IEEE International Conference on Communications
14-23 June 2021 // Virtual / Montreal
Connectivity – Security – Privacy

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Chair

Jeff Andrews, University of Texas at Austin, USA

Ex-Officio Members

Sonia Aissa, INRS, Canada 
Robert Schober, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
Matthew Valenti, West Virginia University, USA

Appointed Members

Mohamed-Slim Alouini, KAUST, Saudi Arabia
Dong In Kim, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea
Yi Qian, University of Nebraska Lincoln, USA
George Rouskas, North Carolina State University, USA
Parastoo Sadeghi, University of New South Wales, Australia
Filip De Turck, Ghent University, Belgium


SELECTED AREAS IN COMMUNICATIONS

“Metropolis-Hastings Random Walk along the Gradient Descent Direction for MIMO Detection”,
by Niranjan M Gowda, Sundar Krishnamurthy and Andrey Belogolovy

“Use of a Local Local Oscillator for the Satellite-to-Earth Channel”,
by Sebastian Kish, Eduardo Villasenor, Robert Malaney, Kerry Mudge and Kenneth Grant

 

COGNITIVE RADIO & AI-ENABLED NETWORKS SYMPOSIUM

“Multiband Spectrum Sensing with Non-exponential Channel Occupancy Times”,
by Hanke Cheng, Brian L. Mark, Yariv Ephraim, and Chun-Hung Chen

 

COMMUNICATION & INFORMATION SYSTEMS SECURITY SYMPOSIUM

“Exploiting Physical Presence Sensing to Secure Voice Assistant Systems”,
by Bang Tran, Shenhui Pan, Xiaohui Liang and Honggang Zhang

 

COMMUNICATION QOS, RELIABILITY & MODELING SYMPOSIUM

“Enhancing the Performance of Industry 4.0 Scenarios via Serverless Processing at the Edge”,
by Armir Bujari, Antonio Corradi, Luca Foschini, Lorenzo Patera and Andrea Sabbioni

 

COMMUNICATION SOFTWARE & MULTIMEDIA SYMPOSIUM

“Neighboring-Aware Caching in Heterogeneous Edge Networks by Actor-Attention-Critic Learning”,
by Yiwei Zhao, Ruibin Li, Chenyang Wang, Xiaofei Wang and Victor Leung

 

COMMUNICATION THEORY SYMPOSIUM

“Tight Bounds for the Probability of Connectivity in Random K-out Graphs”,
by Mansi Sood and Osman Yagan

 

GREEN COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS & NETWORKS SYMPOSIUM

“Optimal EE for Multi-MEC and Blockchain Empowered IoT: A Deep Learning Approach”,
by Lei Wang, Xiaofang Sun, Ruihong Jiang, Wenyi Jiang, Zhangdui Zhong and Derrick Wing Kwan Ng

 

IOT & SENSOR NETWORKS SYMPOSIUM

“Fast Grant Learning-Based Approach for Machine Type Communications with NOMA”,
by Manal El Tanab and Walaa Hamouda

 

MOBILE & WIRELESS NETWORKS SYMPOSIUM

“Disconnectivity-Aware Energy-Efficient Cargo-UAV Trajectory Planning with Minimum Handoffs”,
by Nesrine Cherif, Wael Jaafar, Halim Yanikomeroglu and Abbas Yongacoglu

 

NEXT-GENERATION NETWORKING & INTERNET SYMPOSIUM

“Analysis of Selfish Miner Behavior in the Bitcoin Network”,
by Saeideh Motlagh, Jelena Misic and Vojislav Misic

 

OPTICAL NETWORKS & SYSTEMS SYMPOSIUM

“Survivable Distributed Fiber Optic Sensors Placement against Single Link Failure”,
by Zilong Ye, Philip N. Ji, and Ting Wang

 

SIGNAL PROCESSING FOR COMMUNICATIONS SYMPOSIUM

“Design and Analysis of Uplink and Downlink Communications for Federated Learning”,
by Sihui Zheng, Cong Shen and Xiang Chen

 

WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS SYMPOSIUM

“How Does Performance Scale with Antenna Number for Extremely Large-Scale MIMO?”,
by Haiquan Lu and Yong Zeng

“Cooperative Multi-Beam Routing for Multi-IRS Aided Massive MIMO”,
by Weidong Mei and Rui Zhang

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