TECHNICAL PROGRAM

Wednesday, May 19, 2021

No registration is needed.

Everyone as a guest can attend the virtual conference via this link: https://vc.sharif.edu/ch/iwcit

Welcome by Prof. Babak H. Khalaj

13:30-13:40

Amin Aminzadeh Gohari (Invited Speaker)

Title: Strengthened Cutset Upper Bounds on the Capacity of the Relay Channel and Applications

13:40-14:20
Session 1 14:30-16:00

Efficient 3D Placement of an Aerial Base Station in Cellular Communication

Faeze Moradi kalarde and Maryam Sabbaghian (University of Tehran, Iran)

14:30-14:50

Optimization of Cellular LiFi Network Deployment for Gaussian Mixture User Distributions

Mohammad Amir Dastgheib (Sharif University of Technology, Iran); Hamzeh Beyranvand (Amirkabir University of Technology, Iran); Elahe Zolala and Jawad Salehi (Sharif University of Technology, Iran)

14:50-15:10

Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces for Compute-And-Forward

Mahdi Jafari Siavoshani (Sharif University of Technology, Iran); Seyed Pooya Shariatpanahi (University of Tehran, Iran); Naeimeh Omidvar (Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM), Iran)

15:15-15:35

Optimal Power Control Policy for Fading Channels with Bernoulli Harvested Energy

Afsaneh Khajepour (Shiraz University, Iran); Ali Zibaeenejad (McMaster University, Canada & Shiraz University, Iran)

15:40-16:00

Hamed Hasani (Tutorial)

Title: Submodular Optimization and Learning: From Discrete to Continuous and Back

16:30-19:30
Part1: 16:30-17:45
Part2: 18:00-19:15

Thursday, May 20, 2021

https://vc.sharif.edu/ch/iwcit

Mohammad Hossein Yassaee (Tutorial)

Title: Concentration of Measures with Application in Information Theory and Machine Learning

9:30-12:30
Break

Songze Li (Invited Speaker)

Title: Nakamoto meets Shannon: scaling blockchains using codes

14:00-14:40
Session 2 15:00-16:00

Application and Analysis of Expectation Propagation Algorithm in the Binary Erasure Quantization

Golshan Piroozzadeh and Reza Asvadi(Shahid Beheshti University, Iran)

15:00-15:20

A New Probabilistic Constellation Shaping Scheme for APSK Modulation

Sahar Z. Poor, Amir R. Forouzan and Farzad Parvaresh (University of Isfahan, Iran)

15:20-15:40

Anonymous Mutual Authentication: An Information Theoretic Framework

Narges Kazempour, Mahtab Mirmohseni and Mohammad Reza Aref (Sharif University of Tech., Iran)

15:40-16:00

Hamed Hasani (Invited Speaker)

Title: Learning Robust Models: Fundamental Limits and Algorithms

16:30-17:10