Program - SpaWc Blog

Time	Session
Sunday, June 28
18:00-20:00	City Hall Welcome Reception
Monday, June 29
08:30-09:00	Registration
09:00-10:30	Tutorial 1: Millimeter Wave Wireless Communications, part I, Tutorial 2: Massive MIMO for 5G: Fundamentals and Recent Theory, part I, Tutorial 3: MIMO Broadcast and Interference Channels Towards 5G: Feedback, Performance and Topological Considerations, part I
10:30-11:00	Coffee break
11:00-12:30	Tutorial 1: Millimeter Wave Wireless Communications, part II, Tutorial 2: Massive MIMO for 5G: Fundamentals and Recent Theory, part II, Tutorial 3: MIMO Broadcast and Interference Channels Towards 5G: Feedback, Performance and Topological Considerations, part II
12:30-13:45	Lunch
13:45-14:15	Opening Ceremony
14:15-15:15	Plenary 1: 5G for the Networked Society
15:15-16:30	R1: Energy Efficiency and Energy Harvesting, S1: 5G Waveforms
16:30-16:45	Coffee break
16:45-18:00	R2: Coding and Modulation, S2: Signal Processing for Millimeter Wave Communication Systems
Tuesday, June 30
08:30-09:00	Registration
09:00-10:00	Plenary 2: On Pilot Contamination in Massive MIMO
10:00-11:15	R3: Network Design and Performance, S3: Massive MIMO
11:15-11:30	Coffee break
11:30-12:45	R4: Large-scale MIMO, S4: Recent Advances in Signal Processing for Inband Full-Duplex Radio
12:45-14:00	Lunch
14:00-15:00	Plenary 3: One Decade of ‘Sensorless Sensing’: Wireless Networks as Human Context Sensors
15:00-16:15	R5: Detection and Receiver Design, S5: Security, Privacy, and Trust
16:15-16:30	Coffee break
16:30-17:45	R6: Transmitter Optimization, S6: Signal Processing, Coding, and Information Theory for Optical Communications
19:00-23:30	Workshop Banquet
Wednesday, July 1
08:30-09:00	Registration
09:00-10:00	Plenary 4: Cooperative Radar and Communications Signaling
10:00-11:15	R7: Estimation, S7: Satellite Communications
11:15-11:30	Coffee break
11:30-12:45	R8: Cooperative Communications and Multi-user Networks, S8: Joint Analog Source-Channel Coding
12:45-14:00	Lunch
14:00-15:00	Plenary 5: 5G The Ultimate Wireless Platform
15:00-16:15	R9: Interference Modeling and Management, S9: Proximal Communications for 5G: D2D Caching and Contextualization

Sunday, June 28

Sunday, June 28 18:00 – 20:00

City Hall Welcome Reception

Monday, June 29

Monday, June 29 8:30 – 9:00

Registration

Monday, June 29 9:00 – 10:30

Tutorial 1: Millimeter Wave Wireless Communications, part I

Robert W. Heath Jr. (The University of Texas at Austin, USA)

Tutorial 2: Massive MIMO for 5G: Fundamentals and Recent Theory, part I

Erik G. Larsson and Emil Björnson (Linköping University, Sweden)

Tutorial 3: MIMO Broadcast and Interference Channels Towards 5G: Feedback, Performance and Topological Considerations, part I

Dirk Slock and Petros Elia (EURECOM, France)

Monday, June 29 10:30 – 11:00

Coffee break

Monday, June 29 11:00 – 12:30

Tutorial 1: Millimeter Wave Wireless Communications, part II

Robert W. Heath Jr. (The University of Texas at Austin, USA)

Tutorial 2: Massive MIMO for 5G: Fundamentals and Recent Theory, part II

Erik G. Larsson and Emil Björnson (Linköping University, Sweden)

Tutorial 3: MIMO Broadcast and Interference Channels Towards 5G: Feedback, Performance and Topological Considerations, part II

Dirk Slock and Petros Elia (EURECOM, France)

Monday, June 29 12:30 – 13:45

Lunch

Restaurant Q, Osquldas väg 4

Monday, June 29 13:45 – 14:15

Opening Ceremony

Room: E1

Monday, June 29 14:15 – 15:15

Plenary 1: 5G for the Networked Society

Room: E1

Sara Mazur (Ericsson, Sweden)

Monday, June 29 15:15 – 16:30

R1: Energy Efficiency and Energy Harvesting

Budget Constrained Small Cell Deployment Planning for Heterogeneous LTE Networks: Florian Bahlke (TU Darmstadt, Germany); Oscar Dario Ramos-Cantor (Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany); Marius Pesavento (Technische Universität Darmstadt & Merckstr. 25, Germany)
Online Power Control Strategy for Wireless Transmission with Energy Harvesting: Fatemeh Amirnavaei and Min Dong (University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada)
Competitive Design of Energy Harvesting Communications in Wireless Fading Channels: Jesús Gómez-Vilardebó (CTTC, Spain)
Energy Efficient Precoding for MIMO Cyclic Prefixed Single Carrier Communications: Jeevan Shrestha and Ivan Stupia (Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium); Luc Vandendorpe (Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium)
Secrecy Energy Efficiency Optimization for MISO and SISO Communication Networks: Ashkan Kalantari (Linköping University, Sweden); Sina Maleki (Ericsson, Luxembourg); Symeon Chatzinotas (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg); Björn Ottersten (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)
Time-Dependent Analysis of Transmission Process in a Wireless Sensor Network with Energy Saving Mechanism Based on Threshold Waking Up: Wojciech M. Kempa (Silesian University of Technology, Poland)
Optimal Design of Energy-Efficient Cooperative WSNs: How many sensors are needed?: Stefan Mijovic (University of Bologna, Italy); Luca Sanguinetti (University of Pisa, Italy); Chiara Buratti (University of Bologna, Italy); Mérouane Debbah (Huawei, France)
Energy efficient symbol-level precoding in multiuser MISO channels: Maha Alodeh (Ericsson, Sweden); Symeon Chatzinotas (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg); Björn Ottersten (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)
Opportunistic D2D Communication in Energy Harvesting Heterogeneous Cellular Network: Howard Yang (SUTD, Singapore); Jemin Lee (Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST), Korea); Tony Q. S. Quek (Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore)
On the Feasibility of Wireless Energy Transfer Using Massive Antenna Arrays in Rician Channels: Salil Kashyap (Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India); Emil Björnson and Erik G. Larsson (Linköping University, Sweden)

S1: 5G Waveforms

Dual Polarized Modulation and Receivers for Mobile Communications in Urban Areas: Pol Henarejos (Centre Tecnologic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC), Spain); Ana Pérez-Neira (CTTC, Spain)
Subcarrier spacing – a neglected degree of freedom?: Frank Schaich and Thorsten Wild (Nokia Bell Labs, Germany)
Make-It-Real-And-Anticirculating Orthogonal Space-Time Coding for MIMO OFDM/OQAM: Dinh-Thuy Phan-Huy (Orange-France Telecom, France); Pierre Siohan (Independent Researcher, France); Maryline Hélard (INSA Rennes & IETR Institute of Electronics and Telecommunications of Rennes, France)
Filtered OFDM: A New Waveform for Future Wireless Systems: Javad Abdoli and Ming Jia (Huawei Technologies Canada Co., Ltd., Canada); Jianglei Ma (Huawei, Canada)
Optimized Burst Truncation in Fast-Convolution Filter Bank Based Waveform Generation: Juha Yli-Kaakinen and Markku K. Renfors (Tampere University of Technology, Finland)
Waveform Optimization Using Trapezoidal Pulses for 5G Random Access with Short Message Support: Gerhard Wunder (Freie Universität Berlin & Heisenberg Communications and Information Theory Group, Germany); Saeed Afrasiabi-Gorgani (Free University of Berlin, Germany); Sofiane Sid Ahmed (Heinrich-Hertz-Institut, Germany)

Monday, June 29 16:30 – 16:45

Coffee break

Monday, June 29 16:45 – 18:00

R2: Coding and Modulation

Turbo-FSK: a New Uplink Scheme for Low Power Wide Area Networks: Yoann Roth (GIPSA-lab & CEA-Leti, France); Jean-Baptiste Doré (CEA, France); Laurent Ros (GIPSA-lab & INPG & CNRS organisation, France); Vincent Berg (CEA LETI, France)
Compressed Sensing Using Sparse Binary Measurements: A Rateless Coding Perspective: Dejan Vukobratović (University of Novi Sad, Serbia); Dino Sejdinovic (University of Oxford); Aleksandra Pižurica (Ghent University, Belgium)
Modulation and Coding Schemes Selection for Type-II HARQ in Time-Correlated Fading Channels: Nassar Ksairi (Huawei Technologies France SASU, France); Philippe Ciblat (Telecom ParisTech & Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France)
Outage Probability of Correlated Binary Source Transmission over Fading Multiple Access Channels: Xiaobo Zhou (Tianjin University, P.R. China); Xin He (University of Science and Technology of China & Anhui Normal University, P.R. China); Markku Juntti (University of Oulu, Finland); Tad Matsumoto (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan)
On the Time-Frequency Localisation of 5G Candidate Waveforms: Christopher Boyd (Aalto University, Finland); Renaud-Alexandre Pitaval (Huawei Technologies Sweden, Sweden); Olav Tirkkonen (Aalto University, Finland); Risto Wichman (Aalto University School of Electrical Engineering, Finland)
A General Analysis of Cyclic Block Transmultiplexers with Cyclic Convolution: Didier Pinchon (Institute of Mathematics, France); Pierre Siohan (Independent Researcher, France)
Are Side-Band Tones Beneficial for PAPR Reduction in FBMC?: Khalil Hariss (Lebanese University, Lebanon); Youssef Nasser (American University of Beirut, USA); Haidar ELmokdad (Lebanese University, Lebanon); Karim Youssef Kabalan and Youssef Jaffal (American University of Beirut, Lebanon)
A New Waveform Enabling Enhanced QAM-FBMC Systems: Yeo Hun Yun (Samsung Electronics, Korea); Chanhong Kim (Samsung Electronics, Co. Ltd., Korea); Kyeongyeon Kim, Zuleita Ka Ming Ho, Byunghwan Lee and Ji-Yun Seol (Samsung Electronics, Korea)
Adaptive Interlaced Space-Time Transmission: Majid Nasiri Khormuji (Huawei Technologies Sweden AB, Sweden)
Separability of Parallel Gaussian MIMO Broadcast Channels with Shaping Constraints: Christoph Hellings and Wolfgang Utschick (Technische Universität München, Germany)

S2: Signal Processing for Millimeter Wave Communication Systems

Spectral mask filling for PAPR reduction in large bandwidth mmWave systems: Sridhar Rajagopal (Mavenir, USA); Shadi Abu-Surra (PHAZR Inc, USA); Jianzhong Zhang (Samsung, USA)
Hybrid Beamforming with Finite-Resolution Phase Shifters for Large-Scale MIMO Systems: Foad Sohrabi and Wei Yu (University of Toronto, Canada)
On the Performance of Randomly Directional Beamforming Between Line-of-Sight and Rich Scattering Channels: Gilwon Lee (Intel, USA); Youngchul Sung (KAIST, Korea); Marios Kountouris (Huawei Technologies, France)
Virtual AoA and AoD Estimation for Sparse Millimeter Wave MIMO Channels: Taejoon Kim (University of Kansas, USA); David Love (Purdue University, USA)
Dictionary-free Hybrid Precoders and Combiners for mmWave MIMO Systems: Roi Méndez-Rial (Aimen & University of Vigo, Spain); Cristian Rusu (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Nuria González-Prelcic and Robert Heath (The University of Texas at Austin, USA)

Tuesday, June 30

Tuesday, June 30 8:30 – 9:00

Registration

Tuesday, June 30 9:00 – 10:00

Plenary 2: On Pilot Contamination in Massive MIMO

Room: E1

Wolfgang Utschick (Technische Universität München, Germany)

Tuesday, June 30 10:00 – 11:15

R3: Network Design and Performance

Cross-Layer Design of Network-Coded Transmission with a Delay Constraint: Jinfeng Du (Nokia Bell Labs, USA); David Adams and Muriel Médard (MIT, USA)
K-Best Branch and Bound Technique for the MINLP Resource Allocation in Multi-User OFDM Systems: Youssef Jaffal (American University of Beirut, Lebanon); Youssef Nasser (American University of Beirut, USA); Yoann Corre (SIRADEL, France); Yves Lostanlen (University of Toronto, Canada)
Performance of Rateless Codes in ALOHA WANETs: Amogh Rajanna (University of Bristol, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Itsik Bergel (Bar Ilan University, Israel); Mostafa Kaveh (University of Minnesota, USA)
Distributed Caching in 5G Networks: An Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers Approach: Azary Abboud (Supelec, France); Ejder Baştuğ (Nokia Bell Labs, USA); Kenza Hamidouche (Rutgers University, USA); Mérouane Debbah (Huawei, France)
Delay Analysis of Heterogeneous Cellular Networks: Gongzheng Zhang and Aiping Huang (Zhejiang University, P.R. China); Tony Q. S. Quek (Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore); Hangguan Shan (Zhejiang University, P.R. China)
Time and Power Allocation for the Gaussian Wiretap Channel with Feedback of Secret Keys: Javier Vía (University of Cantabria, Spain)
A Semidefinite Relaxation Approach to Mobile Cloud Offloading with Computing Access Point: Meng-Hsi Chen and Ben Liang (University of Toronto, Canada); Min Dong (University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada)
Optimal and Suboptimal Routing Based on Partial CSI in Wireless Ad-hoc Networks: Yiftach Richter (Bar – Ilan University, Israel); Itsik Bergel (Bar Ilan University, Israel)
Uplink Capacity and User Association for Cooperative Heterogeneous Cellular Networks: Zeina Mheich (University of Surrey, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Antonio De Domenico (CEA-LETI Minatec, France); Valentin Savin (CEA LETI, France)

S3: Massive MIMO

Cell-Free Massive MIMO: Uniformly Great Service For Everyone: Hien Ngo (Queen’s University Belfast, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Alexei Ashikhmin (Nokia Bell Labs, USA); Hong Yang (Bell Labs, USA); Erik G. Larsson (Linköping University, Sweden); Tom Marzetta (Bell Labs, USA)
Adjustable Phase Shift Pilots for Sparse Massive MIMO-OFDM Channels: Li You and Xiqi Gao (Southeast University, P.R. China); Lee Swindlehurst (University of California at Irvine, USA); Wen Zhong (Southeast University, P.R. China)
Energy-Efficient Future Wireless Networks: A Marriage between Massive MIMO and Small Cells: Emil Björnson (Linköping University, Sweden); Luca Sanguinetti (University of Pisa, Italy); Marios Kountouris (Huawei Technologies, France)
Pilot decontamination using combined angular and amplitude based projections in massive MIMO systems: Haifan Yin (Huawei, P.R. China); Laura Cottatellucci (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany); David Gesbert (Eurecom Institute, France); Ralf R. Müller (Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany); Gaoning He (Huawei Technologies, P.R. China)
Global EE Optimization of Massive MIMO Systems: Wenjia Liu (DOCOMO Beijing Communications Laboratories Co., Ltd., P.R. China); Alessio Zappone (CentraleSupelec, France); Chenyang Yang (Beihang University, P.R. China); Eduard Jorswieck (TU Dresden, Germany)
Rate-balancing in Massive MIMO using Statistical Precoding: David Neumann, Andreas Gründinger, Michael Joham and Wolfgang Utschick (Technische Universität München, Germany)

Tuesday, June 30 11:15 – 11:30

Coffee break

Tuesday, June 30 11:30 – 12:45

R4: Large-scale MIMO

Pilot Clustering in Asymmetric Massive MIMO Networks: Rami Mochaourab (RISE Research Institutes of Sweden, Sweden); Emil Björnson (Linköping University, Sweden); Mats Bengtsson (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)
Pilot Beam Sequence Design for Channel Estimation in Millimeter-Wave MIMO Systems: A POMDP Framework: Junyeong Seo and Youngchul Sung (KAIST, Korea); Gilwon Lee (Intel, USA); Donggun Kim (KAIST, Korea)
Massive MIMO for Decentralized Estimation over Coherent Multiple Access Channels: Amirpasha Shirazinia (Ericsson Research, Sweden); Subhrakanti Dey (University of South Australia, Australia & Uppsala University, Sweden); Domenico Ciuonzo (Network Measurement and Monitoring (NM2), Naples, IT & University of Naples Federico II, IT, Italy); Pierluigi Salvo Rossi (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway)
1-Bit Direction of Arrival Estimation based on Compressed Sensing: Christoph Stöckle (Technische Universität München, Germany); Jawad Munir (Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany); Amine Mezghani (The University of Texas at Austin, USA); Josef A. Nossek (TU Munich, Germany & Federal University of Ceara, Fortaleza, Brazil)
Low-complexity Detector for Very Large and Massive MIMO Transmission: Yasser Fadlallah (University of Sciences and Arts in Lebanon, Lebanon); Abdeldjalil Aïssa-El-Bey and Karine Amis (IMT Atlantique, France); Dominique Pastor (Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications de Bretagne, France)
The Pathwise MIMO Interfering Broadcast Channel: Wassim Tabikh and Dirk Slock (EURECOM, France); Yi Yuan-Wu (Orange Labs, France)
Multiuser MIMO Precoding with Per-Antenna Continuous-Time Constant-Envelope Constraints: Christopher Mollén (Apple, Sweden); Erik G. Larsson (Linköping University, Sweden)
Joint Beamforming and Broadcasting in Massive MIMO: Erik G. Larsson (Linköping University, Sweden)
Multicast Multigroup Beamforming for Per-antenna Power Constrained Large-scale Arrays: Dimitrios Christopoulos (Newtec, Belgium); Symeon Chatzinotas (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg); Björn Ottersten (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)
Power-Efficient Beam Sweeping for Initial Synchronization in mm-Wave Wireless Networks: Igor M. Guerreiro (Federal University of Ceara – UFC & Wireless Telecommunications Research Group – GTEL, Brazil); Johan Axnäs (Ericsson Research, Sweden); Dennis Hui (Ericsson Research, USA); Charles Casimiro Cavalcante (Federal University of Ceará, Brazil)

S4: Recent Advances in Signal Processing for Inband Full-Duplex Radio

Subspace-Constrained SINR Optimization in MIMO Full-Duplex Relays under Limited Dynamic Range: Emilio Antonio-Rodríguez (Aalto University, Finland); Roberto López-Valcarce (Universidad de Vigo, Spain); Taneli Riihonen (Tampere University, Finland); Stefan Werner (NTNU, Norway); Risto Wichman (Aalto University School of Electrical Engineering, Finland)
Digital Self-Interference Cancellation under Nonideal RF Components: Advanced Algorithms and Measured Performance: Dani Korpi (Nokia Bell Labs, Finland); Timo Huusari (Tampere University of Technology, Finland); Yang-Seok Choi (Intel, USA); Lauri Anttila (Tampere University, Finland); Shilpa Talwar (Intel, USA); Mikko Valkama (Tampere University of Technology, Finland)
Passive Loop Interference Suppression in Large-Scale Full-Duplex Cellular Networks: Constantinos Psomas and Ioannis Krikidis (University of Cyprus, Cyprus)
Full-Duplex MIMO Relaying Powered by Wireless Energy Transfer: Mohammadali Mohammadi (Shahrekord University, Iran); Himal A Suraweera (University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka); Gan Zheng (Loughborough University, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Caijun Zhong (Zhejiang University, P.R. China); Ioannis Krikidis (University of Cyprus, Cyprus)
MU-MIMO Beamforming with Full-duplex Open-loop Training: Xu Du (Rice University, USA); John Tadrous (Gonzaga University, USA); Chris Dick (Xilinx, USA); Ashutosh Sabharwal (Rice University, USA)
Massive MIMO Full-Duplex Relaying with Optimal Power Allocation for Independent Multipairs: Francisco A. Monteiro (Instituto de Telecomunicações & ISCTE – University Institute of Lisbon, Portugal); Francisco Rosário (IST, University of Lisbon, Portugal); João S Lemos (Instituto de Telecomunicações/Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal); António J. Rodrigues (IT / Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal); João Xavier (I.S.T. – Technical U. Lisbon / I.S.R. Lisbon, Portugal)

Tuesday, June 30 12:45 – 14:00

Lunch

Restaurant Q, Osquldas väg 4

Tuesday, June 30 14:00 – 15:00

Plenary 3: One Decade of ‘Sensorless Sensing’: Wireless Networks as Human Context Sensors

Room: E1

Neal Patwari (University of Utah, USA)

Tuesday, June 30 15:00 – 16:15

R5: Detection and Receiver Design

Distortion Analysis in OQAM/FBMC-based OFDMA: David Gregoratti (Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC/CERCA), Spain); Xavier Mestre (Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC), Spain)
On Quantization of Log-Likelihood Ratios for Maximum Mutual Information: Andreas Winkelbauer and Gerald Matz (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)
Detection and Mitigation of False Data Injection Attack in Cooperative Communications: Sang Wu Kim (Iowa State University, USA)
Angle-Of-Arrival-Based Detection of Underwater Acoustic OFDM Signals: Alon Amar (Technion, Israel); Yaakov Buchris (Rafael, Israel); Milica Stojanovic (Northeastern University, USA)
Joint Spectrum Sensing and Direction of Arrival Recovery from sub-Nyquist Samples: Shahar Stein Ioushua, Or Yair and Deborah Cohen (Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Israel); Yonina C. Eldar (Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Israel)
Distributed Cooperative Spectrum Sensing from Sub-Nyquist Samples for Cognitive Radios: Deborah Cohen, Alon Akiva and Barak Avraham (Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Israel); Stacy Patterson (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA); Yonina C. Eldar (Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Israel)
Rate Allocation for Decentralized Detection in Wireless Sensor Networks: Alla Tarighati and Joakim Jaldén (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)
Impulsive Noise Mitigation for Wireless OFDM: Paolo Banelli and Luca Rugini (University of Perugia, Italy)
MIMO-based Multitaper Detection over Nakagami Channels for Dynamic Spectrum Access Devices: Ebtihal H. G. Yousif (Edinburgh University); Tharmalingam Ratnarajah (The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Mathini Sellathurai (Heriot-Watt University, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
DS-SS Quasi-Optimal Detection under Interference Generated by Computer Platforms: Pedro A. Roncagliolo (Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina); Javier G García (National University of La Plata, Argentina); Carlos H Muravchik (Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina)

S5: Security, Privacy, and Trust

Relay Selection in Wireless Networks for Optimal Delay Anonymity Tradeoff: Omid Javidbakht and Parv Venkitasubramaniam (Lehigh University, USA)
The Individual Secrecy Capacity of the Gaussian SISO and Degraded Gaussian MIMO Multi-Receiver Wiretap Channel: Ahmed Mansour (Technische Universität München, Germany); Rafael F. Schaefer (Technische Universität Berlin, Germany); Holger Boche (Technical University Munich, Germany)
Optimal Privacy-Cost Trade-off in Demand-Side Management with Storage: Onur Tan (Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC), Spain); Deniz Gündüz (Imperial College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Jesús Gómez-Vilardebó (CTTC, Spain)
Structure of Optimal Privacy-Preserving Policies in Smart-Metered Systems with a Rechargeable Battery: Simon Li and Ashish Khisti (University of Toronto, Canada); Aditya Mahajan (McGill University, Canada)
Secrecy and Energy Efficiency in MIMO-ME Systems: Alessio Zappone (CentraleSupelec, France); Pin-Hsun Lin and Eduard Jorswieck (TU Dresden, Germany)
Biometrics in Claim-Based Authentication Framework: Tanya Ignatenko (GN Hearing, The Netherlands)

Tuesday, June 30 16:15 – 16:30

Coffee break

Tuesday, June 30 16:30 – 17:45

R6: Transmitter Optimization

Backhaul-aware Base Station Association in Two-tier Heterogeneous Cellular Networks: Gongzheng Zhang (Zhejiang University, P.R. China); Tony Q. S. Quek (Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore); Aiping Huang (Zhejiang University, P.R. China); Marios Kountouris (Huawei Technologies, France); Hangguan Shan (Zhejiang University, P.R. China)
Subspace Estimation and Decomposition for Hybrid Analog-Digital Millimetre-Wave MIMO systems: Hadi Ghauch (Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden); Mats Bengtsson (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden); Taejoon Kim (University of Kansas, USA); Mikael Skoglund (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)
Channel Gain Prediction in Wireless Networks Based on Spatial-Temporal Correlation: Qi Liao (Nokia Bell Labs, Germany); Stefan Valentin (Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, Germany); Slawomir Stanczak (Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute & Technische Universität Berlin, Germany)
Weighted LS multiuser channel estimation for LTE: Yuriy Zakharov (University of York, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Delai Zheng (Shanghai R\&D Institute, Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd, P.R. China)
On the Distributed Approaches with Imperfect Channel Estimation for MIMO Interference Channel: Sinda Smirani (Telecom SudParis, France); Ahmed Saadani and Yi Yuan-Wu (Orange Labs, France)
Energy-Efficient Transmit Beamforming for MISO Downlink via Sequential Convex Approximation: Oskari Tervo (University of Oulu, Finland); Le-Nam Tran (University College Dublin, Ireland); Markku Juntti (University of Oulu, Finland)
Precoding Design and User Selection for Multibeam Satellite Channel: Ahmad Gharanjik (University of Luxembourg & SnT Center, Luxembourg); Bhavani Shankar Mysore R (Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust & University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg); Pantelis-Daniel Arapoglou (European Space Agency, The Netherlands); Mats Bengtsson (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden); Björn Ottersten (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)
Optimal Power Allocation in Device-to-Device Communication with SIMO Uplink Beamforming: Ali Ramezani-Kebrya (Vector Institute, Canada); Min Dong (University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada); Ben Liang (University of Toronto, Canada); Gary Boudreau and S. Hossein Seyedmehdi (Ericsson, Canada)
Linear Transceiver Optimization in Multicell MIMO Based on the Generalized Benders Decomposition: Rami Mochaourab (RISE Research Institutes of Sweden, Sweden); Mats Bengtsson (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)
WMMSE-based Multiuser MIMO Beamforming: A Practice-Oriented Design and LTE System Performance Evaluation: Jiaxian Pan and Wing-Kin Ma (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong); Xin Xia (Huawei Technologies Co.); Yuan Tian (Huawei Technologies Co., P.R. China)

S6: Signal Processing, Coding, and Information Theory for Optical Communications

MIMO Channel Statistics and Signal Processing in Mode-Division Multiplexing Systems: Joseph Kahn and Sercan Arik (Stanford University, USA); Keang-Po Ho (SiBEAM, Sunnyvale, CA, USA)
Digital Backpropagation in the Nonlinear Fourier Domain: Sander Wahls (TU Delft, The Netherlands); Son Thai Le (Nokia-Bell-Labs, Germany); Jaroslaw Prilepsky (Aston University & Aston Institute of Photonic Tehcnologies, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); H. Vincent Poor (Princeton University, USA); Sergei Turitsyn (Aston University, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Backward Particle Message Passing: Henk Wymeersch (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden); Naga Vishnu Kanth Irukulapati (Ericsson, Sweden); Isaac Sackey, Pontus Johannisson and Erik Agrell (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)
A Gaussian Noise Model of Spectral Amplitudes in Soliton Communication Systems: Qun Zhang (University of Toronto, Canada); Terence H. Chan (University of South Australia, Australia)
Spatially Coupled Codes and Optical Fiber Communications: An Ideal Match?: Laurent Schmalen, Detlef Suikat, Detlef Rösener and Vahid Aref (Nokia Bell Labs, Germany); Andreas Leven (Alcatel-Lucent, Bell Labs, Germany); Stephan ten Brink (University of Stuttgart, Germany)

Tuesday, June 30 19:00 – 23:30

Workshop Banquet

Wednesday, July 1

Wednesday, July 1 8:30 – 9:00

Registration

Wednesday, July 1 9:00 – 10:00

Plenary 4: Cooperative Radar and Communications Signaling

Room: E1

Daniel W. Bliss (Arizona State University, USA)

Wednesday, July 1 10:00 – 11:15

R7: Estimation

Uplink-Downlink Channel Transformation Using an Adaptive Kalman filter for Multicarrier Systems: Behailu Y. Shikur (University of Rostock, Germany); Tobias Weber (Uni Rostock, Germany)
Fast Variational Bayesian Learning for Channel Estimation with Prior Statistical Information: Evripidis Karseras (Design For Life Systems Ltd, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Wei Dai (Imperial College, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Linglong Dai and Zhaocheng Wang (Tsinghua University, P.R. China)
Direction Finding by Complex L1-Principal-Component Analysis: Nikolaos Tsagkarakis (The State University of New York at Buffalo, USA); Panos P. Markopoulos (Rochester Institute of Technology, USA); Dimitris A. Pados (Florida Atlantic University, USA)
A Blind Timing and Frequency Synchronization Method Based on the Correlation Characteristics of an OFDM Signal: Youssef El Hajj Shehadeh and Sebastian Baumgartner (Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany); Gangolf Hirtz (Chemnitz University, Germany)
Direction-of-Arrival Estimation with Single-RF ESPAR Antennas via Sparse Signal Reconstruction: Rongrong Qian and Mathini Sellathurai (Heriot-Watt University, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Jonathon Chambers (Newcastle University, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Performance Limitations of Localization Based on Ranging, Speed, and Orientation: Carlo Fischione (KTH, Sweden); Alessio De Angelis (University of Perugia, Italy)
Robust Censoring For Linear Inverse Problems: Georg Kail (Delft University of Technology); Sundeep Prabhakar Chepuri (Indian Institute of Science, India); Geert Leus (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)
DOA Estimation and Array Registration with Joint Sparse Reconstruction Methods: Thomas Wiese, Lorenz Weiland and Wolfgang Utschick (Technische Universität München, Germany)
Data and Error Rate Bounds for Binary Data Gathering Wireless Sensor Networks: Xin He (University of Science and Technology of China & Anhui Normal University, P.R. China); Xiaobo Zhou (Tianjin University, P.R. China); Markku Juntti (University of Oulu, Finland); Tad Matsumoto (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan)
Quantization of Compressed Sensing Measurements using Analysis-by-Synthesis with Bayesian-Optimal Approximate Message Passing: Osman Musa and Norbert Goertz (Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien), Austria)

S7: Satellite Communications

An innovative interference mitigation approach for high throughput satellite systems: Màrius Caus (Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC), Spain); Ana Isabel Pérez-Neira (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain); Martina Angelone (European Space Agency, The Netherlands); Alberto Ginesi (ESA/ESTEC, The Netherlands)
A comparison of iterative receivers for the non linear satellite channel: Bouchra Benammar (Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (CNES), France); Nathalie Thomas (University of Toulouse, France); Charly Poulliat (INP – ENSEEIHT Toulouse, France); Marie-Laure Boucheret (University of Toulouse IRIT Enseeiht, France); Mathieu Dervin (Thales Alenia Space, France)
Multiuser Detection in Multibeam Satellite Systems: Theoretical Analysis and Practical Schemes: Giulio Colavolpe (University of Parma, Italy); Andrea Modenini (ESA, The Netherlands); Amina Piemontese (Chalmers University of Technology, Italy); Alessandro Ugolini (University of Parma, Italy)
Robust Adaptive Coding and Modulation Scheme for the Mobile Satellite Forward Link: Alberto Rico-Alvariño (University of Vigo, Spain); Anxo Tato (AtlanTTic Research Center, University of Vigo, Spain); Carlos Mosquera (University of Vigo, Spain)
On-board Signal Predistortion for Digital Transparent Satellites: Nicolò Mazzali (European Space Agency, The Netherlands); Bhavani Shankar Mysore R (Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust & University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg); Björn Ottersten (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)

Wednesday, July 1 11:15 – 11:30

Coffee break

Wednesday, July 1 11:30 – 12:45

R8: Cooperative Communications and Multi-user Networks

Bi-directional Signaling Strategies for Dynamic TDD Networks: Laddu Praneeth Roshan Jayasinghe and Antti Tölli (University of Oulu, Finland); Matti Latva-aho (UoOulu, Finland)
Stochastic Amplify-and-Forward Schemes for Multigroup Multicast Transmission in a Distributed Relay Network: Xiaoxiao Wu (Shenzhen University, P.R. China); Qiang Li (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, P.R. China); Wing-Kin Ma and Anthony Man-Cho So (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Improving the Degrees of Freedom in MIMO Relay Networks via PHY Caching: Wei Han (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong); An Liu (Zhejiang University, P.R. China); Vincent Lau (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)
Selection Combining, and Opportunistic Relaying, with Many Diversity Branches: Switching Rates for Most Common Fading Types: David B Smith (Data61 CSIRO & Australian National University, Australia)
Feasibility Study of Full-duplex Relaying in Satellite Networks: Bhavani Shankar Mysore R (Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust & University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg); Gan Zheng (Loughborough University, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Sina Maleki (Ericsson, Luxembourg); Björn Ottersten (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)
Partial Zero Forcing for Multi-Way Relay Networks: Wuhua Zhang, Moslem Noori, Yindi Jing and Masoud Ardakani (University of Alberta, Canada)
Velocity-assisted Multidimensional Scaling: Sandeep Kumar (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)., India); Ketan Rajawat (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India)
A Scalable Performance-Complexity Tradeoff for Vector Precoding by Partial Perturbation: Christos Masouros (University College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Tharmalingam Ratnarajah (The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Mathini Sellathurai (Heriot-Watt University, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Robust MISO Downlink Precoder Design With Per-Antenna Power Constraints: Mostafa Medra (University of Toronto, Canada); Timothy N. Davidson (McMaster University, Canada)

S8: Joint Analog Source-Channel Coding

On the Physical Layer Security of Analog Joint Source Channel Coding Schemes: Eduardo Hodgson and Glauber Brante (Federal University of Technology – Paraná (UTFPR), Brazil); Richard Demo Souza (Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil); João Luiz Rebelatto (Federal University of Technology – Parana, Brazil)
Hybrid Digital-Analog Transmission Taking Into Account D/A and A/D Conversion: Matthias Rüngeler (RWTH Aachen University, Germany); Peter Vary (RWTH Aachen, Germany)
Design of Analog Joint Source-Channel Coding Systems for Broadcast Channels with MSE Balancing: Óscar Fresnedo, José P González-Coma and Luis Castedo (University of A Coruña, Spain)
Analog Coding for Gaussian Source and State Interference Estimation: Ahmad Abou Saleh, Fady Alajaji and Wai-Yip Geoffrey Chan (Queen’s University, Canada)
Sending Gaussian Multiterminal Sources over the Gaussian MAC with Bandwidth Expansion: Nan Jiang and Yang Yang (Texas A&M University, USA); Anders Høst-Madsen (University of Hawaii, USA); Zixiang Xiong (Texas A&M University & Monash University, USA)
Application of analog joint source-channel coding to broadcast channels: Mohamed Hassanin, Bo Lu and Javier Garcia-Frias (University of Delaware, USA)
On the suitability of ML decoding in Analog Multiple Description Schemes: Aitziber Saez (CEIT, Spain); Xabier Insausti (Tecnun University of Navarra, Spain); Pedro M. Crespo (CEIT and TECNUN (University of Navarra), Spain); Iker Alustiza (CEIT, Spain)

Wednesday, July 1 12:45 – 14:00

Lunch

Restaurant Q, Osquldas väg 4

Wednesday, July 1 14:00 – 15:00

Plenary 5: 5G The Ultimate Wireless Platform

Room: E1

Klaus Doppler (Nokia Research Center, USA)

Wednesday, July 1 15:00 – 16:15

R9: Interference Modeling and Management

Asymptotic SINR for Millimeter Wave Massive MIMO Cellular Networks: Tianyang Bai (Qualcomm, USA); Robert Heath (The University of Texas at Austin, USA)
Minimizing the Routing Delay in Cognitive Radios Using Potential Fields: Jan Oksanen (Aalto University, Finland); Brett Kaufman (Rice University, USA); Visa Koivunen (Aalto University, Finland); H. Vincent Poor (Princeton University, USA)
A Novel Relay-Based Interference Alignment Strategy for Multi-User Networks: Yue Tian (MVB, Woodland Road, University of Bristol, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Mark Beach and Andy Nix (University of Bristol (UoB), United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Mixed Norm Minimization for MIMO Cellular Interference Channel: Huiqin Du (Jinan University, P.R. China); Tharmalingam Ratnarajah (The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Mathini Sellathurai (Heriot-Watt University, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Jonathon Chambers (Newcastle University, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Interference Alignment via Feasible Point Pursuit: Aritra Konar (University of Virginia, USA); Ruoyu Sun (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA); Nicholas Sidiropoulos (University of Minessota, USA); Zhi-Quan Luo (University of Minnesota, USA)
Near-Optimum Power Control for Two-Tier SIMO Uplink Under Power and Interference Constraints: Baris Yuksekkaya (Hacettepe University & Electrical & Electronics Engineering, Turkey); Hazer Inaltekin (Macquarie University, Australia); Cenk Toker (Hacettepe University, Turkey); Halim Yanikomeroglu (Carleton University, Canada)
Distributed Learning of Equilibria for a Stochastic Game on Interference Channels: Krishna Chaitanya A (Indian Institute of Information Technolgy Sri City, India); Vinod Sharma and Utpal Mukherji (Indian Institute of Science, India)
On the benefits of Edge Caching for MIMO Interference Alignment: Matha Deghel (CentraleSupélec, France); Ejder Baştuğ (Nokia Bell Labs, USA); Mohamad Assaad and Mérouane Debbah (CentraleSupélec)
Nonlinear Spatiotemporal Channel Gain Map Tracking in Mobile Cooperative Networks: Dionysios Kalogerias (Princeton University, USA); Athina Petropulu (Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA)
Optimal Jammer Placement in Wireless Localization Networks: Sinan Gezici (Bilkent University, Turkey); Suat Bayram (Turgut Ozal University, Turkey); Mohammad Reza Gholami (Postdoc at KTH, Sweden); Magnus Jansson (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)

S9: Proximal Communications for 5G: D2D Caching and Contextualization

Network Coding Schemes for Device-to-Device Communications Based Relaying for Cellular Coverage Extension: Gabor Fodor (Ericsson Research & Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden); Andrea Abrardo (University of Siena, Italy); Besmir Tola (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway)
Towards a Mobile Content Marketplace: Sameh Hosny (Nile University, Egypt); Faisal F. Alotaibi (The Ohio State University, USA); Hesham ElGAMAL (The Ohio State University); Atilla Eryilmaz (Th Ohio State University)
Cache-enabled Small Cell Networks with Local User Interest Correlation: Zheng Chen (Linköping University, Sweden); Marios Kountouris (Huawei Technologies, France)
CEO Problem based Analysis of D2D Cooperative User Pairing: Xin He (University of Science and Technology of China & Anhui Normal University, P.R. China); Markku Juntti (University of Oulu, Finland); Xiaobo Zhou (Tianjin University, P.R. China); Petri Komulainen (MediaTek, Finland); Tad Matsumoto (CWC – Oulu, Finland)
Probabilistic Handshake in All-to-all Broadcast Coded Slotted ALOHA: Mikhail Ivanov (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden); Petar Popovski (Aalborg University, Denmark); Fredrik Brännström and Alexandre Graell i Amat (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden); Čedomir Stefanović (Aalborg University & University of Novi Sad, Denmark)
On the Fundamental Limits of Caching in Combination Networks: Mingyue Ji (University of Utah, USA); Ming Fai Wong (California Institute of Technology, USA); Antonia Tulino (Bell Labs, USA & Università Federico II, Italy); Jaime Llorca (Nokia Bell Labs, USA); Giuseppe Caire (Technische Universität Berlin, Germany); Michelle Effros (California Institute of Technology, USA); Michael Langberg (State University of New York at Buffalo, USA)