30th Biennial Symposium on Communications 2021

Introduction.- Deep Analog-to-Digital Compression with Applications to Automotive Radar and Massive MIMO.- Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces.- Harvested Power Region of Two-user MISO WPT Systems With Non-linear EH Nodes.- PERIDOT Codes.- Shannon Capacity of Tensor Channels under a Family of Power Constraints.- On Downlink Interference Decoding In Multi-Cell Massive MIMO Systems. Communications and Signal Processing Techniques.- Compute-and-Forward For Uplink Massive MIMO-NOMA.- RCAQ: Regularized Classification-Aware Quantization.- SVD-Based NFDM with Index Modulation.- Data-Driven Measurement Matrix Design for Sparse Channel Reconstruction in Massive MIMO Systems.- A Low-Complexity Splitting Receiver for Ultrasonic Index Modulation-Based Intra-Body Communications.- Massive MIMO: From Cellular to Cell-Free Networks.- A Learning Approach to the Design of Massive MIMO and Intelligent Reflecting Surface Systems.- Modular Spectrum Utilization for Next-Generation Fixed Transmission Networks.- Multi-UAV Trajectory, Resource Allocation Design for UAV-based Wireless Networks With Dynamic Data Demand For Consecutive Service Periods.- Intelligent Cognition in an Integrated Satellite-Aerial-Terrestrial Network for Connected Vehicles.- Wireless Device Authentication using LSTM based Autoencoders.- Non-mode-Selective Photonic Lantern Based Receiver for Free-Space Optical Communications With Pointing Errors.- Rate Splitting Multiple Access for 6G: Principles, Recent Advances, and Future Research Trends.- Conclusion.

Ha H. Nguyen received the B.Eng. degree from Hanoi University of Technology (HUT), Hanoi, Vietnam, in 1995, the M.Eng. degree from the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Bangkok, Thailand, in 1997, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada, in 2001, all in electrical engineering. He joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, in 2001, and became a full Professor in 2007. He currently holds the position of NSERC/Cisco Industrial Research Chair in Low-Power Wireless Access for Sensor Networks. His research interests fall into broad areas of Communication Theory, Wireless Communications, and Statistical Signal Processing. Dr. Nguyen was an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications and IEEE Wireless Communications Letters during 2007-2011 and 2011-2016, respectively. He currently serves as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Communications andthe IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology. He served as a Technical Program Chair for numerous IEEE events. He is a coauthor, with Ed Shwedyk, of the textbook A First Course in Digital Communications" (published by Cambridge University Press). Dr. Nguyen is a Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada (EIC) and a Registered Member of the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Saskatchewan (APEGS).

Long Le received the B.Eng. degree in electrical engineering from Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology, Vietnam, in 1999, the M.Eng. degree in telecommunications from Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand, in 2002, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Manitoba, Canada, in 2007. He was a Postdoctoral Researcher at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2008-2010) and University of Waterloo (2007-2008). Since 2010, he has been with the Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS), Université du Québec, Montréal,QC,