Program

Planned format of the workshop

The planned duration of the workshop is for a full-day, preferably on Dec 7^th. Its tentative program is as follows (exact time and duration may be adjusted to agree with the final conference program):

9:00 – 10:30: Technical Session 1 (5 paper presentations, 18 minutes each)

Ergodic Capacity Analysis of Large Intelligent Surface Assisted MIMO Systems

Marjan Abbasi Mosleh, Fabien Héliot and Rahim Tafazolli (University of Surrey, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

Hybrid Beamforming for Distributed Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces-Aided Systems

Seyyed MohammadMahdi Shahabi (King's College London); Zhaohui Yang (University College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Hamid Asgari (Thales UK Research & Technology, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Gilles Charbit (MediaTek Inc, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Mohammad Shikh-Bahaei (King's College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

Securing Aerial Offloading via Intelligent Omni-Surface

Wen Wang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Wanli Ni (Beijng University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Hui Tian (Beijng University of posts and telecommunications, China)

Chernoff Bound and Saddlepoint Approximation for Outage Probability in IRS-Assisted Wireless Systems

Tianxiong Wang (University of Oxford, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Gaojie Chen (University of Surrey, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Justin P Coon and Mihai-Alin Badiu (University of Oxford, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

Doppler Effect Mitigation Using Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces With Hardware Impairments

Ke Wang, Chan-Tong Lam and Benjamin Ng (Macao Polytechnic Institute, Macao)

10:30 – 11:00: Coffee break

11:00 – 11:30: Keynote 1: "Key Use Cases and Latest Progress in Prototyping, Testing & Standardization of RIS" (Richie Leo)

11:30 – 12:00: Keynote 2: "The RIS revolution towards Open and Smart Radio Environments" (Vincenzo Sciancalepore)

12:00 – 12:30: Keynote 3: "How to deploy intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRS) in wireless network: BS-side, user-side or both sides?" (Rui Zhang)

12:30 – 13:00: Keynote 4: "Intelligent Omni-Surfaces: Ubiquitous Wireless Transmission by Reflective-Refractive Metasurfaces" (Lingyang Song)

13:00 – 13:30: Lunch break

13:30 – 15:00: Technical Session 2 (5 paper presentations, 18 minutes each)

Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces and Classical Relays: Coexistence and Co-Design

Te-Yi Kan and Ronald Y. Chang (Academia Sinica, Taiwan); Feng-Tsun Chien (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan)

Phase Shift Design for Intelligent Reflecting Surface Aided mmWave MIMO Systems

Sung Hyuck Hong (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea (South)); Junil Choi (KAIST, Korea (South))

Joint Design of Hybrid and Reflection Beamforming for RIS-Aided mmWave MIMO Communications

Qi Zhu, Rang Liu, Yang Liu, Ming Li and Qian Liu (Dalian University of Technology, China)

Symbol-Level Precoding and Passive Beamforming Design for IRS-Aided Cognitive Radio Networks

Guangyang Zhang, Chao Shen, Bo Ai and Zhangdui Zhong (Beijing Jiaotong University, China)

Shaping mmWave Wireless Channel via Multi-Beam Design using Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces

Nariman Torkzaban (University of Maryland, USA); Mohammad Ali Khojastepour (NEC Laboratories America, USA)

15:00 – 15:30: Coffee break

15:30 – 17:00: Technical Session 2 (5 paper presentations, 18 minutes each)

 

RIS-Assisted Air-to-Ground Communications with Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access

Jingjing Zhao, Runze Chen, Kaiquan Cai and Yanbo Zhu (Beihang University, China); Zhu Han (University of Houston, USA)

Environment-Aware Beam Selection for IRS-Aided Communication with Channel Knowledge Map

Dingyang Ding (Southeast University, China); Di Wu (China); Yong Zeng and Shi Jin (Southeast University, China); Rui Zhang (National University of Singapore, Singapore)

Joint Beamforming and BS Selection for Energy-Efficient Communications via Aerial-RIS

Jaime Luque (TU Darmstadt, Germany); Tarcisio F. Maciel (Federal University of Ceará, Brazil); Yuri C. B. Silva (Federal University of Ceará & Wireless Telecom Research Group (GTEL), Brazil); Anja Klein (TU Darmstadt, Germany)

Optimizing the Configuration of Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces using Deep Learning

Chuan Sun (University of Kansas, USA); Navid Naderializadeh (University of Pennsylvania, USA); Morteza Hashemi (University of Kansas, USA)

On the ADEP and DOR Analysis of RIS-aided URLLC Systems with Partial CSI in Smart Factory

Haiming Wang (Lenovo Research, China); Tingnan Bao (Chinese Academy of Sciences & Lenovo Research, China); Hong-Chuan Yang (University of Victoria, Canada); Wen-Jing Wang (Xi'an University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Mazen Omar Hasna (Qatar University, Qatar)

 

Names of confirmed participants

Steering Committee

Marco Di Renzo, France (SIG, WTC, ETI-RIS)

Alessio Zappone, Italy (SIG, SPCC, ETI-RIS)

Vincenzo Sciancalepore, Germany (ETI-RIS)