Tuesday, May 14, 2024

SESSION A1/B1 Single Track Papers 1

Session Chair: Danijela Cabric (UC Los Angeles, USA)

Time: 09:30 - 10:45

Room: Washington 

POWDER-RDZ: Prototyping a Radio Dynamic Zone Using the POWDER Platform

David M. Johnson (University of Utah, USA); Dustin Maas (University of Utah & XANDEM, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA); Serhat Tadik (Georgia Tech, USA); Alex Orange, Leigh Stoller, Kirk Webb, Muhammad Basit Iqbal Awan, Jacob Bills, Miguel Gomez and Aarushi Sarbhai (University of Utah, USA); Gregory Durgin (Georgia Tech, USA); Sneha Kumar Kasera (University of Utah, USA); Neal Patwari (Washington University in St. Louis, USA); David Schurig and Jacobus E. Van der Van der Merwe (University of Utah, USA)

A Comprehensive Analysis of Secondary Coexistence in a Real-World CBRS Deployment

Armed Tusha, Seda Doğan-Tusha and Hossein Nasiri (University of Notre Dame, USA); Muhammad Iqbal Rochman (University of Chicago, USA); Patrick McGuire (City of South Bend, Indiana, USA); Monisha Ghosh (University of Notre Dame, USA)

An Optimized Move List for DPA in CBRS

Naru Jai and Yi Shi (Virginia Tech, USA); Masoud Olfat (Federated Wirleess, USA); Jeffrey Reed (Virginia Tech, USA); Luiz DaSilva (Virginia Tech, USA & Trinity College Dublin, Ireland); Wenjing Lou and Thomas Hou (Virginia Tech, USA)

SESSION A2/B2 Single Track Papers 2

Session Chair: Thomas Hou (Virginia Tech, USA)

Time: 11:15-12:30

Room: Washington

Market Impacts of Pooling Intermittent Spectrum

Phil Kangle Mu (Nothwestern University, USA); Randall A Berry (Northwestern University, USA)

Spectrum Sharing between Earth Exploration Satellite and Commercial Services: An Economic Feasibility Analysis

Jonathan D Chamberlain (United States & Boston University, USA); David Starobinski (Boston University, USA); Joel T. Johnson (Ohio State University, USA)

Towards Efficient Spectrum Management: A Data-Driven Assessment Framework for Local Licensing

Mohamad Alkadamani (Communications Research Centre Canada & Carleton University, Canada); Kareem E. Baddour (Communications Research Centre Canada, Canada); Mathieu Châteauvert (Communication Research Centre Canada, Canada); Janaki Parekh (Communications Research Centre & Carleton University, Canada); Adrian Florea and Colin Brown (Communications Research Centre, Canada)

SESSION A3 Coexistence I

Session Chair: Neal Patwari (Washington University in St. Louis, USA)

Time: 14:45-16:00

Room: Washington II

Coexistence-Assured Automated Policy Generation for Dynamic Spectrum Access Management

Brian Rappaport and Masoud Farshchian (The MITRE Corporation, USA); Frederick Howard (DISA, USA); Harris Zebrowitz (The MITRE Corporation, USA)

I2S Attack: Exploring MITM Attack on Satellite Communications by Spectrum Shared IoTs*

Tamerlan Aghayev, Chad Fortenbaugh and Zicheng Chi (Cleveland State University, USA)

Market Models of Security Investments with Shared Spectrum*

Zongyun Xie and Randall A Berry (Northwestern University, USA)

SESSION B3 Satellites

Session Chair: David Starobinski (Boston University, USA)

Time: 14:45-16:00

Room: Washington III

Context-Aware Spectrum Coexistence of Terrestrial Beyond 5G Networks in Satellite Bands

Ta-Seen Reaz Niloy (Volgenau School of Engineering & George Mason University, USA); Zoheb Hasan (Universit e Laval, Canada); Vijay K. Shah (George Mason University, USA); Robert G Smith (The MITRE Corporation, USA); Vikram Reddy Anapana (George Mason University, USA)

Reducing Satellite Interference to Radio Telescopes using Beacons

Cuneyd Ozturk, Randall A Berry, Dongning Guo and Michael Honig (Northwestern University, USA); Frank D Lind (MIT, USA)

ASCENT: A Context-Aware Spectrum Coexistence Design and Implementation Toolset for Policymakers in Satellite Bands

Ta-Seen Reaz Niloy (Volgenau School of Engineering & George Mason University, USA); Saurav Kumar (Virginia Tech, USA); Zoheb Hasan (Universit e Laval, Canada); Vijay K. Shah (George Mason University, USA); Eric W. Burger (Virginia Tech, USA); Carl B. Dietrich (Virginia Tech & Wireless @ Virginia Tech, USA); Aniruddha Hore and Jeffrey Reed (Virginia Tech, USA)

SESSION A4 Measurement Campaigns

Session Chair: Ismail Guvenc (North Carolina State University, USA)

Time: 16:30-17:45

Room: Washington II

A Comprehensive Real-World Evaluation of 5G Improvements over 4G in Low- and Mid-Bands

Muhammad Iqbal Rochman (University of Chicago, USA); Wei Ye (University of Minnesota Twin Cities, USA); Zhi-Li Zhang (University of Minnesota, USA); Monisha Ghosh (University of Notre Dame, USA)

Two Measure is Two Know: Calibration-free Full Duplex Monitoring for Software Radio Platforms

Jie Wang and Jonathan Gornet (Washington University in St. Louis, USA); Alex Orange, Leigh Stoller, Gary T Wong, Jacobus E. Van der Van der Merwe and Sneha Kumar Kasera (University of Utah, USA); Neal Patwari (Washington University in St. Louis, USA)

Geo2SigMap: High-Fidelity RF Signal Mapping Using Geographic Databases

Yiming Li, Zeyu Li, Zhihui Gao and Tingjun Chen (Duke University, USA)

SESSION B4 Regulations and Policy I

Session Chair: Simon Saunders (University of Bristol, UK)

Time: 16:30-17:45

Room: Washington III

Analysis of a Self-Assessed Tax Model in Secondary Spectrum Markets

Ali Fazeli and Raviraj Adve (University of Toronto, Canada)

Valuation of Flexible Spectrum Licensing for Local 6G with Varying Interference Levels*

Arturo Basaure (University of Oulu, Finland); Seppo Yrjölä (Nokia & Centre for Wireless Communications, University of Oulu, Finland); Marja Matinmikko-Blue (University of Oulu, Centre for Wireless Communications, Finland); Petri Ahokangas (University of Oulu, Finland)

A Hybrid DoD ENG 2025-2110 MHz Band Spectrum Sharing Approach*

Mark McHenry (Shared Spectrum Company, USA)

A Survey of Policy Issues in Spectrum Sharing on the 12GHz Band*

Erika Heeren-Moon and Eric W. Burger (Virginia Tech, USA)

Wednesday, May 15, 2024

SESSION A5 Machine Learning I

Session Chair: Sneha Kumar Kasera (University of Utah, USA)

Time: 09:30 - 10:45

Room: Washington II

Channel Estimation via Loss Field: Accurate Site-Trained Modeling for Shadowing Prediction

Jie Wang (Washington University in St. Louis, USA); Meles G Weldegebriel (Washington University in Saint Louis, USA); Neal Patwari (Washington University in St. Louis, USA)

Domain Knowledge Powered Machine Learning for the Classification of LOS/NLOS Signals for Dedicated-Spectrum SAGIN Networks

Mingze Pan (Stevens Institute of Technology, USA); Sudhanshu Arya (Stevens Institute of Technology, USA & Pukyong National University, USA); Ying Wang (Stevens Institute of Technology, USA)

Advancing RAN Slicing with Offline Reinforcement Learning

Kun Yang (University of Virginia, USA); Shu-ping Yeh and Menglei Zhang (Intel Corporation, USA); Jaroslaw Sydir (Intel Labs, USA); Jing Yang (The Pennsylvania State University, USA); Cong Shen (University of Virginia, USA)

SESSION B5 Security and Privacy

Session Chair: Sofie Pollin (KU Leuven, Belgium)

Time: 09:30 - 10:45

Room: Washington III

Preserving Data Privacy for ML-driven Applications in Open Radio Access Networks

Pranshav Gajjar and Vijay K. Shah (George Mason University, USA); Azuka J. Chiejina (NextG Wireless Lab, USA)

Pri-Share: Enabling Inter-SAS Privacy Protection via Secure Multi-Party Spectrum Allocation

Hexuan Yu, Shanghao Shi, Yi Shi, Eric W. Burger, Thomas Hou and Wenjing Lou (Virginia Tech, USA)

Anomaly Transmitter Recognition and Tracking

Tianyi Zhao (University of California, Los Angeles, USA); Shamik Sarkar (Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) Delhi, India); Yuan Tian and Danijela Cabric (University of California Los Angeles, USA)

SESSION A6 mmWave

Session Chair: Narayan Mandayam (Rutgers University, USA)

Time: 11:15-12:30

Room: Washington II

How Does the Growth of 5G mmWave Deployment Affect the Accuracy of Numerical Weather Forecasting?

Behzad Golparvar, Shaghayegh Vosoughitabar and David Bazzett (Rutgers University, USA); Joseph F Brodie (AKRF, USA); Chung-Tse Michael Wu (Rutgers University, USA); Narayan Mandayam (WINLAB, Rutgers University, USA); Ruo-Qian Wang (Rutgers University, USA)

Millimeter Wave Spectrum Sharing using Analog True Time Delay Array based Wideband Nulling

Aditya Wadaskar (University of California Los Angeles, USA); Shamik Sarkar (Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) Delhi, India); Danijela Cabric (University of California Los Angeles, USA)

Impact of Realistic GNSS Location Errors on REM-Based Beam Management in Urban Millimeter-Wave Networks

Aron Schott (RWTH Aachen University, Germany); Enrico Tosi and Federico Chiariotti (University of Padova, Italy); Ljiljana Simić (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)

SESSION B6 Passive Users

Session Chair: Kevin Gifford (University of Colorado at Boulder, USA)

Time: 11:15-12:30

Room: Washington III

Low Overhead Multi-Source RFI Cancellation

Shuvam Chakraborty, Dola Saha and Aveek Dutta (University at Albany, SUNY, USA); Gregory Hellbourg (California Institute of Technology, USA)

Network Layer Spectral Coordination Integrated with Hadamard Projection for Multilayer Interference Mitigation

Ashton Palacios, Devon C Ward, Dinah Bronson and Jon Backman (Brigham Young University, USA); Deukhyoun Heo (Washington State University, USA); Karl Warnick and Philip Lundrigan (Brigham Young University, USA)

RIS for Signal Cancellation in 3D

Xue Wei (University at Albany SUNY, USA); Anushka Gupta (University at Albany, USA); Aveek Dutta and Dola Saha (University at Albany, SUNY, USA); Gregory Hellbourg (California Institute of Technology, USA)

SESSION A7 Radio Dynamic Zones

Session Chair: Bernd-Peter Paris (George Mason University, USA)

Time: 14:45-16:00

Room: Washington II

Electric Field Evaluation of Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface in Wireless Networks

Zhuangzhuang Cui, Franco Minucci, Rizqi Hersyandika, Rodney Martinez Alonso, Andrea Guevarra, Hazem Sallouha and Sofie Pollin (KU Leuven, Belgium)

3D Spectrum Awareness for Radio Dynamic Zones Using Kriging and Matrix Completion

Mushfiqur Rahman (NC State University, USA); Sung Joon Maeng, Ismail Güvenç and Chau-Wai Wong (North Carolina State University, USA)

Reactive Spectrum Sharing with Radio Dynamic Zones

Aarushi Sarbhai, Frost B Mitchell, Sneha Kumar Kasera, Aditya Bhaskara and Jacobus E. Van der Van der Merwe (University of Utah, USA); Neal Patwari (Washington University in St. Louis, USA)

SESSION B7 Regulations and Policy II

Session Chair: Raviraj Adve (University of Toronto, Canada)

Time: 14:45-16:00

Room: Washington III

Informing Wireless Spectrum Policy-Making Via Crowdsourced Data-Driven Insights: A Case Study

Amir Ghasemi (CRC, Canada); Janaki Parekh (Communications Research Centre & Carleton University, Canada)

Characterization of Regulatory Frameworks for Spectrum Access in Local Mobile Communication Network Deployments

Pekka Ojanen (Co-Worker Technology Finland, Finland); Seppo Yrjölä (Nokia & Centre for Wireless Communications, University of Oulu, Finland); Marja Matinmikko-Blue (University of Oulu, Centre for Wireless Communications, Finland)

SESSION A8 Machine Learning II

Session Chair: Ali Cafer Gurbuz (Mississippi State University, USA)

Time: 16:30-17:45

Room: Washington II

Over-the-air Aggregation-based Federated Learning for Technology Recognition in Multi-RAT Networks

Merkebu Girmay (Ghent University - Imec, Belgium); Mohamed Seif Eldin Mohamed (Princeton University, USA); Vasilis Maglogiannis (Ghent University - imec & IDLab Research Group, Belgium); Dries Naudts (Ghent University & Imec, Belgium); Adnan Shahid (Gent University - imec, Belgium); H. Vincent Poor (Princeton University, USA); Ingrid Moerman (Ghent University - IMEC, Belgium)

RFSynth: Data Generation and Testing Platform for Spectrum Information Systems

Hari Prasad and Raghav Subbaraman (University of California San Diego, USA); Tianyi Hu (JASR Systems, USA); Dinesh Bharadia (University of California, San Diego, USA)

Utilizing Confidence in Localization Predictions for Improved Spectrum Management

Frost B Mitchell (University of Utah, USA); Jie Wang (Washington University in St. Louis, USA); Sneha Kumar Kasera and Aditya Bhaskara (University of Utah, USA)

SESSION B8 Spectrum Sensing

Session Chair: Kobus Van der Merwe (University of Utah, USA)

Time: 16:30-17:45

Room: Washington III

Sustainable Spectrum Crowdsensing

Yijing Zeng (Meta, USA); Bangya Liu and Yilong Li (University of Wisconsin Madison, USA); Domenico Giustiniano (IMDEA Networks Institute, Spain); Suman Banerjee (University of Wisconsin, USA)

RadVIEW: Robust Radar Detection and Characterization in High-noise Regimes

Karyn Doke (University at Albany, USA); Shamik Sarkar (Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) Delhi, India); Blessing Andrew Okoro (University at Albany, USA); Danijela Cabric (University of California Los Angeles, USA); Mariya Zheleva (UAlbany SUNY, USA)

Automatic Indoor-Outdoor Detection Using Signals of Opportunity

Joshua Sanz (University of California, Berkeley, USA); Ali Abedi (University of California, Berkeley & Stanford University, USA); Anant Sahai (UC Berkeley, USA)

Thursday, May 16, 2024

SESSION A9 Spectrum Access

Session Chair: Randall Berry (Northwestern University, USA)

Time: 09:30 - 10:45

Room: Washington II

Design of a Reconfigurable Filtenna with Constant Bandwidth for Enhanced 5G mmWave Communication and Spectrum Coexistence*

Shaghayegh Vosoughitabar (Rutgers University, USA); Narayan Mandayam (WINLAB, Rutgers University, USA); Joseph F Brodie (Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA); Behzad Golparvar, Ruo-Qian Wang and Chung-Tse Michael Wu (Rutgers University, USA)

Fourier Meets Gardner: Robust Blind Waveform Characterization

Radhika Mathuria (University of California San Diego, USA); Srivatsan Rajagopal and Dinesh Bharadia (University of California, San Diego, USA)

Blind Signal Characterization: Transformers, Triplet Losses and Beyond*

Srivatsan Rajagopal and Dinesh Bharadia (University of California, San Diego, USA); Radhika Mathuria (University of California San Diego, USA)

Toward Wireless System and Circuit Co-Design for the Internet of Self Adaptive Things

Diptashree Das (Northeastern University, USA); Mohammad Abdi (Northeastern University & Institute for the Wireless Internet of Things, USA); Minghan Liu, Marvin Onabajo and Francesco Restuccia (Northeastern University, USA)

SESSION B9 Coexistence II

Session Chair: Jon Peha (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)

Time: 09:30 - 10:45

Room: Washington III

Modeling and Impact of 5G Aggregate Interference on Radar Performance

Masoud Farshchian (MITRE Corporation); Harris Zebrowitz (The MITRE Corporation, USA)

Dynamic Protection Zone for Radio Astronomy*

Sirajum Munira (University at Albany & Daffodil International University, USA); Dola Saha (University at Albany, SUNY, USA); Gregory Hellbourg (California Institute of Technology, USA); Aveek Dutta (University at Albany, SUNY, USA)

Synthetic Diversity for Interference Mitigation in Widely Tunable Receiver Frontends*

Bernd-Peter Paris and Haotian Zhai (George Mason University, USA)

* Indicates a short paper presentation.