Welcome to the 2022 IEEE Communication Theory Workshop (IEEE CTW 2022).

Due to the evolution of the pandemic, and the prospects for a rapid improvement over the next few months, we decided to move this year’s workshop to the fall, with the hope of being able to celebrate an in-person event as opposed to yet another online one. What makes CTW such a special event is, above all, its interactive nature, much of which simply cannot be reproduced in an online fashion.

The workshop will be held on October 2–5, 2022,  in Marbella, Spain, in the Mediterranean coast of southern Spain: the most exclusive tourist destination on the Costa del Sol.

The continued success of this workshop lies in its informal and highly interactive atmosphere, in contrast to more formal conferences. As always, the workshop will be single track with technical sessions, plenary speakers, panel discussions, and a hot-topics submitted poster session. The technical sessions will consist of invited lectures given by leaders in both academia and industry.

For information about CTW 2021 and earlier, please see http://ctw2021.ieee-ctw.org.

Committee

Tentative schedule

Sunday, October 2

18.30-20:00          Registration

20.00-22:00          Welcome reception

Monday, October 3

09:30–10:30         Keynote 1 — TBD
10:30 – 11:00       Coffee break

11:00 – 12:30       Session 1 — Extreme bandwidth communications/Joint Communications & SensingOrganizer: Josep Miquel JornetSpeaker 1: Joerg Widmer (IMDEA Networks Institute)Title: “Practical low-overhead joint communication and sensing at mm-wave frequencies”

                            Speaker 2: Josep Miquel Jornet (Institute for the Wireless Internet of Things, Northeastern University)Title: “The Role of the Terahertz Band in 6G and Beyond: Reality Check”  

                            Speaker 3:Anna Maria Vegni (Department of Engineering, Roma Tre University)Title: “Visible Light Communications in Internet of Underwater Things”

12:30 – 15:30       Lunch & free time

                            Session 2 — Reconfigurable Surfaces

15:30 – 17:00       Organizers: Marco di Renzo & Arman Shojaeifard

                             Speaker 1: Marco di Renzo (CNRS & Paris-Saclay University)Title: “Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces – Recent results on modeling and optimization”

                            Speaker 2: Dinh Thuy PHAN HUY (Orange Innovation)Title: “Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces – A fixed and mobile network operator perspective”

                           Speaker 3: Arman Shojaeifard (Interdigital Communications, Inc.)Title: “Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces – State of play from ETSI ISG RIS”

17:00 – 17:30       Coffee break

17:30 –  19:00      Panel 1 — Network resilience/connecting the unconnected

                            Organizer: Petar Popovski (Aalborg University)
                             Panelist 1: Michel Masselin (Thales Alenia Space)
                             Panelist 2: Beatriz Soret (University of Málaga)
                             Panelist 3: Riccardo de Gaudenzi (European Space Agency)
                             Panelist 4: Yunfei Chen (University of Warwick)
19:00 – 20:30        Poster session (regular posters) & cocktails

                             Organizers: David Morales (University of Granada) and Mahnoosh Alizadeh (UCSB)
                             More information here

Tuesday, October 4

09:30–10:30           Keynote 2 — Aylin Yener (Ohio State University)
10:30 – 11:00         Coffee break11:00 – 12:30

                              Session 3 — Semantic communications

                             Organizers: Marios Kountouris & Sennur Ulukus 

                             Speaker 1: Sennur Ulukus (University of Maryland)Title: “TBD”

                             Speaker 2: Petar Popovski (Aalborg University)Title: “Communication Models and Protocols: Syntax, Semantics, Pragmatics”

                             Speaker 3: Marios Kountouris (EURECOM)Title: “How Semantic is Semantic Communication?”

12:30 – 15:30        Lunch & Free time

                             CTTC Early Achievement Awards Session

15:30 – 17:00        Speaker 1: Harpreet Dhillon (Virginia Tech), awardee 2020.Title: TBD

                              Speaker 2: Yuanwei Liu (Queen Mary University), awardee 2021.Title: “STAR: Simultaneous Transmission And Reflection for 360º Coverage by Intelligent Surfaces“

                             Speaker 3: Junil Choi (Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology), awardee 2021.

                             Title: “Machine-learning for wireless communications: power of data preprocessing”

17:00 – 17:30        Coffee17:30 – 18:30

                             Panel 2 — Industry vs academia: what should/would/will 6G be (and whatnot)?
                             Organizer: Maïté Brandt-Pearce (University of Virginia)
                             Panelist 1: Jeff Andrews (University of Texas at Austin)
                             Panelist 2: TBD
                             Panelist 3: TBD
                             Panelist 4: TBD

18:30 – 19:15         Technical pills: Consumption and energy efficient for sustainable communications
Speaker: Ted Rappaport (NYU)

21:00                    Gala dinner

Wednesday, October 5

09:30 – 10:30        Keynote 3 — TBD

10:30 – 11:00        Coffee break

11:00 – 12:30        Session 4 —Integrated space/air/ground communications 

                            Organizer: Sofie Pollin

                             Speaker 1: Helka-Liina Maattanen (Ericsson Research Finland)Title: “3GPP support for Non-Terrestrial Networks”

                            Speaker 2: Symeon Chatzinotas  (University of Luxembourg)Title: “Multilayered Satellite Systems: Perspective and Challenges”

                             Speaker 3: Sofie Pollin (KU Leuven)Title: “Evolution of Non-Terrestrial Networks from 5G to 6G”

12:30 – 13:00        Closing remarks

                            CTTC Early Achievement Awards Session

                           Speaker 1: Harpreet Dhillon (Virginia Tech), awardee 2020.Title: TBD

                           Speaker 2: Yuanwei Liu (Queen Mary University), awardee 2021.Title: “STAR: Simultaneous Transmission And Reflection for 360º Coverage by Intelligent Surfaces“

                           Speaker 3: Junil Choi (Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology), awardee 2021.Title: “Machine-learning for wireless communications: power of data preprocessing”

17:00 – 17:30      Coffee

17:30 – 18:30      Panel 2 — Industry vs academia: what should/would/will 6G be (and whatnot)?

                           Organizer: Maïté Brandt-Pearce (University of Virginia)
                            Panelist 1: Jeff Andrews (University of Texas at Austin)
                            Panelist 2: TBD
                            Panelist 3: TBD
                            Panelist 4: TBD18:30 – 19:15

                           Technical pills: Consumption and energy efficient for sustainable communications
                           Speaker: Ted Rappaport (NYU)21:00Gala dinner

Wednesday, October 5

09:30 – 10:30       Keynote 3 — TBD

10:30 – 11:00       Coffee break

11:00 – 12:30        Session 4 —Integrated space/air/ground communications

                              Organizer: Sofie Pollin

                              Speaker 1: Helka-Liina Maattanen (Ericsson Research Finland)Title: “3GPP support for Non-Terrestrial Networks” 

                              Speaker 2: Symeon Chatzinotas  (University of Luxembourg)Title: “Multilayered Satellite Systems: Perspective and Challenges”

                               Speaker 3: Sofie Pollin (KU Leuven)Title: “Evolution of Non-Terrestrial Networks from 5G to 6G”12:30 – 13:00Closing remarks