Technology, Canada)
4:10PM – 4:30PM

Non-mode-Selective Photonic Lantern Based Receiver for Free-Space Optical Communications With Pointing Errors

Renzhi Yuan (University of British Columbia, Canada); Bo Zhang (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China); Jianfeng Sun (Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China); Julian Cheng (University of British Columbia, Canada); Mohamed-Slim Alouini (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia)
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 30, 2021
9:00AM – 12:00PM

Tutorial 2: Rate Splitting Multiple Access for 6G: Principles, Recent Advances, and Future Research Trends

Bruno Clerckx, Imperial College London, UK

Moderator: Ebrahim Bedeer Mohamed, University of Saskatchewan, Canada

12:00PM – 1:00PM

Break

1:00PM – 2:25PM

Session 4: Edge Networks and AI for Communications Networks

Chair: Pradeepa Yahampath, University of Manitoba, Canada
1:05PM – 1:25PM

Energy-Efficient Resource Allocation in D2D Assisted Cache-Enabled Fog Networks

Rabeea Basir (School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, NUST, Pakistan); Mudassar Ali (University of Engineering and Technology Taxila, Pakistan); Saad B. Qaisar (School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, NUST, Pakistan); Muhammad Naeem (COMSATS University Islamabad, Pakistan & Ryerson University, Canada); Alagan Anpalagan (Ryerson University, Canada)
1:25PM – 1:45PM

Wireless Edge Caching With Short-Term Content Popularity Prediction for Cost Minimization

Thinh Duy Tran (École de Technologie Supérieure ÉTS, Canada); Long Bao Le (INRS, University of Quebec, Canada)
1:45PM – 2:05PM

Semi-Supervised Learning with Self-Training for Cache Placement in Mobile Edge Networks

Lubna Mohammed, Alagan Anpalagan, Ahmed Shaharyar Khwaja and Muhammad Jaseemuddin (Ryerson University, Canada)
2:05PM – 2:25PM

On Enhancing Low Bit-rate Performance of an Image Codec Using Deep Learning-based Non-linear Processing

Susmita Saha and Pradeepa Yahampath (University of Manitoba, Canada)
2:25PM – 2:40PM

Break

2:40PM – 4:05PM

Session 5: Performance Analysis

Chair: Muhammad Hanif, Thompson Rivers University, Canada
2:45PM – 3:05PM

Optical Wireless Satellite Networks versus Optical Fiber Terrestrial Networks: The Latency Perspective (Invited Paper)

Aizaz U Chaudhry and Halim Yanikomeroglu (Carleton University, Canada)
3:05PM – 3:25PM

Low-Complexity Framework for Performance Analysis of Energy Harvesting Communications (Invited Paper)

Dhawal Beohar and Leila Musavian (University of Essex, United Kingdom); Sonia Aissa (INRS, University of Quebec, Canada)
3:25PM – 3:45PM

PAPR Analysis of Non-Coherent OFDM-IM

Ali Fazeli and Ha Nguyen (University of Saskatchewan, Canada)
3:45PM – 4:05PM

Maximum Multipath Diversity using Iterative Receiver in Coded Cooperative OFDM Systems

Alireza Rahmati (Tarbiat Modares University, Iran); Alagan Anpalagan (Ryerson University, Canada)
4:05PM – 4:30PM

Paper Award and Closing Remarks

4:30PM – 5:30PM

Canadian Society of Information Theory Annual Meeting


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