| 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 | Minh Tri Nguyen (EMT-INRS, University of Quebec, Canada); Long Bao Le (INRS, University of Quebec, Canada) |
| 3:30PM – 3:50PM | 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 | 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 |
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 | 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 | Aizaz U Chaudhry and Halim Yanikomeroglu (Carleton University, Canada) |
| 3:05PM – 3:25PM | 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 |
