Technical Program

This page shows the WiOpt 2025 program, including program at a glance and detailed program. All the times in the program refer to Sweden Standard Time (SST, UTC/GMT+1).

Important information for authors: Authors should prepare a 18 min presentation and will have 2 additional minutes for answering questions.

The registration desk in front of Ada Lovelace on Monday will be open from 8:30AM, on Tuesday from 8AM and on Wednesday from 8:30AM.

Program at a glance

Monday May 26 - Workshops

  • 9:00-12:00 Integrated Sensing and Communications (ISAC) (Ada Lovelace)
  • 9:00-12:00 Spatial Stochastic Models for Wireless Networks (SpaSWiN) (Systemet, directions will be provided at the registration desk)
  • 12:00-14:00 Lunch
  • 14:00-17:00 Resource Allocation and Cooperation in Wireless Networks (RAWNET) +
    Machine Learning in Wireless Communications (WMLC)
    (RAWNET and WMLC workshops will take place in Ada Lovelace back-to-back)
  • We expect a coffee break at 10:00 – 10:30 and at 15:15, but the workshops can adjust per their needs.
  • 18:00-20:00 Welcome dinner

Tuesday May 27

Wednesday May 28

Thursday May 29

Detailed Program

Tuesday May 27

Session 1: Scheduling and routing
Chair: Hyang-Won Lee
  1. Timely Trajectory Reconstruction in Finite Buffer Remote Tracking Systems
    Sunjung Kang, Vishrant Tripathi and Christopher G. Brinton (Purdue University, USA)
  2. Centralized Versus Distributed Routing for Large-Scale Satellite Networks
    Rudrapatna Vallabh Ramakanth and Eytan Modiano (MIT, USA)
  3. Convexity and Optimization in Deficit Round Robin Scheduling for Delay-Constrained Systems
    Aniket Mukherjee, Joy Kuri and Chandramani Singh (Indian Institute of Science, India)
  4. Optimizing Age of Information in Networks with Large and Small Updates (Invited paper)
    Zhuoyi Zhao (Northwestern University, USA); Vishrant Tripathi (Purdue University, USA); Igor Kadota (Northwestern University, USA)
  5. Spectral Co-Clustering Based Wireless Network Decomposition for Resource Scheduling
    Yiyu Liu (Southern University of Science and Technology, China); Yilin Xiao (Peng Cheng Laboratory, China); Ming Tang (Southern University of Science and Technology, China); Lin Gao (Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, China); Jianwei Huang (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China)
Session 2: Reinforcement learning
Chair: Eytan Modiano
  1. Stabilized Robust Control for Lightweight Autonomous Aircraft Mobility: A Quantum Reinforcement Learning Approach
    Gyu Seon Kim and Jae Hyun Chung (Korea University, Korea (South)); Trung Q. Duong (Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada); Soohyun Park (Sookmyung Women's University, Korea (South)); Joongheon Kim (Korea University, Korea (South))
  2. A Novel Switch-Type Policy Network for Resource Allocation Problems
    Jerrod A. Wigmore (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA); Brooke Shrader (MIT Lincoln Laboratory, USA); Eytan Modiano (MIT, USA)
  3. Fair Dynamic Spectrum Access via Fully Decentralized Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
    Yubo Zhang and Pedro Botelho (Northwestern University, USA); Trevor Gordon and Gil Zussman (Columbia University, USA); Igor Kadota (Northwestern University, USA)
  4. Tabular and Deep Reinforcement Learning for Gittins Index
    Harshit Dhankhar (Indian Institute of Technology, Patna, India); Kshitij Mishra and Tejas Bodas (IIIT Hyderabad, India)
  5. Optimized Handover Management for Reliable Connectivity in GEO-LEO Satellite Networks via Predictive Reinforcement Learning
    Huiyeon Jang and Junyoung Kim (Ajou University, Korea (South)); Min-Su Shin and In Sop Cho (ETRI, Korea (South)); Soyi Jung (Ajou University, Korea (South))
Session 3: Network computation and inference
Chair: Igor Kadota
  1. Capacity Provisioning Motivated Online Non-Convex Optimization Problem with Memory and Switching Cost
    Rahul Vaze (TIFR Mumbai, India); Jayakrishnan Nair (IIT Bombay, India)
  2. LOAM: Low-latency Communication, Caching and Computation in Data-Intensive Computing Networks
    Jinkun Zhang (Imperial College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Edmund Yeh (Northeastern University, USA)
  3. Large Language Model Partitioning for Low-Latency Inference at the Edge
    Dimitrios Kafetzis (Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece); Ramin Khalili (Huawei Technologies, Germany); Iordanis Koutsopoulos (Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece)
  4. On the Optimal Ensemble of Distributed DNN Models (Invited paper)
    Heejin Kim and Hyang-Won Lee (Konkuk University, Korea (South))
  5. A Mixed-Integer Linear Programming Approach for Congestion-Aware Optimized NFV Deployment
    Mohammad Ali Raayatpanah (School of Mathematics, Kharazmi University, Iran); Thomas Weise (Hefei University, China); Jocelyne Elias (University of Bologna, Italy); Fabio Martignon and Andrea Pimpinella (University of Bergamo, Italy)
  6. QoS Aware Video Analysis over Low-Cost Edge-Cluster: A Utility Minimization Approach
    Suvadip Batabyal (NIT Durgapur, India); Sudip Misra (Indian Institute of Technology-Kharagpur, India); Ozgur Ercetin (Sabanci University, Turkey)

Wednesday May 28

Session 4: Age of Information
Chair: Rahul Vaze
  1. Revisiting Estimation Quality: Significance-Aware Age of Consecutive Error
    Jiping Luo and Nikolaos Pappas (Linköping University, Sweden)
  2. Trading Fresh Data with Correlation
    Junyi He (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China); Meng Zhang (Zhejiang University, China); Qian Ma (Sun Yat-sen University, China); Jianwei Huang (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China)
  3. Timely Data Delivery for Heterogeneous IoT Applications
    Verónica Toro-Betancur (Nokia Bell Labs, Finland & Aalto University, Finland); Gopika Premsankar (Aalto University, Finland); Lorenzo Corneo (Ericsson Research, Finland); Mario Di Francesco (Aalto University, Finland)
  4. Toward Reliable and Timely Communications: Maximizing the Information Output Rate with Aging Information (Invited paper)
    Lin Dai (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
  5. Source Coding for a Wiener Process (Invited paper)
    Sahan Liyanaarachchi, İsmail Coşandal and Sennur Ulukus (University of Maryland, USA)
Session 5: Channel sensing and access
Chair: Brooke Shrader
  1. Frequency Assignment for Guaranteed QoS in Two-Ray Models with Limited Location Information
    Karl-Ludwig Besser (Linköping University, Sweden); Eduard A Jorswieck (Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany); Justin P Coon (University of Oxford, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); H. Vincent Poor (Princeton University, USA)
  2. Understanding Channel Access in Timely Status Updates: Random Access or Scheduled Access?
    Zhiling Yue and Yuting Tang (Zhejiang University, China); Nikolaos Pappas (Linköping University, Sweden); Yaru Fu (Hong Kong Metropolitan University, China); Howard Yang (Zhejiang University, China & University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (UIUC), USA)
  3. CHOMET: Conditional Handovers via Meta-Learning (Invited paper)
    Michail Kalntis, Fernando A. Kuipers and George Iosifidis (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)
  4. Enhancing Energy Efficiency of D-MIMO Networks: Scalable Clustering and Deep Learning-based Power Control
    Wilker de O Feitosa (Universidade Federal Do Ceará, Brazil); Igor M. Guerreiro (Federal University of Ceara - UFC & Wireless Telecommunications Research Group - GTEL, Brazil); Francisco R. P. Cavalcanti (Federal University of Ceará & GTEL - Wireless Telecom Research Group, Brazil); Juno Saraiva (UFC, Brazil); Maria Clara R. Lobão (Universidade Federal do Ceará, Brazil); Yuri C. B. Silva (Federal University of Ceará & Wireless Telecom Research Group (GTEL), Brazil); Gabor Fodor (Ericsson Research & Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden)
  5. Adaptive Algorithms for Automatic Link Selection in Multiple Access with Link Failures (Invited paper)
    Mevan Wijewardena and Michael J. Neely (University of Southern California, USA)
Session 6: Network markets and privacy
Chair: Sennur Ulukus
  1. Information-Theoretic Fairness with A Bounded Statistical Parity Constraint (Invited paper)
    Amirreza Zamani, Abolfazl Changizi, Ragnar Thobaben and Mikael Skoglund (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)
  2. Strategic Prompt Pricing for AIGC Services: A User-Centric Approach
    Xiang Li (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen & Shenzhen Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics for Society (AIRs), China); Bing Luo (Duke Kunshan University, China); Jianwei Huang (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China); Yuan Luo (The Chinese University of Hong Kong Shenzhen, China)
  3. A Stochastic Geometry Based Techno-Economic Analysis of RIS-Assisted Cellular Networks
    Guodong Sun (Inria, France); Francois Baccelli (INRIA, France); Luis Uzeda Garcia (Nokia Network France, France); Stefano Paris (Nokia, France)
  4. Learning to Bid in Proportional Allocation Auctions with Budget Constraints
    Younes Ben Mazziane (Lia Avignon University, France); Cleque-marlain Mboulou-Moutoubi (Lia, Avignon University, France); Francesco De Pellegrini (University of Avignon, France); Eitan Altman (INRIA, France)
  5. Wireless Market Competition with Time/Frequency Prioritized Spectrum Sharing
    Yaxuan Liu, Qixuan Zai and Randall A Berry (Northwestern University, USA)

Thursday May 29

Session 7: AI/ML based network algorithms
Chair: Nikolaos Pappas
  1. CoCoI: Distributed Coded Inference System for Straggler Mitigation
    Xing Liu (Southern University of Science and Technology, China); Chao Huang (Montclair State University, USA); Ming Tang (Southern University of Science and Technology, China)
  2. Learning to Wirelessly Deliver Consistent and High-Quality Interactive Panoramic Scenes
    Juaren Steiger, Xiaoyi Wu and Bin Li (The Pennsylvania State University, USA)
  3. Communication-Efficient Cooperative Localization: A Graph Neural Network Approach (Invited paper)
    Yinan Zou, Christopher G. Brinton and Vishrant Tripathi (Purdue University, USA)
  4. Multi-Robot Exploration via Flocking Coordination and Machine Learning-Driven Connectivity Assessment (Invited paper)
    Hazem Chaabi (Inria, France); Nathalie Mitton (Inria Lille - Nord Europe, France)
Session 8: Distributed learning
Chair: Vishrant Tripathi
  1. Towards Federated Learning Over the Air: Why Scaling Up Helps?
    Jiaqi Zhu (ZJU-UIUC Institute, Zhejiang University, China); Bikramjit Das (Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore); Nikolaos Pappas (Linköping University, Sweden); Howard Yang (Zhejiang University, China & University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (UIUC), USA)
  2. SegOTA: Accelerating Over-the-Air Federated Learning with Segmented Transmission
    Chong Zhang (University of Toronto, Canada); Min Dong (Ontario Tech University, Canada); Ben Liang (University of Toronto, Canada); Ali Afana (Ericsson, Canada); Yahia Ahmed (Ericsson Canada, Canada)
  3. Resource Management for Edge-Assisted Learning with Deterministic Reliability Constraints (Invited paper)
    Francesco Binucci (University of Perugia & Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario per Le Telecomunicazioni (CNIT), Italy); Osvaldo Simeone (King's College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Paolo Banelli (University of Perugia, Italy)
  4. Explainability and Continual Learning meet Federated Learning at the Network Edge (Invited paper)
    Thomas Tsouparopoulos and Iordanis Koutsopoulos (Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece)
  5. Federated Non-Stochastic Multi-Armed Bandit for Channel Sensing in Cognitive Radio Systems
    Kinda Khawam (Université de Versailles, France); Farah Yassine (Paris Saclay University, France); Samer Lahoud and Yujie Tang (Dalhousie University, Canada); Dominique Quadri (University Paris-Saclay, France); Steven Martin (Université Paris-Saclay, France)
Session 9: Multi-antenna and directional wireless
Chair: Lin Dai
  1. Minimizing Power Consumption in Age of Information Constrained Cell-Free Massive MIMO Networks
    Amudheesan Nakkeeran (International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore & IIITB COMET Foundation, India); Jyotsna Bapat (International Institute of Information Technology, India); Debabrata Das (International Institute of Information Technology - Bangalore, India)
  2. Mobile Terahertz Inter-Small-Satellite Links with Angular Dispersion
    Keerthi Dasala (Purdue University, USA)
  3. Low-Complexity SDP-ADMM for Physical-Layer Multicasting in Massive MIMO Systems
    Mahmoud Zaher and Emil Björnson (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)
  4. Fair and Energy-Efficient Activation Control Mechanisms for Repeater-Assisted Massive MIMO
    Ozan Alp Topal (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden); Özlem Tuğfe Demir (TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Turkey); Emil Björnson and Cicek Cavdar (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)
  5. Cell-Free Massive MIMO-OFDM With Low-Resolution ADCs
    Özlem Tuğfe Demir (TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Turkey); Ahmet M Elbir (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia); Emil Björnson (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)

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