IEEE International Conference on Communications
16–20 May 2022 // Seoul, South Korea // Hybrid: In-Person and Virtual Conference
Intelligent Connectivity for Smart World

Workshops

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WS-1: Special Workshop on Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces

Organizer: Marco Di Renzo, CNRS & Paris‐Saclay University, Paris, France

Scope and topics:

This is an invited Special Workshop that was solicited by the Workshops and General Chairs of IEEE ICC 2022. The main idea of this Special Workshop is to gather expert researchers (from academia an industry) to give presentations on their latest research works in this emerging field of research.

Invited speakers :

  • Mohamed-Slim Alouini (KAUST)
  • Tie Jun Cui (Southeast University)
  • Linglong Dai (Tsinghua University)
  • Kyle Jamieson (Princeton)
  • Saeed Khosravirad (Nokia Bell Labs)
  • Geoffroy Lerosey (Greenerwave)
  • Dinh‐Thuy Phan‐Huy (Orange Labs ‐ France Telecom)
  • Marios Poulakis (Huawei)
  • Robert Schober (FAU)
  • Vincenzo Sciancalepore (NEC)
  • Arman Shojaeifard (Interdigital)
  • Lingyang Song (Peking University)
  • Chau Yuen (SUTD)
  • Alessio Zappone (University of Cassino)
  • Rui Zhang (NUS)

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WS-2: Special Workshop on 6G: Current Research Trends and Open Challenges

Organizer: Mehdi Bennis, Associate Professor at Univ. of Oulu, head of ICON, IEEE Fellow.

Scope and topics:

Since 2019, many 6G events have been organized around the world in order to pen down the next G. This workshop aims at understanding the latest trends and vision. This workshop will include 12 invited speakers from academia and industry whose goal is to discuss the latest trends in terms of research and visions from different wireless actors. The topics covered in the workshop include: edge intelligence, semantic communication, communication and control codesign, intelligent surfaces, among others. The full-day workshop consists of 3 sessions and each session has 4 talks. All the talks are invited talks without article submission.

Invited speakers :

  • Mérouane Debbah (TII, UAE), CSO
  • Mansoor Hanif (NEOM)
  • Karl Johansson (KTH, Sweden)
  • Jungsoo Jung (Samsung, Korea)
  • Seong-Lyun Kim (Yonsei Univ, Korea)
  • Meryem Simsek (VMWare, USA)
  • Alain Mourad (Interdigital, UK)
  • Vincent Poor (Princeton, USA)
  • Shilpa Talwar (Intel Labs, USA)
  • Wen Tong (Huawei Wireless, Canada), CTO
  • Dinesh Verma (IBM, USA), IBM Fellow 
  • Taesang Yoo (Qualcomm, USA)

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WS-3: Workshop on Research Advancements in Future Networking Technologies

General Co-chairs:

  • Syed Hassan Ahmed Shah, JMA Wireless, USA
  • Safdar Hussain Bouk, Ajou University, South Korea

Publicity Co Chairs:

  • Al-Sakib Khan Pathan, Independent University, Bangladesh.
  • Sahil Garg, École de technologie supérieure, Université du Québec, Canada.
  • Zhiwei Yan, China Internet Network Information Center, Beijing, China.
  • Ali Kashif Bashir, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK.​

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WS-4: Workshop on Integrating UAVs into 5G and Beyond

General Co-chairs:

  • Prof. Qingqing Wu, University of Macau, China
  • Prof. Jie Xu, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China
  • Prof. Giovanni Geraci, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
  • Prof. Yong Zeng, Southeast University, China
  • Dr. Adrian Garcia-Rodriguez, Huawei R&D, France

 Live Program

 Monday, May 16 2022

 10:00 - 11:00  

 "Beyond-6G Wireless Infrastructure towards Sustainable and Smart Societies"

 Speaker: Halim Yanikomeroglu

 11:30  - 12:00  

 "Learning and Communications in Urban Air Mobility (UAM)"

 Speaker: Walid Saad

 

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WS-5: Workshop on OTFS and Delay-Doppler Signal Processing for 6G and Future High-Mobility Communications

General Co-chairs:

  • Jinhong Yuan, University of New South Wales, Australia
  • Jingxian Wu, University of Arkansas, US
  • Yi Hong, Monash University, Australia
  • Hai Lin, Osaka Prefecture University, Japan

TPC Co-chairs:

  • Giulio Colavolpe (Lead), University of Parma, Italy
  • Ananthanarayanan Chockalingam, Indian Institute of Science, India
  • Baoming Bai, Xidian University, China
  • Weijie Yuan, Southern Univ. of Science and Technology, China
  • Zhiqiang Wei, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany

 Live Program

 Monday, May 16 2022

 9:00 - 10:00

 “Orthogonal Delay-Doppler Division Multiplexing Modulation”

 Speakers: Jinhong Yuan (University of New South Wales, Australia), Hai Lin (Osaka  Metropolitan University, Japan)

 

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WS-6: Workshop on Rate-Splitting Multiple Access for 6G

General Co-chairs:

  • Wonjae Shin, Ajou University, South Korea
  • Yijie (Lina) Mao, ShanghaiTech University, China
  • Seok-Hwan Park, Jeonbuk National University, South Korea

 Live Program

 Monday, May 16 2022

 16:00 - 16:30

 “Rate-Splitting Multiple Access: A Resilience-enhancing Architecture for Mixed-Critical   Networks”

 Speaker: Aydin Sezgin (Professor, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany)

 

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WS-7: 4th Workshop on Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC)

General Chair: Wen Tong, Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., Canada

Steering Committee:

  • Rui Zhang, National University of Singapore, Singapore
  • Lajos Hanzo, University of Southampton, UK
  • Jianmin Lu, Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., China

Co-Chairs:

  • Fan Liu, Southern University of Science and Technology, China
  • Jie Xu, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China
  • J. Andrew Zhang, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
  • Taneli Riihonen, Tampere University, Finland

TPC Chair: Yuanhao Cui, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China

 Live Program

 Monday, May 16 2022

 11:00 - 12:00

 “Integrated Sensing and Communication - From Wi-Fi to 6G”

 Speaker: Tony Xiao Han (Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., China)

 15:00 - 16:00 

 "The Multi-functional Wireless Network of 6G and Beyond: New Signalling, Synergies and   Trade-offs"

 Speaker: Christos Masouros (University College London, UK)

 16:00 - 17:00

 "Integrated Sensing and Communications: From Signal Processing to Prototypes"

 Speaker: Yonina C. Eldar (Weizmann Instutite of Science, Israel)

 

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WS-8: Workshop on Synergies of Communication, Localization, and Sensing towards 6G

General Co-chairs:

  • Henk Wymeersch, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
  • Stefania Bartoletti, CNR and CNIT, Italy
  • Liesbet Van der Perre, KU Leuven, Belgium
  • Angeliki Alexiou, University of Piraeus, Greece
  • George C. Alexandropoulos, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece

 Live Program

 Monday, May 16 2022

 11:00 - 12:00

 “Intelligent reflecting surfaces for wireless communications and sensing"

 Speaker: Rui Zhang (National University of Singapore, Singapore)

 15:00 - 16:00

 Panelists: Yonina Eldar (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel), Hwanjoon (Eddy) Kwon (EVP,   head of 6G research team, Samsung Research), Alessio Filippi (NXP, The Nederlands), Gerhard   Fettweis (TU Dresden, Germany)

 16:00 - 17:00

 "Recent advanced in 3GPP 5G positioning and sensing"

 Speaker: Fredrik Gunnarsson (Ericsson Research, Sweden)

 

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WS-9: Workshop on Orbital Angular Momentum Transmission

Chair: Prof. Chao ZHANG, Tsinghua University, China

Co-chairs:

  • Dr. Doohwan Lee, NTT Corporation, Japan
  • Prof. Bang Chul Jung, Chungnam National University, Korea

TPC Co-chairs:

  • Prof. Alan E. Willner, USC, USA
  • Prof. Boon S. Ooi, KAUST, Saudi Arabia
  • Prof. Shilie ZHENG, Zhejiang University, China

 Live Program

 Monday, May 16 2022

 10:00 - 10:30

 "Demonstration of 1Tbps Orbital Angular Momentum Transmission"

 Speaker: Chao Zhang (Tsinghua University, China)

 10:30 - 11:00

 "Orbital Angular Momentum Multiplexing and its Extension to Multishape Radio"

 Speaker: Doohwan Lee (NTT, Japan)

 

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WS-10: Workshop on Scalable, Secure and Intelligent Blockchain for Future Networking and Communications

Advisory Committee:

  • Tony Quek, SUTD, Singapore
  • Song Guo, PolyU, HK
  • Raymond Choo, UTSA, USA
  • Muhammad Ali Imran, Univ. of Glasgow, UK
  • Elisa Bertino, Purdue Univ., USA

General Co-chairs:

  • Lei Zhang, Univ. of Glasgow, UK
  • Huawei Huang, SYSU, China
  • Zehui Xiong, SUTD, Singapore
  • Jiawen Kang, GDUT, China

Program Co-chairs:

  • Bin Cao, BUPT, China
  • Jiangtian Nie, NTU, Singapore
  • Qin Hu, IUPUI, USA
  • Hong-Ning Dai, LingU, HK

 

 

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WS-11: Workshop on Semantic Communications

General Co-chairs:

  • Wen Tong, Huawei, Canada
  • Geoffrey Ye Li, Imperial College London, UK
  • Tolga M. Duman, Bilkent University, Turkey
  • Zhijin Qin, Queen Mary University of London, UK
  • Rong Li, Huawei China

 Live Program

 Monday, May 16 2022

 9:00 - 9:30

 "Semantic Communication Theory: Past, Present and 6G"

 Speaker: Aylin Yener (The Ohio State University, USA)

 14:00 - 14:30

 "Beyond Transmitting Bits: Semantic and Goal-Oriented Communications"

 Speaker: Deniz Gunduz (Imperial College London, UK)

 

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WS-12: Workshop on Industrial Private 5G-and-beyond Wireless Networks

General Co-chairs:

  • Kyeong Jin Kim, Mitsubishi Electric Res. Labs, USA
  • David López-Pérez, Huawei Tech., France
  • H. Vincent Poor, Princeton Univ., USA
  • Miaowen Wen, South China Univ. of Tech., China
  • Petar Popovski, Aalborg Univ.,Denmark
  • Theodoros A. Tsiftsis, Jinan Univ., China

 Live Program

 Monday, May 16 2022

 9:00 - 10:00

 "Local and Private 5G-and-Beyond Wireless Networks for Smart Factories"

 Speaker: Kwang-Cheng Chen (University of South Florida, USA)

 15:00 - 16:00

 "Taking Private 5G to the Next Level with Open RAN"

 Invited Talker: Andreas Mueller (Robert Bosch Gmbh, Germany)

 16:00 - 17:00

 "Extreme Communications in 6G: Vision and challenges for ‘in-X’ subnetworks"

 Invited Talker: Paolo Baracca (Nokia-Bell Labs, Germany)

 

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WS-13: Workshop on Edge Learning for 5G Mobile Networks and Beyond

 Steering Committee:

  • Shuguang Cui, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
  • Kai-Kit Wong, University College London
  • H. Vincent Poor, Princeton University

General Co-chairs:

  • Mingzhe Chen, Princeton University
  • Osvaldo Simeone, King’s College London
  • Zhaohui Yang, University College London 

 Live Program

 Monday, May 16 2022

 9:00 - 9:30

 "A Secure, Scalable, and Efficient Edge-Cloud Platform for Federated Learning"

 Speaker: Salman Avestimehr (University of Southern California, USA)

 16:30 - 17:00 

 "Distributed Learning at the Wireless Edge"

 Speaker: Deniz Gunduz (Imperial College London, UK)

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WS-14: Workshop on Terahertz Communications

General Co-chairs:

  • Josep M. Jornet, Northeastern University, USA
  • Ho-Jin Song, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Republic of Korea
  • Zhi Chen, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China

TPC Co-chairs:

  • Hina Tabassum, York University, Canada
  • Gianni Pasolini, University of Bologna, Italy
  • Sergi Abadal, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain

Steering Committee:

  • Ian F. Akyildiz, Truva Inc., USA
  • Wolfgang Gerstacker, Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
  • Chong Han, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

 Live Program

 Monday, May 16 2022

 9:00 - 10:00

 "Terahertz, New Frontier in Wireless Communications”

 Speaker: Eddy (Hwan-Joon) Kwon (Corporate EVP at Samsung Electronics, South Korea)

 10:00 - 11:00

 "Physical layer security in terahertz wireless links"

 Speaker: Dan Mittleman (Brown University, USA)

 11:00 - 12:00

 Panelist: Eddy Kwon (Samsung, South Korea), Dan Mittleman (Brown University, USA), Ozge   Koymen (Qualcomm, USA), Wen Tong (Huawei, China), Duan Xiangyang (ZTE, China), Ravi   Pragrada (Interdigital, USA), Namyoon Lee (Korea University, South Korea)

 

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WS-15: Workshop on Short Packet Communications for 6G Mission-Critical Applications

General Co-chairs:

  • Di Zhang, SMIEEE, SMEAI (EU), Zhengzhou University, China
  • Victoria Kostina, California Institute of Technology (Caltech), USA
  • Mahyar Shirvanimoghaddam, SMIEEE, The University of Sydney, Australia
  • Hyoungju Ji, SMIEEE, Samsung, South Korea

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 Monday, May 16 2022

 9:00 - 10:00

 "uRLLC for 5G and Beyond"

 Speaker: Yonghui Li (The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia)

 16:00 - 17:00

 "Short packets over wireless fading networks"

 Speaker: Giuseppe Durisi (Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden)

 

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WS-16: Workshop on Optical Wireless Communications (OWC'22)

General Co-chairs:

  • Shinichiro Haruyama, Keio University, (Japan)
  • Yeong Min Jang, Kookmin University, (Korea)
  • Murat Uysal, Ozyegin University, (Turkey)
  • Koji Kamakura, Chiba Institute of Technology, (Japan)

TPC Chair:

  • Koji Kamakura, Chiba Inst. of Tech., Japan

TPC Vice Chairs:

  • Shintaro Arai, Okayama U Science, Japan
  • Masayuki Kinoshita, Chiba Inst. of Tech., Japan

Steering Committee:

  • Takaya Yamazato, Nagoya Univ., Japan
  • Volker Jungnickel, Fraunhofer HHI, Germany
  • Chi-Wai Chow, NCTU, Taiwan

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WS-17: Workshop on Edge Artificial Intelligence for 6G

General Co-chairs:

  • Khaled B. Letaief, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
  • Zhi Ding, University of California, Davis, USA
  • Yuanming Shi, ShanghaiTech University, China
  • Yong Zhou, ShanghaiTech University, China

 Live Program

 Monday, May 16 2022

 9:00 - 9:30

 “Federated Learning at the Wireless Edge”

 Speaker: H. Vincent Poor

 9:30 - 10:00

 “The Convergence of Federated Learning with Imperfect Communications”

 Speaker: Geoffrey Li

 10:00 - 10:30

 "Fast Codebook-Free Beam Alignment with Site-Specific Deep Learning"

 Speaker: Jeffrey Andrews

 10:30 - 11:00

 "6G: from 'connected things' to 'connected intelligence'"

 Panelists: Geoffrey Li, Jeffrey Andrews

 

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WS-18: Workshop on Satellite Mega-Constellations in the 6G Era (6GSatComNet'22)

General Chair:

  • Halim Yanikomeroglu, Carleton University, Canada

TPC Chair:

  • Gunes Karabulut Kurt, Polytechnique Montréal, Canada

Steering and Organizing Committee:

  • Jin Bains, Director, Project Kuiper, Amazon
  • Vincent W. S. Chan, MIT, USA
  • Symeon Chatzinotas, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
  • Tomaso de Cola, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany
  • Mianxiong Dong, Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan
  • Guillaume Lamontagne, Director of Technology, MDA

 Live Program

 Monday, May 16 2022

 9:00 - 10:00

 “Towards Ubiquitous Connectivity: Edge Intelligence over Integrated Terrestrial-Satellite   Networks"

 Speaker: Song Guo (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong)

 16:00 - 17:00

 “6G Satellite Communications: Myths and Realities”

 Speaker: Symeon Chatzinotas (Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust,     University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)

 

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WS-19: Workshop on E-health Security for Future 6G

General Co-chairs:

  • Eduard A. Jorswieck, TU Braunschweig, Germany
  • Babak Hossein Khalaj, Sharif University of Technology, Iran
  • Waltenegus Dargie, TU Dresden, Germany

 Live Program

 Monday, May 16 2022

 9:00 - 9:30 

 "Trusting WLAN, Bluetooth, 6G with your life? Requirements for medical data networks from a   clinical perspective"

 Speaker: Jochen Hampe, MD (Medical Dept. of Technische Universität Dresden) 

 14:00 - 14:30

 "Physical-Layer security – can we make it work in practice?"

 Invited Talker: André Noll Barreto (Barkhausen Institut Dresden gGmbH, Germany)

 14:30 - 15:10

 "Non-cooperative game theory and its applications in security for wireless communications"

 Invited Talker: Elena Veronica Belmega (Université Gustave Eiffel, CNRS, LIGM)

 15:30 - 16:00

 "Opportunities and challenges of 6G key technologies for enabling security and privacy for   e-health"

 Invited Talker: Diana P. Moya Osorio (University of Oulu, Finland)

 16:00 - 16:30

 "Context awareness as an enabler of physical layer security for 6G wireless"

 Speaker: Arsenia Chorti (Universite Paris Seine, ENSEA)

 16:30 - 17:00

 "Security for e-Health as a service in the 6G era"

 Invited Talker: Lorenzo Mucchi (University of Florence, Italy) 

 

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WS-20: Workshop on Intelligent and Cloud-based RAN

General Co-chairs:

  • Qi Sun, China Mobile Research Institute, China
  • Yongming Huang, Southeast University, China
  • Nurit Sprecher, Nokia Standards, Israel

 Live Program

 Monday, May 16 2022

 11:00 - 11:30

 "Cloud and Intelligent RAN for 5G and beyond"

 Speaker: Chin-Lin I (China Mobile Research Institue)

 16:00 - 16:30

 "Cloud Native and Intelligent Network Architecture towards 6G"

 Speaker: Simone Redana (Nokia)

 

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WS-21: Workshop on BlockSecSDN: Blockchain for Secure Software-defined Networking in Smart Communities

General Co-chairs:

  • Gagangeet Singh Aujla, Durham Univeristy, UK
  • Anish Jindal, University of Essex, UK
  • Neeraj Kumar, Thapar University, India
  • Harpreet Singh Dhilon, Virginia Tech, USA

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WS-22: Workshop on Data Driven Intelligence for Networks and Systems (DDINS)

General Co-chairs:

  • Chuan Heng Foh, University of Surrey, UK
  • Xianfu Chen, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Finland
  • Celimuge Wu, The University of Electro-Communications, Japan

Technical Program Chairs:

  • Chee Yen Leow, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia
  • Jinsong Wu, Guilin Univ. of Electronic Technology, China and Univ. of Chile, Chile
  • Zhi Liu, The University of Electro-Communications, Japan

 Live Program

 Monday, May 16 2022

 16:00 - 16:30

 "Machine Learning in Digital Twin Edge Networks"

 Speaker: Yan Zhang (University of Oslo, Norway)

 16:30 - 17:00

 "Management and Control of Communications Networks by Machine Learning"

 Speaker: Kin Leung (Imperial College London, UK)

 

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WS-23: Workshop on Spectrum Sharing Technology for Next Generation Communications

General Co-chairs:

  • Yao Ma, National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA
  • Liuqing Yang, University of Minnesota, USA
  • David Griffith, National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA

 Live Program

 Monday, May 16 2022

 9:00 - 9:30

 "Teaming Up to Advance Monitoring and Sharing of the Radio Frequency Spectrum"

 Speaker: Nick Laneman (University of Notre Dame)

 9:30 - 11:00

 Panelists: Murat Torlak (National Science Foundation), Ying-Chang Liang (UESTC, China),   Hazem Refai (University of Oklahoma)

 11:00 - 11:30

 "Spectrum Sharing Implications for the Testbed Community"

 Speaker: Melissa Midzor (NIST)

 

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WS-24: Workshop on Wireless Propagation Channels for 5G and B5G

General Chair: Camillo Gentile (National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA)

 

 

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