Time (Sao Paulo) Caiçaras Club PUC-Rio IAG PUC-Rio IAG Auditório PUC-Rio IAG Room 1 PUC-Rio IAG Room 2 PUC-Rio IAG Room 11

Sunday, July 14
09:00-13:00     Turorial: massive MIMO Tutorial: mmWave RIS Tutorial: Channel Charting Tutorial: Open RAN

Monday, July 15
08:45-09:00     Opening Ceremony      
09:00-10:00     Keynote: Ana Perez-Neira      
10:30-12:10     Special Session - Adaptive and Array Signal Processing and Applications Special Session - Advances in Machine Learning for Wireless Communications and Localization Regular Session - MIMO System Regular Session - Wireless Networks
14:00-15:40     Tutorial: Rate-Splitting Multiple Access (RSMA) for 6G: Overview, Outlook, and Pathways to Standardization Special Session - Advances in Machine Learning for Wireless Communications and Localization Special Session - Advances in multiple-antenna systems and applications Regular Session - Physical Layer Design
16:10-17:50     Special Session - Advances in multiple-antenna systems and applications Regular Session - Machine Learning for Wireless Communications Special Session - Rate-Splitting Multiple Access for 6G Special Session - Next generation wireless networking strategies
18:00-20:30   Welcome Reception        

Tuesday, July 16
09:00-10:00     Keynote: Lee Swindlehurst      
10:30-12:10     Special Session - Adaptive and Array Signal Processing and Applications Regular Session - Antennas and Propagation Special Session - Quantized Signal Processing for Wireless Communications Special Session - Energy Resilient and Sustainable Communication for Green 6G
14:00-15:40     Special Session - Advances in multiple-antenna systems and applications Regular Session - Multiple Access Techniques Special Session - Quantized Signal Processing for Wireless Communications Special Session - From data to information: semantics-aware and task-oriented communications in future multifunctional networks
16:10-17:50     Special Session - Advances in multiple-antenna systems and applications Special Session - Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces Enabling 6G Communication Regular Session - Machine Learning in Networks Special Session - From data to information: semantics-aware and task-oriented communications in future multifunctional networks
19:00-23:59 Banquet          

Wednesday, July 17
09:00-10:00     Keynote: Bruno Clerckx      
10:30-12:10     Special Session - Adaptive and Array Signal Processing and Applications Special Session - Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces Enabling 6G Communication Special Session - Advanced Channel Coding/Decoding for Future Wireless Communication  
14:00-15:40     Special Session - Advances in multiple-antenna systems and applications Special Session - Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces Enabling 6G Communication Regular Session - Networks and Protocols  
15:40-16:30     Closing Ceremony and Happy Hour (Awards and Outlook)      

Sunday, July 14

Sunday, July 14 9:00 - 13:00 (America/Sao_Paulo)

Tutorial: mmWave RIS

Wireless Communications in the Wave Domain: Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface, Holographic MIMO, and the like
Marco di Renzo
PUC-Rio IAG Room 1

Tutorial: Channel Charting

Wireless Channel Charting for Next-Generation Radio Access Networks
Maxime Guillaud and Christoph Studer
PUC-Rio IAG Room 2

Turorial: massive MIMO

Next-Generation MIMO Communications
Giacomo Bacci and Luca Sanguinetti
Room: PUC-Rio IAG Auditório

Tutorial: Open RAN

Open Innovation on the Open RAN Ecosystem: Challenges, Lessons and Opportunities with Using and Extending Open Source Solutions
Daniel Lazkani Feferman, Eduardo Melão, and Francisco Hugo Costa Neto
PUC-Rio IAG Room 11

Monday, July 15

Monday, July 15 8:45 - 9:00 (America/Sao_Paulo)

Opening Ceremony

Room: PUC-Rio IAG Auditório

Monday, July 15 9:00 - 10:00 (America/Sao_Paulo)

Keynote: Ana Perez-Neira

Ana Perez-Neira
Room: PUC-Rio IAG Auditório

Monday, July 15 10:30 - 12:10 (America/Sao_Paulo)

Special Session - Advances in Machine Learning for Wireless Communications and Localization

PUC-Rio IAG Room 1
Chair: Wafa Njima (Institut Superieur d Electronique de Paris, France)

Regular Session - Wireless Networks

PUC-Rio IAG Room 11
Chair: Rodolfo Oliveira (Nova University of Lisbon, Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal)
10:30 Connecting Customer Experience and Mobile Network Performance with Voronoi Tessellation
Tiago Beltrão Lacerda (TIM SA, Brazil); Ageu Diniz Guerra (Tim Brazil, Brazil); Thainá O. N. Souza (Brazil); Adriano A. Borges (CESAR & Tim Brasil, Brazil); Wilson Aquino De Magalhães (Tim Brazil, Brazil); Ana Clara A Fernandes (TIM Brazil & Timbrasil.com.br, Brazil)
11:03 Low Layer Functional Split Management in 5G and Beyond: Architecture and Self-adaptation
Jordi Pérez-Romero (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Spain); Oriol Sallent and David Campoy Garcia (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain); Antoni Gelonch (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Spain); Xavier Gelabert (Huawei Technologies Sweden AB, Sweden); Bleron Klaiqi (Huawei Technologies, Sweden)
11:36 M2M-TEE: A Many-to-Many Communication Multi-Channel and Timed Energy Efficient MAC Protocol for WSNs
Daniel Adauto (Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE), Brazil); Renato Mariz de Moraes (Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE), Brazil)

Regular Session - MIMO System

PUC-Rio IAG Room 2
Chair: Stefano Buzzi (University of Cassino and Lazio Meridionale/CNIT, Italy)
10:30 Iterative Soft Intra-Cluster Interference Cancellation for Cell-Free Massive MIMO Networks
Tonny Ssettumba (Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro & Soroti University, Brazil); Saeed Mashdour (PUC-Rio, Brazil); Lukas T. N. Landau (Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil); Paulo Ricardo Branco da Silva (CPQD & Instituto Tecnologico de Aeronautica, Brazil); Rodrigo C. de Lamare (University of York, United Kingdom (Great Britain) & Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
11:03 Scalable Cell-Free Massive MIMO with Fully Distributed Large-Scale Fading Decoding
Leonard Paul Schulz, Christian Schappmann and Gerhard Bauch (Hamburg University of Technology, Germany)
11:36 Robust User Scheduling and Power Allocation in Cell-Free Massive MIMO Networks
Saeed Mashdour (PUC-Rio, Brazil); Andre R. Flores (Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil); Shirin Salehi (RWTH Aachen University, Germany); Rodrigo C. de Lamare (University of York, United Kingdom (Great Britain) & Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil); Anke Schmeink (RWTH Aachen University, Germany); João Paulo Sales Henriques Lima (University of Surrey, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Paulo Ricardo Branco da Silva (CPQD & Instituto Tecnologico de Aeronautica, Brazil)

Special Session - Adaptive and Array Signal Processing and Applications

Room: PUC-Rio IAG Auditório
Chair: Rodrigo C. de Lamare (University of York, United Kingdom (Great Britain) & Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
10:30 LMS Quasi-Newton and RLS Algorithms with Sparsity-Aware Updates applied to Communications
Tadeu N Ferreira (Fluminense Federal University, Brazil); Markus V. S. Lima (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil); Marcello Campos (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil); Paulo S R Diniz (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
10:50 Enhanced Target Localization based on Double RIS
Lei He, Liping Li and Yingsong Li (Anhui University, China); Paulo S R Diniz (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil); Run Ying (Anhui University, China)
11:10 Probabilistic-Constrained Robust Beamforming for RIS-Aided Dynamic TDD Systems
Gerald Nwalozie and Martin Haardt (Ilmenau University of Technology, Germany)
11:30 A Bayesian Algorithm for GNSS Time-Delay Estimation Using an Uncalibrated Array
Daniel Araújo (University of Brasília, Brazil); Diego Aguiar Sousa (Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Ceará & Wireless Telecommunications Research Group, Brazil); Felix Antreich (Aeronautics Institute of Technology (ITA), Brazil)
11:50 Robust Widely linear complex-valued combined step-size algorithm for beamforming
Lin Luo, Peng Guo, Yi Yu and Hongsen He (Southwest University of Science and Technology, China); Rodrigo C. de Lamare (University of York, United Kingdom (Great Britain) & Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)

Monday, July 15 14:00 - 15:40 (America/Sao_Paulo)

Tutorial: Rate-Splitting Multiple Access (RSMA) for 6G: Overview, Outlook, and Pathways to Standardization

Bruno Clerckx
Room: PUC-Rio IAG Auditório

Regular Session - Physical Layer Design

PUC-Rio IAG Room 11
Chair: André L. F. de Almeida (Federal University of Ceará & Wireless Telecom Research Group - GTEL, Brazil)
14:00 Minimum Peak Energy QAM Constellations
Marcio A Souza (Petrobras, Brazil)
14:20 2D-FFT filter bank: an alternative waveform to OTFS in high mobility scenarios
Rogério P Junior (National Telecommunications Institute, Brazil); Carlos A. F. da Rocha (Federal University of Santa Catarina & Communication Research Group (GPqCom), Brazil); Bruno Chang (Federal University of Technology - Paraná, Brazil); Didier Le Ruyet (CNAM, France)
14:40 Achieving Super-Resolution Reconstruction in Optical Camera Communications
Leandro Ronchini Ximenes (State University of Campinas, Brazil); Piettra Gonçalves Simões Cardoso (Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil); Matheus Fortunato Alves (State University of Campinas, Brazil); Rangel Arthur (Universidade Estadual de Campinas - Faculdade de Tecnologia, Brazil)
15:00 Color-Selective Interference Equalization in Color-Shift Keying (CSK) Systems
Leandro Ronchini Ximenes and Igor Santos Cruz Rodrigues (State University of Campinas, Brazil); Rangel Arthur (Universidade Estadual de Campinas - Faculdade de Tecnologia, Brazil)
15:20 New Insights into the PAPR Computation and Analysis of Chip-Wise DSSS-FTN Signaling
Jean-Baptiste Fraisse (University of Brest, France); Pascal Chevalier (CNAM, France); Roland Gautier (University of Brest, France); François Delaveau (Thales Communications & Security, France)

Special Session - Advances in multiple-antenna systems and applications

PUC-Rio IAG Room 2
Chair: Rodrigo C. de Lamare (University of York, United Kingdom (Great Britain) & Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
14:00 Tackling Delayed CSI in a Distributed Multi-Satellite MIMO Communication System
Yasaman Omid, Sangarapillai Lambotharan and Mahsa Derakhshani (Loughborough University, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
14:20 Scalability and Implementation Aspects of Cell-Free Massive MIMO for ISAC
Stefano Buzzi (University of Cassino and Lazio Meridionale/CNIT, Italy); Carmen D'Andrea (Università di Cassino e del Lazio Meridionale, Italy & Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario per Le Telecomunicazioni (CNIT), Italy); Sergi Liesegang (Università Degli Studi di Cassino e del Lazio Meridionale, Italy)
14:40 Lattice-Reduction-Aided Preprocessing for Physical-Layer Security
Rebekka Schulz and Robert F.H. Fischer (Ulm University, Germany)
15:00 Joint Visibility Region Detection and Channel Estimation for Extra-Large MIMO Systems
Anzheng Tang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong); Jun-Bo Wang, Yijin Pan and Cheng Zeng (Southeast University, China); Wence Zhang (Jiangsu University, China); Xiaodan Zhang (Shenzhen Institute of Information Technology, China); Yijian Chen and Hongkang Yu (ZTE Corporation, China)
15:20 Fair Beamforming Design for MIMO ISAC Systems
François De Saint Moulin and Guillaume Thiran (UCLouvain, Belgium); Claude Oestges and Luc Vandendorpe (Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium)

Special Session - Advances in Machine Learning for Wireless Communications and Localization

PUC-Rio IAG Room 1
Chair: Wafa Njima (Institut Superieur d Electronique de Paris, France)
14:00 Indoor Positioning Using Correlation Based Signal Analysis and Convolutional Neural Networks
Ivo Bizon, Ahmad Nimr and Gerhard P. Fettweis (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany); Marwa Chafii (New York University Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates)
14:20 Machine Learning-based Holdover for IEEE 1588 PTP Packet Fronthauling
Douglas Maia dos Santos and Gustavo Souza (Federal University of Pará, Brazil); Rodrigo Dutra (Universidade Federal do Pará, Brazil); AmirHossien Mohajerzadeh (Sohar University, Iran); Leonardo Ramalho (UFPA, Brazil); Aldebaro Klautau (Universidade Federal do Para, Brazil); Igor Almeida (Ericsson, Brazil); Eduardo Medeiros (Ericsson, Sweden)
14:40 PAPR Reduction Technique for Mobile Communications System Based on Pattern Learning
Bianca da Silva, Mariana Mello and Luciano Leonel Mendes (Inatel, Brazil)
15:00 Soft Partitioning of Latent Space for Semantic Channel Equalization
Tomás Hüttebräucker (France); Mohamed Sana (Huawei Paris Research Center, France); Emilio Calvanese Strinati (CEA-LETI, France)
15:20 Radar Interference Mitigation Using CNN Autoencoders with Spatial Attention
Idowu Iseoluwa Ajayi (Institut Supérieur d'Electronique de Paris, France); Wafa Njima (Institut Superieur d Electronique de Paris, France)

Monday, July 15 16:10 - 17:50 (America/Sao_Paulo)

Regular Session - Machine Learning for Wireless Communications

PUC-Rio IAG Room 1
Chair: Kayol S. Mayer (University of Campinas, Brazil)
16:10 Real-Time Jamming Detection, Classification and Logging Using Computer Vision in 5G Private Networks
Ronald Chitauro (IHP Microelectronics, Germany); Marcin Brzozowski (IHP, Germany); Onur Yener (IHP - Leibniz-Institut Fur Innovative Mikroelektronik, Germany); Peter Langendoerfer (Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg, Germany)
16:35 Enhancing Robustness for Automated Mobile Network Optimization by Uncovering Causal Relationships
Marco Sousa (Celfinet and Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa (ISEL), Portugal & Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal); Pedro Vieira (Instituto de Telecomunicações / ISEL, Portugal); Maria Paula Queluz (Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal); António J. Rodrigues (IT / Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal)
17:00 LSTM-DNN-Based Joint Wireless Signal Waveform Classification and Blind Transmitter Localization
Victor Shatov (Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany); Nikita Shanin (Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany); Bastian Perner (Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany); Yanpeng Su and Norman Franchi (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany); Maximilian Lübke (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Germany)
17:25 Deep Complex-valued Radial Basis Function Neural Networks and Parameter Selection
Jonathan Aguiar Soares (University of Campinas, Brazil); Vinícius H Luiz, Sr. (UNICAMP - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil); Dalton Arantes and Kayol S. Mayer (University of Campinas, Brazil)

Special Session - Rate-Splitting Multiple Access for 6G

PUC-Rio IAG Room 2
Chair: Bruno Clerckx (Imperial College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
16:10 Dynamic Rate Splitting Grouping for Antifragile Responses to Wireless Network Disruptions
Kevin Weinberger (Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany); Aydin Sezgin (RUB, Germany)
16:30 RSMA-Aided Iterative Max-Age Scheduling for Multi-Source Systems
Elço João dos Santos, Jr. (SENAI, Brazil); Richard Demo Souza (Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil & UFSC, Brazil); João Luiz Rebelatto (Federal University of Technology - Parana, Brazil)
16:50 Rate-Splitting Downlink Transmission in Cell-Free Networks under Fronthaul Constraints
Eduard A Jorswieck (Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany); Luca Kunz, Ramprasad Raghunath and Bile Peng (TU Braunschweig, Germany)
17:10 Multi-Branch Tomlinson-Harashima Precoders for Rate-Splitting-Based Cell-Free MIMO Systems
Andre R. Flores (Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil); Rodrigo C. de Lamare (University of York, United Kingdom (Great Britain) & Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)

Special Session - Advances in multiple-antenna systems and applications

Room: PUC-Rio IAG Auditório
Chair: Rodrigo C. de Lamare (University of York, United Kingdom (Great Britain) & Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
16:10 Deep-Unfolded Joint Activity and Data Detection for Grant-Free Transmission in Cell-Free Systems
Gangle Sun (Hohai University, China); Wenjin Wang and Wei Xu (Southeast University, China); Christoph Studer (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
16:30 Single Frequency vs. Broadband: Factors to Consider in Wideband RIS Configuration
Zeyu Huang, Markus Rupp and Stefan Schwarz (TU Wien, Austria)
16:50 Channel-Adaptive Pilot Design for FDD-MIMO Systems Utilizing Gaussian Mixture Models
Nurettin Turan (Technische Universität München, Germany); Benedikt Fesl (Technical University of Munich, Germany); Benedikt Böck and Michael Joham (Technische Universität München, Germany); Wolfgang Utschick (Technical University of Munich & School of Computation, Information and Technology, Germany)
17:10 Adaptive Power Management for Maximizing Spectral Efficiency and QoS in Cell-Free Systems
Juno Saraiva (Federal University of Ceará, Brazil); Roberto Pinto Antonioli (Federal University of Ceará & Hewlett-Packard, Brazil); Gabor Fodor (Ericsson Research & Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden); Walter da Cruz Freitas, Jr. (Federal University of Ceará & Wireless Telecom Research Group, Brazil); Yuri C. B. Silva (Federal University of Ceará & Wireless Telecom Research Group (GTEL), Brazil)
17:30 Channel Estimation for mmWave MIMO-OFDM Systems Using Time Domain 3-D Tensor-ESPRIT in DFT beamspace
Damir Raisovich Rakhimov and Martin Haardt (Ilmenau University of Technology, Germany)

Special Session - Next generation wireless networking strategies

PUC-Rio IAG Room 11
Chair: Renato Mariz de Moraes (Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE), Brazil)
16:10 Optimal Packet Size in Optical Wireless Communication
Andre Vieira and Luiz F. M. Vieira (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil); Marcos A. M. Vieira (Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil)
16:30 Eavesdropper Avoidance through Adaptive Beam Management in SDR-Based Mm-Wave Communications
Adrian L Baron-Hyppolite and Joao F. Santos (Virginia Tech, USA); Luiz DaSilva (Virginia Tech, USA & Trinity College Dublin, Ireland); Jacek Kibilda (Virginia Tech, USA)
16:50 Impact of Rayleigh Fading Channel on IEEE 802.11ah Networks Under Restricted Access Window Mechanism
Stephanie M Soares (Sidia Institute of Science and Technology, Brazil); Marcelo M Carvalho (Texas State University, USA)
17:10 Minimal Latency and Buffer-Constrained Gathering of Data in Sensor Networks
Charlie B Mahana (University of Texas at Dallas, USA); Marcelo M Carvalho (Texas State University, USA); Ravi Prakash (University of Texas at Dallas, USA)
17:30 Distributed Access in Full-duplex Directional Multi-Packet Reception Wireless Networks
Ayman T. Abusabah (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal); Rodolfo Oliveira (Nova University of Lisbon, Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal)

Monday, July 15 18:00 - 20:30 (America/Sao_Paulo)

Welcome Reception

Room: PUC-Rio IAG

Tuesday, July 16

Tuesday, July 16 9:00 - 10:00 (America/Sao_Paulo)

Keynote: Lee Swindlehurst

Lee Swindlehurst
Room: PUC-Rio IAG Auditório

Tuesday, July 16 10:30 - 12:10 (America/Sao_Paulo)

Regular Session - Antennas and Propagation

PUC-Rio IAG Room 1
Chair: Amine Mezghani (University of Manitoba, Canada)
10:30 Small-Scale Propagation Characterization at 300 GHz in an industrial Environment
Lucas Cândido Ribeiro (TU Braunschweig, Germany); Thomas Kürner (Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany)
10:50 Amazon Large-Scale Channel Modeling at 3.5GHz Based on Bio-Inspired Optimization
Hugo Alexandre Oliveira da Cruz (Sidia Instituto de Ciência e Tecnologia, Brazil); Daniel da Silva Souza and Bruno Sátiro Silva (SIDIA Institute of Science and Technology, Brazil); Iran Mesquita Braga, Jr (CPQD, Brazil); Hélio R. O. Ferreira (SIDIA, Brazil); André Rocha Baradelli (Brazil)
11:10 Vehicular MMW Communication: Channel Characterization Based on Ray Tracing Study
Fahimeh Aghaei (Oulu University, Finland); Murat Uysal (NYU Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates); Rodrigo C. de Lamare (University of York, United Kingdom (Great Britain) & Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil); Lukas T. N. Landau (Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
11:30 Enhancing Mobile Communication on Railways: Impact of Train Window Size and Coating
Sonja Tripkovic, Philipp Svoboda and Markus Rupp (TU Wien, Austria)
11:50 Evaluation of MLP and LSTM ANNs for Signal Prediction in a Tunnel at 5.8 GHz Using Measurement Data
Pedro Armando Vieira (Instituto Federal Fluminense & Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF), Brazil); Leni Matos (Fluminense Federal University, Brazil); Pedro Gonzalez Castellanos (Federal Fluminense University, Brazil)

Special Session - Energy Resilient and Sustainable Communication for Green 6G

PUC-Rio IAG Room 11
Chair: Xiaopeng Yuan (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)
10:30 Average Local EMF Exposure and Power Consumption of a RIS-assisted WET System
Osmel Martinez Rosabal and Onel López (University of Oulu, Finland); Samuel Montejo (Universidad Tecnológica Metropolitana, Chile); Richard Demo Souza (Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil & UFSC, Brazil); Hirley Alves and Matti Latva-aho (University of Oulu, Finland)
10:50 Energy Efficiency Maximization for Multi-Node IoT Networks Operating with Finite Blocklength Codes
Yizhen Zhao and Wei Gao (Wuhan University, China); Yao Zhu (RWTH Aachen, Germany); Yulin Hu (Wuhan University, China & RWTH Aachen University, Germany); James Gross (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)
11:10 IRS Deployment in Wireless Powered Communication Network with Nonlinear Energy Harvesting
Ning Guo (Wuhan University, China); Xiaopeng Yuan and Boyao Li (RWTH Aachen University, Germany); Qinwei He (Global Energy Interconnection Research Institute Europe GmbH, Germany); Anke Schmeink (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)
11:30 Secure Communications in Near-field ISCAP Systems with Extremely Large-Scale Antenna Arrays
ZiXiang Ren (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China); Siyao Zhang and Xinmin Li (Southwest University of Science and Technology, China); Ling Qiu (University of Science and Technology of China, China); Jie Xu (The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen), China); Derrick Wing Kwan Ng (University of New South Wales, Australia)
11:50 Energy-Optimised Design for Secure-Reliability within Finite Blocklength Regime
Chenhao Shi (Wuhan University, China); Yao Zhu (RWTH Aachen, Germany); Xinmin Li (Southwest University of Science and Technology, China); Anke Schmeink (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)

Special Session - Adaptive and Array Signal Processing and Applications

Room: PUC-Rio IAG Auditório
Chair: Rodrigo C. de Lamare (University of York, United Kingdom (Great Britain) & Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
10:30 Exploring Adaptive Beamformers with the Null Placing Sidelobe Suppression Algorithm
Vitor Teixeira Klingelfus (Intituto Militar de Engenharia (IME) & Brazilian Navy, Brazil); José Antonio Apolinário Jr. (IME, Brazil); Claudio Augusto Saunders Filho (Instituto Militar de Engenharia (IME), Brazil); Rodrigo C. de Lamare (University of York, United Kingdom (Great Britain) & Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
10:50 Correntropy-based Data-Selective Adaptive Filtering Algorithms for Acoustic Feedback Cancellation
Felix Albu (Valahia University of Targoviste, Romania); Ying-Ren Chien (National Taipei University of Technology, Taiwan); Linh T. T. Tran (Posts and Telecommunications Institute of Technology, Vietnam); Yu-Xiang Weng (National I-Lan University, Taiwan)
11:10 Can Adaptive Diffusion Networks Do Better with Less Data?
Daniel Tiglea (University of São Paulo, Brazil); Renato Candido (SiDi, Brazil & University of São Paulo, Brazil); Magno T M Silva (University of Sao Paulo, Brazil)
11:30 Frequency Estimation and Tracking Based on DFT-Domain NLMS Filters
João Pedro de Omena Simas (University of São Paulo); Cassio G. Lopes (University of São Paulo, Brazil); Rodrigo C. de Lamare (University of York, United Kingdom (Great Britain) & Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
11:50 A 1.5-bit Quantization Scheme and Its Application to Sparse Array Direction Estimation
Xicheng Lu (Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Wei Liu (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong); Akram Alomainy (Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

Special Session - Quantized Signal Processing for Wireless Communications

PUC-Rio IAG Room 2
Chairs: In-Soo Kim (Qualcomm, USA), Erico Lopes (National Instutute of Intellectual Property of Brazil, Brazil)
10:30 Channel Estimation for RIS-Aided Communication Systems: A Task-Based Quantization Approach
Gyoseung Lee (KAIST, Korea (South)); In-Soo Kim (Qualcomm, USA); Yonina C. Eldar (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel); Lee Swindlehurst (University of California at Irvine, USA); Junil Choi (KAIST, Korea (South))
10:50 Iterative Timing Estimation with 1-bit Quantization and Oversampling at the Receiver
Florian Mann (TU Dresden, Germany); Florian Gast (Barkhausen Institut, Germany); Stephan Zeitz and Meik Dörpinghaus (TU Dresden, Germany); Gerhard P. Fettweis (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany)
11:10 RIS-based Passive Transmitter Reflection Optimization with Performance Complexity Trade-Offs
Erico Lopes (National Instutute of Intellectual Property of Brazil, Brazil); Lukas T. N. Landau (Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil); Amine Mezghani (University of Manitoba, Canada)
11:30 Improved Analysis of Comparator Network Aided Channel Estimation for MIMO Receivers with 1-Bit ADCs
Luiz Sampaio (Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil); Lukas T. N. Landau (Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
11:50 Performance Analysis of Distributed Quantization-Aware LMS Algorithm with Quantized Measurements
Alireza Danaee (University of Bremen, Germany); Rodrigo C. de Lamare (University of York, United Kingdom (Great Britain) & Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil); Vitor H Nascimento (USP, Brazil)

Tuesday, July 16 14:00 - 15:40 (America/Sao_Paulo)

Special Session - Quantized Signal Processing for Wireless Communications

PUC-Rio IAG Room 2
Chairs: In-Soo Kim (Qualcomm, USA), Erico Lopes (National Instutute of Intellectual Property of Brazil, Brazil)
14:00 Deep-Learning-Based Channel-Estimation for Distributed MIMO with 1-bit Radio-Over-Fiber Fronthaul
Alireza Bordbar (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden); Lise Aabel (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden & Ericsson Research, Sweden); Christian Häger (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden & Duke University, USA); Christian Fager and Giuseppe Durisi (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)
14:20 Spectral Efficiency Analysis of Uplink RSMA-enabled Massive MIMO Systems With Mixed-ADCs
Xingwang Li, Xiaoyao Wang and Gaojian Huang (Henan Polytechnic University, China); Ming Zeng (Université Laval, Canada); A Nallanathan (QMUL, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
14:40 Performance Analysis for ISAC Systems with 1-bit DACs
Murat Babek Salman (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden); Özlem Tuğfe Demir (Bilkent University, Turkey); Emil Björnson (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)
15:00 Mitigating SAR-ADC Non-Idealities in Massive MU-MIMO Systems via Affine Models
Jérémy Guichemerre and Christoph Studer (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
15:20 Energy Optimization using Joint Modulation Scheme and Front End Adaptation - the Gearbox-PHY
Florian Gast (Barkhausen Institut, Germany); Florian Roth and Meik Dörpinghaus (TU Dresden, Germany); Padmanava Sen (Research Group Leader, Barkhausen Institut gGmbH, Germany & Barkhausen Institut gGmbH, Germany); Stephan Zeitz (TU Dresden, Germany); Gerhard P. Fettweis (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany)

Regular Session - Multiple Access Techniques

Multiple Access Techniques: RSMA, NOMA, and other approaches
PUC-Rio IAG Room 1
Chair: Andre R. Flores (Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
14:00 Trajectory Design for RSMA Networks Assisted by AIRS with LSTM and Transformers
Brena Lima (COPELABS, Lusofona University, Portugal); João Pedro Matos-Carvalho (COPELABS, Lusófona University, Portugal); Rui Dinis (Universidade Nova de Lisboa & Nova IT, FCT-UNL, Portugal); Daniel Benevides da Costa (King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Saudi Arabia); Marko Beko (ULHT/UNINOVA & UNINOVA, Caparica, Portugal); Rodolfo Oliveira (Nova University of Lisbon, Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal)
14:20 Adaptive Power Allocation among Private and Common Streams for Multicarrier RSMA System
Emanuel Valério Pereira and Francisco Rafael Marques Lima (Federal University of Ceará, Brazil)
14:40 Optimization-based solution for data rate maximization with QoS guarantees for IRS-aided NOMA-WPCN
Carlos Augusto Melo de Pinho and Francisco Rafael Marques Lima (Federal University of Ceará, Brazil)
15:00 Resource Allocation for Spectral Efficiency Maximization in WPCN-NOMA Systems with Multiple IRSs
Lucas dos Santos Fonseca (Universidade Federal Do Ceará, Brazil); Francisco Rafael Marques Lima and Carlos Augusto Melo de Pinho (Federal University of Ceará, Brazil)
15:20 Uplink Data Rate Maximization with Channel Uncertainties in BackCom NOMA System
Dingjia Lin, Suhaib M. Al Basit and Kaidi Wang (University of Manchester, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Zhiguo Ding (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

Special Session - Advances in multiple-antenna systems and applications

Room: PUC-Rio IAG Auditório
Chair: Rodrigo C. de Lamare (University of York, United Kingdom (Great Britain) & Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
14:00 On Massive Antenna Channel Models with Dependent Fading: Theory and Experiments
Eduard A Jorswieck, Maik Weber and Peter Schlegel (Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany); Karl-Ludwig Besser (Linköping University, Sweden)
14:20 Cell-Free Massive MIMO with Imperfect Channel State Information and Hardware Impairments
Chaima Beldi, Eya Gourar, Didier Le Ruyet and Hmaied Shaiek (CNAM, France); Fatma Abdelkefi (High School of Communications of Tunis (SUPCOM), Tunisia)
14:40 Multi-Antenna Towards In-band Shift Keying
Ralf R. Müller (Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany)
15:00 Distributed Belief Propagation Detection for User-Centric Cell-Free Massive MIMO
Kaining Yang, Wenyue Zhou, Xiaosi Tan and Yongming Huang (Southeast University, China); Chuan Zhang (National Mobile Communications Research Laboratory, Southeast University, China)
15:20 Robust Communication and Computation using Deep Learning via Joint Uncertainty Injection
Robert-Jeron Reifert (Ruhr University Bochum, Germany); Hayssam Dahrouj (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) & Center of Excellence for NEOM Research, Canada); Alaa Alameer Ahmad (Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, Germany); Haris Gacanin (RWTH Aachen University, Germany); Aydin Sezgin (RUB, Germany)

Special Session - From data to information: semantics-aware and task-oriented communications in future multifunctional networks

PUC-Rio IAG Room 11
Chair: Saeed Mashdour (PUC-Rio, Brazil)
14:00 Joint Trajectory and User Scheduling Design for UAV-Assisted Secure Communication
Xinran Wang and Peng Wu (Wuhan University, China); Xiaopeng Yuan (RWTH Aachen University, Germany); Yulin Hu (Wuhan University, China & RWTH Aachen University, Germany); Yu Zhang (Wuhan Second Ship Design and Research Institute, China)
14:20 Dual-Task-Oriented Resource Allocation for Integrated Sensing and Communication
Zhaoxu Liu (WuHan University, China); Yulin Hu (Wuhan University, China & RWTH Aachen University, Germany); Yao Zhu (RWTH Aachen, Germany); Anke Schmeink (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)
14:40 Computation Offloading and Resource Allocation for Digital Twin-empowered Mobile Edge Computing
Wenxin Wu (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); Zheng Chang (University of Jyväskylä, Finland); Zhuangzhuang Cui (KU Leuven, Belgium); Tero Bodström and Timo Hämäläinen (University of Jyväskylä, Finland)
15:00 Trajectory and User Scheduling Design for UAV Semantic Communication in PLoS Channels
Peng Wu (Wuhan University, China); Xiaopeng Yuan (RWTH Aachen University, Germany); Yu Zhang and Qinghua Song (Wuhan Second Ship Design and Research Institute, China)

Tuesday, July 16 16:10 - 17:50 (America/Sao_Paulo)

Regular Session - Machine Learning in Networks

PUC-Rio IAG Room 2
Chairs: Rogério Ballestrin (Universidade Federal Do Rio Grande Do Sul & Instituto Senai de Inovação Em Sistemas de Sensoriamento, Brazil), Maxime Guillaud (Inria, France)
16:10 Enhancing IoT Intrusion Detection with Federated Learning-Based CNN-GRU and LSTM-GRU Ensembles
Ogobuchi Daniel Okey (Federal University of ABC (UFABC), Brazil); Demostenes Zegarra Rodriguez (Federal University of Lavras & Nokia Technology Institute, Brazil); João Henrique Kleinschmidt (Universidade Federal Do ABC, Brazil)
16:30 Transfer Learning for Handover Prediction in 5G Maritime Vehicular Networks
Alexandr Langolf (Kiel University, Germany); Sebastian Kühl and Stephan Pachnicke (Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Germany)
16:50 Artificial Intelligence for Dynamic Resource Allocation of 5G FR2 Networks
Daniel da Silva Souza (SIDIA Institute of Science and Technology, Brazil); Iran Mesquita Braga, Jr (CPQD, Brazil); Edemir Marcus Carvalho de Matos (Sidia Institute of Science and Technology, Brazil); Bruno Sátiro Silva (SIDIA Institute of Science and Technology, Brazil)
17:10 Exploring Machine Learning Techniques for Path Loss Prediction in LoRa Networks
Rogério Ballestrin (Universidade Federal Do Rio Grande Do Sul & Instituto Senai de Inovação Em Sistemas de Sensoriamento, Brazil); Jonas Freitas Feijó (Universidade Federal Do Rio Grande Do Sul, Brazil); Max Feldman (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil); Ivan Müller (Federal University of Rio Grande Do Sul (UFRGS), Brazil)

Special Session - Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces Enabling 6G Communication

PUC-Rio IAG Room 1
Chair: José Carlos Marinello (Federal University of Technology - Parana, Brazil)
16:10 Show Me the Way: Real-Time Tracking of Wireless Mobile Users with UWB-Enabled RIS
Kevin Weinberger (Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany); Simon Tewes (Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany); Aydin Sezgin (RUB, Germany)
16:30 Iterative Detection and Decoding for RIS-Assisted Multiuser Multiple-Antenna Systems
Roberto C G Porto (Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil & Instituto Militar de Engenharia, Brazil); Rodrigo C. de Lamare (University of York, United Kingdom (Great Britain) & Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
16:50 Performance Analysis of Systems with Coupled and Decoupled RISs
Dominik Semmler (Technische Universität München, Germany); Josef A. Nossek (TU Munich, Germany & Federal University of Ceara, Fortaleza, Brazil); Michael Joham (Technische Universität München, Germany); Wolfgang Utschick (Technical University of Munich & School of Computation, Information and Technology, Germany)
17:10 Matching Pursuit With Phase Rotation for RIS-Aided mmWave Channel Estimation
David William Marques Guerra (Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE), Brazil); Taufik Abrão (State University of Londrina, Brazil); Ekram Hossain (University of Manitoba, Canada)
17:30 PSO-based Optimization of STAR-RIS aided NOMA Wireless Communication Networks
Victoria Souto (Instituto Nacional de Telecomunicações, Brazil); Richard Demo Souza (Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil & UFSC, Brazil); Bartolomeu F. Uchôa-Filho (Aeronautics Institute of Technology (ITA), Brazil)

Special Session - Advances in multiple-antenna systems and applications

Room: PUC-Rio IAG Auditório
Chair: Rodrigo C. de Lamare (University of York, United Kingdom (Great Britain) & Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
16:10 Beam-Steering in Super-Directive Antenna Arrays Using Loaded Parasitic Elements
Ihsan Kanbaz (Gazi University, Turkey); Mohammadali Mohammadi (Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom (Great Britain) & Center for Wireless Innovation, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Okan Yurduseven and Michail Matthaiou (Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
16:30 Multi-user Detection with Oversampled Large Antenna Arrays and Low-resolution ADCs
Zied Jarraya, Faouzi Bellili and Amine Mezghani (University of Manitoba, Canada)
16:50 Spatial Modulation and Sparse Regression Codes
Ahmed Al Kishki and Volker Kuehn (University of Rostock, Germany)
17:10 On the Generalization of Machine Learning for mmWave Beam Prediction
Muhammad Qurratulain Khan (NI, Germany & TU Dresden, Germany); Abdo Gaber (National Instrument, Germany); Mohammad Parvini, Philipp Schulz and Gerhard P. Fettweis (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany)
17:30 Reduced-Complexity and Robust Uplink Signal Processing for Large-Scale MIMO
Giacomo Bacci, Antonio A. D'Amico and Luca Sanguinetti (University of Pisa, Italy)

Special Session - From data to information: semantics-aware and task-oriented communications in future multifunctional networks

PUC-Rio IAG Room 11
Chair: Saeed Mashdour (PUC-Rio, Brazil)
16:10 Enabling Edge Artificial Intelligence via Goal-oriented Deep Neural Network Splitting
Francesco Binucci (University of Perugia & Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario per Le Telecomunicazioni (CNIT), Italy); Mattia Merluzzi (CEA-Leti, France); Paolo Banelli (University of Perugia, Italy); Emilio Calvanese Strinati (CEA-LETI, France); Paolo Di Lorenzo (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy)
16:30 Reinforcement Learning for Age of Information Aware Transmission Policies in Slotted ALOHA Channels
Chiara Cavalagli (IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca, Italy); Leonardo Badia (Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy); Andrea Munari (German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany)
16:50 Semantic Communications for 3D Human Face Transmission with Neural Radiance Fields
Guanlin Wu (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China); Zhonghao Lyu (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden); Juyong Zhang (University of Science and Technology of China, China); Jie Xu (The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen), China)

Tuesday, July 16 19:00 - 23:59 (America/Sao_Paulo)

Banquet

Room: Caiçaras Club

Wednesday, July 17

Wednesday, July 17 9:00 - 10:00 (America/Sao_Paulo)

Keynote: Bruno Clerckx

Bruno Clerckx
Room: PUC-Rio IAG Auditório

Wednesday, July 17 10:30 - 12:10 (America/Sao_Paulo)

Special Session - Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces Enabling 6G Communication

PUC-Rio IAG Room 1
Chair: José Carlos Marinello (Federal University of Technology - Parana, Brazil)
10:30 Joint BS and RIS Element Selection with Large Arrays for EE Maximization
Wilson Souza Junior (UEL - Londrina State University, Brazil); Herman L. dos Santos (Federal University of Technology - Paraná, Brazil); Taufik Abrão (State University of Londrina, Brazil)
10:50 Enabling Decentralized Access Policy Selection by Exploiting RIS-Induced Channel Diversity
Gabriel D Polvani (State University of Londrina, Brazil); João Henrique Henrique Inacio de Souza (Aalborg University, Denmark); Taufik Abrão (State University of Londrina, Brazil)
11:10 User Clustering and Phase-Shift Design for RIS-Aided Systems Based on Statistical CSI
Pedro Teixeira Sega and José Carlos Marinello (Federal University of Technology - Parana, Brazil)
11:30 Weighted MSE Minimization for RIS-aided Multiuser MIMO OFDM Systems with ICSI
Darian Pérez-Adán (Universidade da Coruña, Spain); Michael Joham (Technische Universität München, Germany); Óscar Fresnedo and José P González-Coma (University of A Coruña, Spain); Wolfgang Utschick (Technical University of Munich & School of Computation, Information and Technology, Germany); Luis Castedo (University of A Coruña, Spain)
11:50 Multibeam Beamforming Design in RIS-aided SISO Communications Subject to Reradiation Masks
Shumin Wang (Paris Saclay University, France); Marco Di Renzo (CNRS & Paris-Saclay University, France); Marios Poulakis (Huawei Technologies Sweden AB, Sweden)

Special Session - Adaptive and Array Signal Processing and Applications

Room: PUC-Rio IAG Auditório
Chair: Rodrigo C. de Lamare (University of York, United Kingdom (Great Britain) & Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
10:30 Robust Adaptive Filtering Based on the Hyperbolic Tangent Exponential Kernel M-Estimator Function
Iam Kim S. Hermont and Andre R. Flores (Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil); Rodrigo C. de Lamare (University of York, United Kingdom (Great Britain) & Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
10:50 A faster RLS-DCD adaptive filtering algorithm
Naomi James Sutcliffe De Moraes (University of Sao Paulo, Brazil); Vitor H Nascimento (USP, Brazil); Daniel Vidal and Carlos Augusto Prete (Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil); Yuriy Zakharov (University of York, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
11:10 Improvements in Blind Separation of Speech Signals in Reverberant Rooms
Diego S. M. Bahiano (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil); Mariane R Petraglia (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil); Felipe Petraglia (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
11:30 Random Cloud Least Mean-Squares Adaptive Filters
Lucas Giannella de Oliveira and Cassio G. Lopes (University of São Paulo, Brazil)

Special Session - Advanced Channel Coding/Decoding for Future Wireless Communication

PUC-Rio IAG Room 2
Chairs: Didier Le Ruyet (CNAM, France), Bartolomeu F. Uchôa-Filho (Aeronautics Institute of Technology (ITA), Brazil)
10:30 Improved Generalized Automorphism Belief Propagation Decoding
Jonathan Mandelbaum (Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, Germany); Sisi Miao (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany); Nils Albert Schwendemann, Holger Jäkel and Laurent Schmalen (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany)
10:50 On the Design of LDPC-Based Error-Reducing Codes
Dawit Simegn, Kirill Andreev, Pavel Rybin and Alexey A. Frolov (Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Russia)
11:10 Advanced Iteration Overlap for Low-Latency Turbo Decoding
Jeremy Nadal (IMT Atlantique France, France); Stefan Weithoffer, Charbel Abdel Nour and Catherine Douillard (IMT Atlantique, France)
11:30 Design of Concatenated Product Codes with Spatially-Coupled LDPC Codes
Yuqing Ren and Yifei Shen (EPFL, Switzerland); Emmanuel Boutillon (Université de Bretagne Sud, France); Alexios Balatsoukas-Stimming (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands); Andreas Burg (EPFL, Switzerland)
11:50 Weighted Residual Layered Belief Propagation for LDPC Decoding
Hassan Touati (Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro & PUC RIO, Brazil); Rodrigo C. de Lamare (University of York, United Kingdom (Great Britain) & Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)

Wednesday, July 17 14:00 - 15:40 (America/Sao_Paulo)

Regular Session - Networks and Protocols

PUC-Rio IAG Room 2
Chair: Rafael Kunst (University of Vale do Rio dos Sinos (Unisinos), Brazil)
14:00 Intelligent Heterogeneous Wireless Sensor Networks in Precision Agriculture
Jose Agustín Rodríguez-Mejía, Sandra Sendra, Alberto Ivars-Palomares and Jaime Lloret (Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain)
14:20 Routing Performance Evaluation in Centralized and Distributed FANETs for 6G Networks
Luis Antonio Leite Francisco da Costa (University of Vale Do Rio Dos Sinos, Brazil); Rafael Kunst (University of Vale do Rio dos Sinos (Unisinos), Brazil); Rodrigo C. de Lamare (University of York, United Kingdom (Great Britain) & Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil); Edison Pignaton de Freitas (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)
14:40 Impact of Network Deployment on the Performance of NCR-assisted Networks
Gabriel Carlini Monte da Carlini Monte da Silva (Federal University of Ceará, Brazil); Diego Aguiar Sousa (Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Ceará & Wireless Telecommunications Research Group, Brazil); Victor Farias Monteiro, Darlan C. Moreira, Tarcisio Ferreira-Maciel and Francisco Rafael Marques Lima (Federal University of Ceará, Brazil); Behrooz Makki (Ericsson Research, Sweden)
15:00 LoRa Video Streaming in Rural Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks
Miguel Zaragoza-Esquerdo (Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain); Lorena Parra (Universitat Politécnica de Valencia, Spain); Sandra Sendra and Jaime Lloret (Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain)

Special Session - Advances in multiple-antenna systems and applications

Room: PUC-Rio IAG Auditório
Chair: Rodrigo C. de Lamare (University of York, United Kingdom (Great Britain) & Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
14:00 Relevance-Based Information Processing for Fronthaul Rate Reduction in Cell-Free MIMO Systems
Alireza Danaee, Shayan Hassanpour, Dirk Wübben and Armin Dekorsy (University of Bremen, Germany)
14:20 Machine Learning-Enabled Joint Codebook Design and Beam Selection
Fengyu Liang and Yunlong Cai (Zhejiang University, China)
14:40 Statistical Framework for Clustering MU-MIMO Wireless via Second Order Statistics
Roberto Matheus Pinheiro Pereira (Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC/CERCA) & Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain); Xavier Mestre (Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC), Spain)
15:00 Dynamic Interference Avoidance in the Joint Space-Time Domain with Arbitrary Antenna Formations
Hatef Nouri (Florida Atlantic University & Center for Connected Autonomy and AI (CA-AI), USA); Sanaz Naderi, Dimitris A. Pados and George Sklivanitis (Florida Atlantic University, USA); Elizabeth Serena Bentley (AFRL, USA); Michael Medley (AFRL Rome/NY, USA)
15:20 Attention-enabled Channel Estimation for STAR-RIS-aided Indoor and Outdoor MIMO
Wenhan Shen (Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Zhijin Qin and Xiaoming Tao (Tsinghua University, China); A Nallanathan (QMUL, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

Special Session - Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces Enabling 6G Communication

PUC-Rio IAG Room 1
Chair: José Carlos Marinello (Federal University of Technology - Parana, Brazil)
14:00 Low-Complexity Tensor-based Monostatic Sensing for IRS-Assisted Communication Systems
Kenneth Brenner Benício (Federal University of Ceará & Wirelless Telecom Research Group - GTEL, Brazil); Bruno Sokal (Federal University of Ceará, Brazil); André L. F. de Almeida (Federal University of Ceará & Wireless Telecom Research Group - GTEL, Brazil); Fazal-E- Asim (Federal University of Ceará Brazil, Brazil); Behrooz Makki (Ericsson Research, Sweden); Gabor Fodor (Ericsson Research & Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden)
14:20 Joint Channel and Symbol Estimation for Hybrid RIS Wireless Communications
Amarilton Lopes Magalhaes (Federal University of Ceará, Brazil); André L. F. de Almeida (Federal University of Ceará & Wireless Telecom Research Group - GTEL, Brazil)
14:40 Adaptive Bayesian Method for RIS Passive Beamforming
Thomas Chene (Telecom Paris, France); Ghaya Rekaya (Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France)
15:00 Reconfigurable intelligent surface-assisted massive MIMO system to reduce pilot contamination
Baohe Pang (Harbin Engineering University, China); Yingsong Li (Anhui University, China); Nikola Zlatanov (Innopolis University, Russia); Rodrigo C. de Lamare (Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Brazil)
15:20 Robust DOA Estimation in RIS-Assisted MISO Systems
Yu Canping (Anhui University & Electronics and Information Engineering, China); Wudang Xiao, Yingsong Li and Dingcheng Zou (Anhui University, China); Nikola Zlatanov (Innopolis University, Russia); Rodrigo C. de Lamare (Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Brazil)

Wednesday, July 17 15:40 - 16:30 (America/Sao_Paulo)

Closing Ceremony and Happy Hour (Awards and Outlook)

Room: PUC-Rio IAG Auditório