Program

Half-day workshop May 20 (14:00-17:30) Room 3I

Keynote Speakers

Ezio Biglieri (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain)

Ezio Biglieri is an Adjunct Professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain. He was the President of the IEEE Information Theory Society in 1999 and the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, the IEEE Communications Letters, the European Transactions on Telecommunications, and the Journal of Communications and Networks. He is a Life Fellow of the IEEE. Among other honors, he received the IEEE Donald G. Fink Prize Paper Award (2000), the IEEE Third-Millennium Medal (2000), the IEEE Communications Society Edwin Howard Armstrong Achievement Award (2001), the Journal of Communications and Networks Best Paper Award (2004, 2012, and 2015), the IEEE Information Theory Society Aaron D. Wyner Distinguished Service Award (2012), and the EURASIP Athanasios Papoulis Award (2013).

Ronny Hadani (Cohere Technologies)

Ronny Hadani serves as the Chief Technology Officer at Cohere Technologies. He
also serves as an associate professor in the Mathematics Department of the University of Texas at Austin. Before that, he was a Dickson postdoctoral fellow in the Mathematics Department of the University of Chicago. He holds a PhD in pure mathematics from Tel-Aviv University and a Master degree in applied mathematics from The Weizmann Institute of Science.

PROGRAM

WCHM-S1 Modulation, Coding, and Multiple Access (14:00-15:30, Room 3I)

14:00-14:39	OTFS for SISO systems: Modulation, demodulation, and channel estimation	Ezio Biglieri (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain)  (Keynote speaker)
14:40-14:56	OTFS Modem SDR Implementation and Experimental Study of Receiver Impairment Effects	Tharaj Thaj and Emanuele Viterbo (Monash University, Australia)
14:57-15:13	Error performance of orthogonal time frequency space (OTFS) modulation	Ezio Biglieri (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain); Patchava Raviteja and Yi Hong (Monash University, Australia)
15:14-15:30	Performance Analysis of Slotted CSMA/CA in UAV-based Data Collection Network	Chunlei Sun and Xiangming Wen (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China); Zhaoming Lu (BUPT, P.R. China); Xuqing Liu and Wenpeng Jing (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China); Zhiqun Hu (Hubei University, P.R. China)

Coffee break (30 minutes)

WCHM-S2 Channel Characterization and Radar (16:00-17:30, Room 3I)

16:00-16:39	OTFS a novel modulation scheme addressing the challenges of 5G	Ronny Hadani (Cohere Technologies) (Keynote speaker)
16:40-16:56	Performance Analysis of Joint Radar and Communication using OFDM and OTFS	Lorenzo Gaudio (University of Parma, Italy); Mari Kobayashi (CentraleSupelec, France); Giuseppe Caire (Technische Universität Berlin, Germany); Björn Bissinger (Technical University of Munich, Germany)
16:57-17:13	Sparsity in the Delay-Doppler Domain for Measured 60 GHz Vehicle-to-Infrastructure Communication Channels	Herbert Groll, Erich Zöchmann, Stefan Pratschner, Martin Lerch and Daniel Schützenhöfer (TU Wien, Austria); Markus Hofer (AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, Austria); Jiri Blumenstein (Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic); Seun Sangodoyin (University of Southern California, USA); Thomas Zemen (AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH, Austria); Ales Prokes (Brno University of Technology & Sensor, Information and Communication Systems Research Centre, Czech Republic); Andreas Molisch (University of Southern California, USA); Sebastian Caban (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)
17:14-17:30	Vehicular Channel Characterization in Orthogonal Time-Frequency Space	Thomas Blazek (Gusshausstraße 25 & TU Wien, Austria); Herbert Groll, Stefan Pratschner and Erich Zöchmann (TU Wien, Austria)