Program

This workshop will be held in Orchid Main Ballroom 4204.
Keynote I: LTE on Unlicensed Band
 
Keynote Speaker: Prof. Geoffrey Ye Li, IEEE Fellow, Georgia Institute of Technology
 
Abstract: Future 5G cellular networks are facing the challenging task on increasing their capacity dramatically. Despite some cutting-edge capacity-approaching techniques, the limited licensed spectrum is still a major bottleneck for capacity improvement. To tackle this issue, a new standard has been developed within 3GPP for LTE systems, currently on the licensed bands, to operate on the unlicensed bands, which is called LTE on unlicensed bands (LTE-U). LTE has many advanced techniques, which can be exploited in the unlicensed bands to achieve a high spectral efficiency. However, the unlicensed bands are currently occupied by the widely-deployed WiFi networks.  The major challenge on LTE-U is how to design fair and efficient coexistence mechanisms between LTE and WiFi networks. In this talk, we will first discuss traditional traffic offloading, resource sharing, and hybrid of the both for LTE users to optimally exploit unlicensed bands while guaranteeing of the QoS of the existing WiFi users. To improve both the LTE and WiFi users simultaneously and achieve a win-win situation, we then provide a novel traffic offloading strategy, which is just opposite to the traditional one and offloads some WiFi users to the LTE networks and at the same time relinquishes some unlicensed bands to LTE-U. Since the unlicensed bands are usually operated less energy-efficiently than the licensed ones due to the higher carrier frequency of the unlicensed bands and larger pass-loss, we also present a framework for energy-efficiency (EE) optimization in LTE-U. We establish a criterion to determine whether the EE of the LTE system can be improved with the help of the unlicensed bands. Based on the criterion, we then develop a joint licensed and unlicensed resource allocation algorithm to maximize the EE of each LTE small cell base station.
 
Biography: Dr. Geoffrey Li is a Professor with the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology. He is also holding a Cheung Kong Scholar title at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China since 2006. He was with AT&T Labs – Research for five years before joining Georgia Tech in 2000. His general research interests include wireless communications and statistical signal processing. In these areas, he has published over 400 referred journal and conference papers in addition to over 40 granted patents. His publications have been cited by over 29,000 times and he has been listed as the World’s Most Influential Scientific Mind, also known as a Highly-Cited Researcher, by Thomson Reuters. He has been an IEEE Fellow since 2006. He received the Stephen O. Rice Prize Paper Award in 2010, the WTC Wireless Recognition Award in 2013, the Award for Advances in Communication in 2017 from the IEEE Communications Society and the James Evans Avant Garde Award in 2013 and the Jack Neubauer Memorial Award in 2014 from the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society. He also won 2015 Distinguished Faculty Achievement Award from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Tech.

Keynote II: Toward a User-Centric Analysis of 5G Networks
 
Keynote Speaker: Prof. Martin Haenggi, IEEE Fellow, University of Notre Dame
 
Abstract: The elements of 5G networks (base stations at different tiers, RRHs, users, etc.) are irregularly placed and thus best modeled using point processes and analyzed using tools from stochastic geometry. Many works focus on the SIR distribution at the typical user, which permits a first-order performance analysis and comparison of different architectures. However, it only describes the average performance of all links or users and thus does not reveal how concentrated the per-user SIR levels are. To capture the disparity between users, a more refined metric is needed, the so-called meta distribution of the SIR. The meta distribution is based on a clean separation of time and spatial scales and answers questions such as “what is the SIR level achieved by 95% of the users with 90% reliability?” or “what fraction of users achieve an SIR of 5 dB with 95% reliability?”. It also allows a robust definition of coverage and the calculation of the spatial outage capacity, which is the maximum density of concurrent links given an outage constraint. In this talk, we introduce and discuss the meta distribution of cellular networks with Poisson distributed base stations, for the downlink, uplink with power control, base station cooperation, and D2D underlay. For transmission modes with a high degree of diversity, an ergodic point of view is called for. For this case, we derive the distribution of the ergodic spectral efficiency over the users, which specifies the fraction of users who achieve a target spectral efficiency.
 
Biography: Martin Haenggi is the Frank M. Freimann Professor of Electrical Engineering and a Concurrent Professor of Applied and Computational Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA. He received the Dipl.Ing. (M.Sc.) and Dr.sc.techn. (Ph.D.) degrees in electrical engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH) in 1995 and 1999, respectively. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. He authored the monographs “Interference in Large Wireless Networks” (NOW, 2008) and “Stochastic Geometry Analysis of Cellular Networks” (Cambridge, 2018), the textbook “Stochastic Geometry for Wireless Networks” (Cambridge, 2012), and more than 240 articles in refereed journals and conferences, including 14 single-author journal articles. He received the ETH Medal for both his M.Sc. and Ph.D. theses, a CAREER award from the U.S. National Science Foundation in 2005, the 2010 IEEE Communications Society Best Tutorial Paper award, the 2017 Best Survey Paper Award, and the 2017 Stephen O. Rice Prize. He is a 2017 Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researcher.

  Monday, December 4
9:00 ‑ 9:05 am Welcome and Introduction
9:05 ‑ 9:45 am Keynote I
9:45 ‑ 10:30 am Keynote II
10:30 ‑ 11:00 am Coffee Break
11:00 am ‑ 12:15 pm Network Design and Management
12:15 ‑ 2:00 pm Lunch Break
2:00 ‑ 3:30 pm Coexistence of Licensed and Unlicensed Spectrum
3:30 ‑ 4:00 pm  Coffee Break
4:00 ‑ 5:15 pm 5G in Unlicensed Spectrum
Monday, December 4

Monday, December 4, 09:00 - 09:05

Welcome and Introduction

Chair: Lingyang Song(Peking University, P.R. China)

Monday, December 4, 09:05 - 09:45

Keynote I

LTE on Unlicensed Band, Prof. Geoffrey Ye Li, Georgia Institute of Technology
Chair: Lingyang Song(Peking University, P.R. China)

Monday, December 4, 09:45 - 10:30

Keynote II

Toward a User-Centric Analysis of 5G Networks, Prof. Martin HaenggiUniversity of Notre Dame
Chair: Lingyang Song(Peking University, P.R. China)

Monday, December 4, 10:30 - 11:00

Coffee Break

Monday, December 4, 11:00 - 12:15

Network Design and Management

Chair: Wei Wang (Zhejiang University, P.R. China)

Adaptive Energy Threshold for ImprovedCo-existence Between Licensed Assisted Accessand Wi-Fi
David López-Pérez (Nokia Bell Labs, Ireland); Jonathan Ling (Alcatel-Lucent, USA); Mohammad Khawer (Nokia, USA); Amr Abdelfattah (Sorbonne Universites, France)

Optimal Time Reuse in Cooperative D2D Relaying Networks
Zhaowei Zhu and Shengda Jin (ShanghaiTech University, P.R. China); Yu Zeng (Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology & University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China); Honglin Hu (Shanghai Advanced Research Institute, P.R. China); Xiliang Luo (ShanghaiTech University, P.R. China)

Signal Detection for Ambient Backscatter Communications Using Unsupervised Learning
Qianqian Zhang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, P.R. China); Ying-Chang Liang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, P.R. China & The University of Sydney, Australia)

Decentralized Computation Offloading in Mobile Edge Computing Empowered Small-Cell Networks
Jun GuoHeli ZhangLichao YangHong Ji and Xi Li (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China)

Cooperative Content Delivery in Vehicular Networks with Integration of Sub-6 GHz and mmWave
Celimuge Wu (The University of Electro-Communications, Japan); Tsutomu Yoshinaga (University of Electro-Communications, Japan); Yusheng Ji (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)

Monday, December 4, 12:15 - 14:00

Lunch Break

Monday, December 4, 14:00 - 15:30

Coexistence of Licensed and Unlicensed Spectrum

Chair: Hangguan Shan (Zhejiang University, P.R. China)

Self-organization Towards Reduced Cost and Energy Per Bit for Future Emerging Radio Technologies
S Mumtaz (GS-lda, Portugal); K. M. S. Huq (GS-LDA, Portugal); Jonathan Rodriguez (GSLDA, Portugal); Loizos Kanaris (Sigint Solutions Ltd, Cyprus); S Stavrou (Sigint, Cyprus); S Ghosh and Emeka Emmanuel (LSBU, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Muddesar Iqbal and Tasos Dagiuklas (London South Bank University, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Ilias Politis (Hellenic Open University & Univerisity of Patras, Greece); Asimakis Lykourgiotis (Hellenic Open University & University of Patras, Greece); Theofilos ChrysikosPolyxeni Nakou and Panagiotis Georgakopoulos(University of Patras, Greece)

Capacity Analysis of Delay-Sensitive Traffic over LTE Networks in Unlicensed Spectrum
Guoxiang LiHangguan Shan and Aiping Huang (Zhejiang University, P.R. China); Lin X. Cai (Illinois Institute of Technology, USA); Fen Hou (University of Macau, Macao)

Analyzing the WiFi Access Probability in LTE-U/WiFi Coexistence Networks
Zhijiang Xu (Zhejiang University of Technology, P.R. China); Yi Gong (Southern University of Science and Technology, P.R. China); Zhenghua Wu (Zhejiang University of Technology, P.R. China); Fangni Chen (Zhejiang University of Science and Technology, P.R. China)

The Role of Video Coding in D2D Communications
Xuguang Zhang (NERCCN, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China); Jianxin Chen (Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China); Feng Tian (Virginia Tech, USA); Zhe Yuan (NERCCN, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China)

Fairly Coexistence of LTE and WiFi: A Markov Game Framework
Shangjing Lin and Jianguo Yu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China)

Monday, December 4, 15:30 - 16:00

Coffee Break

Monday, December 4, 16:00 - 17:15

5G in Unlicensed Spectrum

Chair: Hangguan Shan (Zhejiang University, P.R. China)

5G in Open-Pit Mines: Considerations on Large-Scale Propagation in Sub-6 GHz Bands
Erika P. L. Almeida (Aalborg University & INDT - Institute of Technology Development, Denmark); George Caldwell (Ektrum, Brazil); Ignacio Rodriguez (Aalborg Universitet, Denmark); Robson Domingos Vieira (Ektrum & Federal University of Brasilia, Brazil); Troels B. Sørensen and Preben Mogensen (Aalborg University, Denmark); Luis Guilherme Uzeda Garcia (Instituto Tecnológico Vale, Brazil)

An indoor precise positioning algorithm using 60GHz Millimeter-wave based on the optimal path search
Xueyan Han (Qingdao University of Science & Technology, P.R. China); Jingjing WangShi Wei and Qiuna Niu (Qingdao University of Science & Technology); Jiangfeng Wang (Qingdao University of Science & Technology, P.R. China)

Link Adaptation for Unicast Device-to-Device Communication
Yu-Ngok Ruyue LiShuanshuan Wu and Haigang He (ZTE Corporation, P.R. China); Yifei Yuan (ZTE Corporation, USA)

A Novel Design of System Level Simulator for Heterogeneous Networks
Xinzhe Wang (University of Science and Technology, Beijing, P.R. China); Yueyun Chen (University of Science and Technology Beijing, P.R. China); Zhiyuan Mai (University of Science & Technology Beijing, P.R. China)

Pre-Backoff based Random Access with Priority for 5G Machine-Type Communication
Linpei Li and Xiangming Wen (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China); Zhaoming Lu (BUPT, P.R. China); Qi Pan and Wenpeng Jing (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China)