SPECIAL SESSIONS

Instructions for presenting authors

By SPAWC tradition, all (regular and special session) paper presentations are poster-based, with the exception of the keynotes, SPAWC talks, and tutorials. Session slots are 1-hour long. Please find your session in the technical programme.

Please provide an A0 size poster in a portrait format.  The poster stands have dimensions of H183 x W122 cm (H6” x W4”).  To ensure visibility, all poster materials should be legible from a distance of two meters. Please ensure that the title of the Special Session, title of the Paper, the authors, and their affiliations are prominently displayed near the top of the poster.

Authors are responsible for printing their own posters, hanging them before the session begins, and removing them after the session ends. We will provide the necessary materials to attach the posters to the display panels. Student volunteers will be available to provide assistance and help facilitate the smooth operation of each session.

Each poster board on site will be numbered according to the poster listings in the programme and given a colour code. Please place your poster on the assigned poster board.

NOTE: If you would like to print your poster in Guildford, one option is:

Impress Print, W: https://www.impressprint.co.uk/general-enquiries/, T: 01932 236100

For any questions, please contact Prof Pei Xiao: p.xiao@surrey.ac.uk or Yu Liu yu.liu@surrey.ac.uk

Advanced Multiple Access Techniques for 6G

Special Session Chairs: Dr. Zeping Sui (University of Essex, UK), Dr. Qu Luo (University of Surrey, UK), Dr Kuntal Deca (IIT Guwahati, India), Prof Lei Liu (Zhejiang University, China), Prof Bruno Clerckx (Imperial College of London, UK), Prof Zhiguo Ding (Manchester University, UK), Dr. Zilong Liu (University of Essex, UK)

Advanced Signal Processing for Integrated Sensing and Communications

Special Session Chairs: Dr. Ahmed Elzanaty and Prof. Gabriele Gradoni (University of Surrey, UK), Dr. Alain Mourad, Arman Shojaeifard and Mohammad Heggo (Interdigital Europe, London, UK)

Advanced Signal Processing for Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces

Special Session Organisers: Jalal Jalali (Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), and Rodrigo C. de Lamare (Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and University of York, UK)

Special Session Chairs: Mohsen Khalily (Institute for Communication Systems (ICS), University of Surrey, UK), and Arman Shojaeifard (InterDigital, UK, and Ata Khalili, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nurnberg, Germany)

Advancing Robustness, Security, and Intelligence in Autonomous and Connected Networks

Special Session Chairs: Dr Alireza Esfahani and Dr Shidrokh Goudarzi (University of West London, UK), Prof. Shahid Mumtaz (Nottingham Trent University, UK), Prof. Marcus Völp (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg), Dr Mazdak Zamani (State University of New York (Empire State University), USA)

AI-Driven Security and Privacy in Next-Generation Networks

Special Session Chairs: Dr. Mohammad Shojafar and Dr. Mahtab Mirmohseni (University of Surrey, UK), Dr Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali (University of Minnesota, US), Dr. Hamed Ahmadi (University of York, UK), Dr. David Owens (Virgin Media O2, UK)

Fluid Antenna System (FAS) for 6G

Special Session Chairs: Kai-Kit Wong (University College London, UK), Dusit (Tao) Niyato (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore), George Karagiannidis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece), Hao Xu (Southeast University, China), Yongxu Zhu (Southeast University, China), Farshad Rostami Ghadi (University College London, UK)

Generative AI for Next Generation Wireless Communications

Special Session Chairs: Mingzhe Chen (University of Miami, USA), Yuchen Liu (North Carolina State University, USA), Ye Hu (University of Miami, USA)

Green Communications and Networks

Special Session Chairs: Cicek Cavdar (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden), Meysam Masoudi (Ericsson, Sweden), and Hamed Ahmadi (University of York, UK)

Integrated Sensing, AI and Communications – Redefining ISAC for World Models and Physical AI

Special Session Chairs: Yan Chen (Huawei Technology Co., Ltd., China) and Liang Liu (Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China)

Integrated Terrestrial and Satellite Communications

Special Session Chairs: Lixia Xiao (Hust University of Science and Technology, China), Zhengyu Song (Beijing Jiaotong University, China), Yulan Gao (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)

Interplay of Foundation Models and Telecommunications

Special Session Chairs: Chuan Heng Foh (University of Surrey, UK), Rongpeng Li (Zhejiang University, China), Gaojie Chen (Sun Yet-sen University, China)

Machine Learning for Wireless Localization and Sensing

Special Session Organisers: Nir Shlezinger (Ben-Gurion University, Israel), George Alexandropoulos (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece)

Massive Random Access

Special Session Organisers: Tolga M. Duman (Bilkent University, Turkey), Mohammad Kazemi (Imperial College London, UK)

Quantum Machine Learning and Optimization for Next Generation Communication Technologies

Special Session Chairs: Prof. Trung Q. Duong (Memorial University, Canada), Prof. Simon L. Cotton (Queen’s University Belfast, UK)

Semantic Communication and Intellicise (Intelligent-Concise) Network for Embodied AI System

Special Session Chairs: Prof. Ping Zhang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT), China), Prof. Nan Ma (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT), China), Dr. Mahdi Boloursaz Mashhadi (University of Surrey, UK), Dr. Bizhu Wang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT), China)

Signal Processing Advances for Semantic and Goal-Oriented Communications

Special Session Organisers: Dr. Mattia Merluzzi and Dr. Emilio Calvanese Strinati (CEA-Leti, Université Grenoble Alpes, France), Prof. Paolo Di Lorenzo (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy), Prof Yi Ma (University of Surrey, UK)

Signal Processing Advances for XL-MIMO Systems

Special Session Organisers: Rodrigo C. de Lamare (Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and University of York, UK)
Special Session Chairs: Lukas Landau (Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) and Arumugam Nallanathan (Queen Mary University of London, UK)

Smart Wireless Environment Enhanced Telecommunications

Special Session Chairs: Dr Yangyishi Zhang (British Telecom, UK), Dr Minglei You (University of Nottingham, UK), Prof. Marco Di Renzo (King’s College London, UK), Prof. Gabriele Gradoni (University of Surrey, UK)

Signal Processing for Cell-Free Massive MIMO Systems

Session Organizers: Emil Björnson (KTH Royal institute of Technology, Sweden) and Parisa Ramezani (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)

Token-Based and Generative Signal Processing for Context-Aware Semantic Communications

Special Session Chairs: Zhijin Qin (Tsinghua University, China), Jihong Park (Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore), Yao Sun (University of Glasgow, UK), and Mahdi Boloursaz Mashhadi (University of Surrey, UK)

Selected Topics

Special Session Chairs: Zhu Han (University of Houston, US), Yongxu Zhu (Southeast University, China), and Chenhao Qi (Southeast University, China)